Re: systemd.service file example

[Schneider, Jim]

I don't have an SP service but I've created a service for BMC control-M Agents. 
 It should be easy to make substitutions.  Note: This is for Red Hat 7.  It 
won't work on RHEL 6.

create file /etc/systemd/system/ctmag.service

===
[Unit]
Description=Control-M Agent

[Service]
Type=forking
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/home/ctmagent/ctm/scripts/rc.agent_user start
ExecStop=/home/ctmagent/ctm/scripts/rc.agent_user stop

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
===

Issue these commands to activate:
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable ctmag.service


Jim Schneider
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Michaud, Luc [Analyste principal - environnement AIX]
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 6:53 AM
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] systemd.service file example

>  However, I would rather use a systemd.service file to start (and stop) SP 
> during startup and shutdown.

Same here !!!  

Keep me informed if anything comes your way outside this list.

We'll be migrating our Blueprint SP (8.1.6.1) servers from AIX to RHEL7 
(latest) within the next few months.

Regards,

Luc

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Re: backing up multiple VMs with standard scheduleing

[Schneider, Jim]

My VM backup schedule executes a .bat file on the VM proxy server.  The file 
has one or more 'dsmc backup vm host1,host2,host3.etc' commands.

Jim

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Subject: [ADSM-L] backing up multiple VMs with standard scheduleing

Tsm client 8.1.4, running on RHEL 6.9 VMs. TSM server 7.1.7.1 on RHEL 6.9.
We do not use the VMWare plugin to manage our TSM for VE backup schedules. 
Schedules backup by host using standard tsm scheduling.
Did this because the vmware client is not very screen reader friendly for a 
blind user.

How can I backup more than one vm possibly on disperate hosts in a single 
schedule?
i.e. specifying multiple VMs in the "object" parm of a standard schedule?

Any help appreciated.

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Re: saving a vm backup past server destruction

[Schneider, Jim]

Using TSM for VE, if you don't back it up again the data is still there.  I had 
to contact a user for permissions to delete a 2-year old backup.

Jim

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I have a request to save the final backup of a vm for a period of time after 
the vm itself disappears.

Normally, I would move a node to a management class which specified save last 
version forever.

Since tsm for ve treats each vm as a filespace, how do I accomplish this?

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Re: cluster backup with CSV

[Schneider, Jim]

Rick,

Thank you for the notes.  My company collapsed both cluster servers into a 
single VM that is replicated via some vSphere magic to out alternate data 
center for resurrection during a DR.  I currently have no cluster backups.  I 
was providing notes on my TSM v5 cluster backup configuration as a starting 
point.

Jim

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Adamson
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 7:30 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] cluster backup with CSV

Jim,
Have you tried to create a cluster resource for the shared disk? The scheduler 
service will then failover with the disk and you will not need to manually 
start it every time there is a change in cluster node ownership.

At a high level:
In addition to what you have already done.
Use Failover manager to create a new generic service resource.
Add all cluster nodes as possible owners.
Add the shared disk as a dependency.
Specify the scheduler service that you need to failover.
If you haven't done so open a command prompt and set the services password 
using dsmc.
Something like: dsmc incr -nodename= 
-password= -optfile= There will be a place to enter a registry key path where the 
scheduler service encrypted password is kept, I ignore it during setup of the 
resource. then:
Open registry editor and navigate to the scheduler service password location, 
it should be something like: 
HKLM\SOFTWARE\IBM\ADSM\CurrentVersion\BackupClient\Nodes\
Export that reg key and import it on all other cluster nodes.
Open the properties page of the generic service resource you created above and 
add the path to registry key.

Notes:
I also edit the properties of the resource and disable its ability to cause 
failover, if the scheduler service happens to fail I don't want it to initiate 
a cluster failover.
The scheduler service now needs to be stopped or started using the 
clustering/failover interface and not the services app.

Hope that helps sorry if it's kind of vague I don't have access to my 
actual docs at the moment.


Rick Adamson
Information Technology
Southeastern Grocers LLC


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I created a TSM directory on the shared drive, added a dsm.opt file with a 
domain statement.  Registered a cluster name with TSM and created a scheduler 
service for it on each of the cluster nodes.  Only one node was active at a 
time, and I had to restart the cluster scheduler service every time the active 
node changed to a different server.  This was TSM 7.  Things may have changed. 
I don't know if this is best but it worked.

Jim Schneider

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Michael P Hizny
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 2:56 PM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] cluster backup with CSV

We have just set up a Microsoft cluster with a Cluster shared volume.
After installing the TSM 8.1.4 client on both cluster nodes, we would like to 
back up the cluster shared volume but TSM does not see this volume from either 
node.  Is there a way to back this up with TSM or a special configuration so 
this disk is recognized?
Thanks,
Mike

Michael Hizny
Binghamton University

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Re: cluster backup with CSV

[Schneider, Jim]

I created a TSM directory on the shared drive, added a dsm.opt file with a 
domain statement.  Registered a cluster name with TSM and created a scheduler 
service for it on each of the cluster nodes.  Only one node was active at a 
time, and I had to restart the cluster scheduler service every time the active 
node changed to a different server.  This was TSM 7.  Things may have changed. 
I don't know if this is best but it worked.

Jim Schneider

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Michael P Hizny
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 2:56 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] cluster backup with CSV

We have just set up a Microsoft cluster with a Cluster shared volume.
After installing the TSM 8.1.4 client on both cluster nodes, we would like to 
back up the cluster shared volume but TSM does not see this volume from either 
node.  Is there a way to back this up with TSM or a special configuration so 
this disk is recognized?
Thanks,
Mike

Michael Hizny
Binghamton University

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Re: behavior of existing data when excluding a vm

[Schneider, Jim]

I don't know how to freeze existing backups.  I rename the server in vCenter 
and run a backup using the new name.  Rename to original after the backup.  
This will preserve the new backup.

Jim Schneider

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Gary
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:01 AM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] behavior of existing data when excluding a vm

Tsm server v7.1.7.1, client 7.1.6.4.
Unsure of TSM for VE version.
I need to freeze the backups of a VM in their current state as of today.  I can 
exclude the vm from backup.  However, will this act like an exclude and cause 
all backups to become inactive?
If so, how to stop backing up a VM but leave its existing backups alone.

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Re: TSM clients with 1 and 10 GB adapters

[Schneider, Jim]

If you have a distinct IP for the 10 Gb connection you can use that name/IP 
address in the client's TCPServeraddress value in the dsm.opt or dsm.sys file.  
Use 'q n f=d' to verify that the IP is being used.

Jim Schneider
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Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM clients with 1 and 10 GB adapters

Hi guys!
I have tested in the past with 10 Gb attached Linux clients and everything 
worked fine, but now we will add a 10 Gb card to a host which is already 
connected to 1 Gb. So this host has two possible paths to the server. How can I 
make sure the TSM client uses the 10 Gb adapter only? I read something about 
the TCPClientAddress parameter, but according to the manual that is only for 
the server to the client (restore), not for the client to the server (backup).
Thanks for your help in advance!
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Re: Full VM Instant Restore error ans2411e rc=6523

[Schneider, Jim]

My VM backup proxy server has a backup network connection but the client does 
not.  I have to disable the backup network NIC before starting the TSM Recovery 
Agent so that the client can see the iSCSI connection.

Jim Schneider
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Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 1:49 AM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] Full VM Instant Restore error ans2411e rc=6523

Hello All

Tried the new feature on TSM for VE 8.1.0.1  in the Restore section called 
"Full VM Instant Restore" . Here what I got running this command.

Error Or Warning Messages:
* ERROR ANS2421E Cannot detect the iSCSI initiator.
* ERROR ANS2411E Instant Restore/Access of virtual machine 'Test1' failed with 
rc = 6523 * ERROR ANS2421E (RC6523) Cannot detect the iSCSI initiator.

I Check on my TSM server  , the iSCSI initiator is ON , I can see the iqn id on 
the Configuration tab in the iSCSI properties

I know I miss something but what ?.

Any suggestion , tip what to look ?

Best Regards Robert

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Re: Inactive active filesystem for vm in script

[Schneider, Jim]

An alternative can be run from the backup proxy server.
dsmc restore vm bodev -pick -inactive

Jim Schneider
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Schofield, Neil (Storage & Middleware, Backup & Restore)
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 12:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Inactive active filesystem for vm in script

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Robert

I'm not sure this is the best answer to your question, but in the absence of 
any other replies I thought it might at least prompt somebody to come up with 
something better.

I'm assuming here that your hypervisor is vSphere and not Hyper-V? In which 
case empirical evidence from my systems suggests that for every backup of a 
snapshot of the VM called bodev, I get one bodev.ovf backup object.

I would normally shy away from running Selects against the Backups table, so 
use the following at your own risk. However to determine how many snapshots 
you've got stored for the VM called bodev, maybe try something like the 
following?

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM BACKUPS WHERE FILESPACE_NAME='\VMFULL-bodev' AND LL_NAME 
LIKE '%.ovf'

It looks like all versions of bodev.ovf will show as Active versions, but 
perhaps you can just assume the number of inactive backups is 1 less than the 
total?

Regards

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Re: trouble with scheduled restore

[Schneider, Jim]

Add '-removeoperandlimit' to the command line.

Jim Schneider

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Gary
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 10:13 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] trouble with scheduled restore

Trying to restore a subdirectory to a server.

Cannot use GUI as it is java and does not work well with screen readers for the 
blind.
Have restore scheduled, but it fails as follows:

01/19/2017 11:00:26 ANS1102E An excessive number of command line arguments are 
passed to the program.

Schedule is

Def sch domain, sch-name -
Opt="-pitdate=date -pitt=time -inac" -
Obj='e:\Shared\INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SERVICES\scanned_sunapsis_files\'

How to solve this?

Server version 6.3.4.0
Client version 6.3.2
Os windows 2008

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Re: Versions

[Schneider, Jim]

I'm running TSM server 6.3.3.0, TSM for VE 7.1.0.1.

Jim Schneider

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Subject: [ADSM-L] Versions

Hello all

A quick question , if my TSM server version is 7.1.6.0  can it possible to 
upgrade my TSM for VE to 7.1.6.2 ???

Or I need before to upgrade my TSM Server version to 7.1.7.0 before ?

T.I.A Regards

Robert

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Re: Help with DFS backups

[Schneider, Jim]

I run NDMP backups Isilon shares.  I created virtual file system definitions to 
be able to run targeted backups.  Because TSM sees the Isilon as one big file 
system, your storage pool must have the available capacity to backup all data 
on the Isilon, even if you only back up parts using virtualfs.  If you back up 
to tape, there should be no problem.

Jim Schneider

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Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2016 2:44 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Help with DFS backups

We were able to determine it was a rights issue on the Isilon system.  TSM 
needs root-level access.

However, our current problem is how TSM backs things up when using DFS mounts.  
Eventhough we specifically say to backup "\\rams.adp.vcu.edu\vpa\vp 
administration\*", the only filesystem TSM sees and registers when it backs up 
is the highest level, that being "\\rams.adp.vcu.edu\vpa" - it ignores the "vp 
administration" sub-directory/folder.

Does anyone out there have experience with backing up DFS with TSM?  Is
this the way it is going to be?   This is back to each
department/group/area wanting total control over backup/restore of their 
"shares".

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Schneider, Jim <jschnei...@essendant.com>
wrote:

> Do you have the correct capitalization in the backup command?
>
> Jim Schneider
>
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> Of Zoltan Forray
> Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2016 7:54 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Help with DFS backups
>
> We are redesigning our storage systems, moving to Isilon and to DFS vs 
> CIFS.
>
> Unfortunately, we have not been able to get TSM to backup the first 
> test DFS mount.
>
> All efforts to run a backup the DFS fail with:
>
> Incremental backup of volume '\\rams.adp.vcu.edu\vpa\vp administration'
> ANS1228E Sending of object '\\rams.adp.vcu.edu\vpa\VP Administration'
> failed.
> *ANS4007E Error processing '\\rams.adp.vcu.edu 
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__urldefense=DQI
> BaQ=MqzcmAKsw3j3xTQl5efyrz6ChwH9_xFQsqxq8hPjflw=oC06_8Fv3bsc_6MYFk
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> Y=w6WSkZU6wqc-u9ImQhSOne2FSoreL33lBw5_emcDxRM= .> 
> proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__rams.adp.vcu.edu_=DQIBaQ=
> MqzcmAKsw3j3xTQl5efyrz6ChwH9_xFQsqxq8hPjflw=oC06_8Fv3bsc_6MYFkLOVjvW
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> JpzTtoiZFZZag3Nn8eLnC77-XeRLd9tdS020hD2N7nA= >\vpa\VP Administration':
> access to the object is
> denied*
> ANS1802E Incremental backup of '\\rams.adp.vcu.edu\vpa\VP Administration'
> finished with 1 failure(s)
>
> This is supposed to be the structure:
>
> Isilon - \\uccisilon.rams.adp.vcu.edu\VP Administration DFS - \\ 
> rams.adp.vcu.edu\VPA\VP Administration
>
> Normally the "access denied" would be an authorization/rights issue.
> However, everything has been checked and double-checked and supposedly 
> (I don't have anything to do with it) is correct.
>
> Backing up the Isilon mountpoint works. This command fails with the 
> "access denied" error:
>
> dsmc i -optfile=C:\tsmcifsnode\isilon-vpadmin\dsm-vpadmin.opt
> -subdir=yes  "\\rams.adp.vcu.edu\vpa\vp administration"
>
> So, what are we missing?
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Re: Help with DFS backups

[Schneider, Jim]

Do you have the correct capitalization in the backup command?

Jim Schneider

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan 
Forray
Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2016 7:54 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Help with DFS backups

We are redesigning our storage systems, moving to Isilon and to DFS vs CIFS.

Unfortunately, we have not been able to get TSM to backup the first test DFS 
mount.

All efforts to run a backup the DFS fail with:

Incremental backup of volume '\\rams.adp.vcu.edu\vpa\vp administration'
ANS1228E Sending of object '\\rams.adp.vcu.edu\vpa\VP Administration'
failed.
*ANS4007E Error processing '\\rams.adp.vcu.edu 
\vpa\VP Administration': access to the object is
denied*
ANS1802E Incremental backup of '\\rams.adp.vcu.edu\vpa\VP Administration'
finished with 1 failure(s)

This is supposed to be the structure:

Isilon - \\uccisilon.rams.adp.vcu.edu\VP Administration DFS - 
\\rams.adp.vcu.edu\VPA\VP Administration

Normally the "access denied" would be an authorization/rights issue.
However, everything has been checked and double-checked and supposedly (I don't 
have anything to do with it) is correct.

Backing up the Isilon mountpoint works. This command fails with the "access 
denied" error:

dsmc i -optfile=C:\tsmcifsnode\isilon-vpadmin\dsm-vpadmin.opt  -subdir=yes  
"\\rams.adp.vcu.edu\vpa\vp administration"

So, what are we missing?


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Re: SQL QUERY FOR AMOUNT OF ACTIVE VS INACTIVE DATA

[Schneider, Jim]

You can also start the session with -virtualnodename.  It works with dsmc or 
dsmj, and avoids the need for the proxy setting.

Jim Schneider
Essendant

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Skylar 
Thompson
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 9:30 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] SQL QUERY FOR AMOUNT OF ACTIVE VS INACTIVE DATA

You can also GRANT PROXY and then use -ASNODE from one of your own nodes, using 
your node's password. I think the general node type has to match (i.e. any UNIX 
can proxy to any UNIX, but not Windows).

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 02:20:38PM +, Schneider, Jim wrote:
> Use a server you can access and modify the nodename in the options file, 
> assuming you know the password.
>
> Jim Schneider
> Essendant
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf 
> Of Lee, Gary
> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 9:11 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] SQL QUERY FOR AMOUNT OF ACTIVE VS INACTIVE DATA
>
> Wish I could do that.  This comes from three levels above me in management.
> Trying to buy more storage to sell to departments.
> Don't ask me, I have no clue what they are doing.
>
> I'll look into the q backup on client side, but don't have access to all of 
> them.
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf 
> Of Skylar Thompson
> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 10:00 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] SQL QUERY FOR AMOUNT OF ACTIVE VS INACTIVE DATA
>
> If you have access to the clients, you can use QUERY BACKUP and parse the A/I 
> column.
>
> Honestly, though, when we've gotten this query, I've managed to push this 
> back on the customers; it's not TSM's problem what's active or inactive, it's 
> the customers' applications that are actually responsible for it.
> Obviously you need a pretty good relationship with your customers to make 
> that case, but in the end it's caused our customers to think more carefully 
> about workflow in general.
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 01:51:20PM +, Lee, Gary wrote:
> > Just got a request for the amount of active versus inactive data on our tsm 
> > servers.
> >
> > Is there a better way than traversing the backups table and summing?
> > That would be a mighty long query.
> >
> > We have three servers, and approximately 300 clients about 200 tB total 
> > data.
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions.
>
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Re: SQL QUERY FOR AMOUNT OF ACTIVE VS INACTIVE DATA

[Schneider, Jim]

Use a server you can access and modify the nodename in the options file, 
assuming you know the password.

Jim Schneider
Essendant

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Gary
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 9:11 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] SQL QUERY FOR AMOUNT OF ACTIVE VS INACTIVE DATA

Wish I could do that.  This comes from three levels above me in management.
Trying to buy more storage to sell to departments.
Don't ask me, I have no clue what they are doing.

I'll look into the q backup on client side, but don't have access to all of 
them.


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Skylar 
Thompson
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 10:00 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] SQL QUERY FOR AMOUNT OF ACTIVE VS INACTIVE DATA

If you have access to the clients, you can use QUERY BACKUP and parse the A/I 
column.

Honestly, though, when we've gotten this query, I've managed to push this back 
on the customers; it's not TSM's problem what's active or inactive, it's the 
customers' applications that are actually responsible for it.
Obviously you need a pretty good relationship with your customers to make that 
case, but in the end it's caused our customers to think more carefully about 
workflow in general.

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 01:51:20PM +, Lee, Gary wrote:
> Just got a request for the amount of active versus inactive data on our tsm 
> servers.
>
> Is there a better way than traversing the backups table and summing?
> That would be a mighty long query.
>
> We have three servers, and approximately 300 clients about 200 tB total data.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.

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-- University of Washington School of Medicine

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Re: contents of a .bfs empty but q vol says different

[Schneider, Jim]

I think BFS is case-sensitive.  Most of TSM is case-insensitive, but this is a 
exception.

Jim Schneider
 
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeanne 
Bruno
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 2:46 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] contents of a .bfs empty but q vol says different

Hello.  I tried that, but it produce the same results.

tsm: TSMPOK_SERVER1q content m:\ggg_Prim8\x_prim3\0004f.bfs 
followlinks=yes ANR2034E QUERY CONTENT: No match found using this criteria.
ANS8001I Return code 11.


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Pohlmann
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 3:39 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] contents of a .bfs empty but q vol says different

Hi Jeanne. Try

q content n.bfs followlinks=yes

If you are using deduplication it is likely that with a 2GB volume you only 
have chunks for other stuff. Even without deduplication, there may just be a 
part of a larfe object on this volume.

Regards,
Joerg Pohlman

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Bruno
Sent: May 1, 2015 11:45
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] contents of a .bfs empty but q vol says different

Hello.
TSM server v 6.2.3.0

Has anyone seen this?
When I do a Q VOL on a .bfs file, I get this info:

Estimated Capacity: 2.0 G
   Scaled Capacity Applied:
  Pct Util: 100.0
 Volume Status: Full
Access: Read/Write
Pct. Reclaimable Space: 91.4
   Scratch Volume?: Yes
   In Error State?: No
  Number of Writable Sides: 1
   Number of Times Mounted: 4
 Write Pass Number: 1
 Approx. Date Last Written: 03/27/2015 04:27:20
Approx. Date Last Read: 03/29/2015 20:34:42
   Date Became Pending:
Number of Write Errors: 0
 Number of Read Errors: 0
   Volume Location:
Volume is MVS Lanfree Capable : No
Last Update by (administrator):
 Last Update Date/Time: 03/27/2015 04:16:15
  Begin Reclaim Period:
End Reclaim Period:
  Drive Encryption Key Manager:
   Logical Block Protected: No

But when I do a Q CONTENT on the same .bfs, I get:
ANR2034E QUERY CONTENT: No match found using this criteria.
ANS8001I Return code 11.

(I know my typing is correct as I'm using the 'up arrow' on the console and 
only changing the word 'vol' to 'content')

The ReUse on the storage pool is 2 days.
And the RETO is set to 19 days.
So I'm assuming the contents have actually been deleted, but why does the .bfs 
files show up at all when I do:  Q VOL * STGPOOL=_prim ?


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Senior Systems Analyst
jbr...@cenhud.commailto:jbr...@cenhud.com
Central Hudson Gas  Electric
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Re: contents of a .bfs empty but q vol says different

[Schneider, Jim]

I always learn new things from this list!

Jim

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Pohlmann
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 3:29 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] contents of a .bfs empty but q vol says different

Jim, volume names are only case sensitive for UNIX file names, not Windows.

Regards,

Joerg Pohlmann

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Schneider, Jim
Sent: May 1, 2015 12:57
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] contents of a .bfs empty but q vol says different

I think BFS is case-sensitive.  Most of TSM is case-insensitive, but this is a 
exception.

Jim Schneider

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeanne 
Bruno
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 2:46 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] contents of a .bfs empty but q vol says different

Hello.  I tried that, but it produce the same results.

tsm: TSMPOK_SERVER1q content m:\ggg_Prim8\x_prim3\0004f.bfs
followlinks=yes ANR2034E QUERY CONTENT: No match found using this criteria.
ANS8001I Return code 11.


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of J.
Pohlmann
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 3:39 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] contents of a .bfs empty but q vol says different

Hi Jeanne. Try

q content n.bfs followlinks=yes

If you are using deduplication it is likely that with a 2GB volume you only 
have chunks for other stuff. Even without deduplication, there may just be a 
part of a larfe object on this volume.

Regards,
Joerg Pohlman

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeanne 
Bruno
Sent: May 1, 2015 11:45
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] contents of a .bfs empty but q vol says different

Hello.
TSM server v 6.2.3.0

Has anyone seen this?
When I do a Q VOL on a .bfs file, I get this info:

Estimated Capacity: 2.0 G
   Scaled Capacity Applied:
  Pct Util: 100.0
 Volume Status: Full
Access: Read/Write
Pct. Reclaimable Space: 91.4
   Scratch Volume?: Yes
   In Error State?: No
  Number of Writable Sides: 1
   Number of Times Mounted: 4
 Write Pass Number: 1
 Approx. Date Last Written: 03/27/2015 04:27:20
Approx. Date Last Read: 03/29/2015 20:34:42
   Date Became Pending:
Number of Write Errors: 0
 Number of Read Errors: 0
   Volume Location:
Volume is MVS Lanfree Capable : No
Last Update by (administrator):
 Last Update Date/Time: 03/27/2015 04:16:15
  Begin Reclaim Period:
End Reclaim Period:
  Drive Encryption Key Manager:
   Logical Block Protected: No

But when I do a Q CONTENT on the same .bfs, I get:
ANR2034E QUERY CONTENT: No match found using this criteria.
ANS8001I Return code 11.

(I know my typing is correct as I'm using the 'up arrow' on the console and 
only changing the word 'vol' to 'content')

The ReUse on the storage pool is 2 days.
And the RETO is set to 19 days.
So I'm assuming the contents have actually been deleted, but why does the .bfs 
files show up at all when I do:  Q VOL * STGPOOL=_prim ?


Jeannie Bruno
Senior Systems Analyst
jbr...@cenhud.commailto:jbr...@cenhud.com
Central Hudson Gas  Electric
(845) 486-5780

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Re: How to tell what VM's are running backup in TSM for VE 7.1?

[Schneider, Jim]

This is close.  I check time stamps to identify failures.  The time stamp could 
also indicate a backup in progress.

select substr(filespace_name,9,18) as VM, filespace_id as FSID, cast(backup_end 
as char(19) ) as Backup Completed from filespaces where 
node_name='VC1_CH2_DM' order by 3

Jim Schneider

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Schaub, Steve
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 3:22 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] How to tell what VM's are running backup in TSM for VE 7.1?

Running into some issues troubleshooting VE backups and hopefully I just don't 
know where to look.
I came in this morning and was surprised to find that one of my datamovers was 
still running a schedule.
There were 2 sessions in TSM, but of course they were using the datacenter name 
so I had no idea what was running, or what was still waiting to run.
So what do I use to gain visibility into a running VE schedule?
I want to know:

1.   What is running

2.   What has completed

3.   What is waiting to run
I tried deciphering it from dsmsched.log, but gave up looking for those needles 
in that haystack.
I also went to the VE web UI hoping reports/recent tasks would help, but 
nothing showed up there.
Surely there is some easy way to do this simple task that I have overlooked in 
the manual?

Steve Schaub
Systems Engineer II, Backup/Recovery
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee

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Re: NDMP

[Schneider, Jim]

The Isilon needs to be zoned to the tape library.  From the Isilon, generate a 
list of the tape drives.  A partial example from our system is:

CH2ISILON-2# isi tape list
Tape Device  StateWWNN  Vendor/Model/Revision/Serial

tape001  closed   2024FF315EEA  IBM ULTRIUM-TD3 8711 3494310086
tape002  closed   2024FF315EEA  IBM ULTRIUM-TD3 8711 3494310087
tape003  closed   2024FF315EEA  IBM ULTRIUM-TD3 8711 3494310088
tape004  closed   2024FF315EEA  IBM ULTRIUM-TD3 8711 3494310089
tape005  closed   2024FF315EEA  IBM ULTRIUM-TD3 8711 349431008A
tape006  closed   2024FF315EEA  IBM ULTRIUM-TD3 8711 349431008B
tape007  closed   2024FF315EEA  IBM ULTRIUM-TD3 8711 349431008C

Media ChangerStateWWNN  Vendor/Model/Revision/Serial

mc001closed   2024FF315EEA  IBM 03584L32 4.02 3494310085
mc002closed   2024FF315EEB  IBM 03584L32 4.02 3494310085
mc003closed   2024FF315EEA  IBM 03584L32 4.02 349431008E
mc004closed   2024FF315EEB  IBM 03584L32 4.02 349431008E

TSM already has the tape drives registered with their serial numbers.  Match 
the TSM drive serial numbers to the Isilon serial numbers.  Create datamover 
paths to the current TSM tape drives.  

q drive
Library Name: CH2NDMP
  Drive Name: DR0
 Device Type: LTO
 On-Line: Yes
Read Formats: 
ULTRIUM3C,ULTRIUM3,ULTRIUM2C,ULTRIUM2,ULTRIUMC,ULTRIUM
   Write Formats: 
ULTRIUM3C,ULTRIUM3,ULTRIUM2C,ULTRIUM2
 Element: 257
 Drive State: EMPTY
 Volume Name: 
Allocated to: 
 WWN: 
   Serial Number: 3494310086
  Last Update by (administrator): SCHNEIJ
   Last Update Date/Time: 04/24/14   14:38:41
Cleaning Frequency (Gigabytes/ASNEEDED/NONE): NONE

q path
   Source Name: CH2UPTSM3
   Source Type: SERVER
  Destination Name: DR0
  Destination Type: DRIVE
   Library: CH2NDMP
 Node Name: 
Device: /dev/rmt0
  External Manager: 
  ZOS Media Server: 
  Comm. Method: 
   LUN: 
 Initiator: 0
 Directory: 
   On-Line: Yes
Last Update by (administrator): SCHNEIJ

   Source Name: CH2NDMP
   Source Type: DATAMOVER
  Destination Name: DR0
  Destination Type: DRIVE
   Library: CH2NDMP
 Node Name: 
Device: tape001
  External Manager: 
  ZOS Media Server: 
  Comm. Method: 
   LUN: 
 Initiator: 0
 Directory: 
   On-Line: Yes
Last Update by (administrator): SCHNEIJ

Hope this helps.

Jim Schneider
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McWilliams, Eric
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 1:47 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] NDMP

Thanks but I've listened to that already and looked through the power point 
slides and still don't understand.

I already have a tape library defined to the TSM server.  How do I get the NAS 
data mover to see  and communicate with it?


Eric 


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Norman
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 12:10 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] NDMP

Try listening to this 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www-2D01.ibm.com_support_docview.wss-3Fuid-3Dswg27041348d=AwIFAgc=MaiD1Z8YVCD63kI1LCyPtWg0Yfm6VFptlj7wuHNxy-0r=ohMdG7xLBNfJLpBxDYE1hxG5DHMxVAlyhTmATkid320m=mAlyejQBCcHkT6KQWSRxQKC7VP5mvRZfLZw-XzZFjuos=P6n2F8k8vcb19WZDnFT_Imkm-CkZ3gT_yBymap1MqEIe=
Look for Configuring NDMP Filer to Server Backups (Also known as 3-way NDMP 
Backup)

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McWilliams, Eric
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 9:46 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: NDMP

Okay, what is the secret to setting up TSM to back up a NAS filer?

We have a NAS (Isilon) but there is no tape library attached to it.  The tape 
library is attached to 

Re: ANS4174E error

[Schneider, Jim]

Eric,

Apolog1es for the previous brief reply.

dsm.opt has
VMMC 1month
VMCTLMC 1monthcntl

Both are backup copy groups.

 Policy Domain Name: VM
Policy Set Name: ACTIVE
Mgmt Class Name: 1MONTH
Copy Group Name: STANDARD
Copy Group Type: Backup
   Versions Data Exists: No Limit
  Versions Data Deleted: 1
  Retain Extra Versions: 30
Retain Only Version: 30
  Copy Mode: Modified
 Copy Serialization: Shared Static
 Copy Frequency: 0
   Copy Destination: VM
Table of Contents (TOC) Destination: 
 Last Update by (administrator): SCHNEIJ
  Last Update Date/Time: 05/09/13   10:30:43
   Managing profile: 
Changes Pending: No

 Policy Domain Name: VM
Policy Set Name: ACTIVE
Mgmt Class Name: 1MONTHCNTL
Copy Group Name: STANDARD
Copy Group Type: Backup
   Versions Data Exists: No Limit
  Versions Data Deleted: 1
  Retain Extra Versions: 30
Retain Only Version: 30
  Copy Mode: Modified
 Copy Serialization: Shared Static
 Copy Frequency: 0
   Copy Destination: VMCNTL
Table of Contents (TOC) Destination: 
 Last Update by (administrator): SCHNEIJ
  Last Update Date/Time: 09/04/13   16:26:53
   Managing profile: 
Changes Pending: No

The storage pools are
Storage Pool Name: VM
Storage Pool Type: Primary
Device Class Name: VM
   Estimated Capacity: 7,985 G
   Space Trigger Util: 77.6
 Pct Util: 38.6
 Pct Migr: 38.6
  Pct Logical: 98.0
 High Mig Pct: 90
  Low Mig Pct: 70
  Migration Delay: 0
   Migration Continue: Yes
  Migration Processes: 1
Reclamation Processes: 1
Next Storage Pool: 
 Reclaim Storage Pool: 
   Maximum Size Threshold: No Limit
   Access: Read/Write
  Description: 
Overflow Location: 
Cache Migrated Files?: 
   Collocate?: No
Reclamation Threshold: 60
Offsite Reclamation Limit: 
  Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed: 500
   Number of Scratch Volumes Used: 249
Delay Period for Volume Reuse: 0 Day(s)
   Migration in Progress?: No
 Amount Migrated (MB): 0.00
 Elapsed Migration Time (seconds): 0
 Reclamation in Progress?: No
   Last Update by (administrator): SCHNEIJ
Last Update Date/Time: 05/09/13   10:22:43
 Storage Pool Data Format: Native
 Copy Storage Pool(s): 
  Active Data Pool(s): 
  Continue Copy on Error?: Yes
 CRC Data: No
 Reclamation Type: Threshold
  Overwrite Data when Deleted: 
Deduplicate Data?: No
 Processes For Identifying Duplicates: 
Duplicate Data Not Stored: 
   Auto-copy Mode: Client
Contains Data Deduplicated by Client?: No


Storage Pool Name: VMCNTL
Storage Pool Type: Primary
Device Class Name: VMCNTL
   Estimated Capacity: 1,999 G
   Space Trigger Util: 12.4
 Pct Util: 0.3
 Pct Migr: 0.3
  Pct Logical: 68.2
 High Mig Pct: 100
  Low Mig Pct: 70
  Migration Delay: 0
   Migration Continue: Yes
  Migration Processes: 1
Reclamation Processes: 1
Next Storage Pool: 
 Reclaim Storage Pool: 
   Maximum Size Threshold: No Limit
   Access: Read/Write
  Description: 
Overflow Location: 
Cache Migrated Files?: 
   Collocate?: No
Reclamation Threshold: 90
Offsite Reclamation Limit: 
  Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed: 200
   Number of Scratch Volumes Used: 5
Delay Period for Volume Reuse: 0 Day(s)
   Migration in Progress?: No
 Amount Migrated (MB): 0.00
 Elapsed Migration Time (seconds): 0
 Reclamation in Progress?: No
   

Re: ANS4174E error

[Schneider, Jim]

I do not have management classes for VMCTL or VMDATA.  They are storage pools.

Jim

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McWilliams, Eric
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 9:53 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ANS4174E error

Thanks.  I set it up close to yours.  Just tweaked some names for my 
environment.  However, when I try to run a backup I get this error message:

03/05/2015 09:37:53 ANS9388E The management class 'VMDATA' specified for the 
'VMMC' option is invalid, or does not have a backup copy group.

I know my management class is valid and it does have a backup copy group.

EAGLEROCK q co vm_acc f=d

 Policy Domain Name: VM_ACC
Policy Set Name: ACTIVE
Mgmt Class Name: VMCTL
Copy Group Name: STANDARD
Copy Group Type: Backup
   Versions Data Exists: 3
  Versions Data Deleted: 1
  Retain Extra Versions: 30
Retain Only Version: 60
  Copy Mode: Modified
 Copy Serialization: Shared Static
 Copy Frequency: 0
   Copy Destination: VMCTLPOOL Table of Contents (TOC) 
Destination: 
 Last Update by (administrator): EMCWILLIAMS
  Last Update Date/Time: 2015-03-05, 09:18:16
   Managing profile: 
Changes Pending: No

 Policy Domain Name: VM_ACC
Policy Set Name: ACTIVE
Mgmt Class Name: VMDATA
Copy Group Name: STANDARD
Copy Group Type: Backup
   Versions Data Exists: 3
  Versions Data Deleted: 1
  Retain Extra Versions: 30
Retain Only Version: 60
  Copy Mode: Modified
 Copy Serialization: Shared Static
 Copy Frequency: 0
   Copy Destination: BACKUPPOOL Table of Contents (TOC) 
Destination: 
 Last Update by (administrator): EMCWILLIAMS
  Last Update Date/Time: 2015-03-05, 09:19:04
   Managing profile: 
Changes Pending: No


These are the options in my dsm.opt file:
VMMCVMDATA
VMCTLMC VMCTL

Does anything jump out at you as being wrong?

Thanks for all your help.

Eric McWilliams
www.medsynergies.com


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick 
Saylor
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 9:04 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ANS4174E error

Eric,

Yes, the data goes to the VMPOOL_DATA and the VM control information is sent to 
the VMPOOL_CTL pool(see below). Both management classes, VMDATA and VMCTL, fall 
under the same policy with VMDATA being the default class.

tsm: ADSMq stg vm*

Storage Device  Estimated   Pct   Pct
High Low Next Stora-
Pool Name   Class
Name   Capacity  Util  Migr  Mig Mig ge Pool
Pct Pct
--- -- -- - -
 --- ---
VMPOOL_CTL  DISK200 G   0.9   0.9  100  99
VMPOOL_DATA DISK  1,024
G  19.3  19.3   70   0 3584POOL6


Thanks,
Rick

At 08:41 AM 3/5/2015, McWilliams, Eric wrote:
Rick,

I did activate the policy set.  It appears I'm doing something else 
wrong because the CAD won't even start after I put the VMMC and VMCTLMC 
options in the dsm.opt file.

I noticed on your copy destinations you have a VMPOOL_CTL and
VMPOOL_DATA.   Is the VMPOOL_DATA where you are copying the actual VM backups?

Thanks


Eric McWilliams
www.medsynergies.com


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Of Rick Saylor
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 3:46 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ANS4174E error

Did you activate the policyset?

I recently struggled with this problem too. Setting up and configuring 
TSM/VE is confusing. I've included the output from my domain, 
policysets, mgmtclass and copy groups. I hope it will help you figure 
out what is missing.

Rick Saylor
Austin Community College

tsm: ADSMq co  vm*

Policy  Policy  MgmtCopyVersions   Versions
RetainRetain
Domain  Set
NameClass   Group   Data   Data  Extra  Only
NameNameName  ExistsDeleted
Versions   Version
-   -   -   -      
   ---
VM_ACC  ACTIVE  VMCTL   STANDARD   3  1
3060
VM_ACC  ACTIVE  VMDATA  STANDARD   3  1
3060
VM_ACC  STANDARDVMCTL 

Re: Ransomware deleted TSM backups from node

[Schneider, Jim]

Roger,

According to my TSM Data Protection for SQL 6.4 manual, servers that run TDP 
for SQL require backdelete authority.  I don't know how to get around this 
problem.

Jim Schneider

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Roger 
Deschner
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 7:40 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Ransomware deleted TSM backups from node

I'm not sure there's anything that can be done about this, but take it as a 
warning anyway.

A Windows 7 desktop node here was attacked by CryptoWare 3.0 ransomware.
They encrypted all files on the node, and left a ransom note.

The node owner called me because they were having trouble restoring their files 
from TSM using a point-in-time restore. The files were gone!
Apparently this villian located which backup program was installed, found it 
was TSM, and issued actual dsmc delete backup commands, which they were allowed 
to do since PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE was in effect. So this attack vector is not 
limited to TSM; it would work with any backup program that the villian can 
figure out how to use.

I have moved this node to a domain that includes VEREXISTS=NOLIMIT 
VERDELETED=NOLIMIT RETEXTRA=NOLIMIT RETONLY=NOLIMIT for that Copy Group, while 
our data security people investigate.

I am planning to change all TSM client nodes to BACKDEL=NO ARCHDEL=NO to 
prevent a hacker from deleting backups. Anybody got a better idea?

Roger Deschner  University of Illinois at Chicago rog...@uic.edu
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Re: Mac OS X 'Yosemite' and 7.1.1.1 client: dsmcad won't start

[Schneider, Jim]

Ruth,

testflags=MACNOEXECCAD,NODETACH

Looks like it is set to noexec.  Can you change the test flags?

Jim

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Mitchell, Ruth Slovik
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 1:52 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Mac OS X 'Yosemite' and 7.1.1.1 client: dsmcad won't start

Hello,

We've done a  couple of test installations of the 7.1.1.1 TSM client on Mac OS 
X 10.10 (Yosemite) and have not been able to start the dsmcad. I can see the 
daemon does load, but it never actually starts. No errors are written to 
dsmerror.log . 'StartCad.sh' incorrectly reports it as having successfully 
started, as does starting the CAD from TSM Tools for Administrators, even 
though no PID is assigned. They both report the PID as '-',  apparently due to 
this simple check found in both StartCad.sh and StopCad.sh:

/bin/launchctl list | grep com.ibm.tivoli.dsmcad |  awk '{print $1}'

which returns whatever is in col 1, even if it's not actually numeric.

If I manually check the entire list of loaded jobs, this is more clear, where 
jobs that are running have a PID assigned in column 1 (and can be viewed from 
'ps  -ef'); those which are not running, have no PID. Here we see the job's 
label, com.ibm.tivoli.dsmcad, as being loaded, but not running:

sudo /bin/launchctl list | grep -i tivoli

-  0  com.ibm.tivoli.dsmcad
Client version 7.1.1.0 on Yosemite installs and starts the dsmcad without 
problems, so that's where we're staying for now. When I run the previous 
command under 7.1.1.0, I see this:

201490  com.ibm.tivoli.dsmcad

which corresponds with the output of 'ps', showing the running CAD:

ps -ef | grep -i dsm
0 20149 1   0  7:39PM ?? 0:00.11 /usr/bin/dsmcad 
-testflags=MACNOEXECCAD,NODETACH

Has anyone tried the TSM 7.1.1.1 client/Yosemite combination with better 
success? I haven't found any technotes, APARs, etc. indicating this isn't a 
supported configuration, so I wonder if I've missed something along the way.

Many thanks,

Ruth Mitchell
U of I, Urbana, IL

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Re: Tsm for VE restore question

[Schneider, Jim]

Using the GUI, I select the machine, then the snapshot, then the disk to be 
mounted.  I do not know the command line version.

Jim

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Ouzen
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 1:49 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Tsm for VE restore question

Hi

I am doing a backup of my VMware environment with TSM for VE 7.1.1.0 on a TSM 
server 7.1.1.0.

I am wondering thru the GUI of TSm for VE how to restore for a VM machine only 
one disk Hard Disk 1  ( this VM machine have 4 disks)   

Or only can be done from the command line as:

restore vm vmmachine:vmdk=Hard Disk 1  -vmname=vmmachine 
-datacenter=datacentername  -host=localhost -datastore=localstore

Best Regards

Robert Ouzen

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Re: checkin libv command

[Schneider, Jim]

Did you check maxscratch for that storage pool?

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeanne 
Bruno
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 8:40 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] checkin libv command

Hello.  We are using TSM manager 6.3.3.0.
Tape Library is a DS3512.
I'm trying to check in some brand new tapes (LTO Ultrium 1.5TB).
On the DS3512, I choos the library and insert the tape into the machine.
On the command line I use this command:

label libv xx search=yes checkin=scratch labels=b overwrite=y

My output is this:

ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: LABEL LIBVOLUME  search=yes 
checkin=scratch labels=b overwrite=y ANR0984I Process 120 for LABEL LIBVOLUME 
started in the BACKGROUND at 09:29:14.
ANR8799I LABEL LIBVOLUME: Operation for library XX started as process 120.
ANR8801I LABEL LIBVOLUME process 120 for library XX completed; 0 volume(s) 
labeled, 0 volume(s) checked-in.
ANR0985I Process 120 for LABEL LIBVOLUME running in the BACKGROUND completed 
with completion state SUCCESS at 09:29:19.

0 volumes, but finished successfully and when I query the library XX, the 
new tape does not show in the list.

I have also tried this command:
CHECKIN LIBVOLUME xx SEARCH=YES CHECKLABEL=YES status=scratch WAITTIME=0 
VOLLIST=A00L5.
Results are the same.

I have also tried putting the tapes on the door of the machine and not doing 
the 'insert media'...again results on the same.
We just received 30 new tapes last week and I've tried about 10 of them so far.
I have used the cleaning tape and did the clean process and also rebooted the 
DS3512.same results afterwards.

Any help, suggestions would be greatly appreciated.




Jeannie Bruno
Senior Systems Analyst
jbr...@cenhud.commailto:jbr...@cenhud.com
Central Hudson Gas  Electric
(845) 486-5780

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Re: Waiting for mount point in device class

[Schneider, Jim]

Check the number of mount points for the node.

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stef 
Coene
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 1:46 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Waiting for mount point in device class

Hi,

I have multiple processes waiting for mount points in a FILE devclass.
And I can not figure out why :(
Server Version 6, Release 3, Level 3.200, running on AIX.

The fileclass is 7 file systems, each 20 TB.
Right now, only 6 volmes are mounted and 5 processes are waiting for a mount 
point.  3 volumes are mounted R/W, the other 3 R/O.
No dedup.

The devclass mount limit is set to 60.
I also raised NUMOPENVOLSALLOWED from 10 to 20.

What else can I check?


Stef

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Counting VMs

[Schneider, Jim]

I have not found an easy way to find out which VMs are backed up.  My 
workaround is 'q occ' for the datamover node and specify the stgpool (to 
exclude the CNTL data, and remove duplicates), and count the lines.  The 
filespace name has the VM name.  Does anyone have a better method?  I currently 
back up 19 VMs on 2 TSM servers but the number is about to increase 
dramatically, and somebody thinks I should keep track of these things.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Jim Schneider

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Re: Counting VMs

[Schneider, Jim]

Wanda and David,

Thank you both.  This gives me exactly the information I was looking for.  I 
think I need to learn (more) SQL.

Thank you again,
Jim

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Prather, Wanda
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 10:40 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Counting VMs

There are reports in the TSM/VE plug in that will show you that stuff.
But if you want to create your own reports, simple way is to use the timestamp 
on the filespace:

Backup status of all your VM's in TSM/VE, order by name (1) or timestamp(3) as 
you want :

select substr(filespace_name,9,18) as VM, filespace_id as FSID, cast(backup_end 
as char(19) )  - as Backup Completed from filespaces where 
node_name='VEDATAOWNERNAME'  - order by 1


Another way, all VM's that haven't backed up in the last 30 hours:

select substr(filespace_name,9,16) as VM,  - cast(backup_end as char(19) ) as 
Backup Completed -
 from filespaces where node_name='VEDATAOWNERNAME'   and -
timestampdiff(8,cast( (current_timestamp-backup_end) as char(22)))30 - order 
by 2

This will *not* tell you if you have any VM's that have never backed up, i.e. 
never had a filespace created.
For that you have to go to the VE Reports page or talk directly to VCenter.

 

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Schneider, Jim
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 11:29 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Counting VMs

I have not found an easy way to find out which VMs are backed up.  My 
workaround is 'q occ' for the datamover node and specify the stgpool (to 
exclude the CNTL data, and remove duplicates), and count the lines.  The 
filespace name has the VM name.  Does anyone have a better method?  I currently 
back up 19 VMs on 2 TSM servers but the number is about to increase 
dramatically, and somebody thinks I should keep track of these things.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Jim Schneider

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Re: tsm for ve DR config question

[Schneider, Jim]

David,

I'm still using the defaults.  I've seen occasional spikes in backup duration 
and had not considered that it might be caused by a megablock being backed up 
again.  Most of our backups run in about 10 minutes, but occasionally take 1.5 
hours.

The only way I've found to get a list of backed-up VMs is query occupancy for 
the data mover node, and parsing the file space name.  Has anybody found a 
better way?

Jim Schneider


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David 
Ehresman
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 7:51 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm for ve DR config question

Jim,

Are you using the default of 50 for mbobjrefreshthresh or have you adjusted 
that value?  If so, how did you determine what to change it to?

David Ehresman-

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Schneider, Jim
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 4:20 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm for ve DR config question

I back up both the VM and CNTL data to separate file device storage pools on a 
Data Domain.  I restore from a snapshot of replicated data.

I was under the impression that the mbobjrefreshthresh parameter triggered 
additional (megablock) backups and substituted for periodic fulls.  It's my 
fervent hope that recoverin from file-based storage will not be slower than 
standard incremental restore.

Jim

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stefan 
Folkerts
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 12:14 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm for ve DR config question

The documentation isn't kidding around when it recommends that a 
periodic
full
strategy is best for tape copypools.

This and make sure you restore your VE metadata to disk first, this only works 
if you place this metadata in a seperate copypool.



On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Matthew McGeary  
matthew.mcge...@potashcorp.com wrote:

 TSM for VE will connect to any VCenter server you specify.  When we 
 did our test, the VMWare team built a new VCenter instance and I built 
 a new datamover, connected it to the fresh VCenter and started restoring VMs.

 A word of caution, however, if your data is on tape and you don't have 
 any fulls to restore you should be prepared to wait a very long time.
 We were doing IFincr backups and saw restore speeds in the KB/s.  The 
 documentation isn't kidding around when it recommends that a periodic 
 full strategy is best for tape copypools.

 Matthew McGeary
 Technical Specialist
 PotashCorp - Saskatoon
 306.933.8921



 From:   Schneider, Jim jschnei...@ussco.com
 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
 Date:   08/27/2014 11:51 AM
 Subject:[ADSM-L] tsm for ve DR config question
 Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU



 Hi, folks;

 I have an upcoming disaster recovery test and will be asked to restore 
 VE data for the first time.  I can't run tests because the 
 hardware/network is not in place.  Will the DR VE backup proxy server 
 have to connect to a duplicate of the current production vCenter 
 server, or just A vCenter server on the correct network?

 Are there any other quirks recovering VE during a DR?

 Thanks in advance,
 Jim Schneider
 United Stationers

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Re: tsm for ve DR config question

[Schneider, Jim]

I've seen the complex backup commands people are using to schedule backups. 
A previous email showed command
-vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=nodename 
that owns the backupdata -domain.vmfull=VM=list with virtual machines, comma
separated -MODE=IFIncremental

My current method is to create a .bat file and execute it as a scheduled 
command script.
The script CDs to the baclient directory and executes:
dsmc backup vm server1,server2,server3,etc.

The filespace name for the backup is \VMFULL-servername
The activity log message generated is:
08/28/14   20:00:22  ANE4172I (Session: 206882, Node: SCSWPBKPXY_DM)  
Starting 
  Full VM backup of VMware Virtual Machine 'MSNLRSOLR2' 
   
mode:'Incremental 
Forever - 
  Incremental'  target node name:   
   
  'SCSWPBKPXY_DM'   data mover node name:   

  'SCSWPBKPXY_DM'   application protection type: 
'VMware'   
application(s) protected:'n/a'   
(SESSION:  
  206882)   
   

It's a really easy way to back up VMs.
Is anybody else doing this?

Jim Schneider

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Matthew McGeary
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 9:33 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm for ve DR config question

We typically see VM restore speeds at 2/3 or 1/2 the rate of standard 
file-level incremental restores.  That's from a FILE devclass with a 50GB 
volume size.  We're still offsiting to tape, however, so we do monthly fulls of 
the production VMs so we have a relatively recent full copy for DR purposes.  
Between the fulls and restoring the VM metadata back to a disk storage pool 
before restoring VM's, we should see decent speed.

That said, we haven't done a test with the new backup strategy yet.  So I could 
be wrong.

Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
PotashCorp - Saskatoon
306.933.8921



From:   Schneider, Jim jschnei...@ussco.com
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date:   08/29/2014 07:16 AM
Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] tsm for ve DR config question
Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU



David,

I'm still using the defaults.  I've seen occasional spikes in backup duration 
and had not considered that it might be caused by a megablock being backed up 
again.  Most of our backups run in about 10 minutes, but occasionally take 1.5 
hours.

The only way I've found to get a list of backed-up VMs is query occupancy for 
the data mover node, and parsing the file space name.  Has anybody found a 
better way?

Jim Schneider


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David 
Ehresman
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 7:51 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm for ve DR config question

Jim,

Are you using the default of 50 for mbobjrefreshthresh or have you adjusted 
that value?  If so, how did you determine what to change it to?

David Ehresman-

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Schneider, Jim
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 4:20 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm for ve DR config question

I back up both the VM and CNTL data to separate file device storage pools on a 
Data Domain.  I restore from a snapshot of replicated data.

I was under the impression that the mbobjrefreshthresh parameter triggered 
additional (megablock) backups and substituted for periodic fulls.  It's my 
fervent hope that recoverin from file-based storage will not be slower than 
standard incremental restore.

Jim

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stefan 
Folkerts
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 12:14 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm for ve DR config question

The documentation isn't kidding around when it recommends that a 
periodic
full
strategy is best for tape copypools.

This and make sure you restore your VE metadata to disk first, this only works 
if you place this metadata in a seperate copypool.



On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Matthew McGeary  
matthew.mcge...@potashcorp.com wrote:

 TSM for VE will connect to any VCenter server you specify.  When we 
 did our test, the VMWare team built a new VCenter instance and I built 
 a new datamover, connected it to the fresh VCenter and started 
 restoring
VMs.

 A word of caution, however, if your data is on tape and you don't have 
 any fulls to restore you should be prepared to wait a very long time.
 We were doing IFincr backups and saw restore speeds in the KB/s.  The 
 documentation isn't kidding around when it recommends that a periodic 
 full strategy is best

Re: tsm for ve 7.1 docs request

[Schneider, Jim]

Gary,

installation guide
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v7r1/topic/com.ibm.itsm.ve.inst.doc/b_ve_inst_guide.pdf

user's guide
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v7r1/topic/com.ibm.itsm.ve.doc/b_ve_user_guide.pdf

Jim Schneider

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, 
Gary
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 9:34 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] tsm for ve 7.1 docs request

Just went through the tsm for ve info center for v7.1.

Cannot find pdf downloads, and my screen reader won't show me the system 
requirements doc.

Would someone please send me a url for downloadable docs for the latest tsm for 
ve?

Thanks for any help.

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Re: tsm for ve DR config question

[Schneider, Jim]

I back up both the VM and CNTL data to separate file device storage pools on a 
Data Domain.  I restore from a snapshot of replicated data.

I was under the impression that the mbobjrefreshthresh parameter triggered 
additional (megablock) backups and substituted for periodic fulls.  It's my 
fervent hope that recoverin from file-based storage will not be slower than 
standard incremental restore.

Jim

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stefan 
Folkerts
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 12:14 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm for ve DR config question

The documentation isn't kidding around when it recommends that a 
periodic
full
strategy is best for tape copypools.

This and make sure you restore your VE metadata to disk first, this only works 
if you place this metadata in a seperate copypool.



On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Matthew McGeary  
matthew.mcge...@potashcorp.com wrote:

 TSM for VE will connect to any VCenter server you specify.  When we 
 did our test, the VMWare team built a new VCenter instance and I built 
 a new datamover, connected it to the fresh VCenter and started restoring VMs.

 A word of caution, however, if your data is on tape and you don't have 
 any fulls to restore you should be prepared to wait a very long time.  
 We were doing IFincr backups and saw restore speeds in the KB/s.  The 
 documentation isn't kidding around when it recommends that a periodic 
 full strategy is best for tape copypools.

 Matthew McGeary
 Technical Specialist
 PotashCorp - Saskatoon
 306.933.8921



 From:   Schneider, Jim jschnei...@ussco.com
 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
 Date:   08/27/2014 11:51 AM
 Subject:[ADSM-L] tsm for ve DR config question
 Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU



 Hi, folks;

 I have an upcoming disaster recovery test and will be asked to restore 
 VE data for the first time.  I can't run tests because the 
 hardware/network is not in place.  Will the DR VE backup proxy server 
 have to connect to a duplicate of the current production vCenter 
 server, or just A vCenter server on the correct network?

 Are there any other quirks recovering VE during a DR?

 Thanks in advance,
 Jim Schneider
 United Stationers

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tsm for ve DR config question

[Schneider, Jim]

Hi, folks;

I have an upcoming disaster recovery test and will be asked to restore VE data 
for the first time.  I can't run tests because the hardware/network is not in 
place.  Will the DR VE backup proxy server have to connect to a duplicate of 
the current production vCenter server, or just A vCenter server on the correct 
network?

Are there any other quirks recovering VE during a DR?

Thanks in advance,
Jim Schneider
United Stationers

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Re: Exchange TDP and Export weirdness

[Schneider, Jim]

Your 5/10/14 backup started at 08:00 but your fromtime is 04:00.  It could be 
trying to pull incremental data.

Jim Schneider

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Prather, Wanda
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 11:04 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Exchange TDP and Export weirdness

- it's a primary volume
- what TOC/metadata would be called for by an EXPORT of 1 Exchange TDP 
filespace?  
I've done a select on the contents of the tape, and there is nothing on it but 
Exchange TDP filespaces.



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Street
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 9:24 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Exchange TDP and Export weirdness

On 05/08/14 07:14, Prather, Wanda wrote:
 TSM server 6.3.4 on Win2K8 64
 Exchange 2010 in a DAG configuration, 22 DB's TDP for Exchange 6.4.0 
 We run fulls on Saturday, incrementals Sun-Fri.

 Trying to Export a set of Exchange backups for *one* DB/filespace to 
 sequential media for legal hold.
 Here's the command:

 EXPORT NODE x-dag1 fsid=19 filedata=all fromdate=05/10/2014
 todate=05/16/2014 fromtime=04:00 totime=23:59 devclass=lto

 x-dag1 is the storage node that holds all the Exchange DB filespaces.
 There was a full backup run starting 05/10/2014 at 08:00.

 So here's the weirdness:
 The Export runs a while, mounts some of the tapes you'd expect, then calls 
 for a tape whose last write date is 04/25/2014.

 That fails the job because that tape is offsite.  I don't mind getting that 
 tape back from the vault for processing, except that something is clearly 
 hosed here, and I wonder if *any* of the data going on my export tape is 
 correct.

 Anybody seen something like this before?
 I have even done a query on the BACKUPs table to verify there are no objects 
 of type DIR in that filespace.
 I'm flummoxed.

The tape that causes the failure is it a primary volume or a copy volume?
If it's a copy volume, then TSM can't access the primary volume so there is 
something wrong.

The tape could be a TOC/windows metadata pool.

Grant

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Re: Question about NDMP and TSM.

[Schneider, Jim]

Ricky,

The Isilon uses the OneFS file system and TSM views it as one huge file system. 
 If backing up to disk, TSM will attempt to preallocate enough space to back up 
the entire allocated space on the Isilon. Defining Virtual File systems will 
not help because directory quota information is not passed to TSM, and TSM only 
sees the total allocated space.

We were able to back up the Isilon to disk when we started on a test system 
with little data on it, around 25 GB.  When we attempted to implement the same 
backups on a second, well-populated Isilon we ran into the space allocation 
problem.

When backing up to tape, TSM assumes you have unlimited storage available and 
is able to run VFS backups.  We use Virtual File Space Mapping (VFS) and back 
up to tape.

Refer to EMC SR#4646, TSM PMR 23808,122,000.

Jim Schneider
United Stationers
 
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Ricky
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 1:21 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Question about NDMP and TSM.

I have been asked to look into backing up our EMC Isilon using our TSM server.

Everything I read,  seems to point to backing this NDMP device to tape.

Problem is, we do not use tape to backup production.

I have researched and found a few articles about backing the NDMP device to 
tape but, there seem to be more cons than pros.

Is there anybody backing up a NDMP device to disk that can give me some pros 
and,  how they are using disk for this task.


I appreciate your time!



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Re: SET DRMDBBACKUPEXPIREDAYS

[Schneider, Jim]

Our Oracle and SQL database backups are only kept for 7 days.  We keep TSM 
database backups for 10 days.

Jim Schneider

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Ricky
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 11:32 AM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] SET DRMDBBACKUPEXPIREDAYS

Question, I am running TSM 6.3 and running out of database space with nowhere 
to get more at the moment.

My DRMDBBACKUPEXPIREDAYS is set to 60 days. I really don't think I need 60 
days. I would like to change this number to 30 days and get some space back. 
What is a norm or an expected amount of days for this parameter?

Ricky M. Plair
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HealthPlan Services
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Re: reclaimable tapes in a stgpool

[Schneider, Jim]

I use the following script to check reclaimable space by storage pool.  The 
output lines are numbered, makes it easy to check a percentage and a line 
number to get a tape count.

#!/usr/bin/ksh
#
# This script checks reclaimable space in a tape storage pool
# The list is displayed with line numbers and is sorted by
# reclaimable space in descending order.


# Check that a parameter is passed
if [[ $# != 1 ]]
then
   echo Usage: cr \storage_pool_name\
   exit 4
fi

dsmadmc -id=userid -pass=password -displ=list q vol stg=$1 f=d |
grep Reclaimable | sort -n -r -k 4  $1.usage
cat -n $1.usage | more
rm $1.usage

Regards,
Jim Schneider


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Michael Roesch
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 9:28 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclaimable tapes in a stgpool

Hi,

I'm using this query to see all tapes and how much reclaimable space they have 
in descending order. As we have a small library, this is suitable for us.

SELECT
volume_name,devclass_name,stgpool_name,pct_reclaim,pct_utilized,status,access
FROM volumes WHERE devclass_name='LTO_DeviceClass' order by pct_reclaim desc

Regards,
Michael Roesch





On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Rhodes, Richard L.  
rrho...@firstenergycorp.com wrote:

 Is there a way to determine the number of tapes in a stgpool that are 
 eligible for reclamation?

 I tried the following sql on all our TSM instances:
 select stgpool_name, \
count(*) \
   from volumes \
  where pct_reclaim \ 64  \
and devclass_name like '%TAPE%' \
  group by stgpool_name 

 It returned a list, but when I went and ran reclaim stgpool  name 
 threshold=65
 many of the pools returned that there were no volumes to be reclaimed.  
 I think I need more qualifiers on the select.

 We currently have reclamation running automatically with a reclaim pct 
 of 65% on the stgpool.  I'm trying to move to manually running 
 reclamation during a window.  I don't want to just issue reclaim 
 stgpool cmds all at once for all instances to prevent a tape drive 
 storm.  I want to start them gradually, with the stgpools with the 
 most tapes to be reclaimed starting first.

 Thanks

 Rick






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Re: FTP transferring FILE DEVCLASS objects/files

[Schneider, Jim]

I backup the DB, config and volhist files to a FILE device, and restore from a 
replicated copy (using a Data Domain on both ends).

Jim Schneider

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Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 1:38 PM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] FTP transferring FILE DEVCLASS objects/files

Time to upgrade/replace our v6.1 server, to a new box and 6.3.

There is no shared/SAN storage between the original server and its replacement 
box (no SAN storage at all - internal disk for LZ)

To not have to fiddle with tape backups of the DB, can I backup the DB to FILE 
DEVCLASS internal disk storage and then FTP those files to a test server, for 
testing restore and conversion to V6.2?

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Re: FTP transferring FILE DEVCLASS objects/files

[Schneider, Jim]

It creates a copy in an alternate location.  I'm not exactly sure of the 
transfer method.  I just make sure that the replication for the source TSM file 
systems is complete before creating a snapshot on the target side.

Jim

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Forray
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 1:59 PM
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That doesn't physically relocate the file, or transfer it in chunks like FTP, 
does it?


On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Schneider, Jim jschnei...@ussco.comwrote:

 I backup the DB, config and volhist files to a FILE device, and 
 restore from a replicated copy (using a Data Domain on both ends).

 Jim Schneider

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 Of Zoltan Forray
 Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 1:38 PM
 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
 Subject: [ADSM-L] FTP transferring FILE DEVCLASS objects/files

 Time to upgrade/replace our v6.1 server, to a new box and 6.3.

 There is no shared/SAN storage between the original server and its 
 replacement box (no SAN storage at all - internal disk for LZ)

 To not have to fiddle with tape backups of the DB, can I backup the DB 
 to FILE DEVCLASS internal disk storage and then FTP those files to a 
 test server, for testing restore and conversion to V6.2?

 --
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Re: UNSUBSCRIBE -L

[Schneider, Jim]

The sender took the most recent message and requested to be removed from the 
mailing list.

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Re: TSM/VME renames

[Schneider, Jim]

From the manual (p.104): If you rename a VM, and you select this option 
[incremental forever], the schedule backs up the renamed VM.  
I do not know if it takes a full backup again.

Jim Schneider

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Ehresman,David E.
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 1:55 PM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM/VME renames

My vmware admin is planning to rename a number of VMs to conform to a new 
naming standard.  Can I avoid new FULLs of the renamed VM by renaming the 
filespace associated with that VM to match the new name?  Or will info in the 
CTL file force a FULL backup anyway?

David

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Re: DSMCAD deprecated?!?

[Schneider, Jim]

Nick,

The 6.2 Windows Backup/Archive Installation and User's Guide, page 209, says 
dsmcad is the preferred scheduling method.  Also, Tivoli Storage Manager 
traditional scheduler services Requires higher use of system resources when 
idle and Restart the traditional scheduler periodically to free system 
resources previously used by system calls.

The scheduler service has a memory leak.  It is unlikely that DSMCAD is 
deprecated.

Jim Schneider
 
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Laflamme
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 9:28 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] DSMCAD deprecated?!?

A colleague insists that TSM service once told him that DSMCAD would be 
deprecated and that we need to convert to using the TSM Scheduler routinely.

The TSM 6.3 client manuals, however, refer to both techniques as valid choices.

Has anyone ever been told by IBM that DSMCAD had been or will be deprecated, 
either in general or in very specific cases?

Alternately, can anyone point to current IBM recommendations in favor of DSMCAD?

Thanks,
Nick

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Re: Windows installer error

[Schneider, Jim]

I think Windows 7 is a 64-bit operating system.

Jim

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Denier
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 1:20 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Windows installer error

I just had Windows 7 installed on my workstation, which was previously running 
Windows XP. The installation process did not preserver the TSM client software 
I had installed under Windows XP. Attempts to install the client software under 
Windows 7 fail with the following message:

The operating system is not adequate for running IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 
Client.

When the failure occurs I am offered the opportunity to view the installer log, 
which contains the following message:

Error 2732: Directory Manager not initialized.

I have been assured that I have administrative rights for the workstation, and 
I was able to install and use the viewer component of TSMManager and the Google 
Chrome browser earlier today. The error occurs regardless of whether I specify 
'Open' or 'Run as administrator' when I start the installation. The error 
occurs for the 6.2.1.0 6.2.2.0, and 6.2.4.0 levels of the 32 bit client. 
Removing the folder used for files created by unpacking the distribution file 
does not help.
Rebooting does not help.

I would welcome any suggestions for resolving this problem.

Thomas Denier
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

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Re: DR tests with multiple TSM servers

[Schneider, Jim]

I use 'tcpport 1550' for the DR instance and change the sever name.  Clients 
have to be manually updated to access the DR TSM server.

Jim Schneider

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Huebner, Andy
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 3:13 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] DR tests with multiple TSM servers

We use the hosts file to isolate the DR copy and give that system a different 
IP address.

The theory being if the DR TSM server has a different IP then clients cannot 
find it.
If we put bogus host entries in the hosts file the DR TSM server cannot find 
the real TSM servers.  The local IP address in the hosts file on the DR TSM 
server does have to be correct, but it is the new address we gave the system, 
not the production IP.

We also disable schedules in the dsmserv.opt file and do not allow access to 
the production tape libraries.

Andy Huebner

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Chavdar Cholev
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 10:40 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] DR tests with multiple TSM servers

Hi Thomas,
I did it before TSM 6.3 with server-to-server with virtual volumes ...but in 
isolated environment and it works.
Now we are migrating to node replication where is very easy to test restore @DR 
location

HTH
Chavdar
On 7/31/2013 18:16, Thomas Denier wrote:
 Until fairly recently my employer has had one production TSM server 
 with a DR plan involving a commercial hot site provider. We now have 
 multiple production servers at multiple locations and a DR plan using 
 our own facilities. We think we understand how recovery from a real 
 disaster would work, but we am having trouble figuring out how to run 
 DR tests in the new environment.

 We have two IBM z10 systems in different locations. Each has a Linux 
 image for hosting the production TSM instance or instances for its 
 location. One site has a single TSM instance for storing client data.
 The other site has a client data storage instance, which also serves 
 as a configuration manager for both sites, and a small instance 
 configured as a library manager.

 Each site has a primary pool on sequential disk files and a copy pool 
 on tape volumes in a shared tape library at a third location.

 We make extensive use of server to server communications. I have 
 already mentioned configuration management and library sharing. We use 
 virtual volumes to send recovery plans between locations and to send 
 library manager database backups to the other location. We have 
 command routing between any pair of servers available for the 
 convenience of the TSM administrators.

 Our DR plan involves a standby Linux image at each location. Each 
 standby image will have empty versions of the instance or instances 
 from the other location installed and ready for database restores.

 We would like to be able to test the database restore process while 
 all the production instances are active. We are prepared to suspend 
 normal tape activity during DR tests. We would like to be able to run 
 test client restores from the recreated instances.

 We are a bit nervous about the idea of two TSM instances on different 
 Linux images with the same server name and with both configured for 
 communications with other servers.

 One of the options we are considering is to execute a 'set servername' 
 command as soon as possible after a TSM database restore to eliminate 
 the server name collisions as quickly as possible. We have already 
 thought of several complications that would result from this approach.
 We would need to execute some 'define server' commands.
 We would need to change the ownership of tape volumes used during 
 tests. In some cases we would need to update a device configuration 
 file to support a TSM database restore using a renamed library manager 
 and then update the library definition in the restored database.

 We would appreciate any advice or warnings from TSM administrators who 
 have run DR tests in environments similar to ours.

 Thomas Denier
 Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

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Re: How to store file on TSM server.

[Schneider, Jim]

You need to use the absolute path name in the backup command.

Jim Schneider

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Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 8:30 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] How to store file on TSM server.

Hello, I'm very new in TSM and such simple task as store a file in TSM server 
is very difficult for me.

I work with zLinux server and try following command to put my file to TSM 
server:

user@server dsmc incremental file.ixf.gz IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Command 
Line Backup-Archive Client Interface
  Client Version 6, Release 1, Level 4.0
  Client date/time: 07/05/2013 08:47:12
(c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2010. All Rights Reserved.

Node Name: NODE_NAME
Session established with server TSMSERVER: AIX-RS/6000
  Server Version 5, Release 5, Level 6.0
  Server date/time: 07/05/2013 06:47:12  Last access: 07/05/2013 06:46:45


Incremental backup of volume 'file.ixf.gz'
Successful incremental backup of '/path/file.ixf.gz'


Total number of objects inspected:1
Total number of objects backed up:0
Total number of objects updated:  0
Total number of objects rebound:  0
Total number of objects deleted:  0
Total number of objects expired:  0
Total number of objects failed:   0
Total number of bytes transferred:   0  B
Data transfer time:0.00 sec
Network data transfer rate:0.00 KB/sec
Aggregate data transfer rate:  0.00 KB/sec
Objects compressed by:0%
Elapsed processing time:   00:00:03



So it writes that file backed up successfully: Successful incremental backup of 
'/path/file.ixf.gz'
But in next section of output info it show that : Total number of objects 
backed up:0

and when I try find this file on TSM server I also don't see it:

user@server dsmc query backup /path/file.ixf.gz ANS1092W No files matching 
search criteria were found

user@server dsmc query backup file.ixf.gz ANS1092W No files matching search 
criteria were found

user@server dsmc query backup /path/*
ANS1092W No files matching search criteria were found



Please help me to make it worked.

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Re: Planning for NDMP backup

[Schneider, Jim]

Your backup command is:
BACKUP NODE node-name virtual fs name MGMT=nnn MODE=FULL TOC=YES

I use 'TOC=P'.  We have one file system where we cannot generate a TOC because 
of the number of files.  TOC=PREFERRED will prevent the backup from failing 
when TOC creation fails.

Jim

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jeff
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 10:05 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Planning for NDMP backup

Hi Michael

I believe the backups can be stored on either disk or tape, but i only ever use 
tape. This is mainly due to the size of the backups, ours range between 1tb - 
25tb. If on disk, that's a lot of disk!

For the server that ran the NDMP backups, we always had at least 2 drives 
defined to the data movers. Other activities such as normal B/A backups took 
place which required reclaim and migration tasks and had to share the drives 
with the NDMP backups. If i only defined one drive to NDMP and the drive was 
busy, the backup would fail. So at least 2, and 4 drives if the NAS filer had 
the fibre to allow it. One problem i had: because of the size of the dumps, we 
never had the time to make offsite copies of the tapes.
Right or wrong (and i know it's wrong), i had limited resources in terms of 
drives and time.

Lot's of different things with NDMP backups. These are a brief summary of my 
own notes.

Define a domain for the NAS backups:

define dom nas desc='NAS Domain'
define pol nas nasp


Now register a node:

reg node node-name password type=nas dom=nas


Obtain the IP address of the NAS filer:

(From the NAS filer)
ifconfig sm_vif

Note the IP address


Now define the datamover:

define datamover datamover-name type=nas hla=ip-address lla=port 
userid=node-name password=password-of-NAS-filer dataf=netappdump (Note the 
format must be netappdump)
(Note2: I kept the datamover-name the same as the filer-name - no point 
confusing things and keeps it simple)


From the filer:

storage show tape

Obtain the Alias name. Normally something like st0 and st1


Define the paths in TSM:

def path filer-name drive0 srct=datamover desttype=drive library= 
device=rst0a def path filer-name drive0 srct=datamover desttype=drive 
library= device=rst1a

(Note the device of rst0a and rst1a. This is the st0 and st1 taken from the 
filer and you need to suffix with an add 'a')



q path

Source Name Source Type Destination Destination On-Line
NameType
--- --- --- --- ---
tsm-server  SERVER  AUTOLIB0LIBRARY Yes
tsm-server  SERVER  DRIVE0  DRIVE   Yes
tsm-server  SERVER  DRIVE1  DRIVE   Yes
filer1  DATAMOVER   DRIVE0  DRIVE   Yes
filer1  DATAMOVER   DRIVE1  DRIVE   Yes

(So now i see the 'normal' tape drive paths, plus the file ones)


Define my devc:

define devclass NASCLASS  devtype=nas library=  mountretention=0 
mountlimit=drives estcapacity=1600g (this was an LTO4 library)


And a stgpool:

def stgpool stgpool-name NASCLASS poolt=primary acc=readw col=no reuse=3 
dataf=netappd maxscr=2000 (Note the devc was the tape devc i just created. You 
can do this to disk, of course)

And the mgmtclass and copygroup:

DEF MGMT NAS STANDARD 1M SPACEMGTECH=NONE AUTOMIGNO=0 MIGREQUIRESBK=YES 
MIGDEST=SPACEMGPOOL DESC=NAS MC
DEF COPY NAS STANDARD 1M  T=BACKUP DEST=stgpool-name FREQ=0 VERE=28 VERD=28
RETE=28 RETONLY=28 MODE=MODIFIED SER=DYNAMIC


And finally:

VALIDATE POL NAS NASP
ACTIVATE POL NAS NASP

I recommend you use a TOC (table of contents). See the admin guide or admin ref 
about this



Set up a Virtual Filespce:

DEFINE VIRTUALFS nodename virtual-fs-name fs-name path namet=server

(Note: The fs-name and path must match that of the Netapp filer) (Note the 
virtual-fs-name is what TSM server knows the filer storage area
as)

This will backup the filer:

BACKUP NODE node-name virtual fs name MGMT=nnn MODE=FULL TOC=YES

THE BACKUP RUNS AS A PROCESS (not as a session) SO CHECK THE PROCESS TO CONFIRM 
THAT THE BACKUP HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL!






Notes:

Q NODE will not show NAS nodes. Need to use Q NODE TYPE=NAS The Admin Guide 
states that Reclamation and Migration are not supported for these storage pools

I am sure there may be better ways, perhaps dedupe etc, not sure. But this is 
what i setup

Best of luck


On 7 June 2013 08:51, Michael Roesch michael.roe...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi everyone,

 we're planning on implementing a TSM server that also does backup 
 NetApp Filers and we've run into a few questions. Hope that you can 
 help me with these.

 1. Is it possible to store the NDMP backups on disk or is only tape 
 possible?
 2. If only tape, how many drives are recommended for NDMP backup? One 
 per Filer if they backup at the same time?

 Thanks in 

Maximum nunmberof mount points

[Schneider, Jim]

Hello TSMers,

This is not a question, just a situation I have observed.  You folks probably 
know about it, but some of the new people might not.

I run a report that checks the activity log for servers that have exceeded the 
maximum number of mount points (ANR0539W).  One of my servers last night missed 
more than 6,000 files during incremental backup but the 'q event' showed is was 
successful.  A manual incremental backup ran successfully without any 'exceeded 
mount point' messages.  It's a good thing to check for if you're not already 
doing so.

I don't recall having seen this in the manual or in any discussion threads.  My 
apologies if I have wasted your time.

Jim Schneider
United Stationers

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Re: TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold

[Schneider, Jim]

Ditto

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Plair, 
Ricky
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 12:52 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold

Sure could have used this in the past! Got my vote!

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Bullock
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 1:06 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold

Got it. Voted. Thanks

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Michael A (Mike) CIV USARMY 93 SIG BDE (US)
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 11:01 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold

I agree this is a great RFE, and I have added my vote to it.



Go to 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/?BRAND_ID%3D90k=Kv4nkNfjdxVgeJz6Pg57qw%3D%3D%0Ar=I1HLMFJ6m%2BiVcavWgCBtVd78uShy4GoDLiStkJAJ6wk%3D%0Am=x%2B6alTX5na7BL9zpHHo5bVZ89hIdgEmEAeC8GEPEa%2Bg%3D%0As=ae4c9e66642e3d122c6b1cff72603aa38cde0082ba1db6bf819f1f4a2336a5d2.
  You will need to sign in with your IBM ID to vote.  Search by RFE ID to go to 
the desired RFE.  Open the RFE and then click Add vote under RFE actions.




From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] on behalf of Ben Bullock 
[bbull...@bcidaho.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 10:59 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold

That sounds like a great RFE, one I could have used a couple times in the past.

How can we vote on this? I'm not familiar with how to do that with IBM RFEs.

Thanks,
Ben

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Vandeventer, Harold [BS]
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 3:06 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM RFE regarding Litigation Hold

To all...
I created an RFE to affect File Spaces and Expiration.  The feature would cause 
expiration processing to be skipped for a file space that has been selected.

It's RFE ID 33395 if you care to review and vote.

Briefly, the idea is to immediately respond to a situation in which we cannot 
allow Expiration Processing to delete information that would otherwise be 
deleted.  This would be in response to a Litigation Hold demand from a legal 
issue at hand.  I've had three LitHold events in the past 24 months; they're 
not much fun and I'm not in the court room, just the TSM Server Admin.

Allowing a LitigationHold=Yes would avoid expiration on the File Space.

When the court case is lifted, simply revert to LitigationHold=No.  The next 
Expiration process would then begin the delete process as is normal.

The feature would avoid the complexity of assigning a no expire management 
class to the node and trying to later revert to a more typical class.

Please take a look at the RFE, and cast a vote if you feel it's a valuable 
feature.

Thanks.

Harold Vandeventer
Systems Programmer
State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services STE 751-S
910 SW Jackson
(785) 296-0631


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Re: Update Schedule failed - resolved

[Schneider, Jim]

I was running the backups from a batch scheduling system.  Yesterday I had two 
executions of the backup jobs, at 6 and 10.  I've disabled the TSM schedule, 
restarted the services on the clients, and have adjusted the submission times 
in the batch scheduling system.

Thank you all for your help,
Jim Schneider

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick 
Harderwijk
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 9:20 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Update Schedule failed

I must agree with Jim on the fact that it's a bit strange backups where still 
running even though the schedule has expired. The backups must be managed by a 
different schedule than the one Jim was trying to edit. The dsmsched.log should 
be able to provide more info as well.

Cheers
Rick
On May 2, 2013 4:02 PM, Carlo Zanelli carlo.zane...@gmail.com wrote:

 You are welcome,

 Bear in mind that starting from now probably your will have two daily 
 backup jobs.
 To look at all the scheduled associated for that node you can use

 q sched * * no=CH2WPEXCH1-EXCH

 Have a nice day.


 On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Schneider, Jim jschnei...@ussco.com
 wrote:

  Carlo,
 
  Thanks - I'd missed that, and have updated all Exchange schedules (3
 full,
  3 incremental) to non-expiring.  I don't understand show the backups 
  have been running consistently with expired schedules.  I'll check 
  tomorrow to see if this fixed the problem.
 
  Thank you,
  Jim Schneider
 
  -Original Message-
  From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On 
  Behalf Of Carlo Zanelli
  Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 8:38 AM
  To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
  Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Update Schedule failed
 
  Jim,
 
  it looks like this schedule is not more used.
 
  Expiration: 02/17/13   23:59:59
 
  Hope this helps.
 
 
  On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Schneider, Jim 
  jschnei...@ussco.com
  wrote:
 
   TSM 6.2.2.0 on AIX 6.1
   TSM 6.3.0.0 on Windows 2008 R2
  
   My attempt to change a schedule start time has failed.  I have a 
   cmd schedule that runs Exchange backups.  Originally scheduled for 
   17:00 I find I cannot change the start time to 22:00.
  
   These commands show that the schedule time was changed to 22:00.
   update schedule exch1 incr scheds=e startt=22:00 update schedule 
   exch1 incr startt=22:00
  
   It looks like it should work.
  
   q sched exch1 incr f=d
  
   Policy Domain Name: EXCH1
Schedule Name: INCR
  Description: daily incremental exchange backup
   Action: Command
Subaction:
  Options:
  Objects: c:\excincr.cmd
 Priority: 5
  Start Date/Time: 01/14/12   22:00:00
 Duration: 1 Hour(s)
   Schedule Style: Enhanced
   Period:
  Day of Week: Sun,Mon,Tue,Thu,Fri,Sat
Month: Any
 Day of Month: Any
Week of Month: Any
   Expiration: 02/17/13   23:59:59
   Last Update by (administrator): SCHNEIJ
Last Update Date/Time: 04/30/13   09:24:48
 Managing profile:
  
   q assoc exch1 incr
  
   Policy Domain Name Schedule Name
Associated Nodes
   -- --
   
   EXCH1  INCR
   CH2WPEXCH1-EXCH
  
   q proxy target=ch2wpexch1
  
   Target Node Agent Node
   --- --
   CH2WPEXCH1-EXCH CH2WPEXCH1
  
   But the darn schedule still runs at 17:00, the previous start time.
   I have restarted the acceptor, scheduler, and TDP for Exchange 
   services on the client.
  
   What am I doing wrong/what have I missed?
  
   Thank you in advance,
   Jim Schneider
  
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Update Schedule failed

[Schneider, Jim]

TSM 6.2.2.0 on AIX 6.1
TSM 6.3.0.0 on Windows 2008 R2

My attempt to change a schedule start time has failed.  I have a cmd schedule 
that runs Exchange backups.  Originally scheduled for 17:00 I find I cannot 
change the start time to 22:00.

These commands show that the schedule time was changed to 22:00.
update schedule exch1 incr scheds=e startt=22:00
update schedule exch1 incr startt=22:00

It looks like it should work.

q sched exch1 incr f=d

Policy Domain Name: EXCH1
 Schedule Name: INCR
   Description: daily incremental exchange backup
Action: Command
 Subaction: 
   Options: 
   Objects: c:\excincr.cmd
  Priority: 5
   Start Date/Time: 01/14/12   22:00:00
  Duration: 1 Hour(s)
Schedule Style: Enhanced
Period: 
   Day of Week: Sun,Mon,Tue,Thu,Fri,Sat
 Month: Any
  Day of Month: Any
 Week of Month: Any
Expiration: 02/17/13   23:59:59
Last Update by (administrator): SCHNEIJ
 Last Update Date/Time: 04/30/13   09:24:48
  Managing profile:

q assoc exch1 incr

Policy Domain Name Schedule Name  
Associated Nodes
-- -- 

EXCH1  INCR   
CH2WPEXCH1-EXCH

q proxy target=ch2wpexch1

Target Node Agent Node   
--- --
CH2WPEXCH1-EXCH CH2WPEXCH1   

But the darn schedule still runs at 17:00, the previous start time.
I have restarted the acceptor, scheduler, and TDP for Exchange services on the 
client.

What am I doing wrong/what have I missed?

Thank you in advance,
Jim Schneider

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Re: Update Schedule failed

[Schneider, Jim]

Carlo,

Thanks - I'd missed that, and have updated all Exchange schedules (3 full, 3 
incremental) to non-expiring.  I don't understand show the backups have been 
running consistently with expired schedules.  I'll check tomorrow to see if 
this fixed the problem.

Thank you,
Jim Schneider

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Carlo 
Zanelli
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 8:38 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Update Schedule failed

Jim,

it looks like this schedule is not more used.

Expiration: 02/17/13   23:59:59

Hope this helps.


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Schneider, Jim jschnei...@ussco.com wrote:

 TSM 6.2.2.0 on AIX 6.1
 TSM 6.3.0.0 on Windows 2008 R2

 My attempt to change a schedule start time has failed.  I have a cmd 
 schedule that runs Exchange backups.  Originally scheduled for 17:00 I 
 find I cannot change the start time to 22:00.

 These commands show that the schedule time was changed to 22:00.
 update schedule exch1 incr scheds=e startt=22:00 update schedule exch1 
 incr startt=22:00

 It looks like it should work.

 q sched exch1 incr f=d

 Policy Domain Name: EXCH1
  Schedule Name: INCR
Description: daily incremental exchange backup
 Action: Command
  Subaction:
Options:
Objects: c:\excincr.cmd
   Priority: 5
Start Date/Time: 01/14/12   22:00:00
   Duration: 1 Hour(s)
 Schedule Style: Enhanced
 Period:
Day of Week: Sun,Mon,Tue,Thu,Fri,Sat
  Month: Any
   Day of Month: Any
  Week of Month: Any
 Expiration: 02/17/13   23:59:59
 Last Update by (administrator): SCHNEIJ
  Last Update Date/Time: 04/30/13   09:24:48
   Managing profile:

 q assoc exch1 incr

 Policy Domain Name Schedule Name
  Associated Nodes
 -- --
 
 EXCH1  INCR
 CH2WPEXCH1-EXCH

 q proxy target=ch2wpexch1

 Target Node Agent Node
 --- --
 CH2WPEXCH1-EXCH CH2WPEXCH1

 But the darn schedule still runs at 17:00, the previous start time.
 I have restarted the acceptor, scheduler, and TDP for Exchange 
 services on the client.

 What am I doing wrong/what have I missed?

 Thank you in advance,
 Jim Schneider

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Re: Update Schedule failed

[Schneider, Jim]

The dsmsched.log only shows the regular server incremental backup scheduled at 
01:59.  The TDPschedule log had 'no schedule returned'.  Now that I have 
updated the schedules with 'exp=never' and restarted the services I see the 
scheduled start times on all three servers - 22:00 for incrementals, 17:00 for 
the full that will run tonight.  I've been puzzling over this for about 2 weeks 
and never noticed that backups were running with expired schedules.

My current Exchange server schedules are
tsm: CH2UPTSM3q ev * * n=ch2wpexch*

Scheduled Start  Actual Start Schedule Name Node Name   
  Status   
  - 
- -
05/02/13   01:59:00  05/02/13   01:59:19  WIN_0200  CH2WPEXCH1  
  Completed
05/02/13   01:59:00  05/02/13   01:59:20  WIN_0200  CH2WPEXCH2  
  Completed
05/02/13   01:59:00  05/02/13   01:59:21  WIN_0200  CH2WPEXCH3  
  Completed
05/02/13   17:00:00   FULL  
CH2WPEXCH3-E- Future   
 XCH
   
05/02/13   22:00:00   INCR  
CH2WPEXCH1-E- Future   
 XCH
   
05/02/13   22:00:00   INCR  
CH2WPEXCH2-E- Future   
 XCH
   

Tomorrow's results will let me know if the fix worked.

Thanks again,
Jim Schneider

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick 
Harderwijk
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 9:20 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Update Schedule failed

I must agree with Jim on the fact that it's a bit strange backups where still 
running even though the schedule has expired. The backups must be managed by a 
different schedule than the one Jim was trying to edit. The dsmsched.log should 
be able to provide more info as well.

Cheers
Rick
On May 2, 2013 4:02 PM, Carlo Zanelli carlo.zane...@gmail.com wrote:

 You are welcome,

 Bear in mind that starting from now probably your will have two daily 
 backup jobs.
 To look at all the scheduled associated for that node you can use

 q sched * * no=CH2WPEXCH1-EXCH

 Have a nice day.


 On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Schneider, Jim jschnei...@ussco.com
 wrote:

  Carlo,
 
  Thanks - I'd missed that, and have updated all Exchange schedules (3
 full,
  3 incremental) to non-expiring.  I don't understand show the backups 
  have been running consistently with expired schedules.  I'll check 
  tomorrow to see if this fixed the problem.
 
  Thank you,
  Jim Schneider
 
  -Original Message-
  From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On 
  Behalf Of Carlo Zanelli
  Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 8:38 AM
  To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
  Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Update Schedule failed
 
  Jim,
 
  it looks like this schedule is not more used.
 
  Expiration: 02/17/13   23:59:59
 
  Hope this helps.
 
 
  On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Schneider, Jim 
  jschnei...@ussco.com
  wrote:
 
   TSM 6.2.2.0 on AIX 6.1
   TSM 6.3.0.0 on Windows 2008 R2
  
   My attempt to change a schedule start time has failed.  I have a 
   cmd schedule that runs Exchange backups.  Originally scheduled for 
   17:00 I find I cannot change the start time to 22:00.
  
   These commands show that the schedule time was changed to 22:00.
   update schedule exch1 incr scheds=e startt=22:00 update schedule 
   exch1 incr startt=22:00
  
   It looks like it should work.
  
   q sched exch1 incr f=d
  
   Policy Domain Name: EXCH1
Schedule Name: INCR
  Description: daily incremental exchange backup
   Action: Command
Subaction:
  Options:
  Objects: c:\excincr.cmd
 Priority: 5
  Start Date/Time: 01/14/12   22:00:00
 Duration: 1 Hour(s)
   Schedule Style: Enhanced
   Period:
  Day of Week: Sun,Mon,Tue,Thu,Fri,Sat
Month: Any
 Day of Month: Any
Week of Month: Any
   Expiration: 02/17/13   23:59:59
   Last Update by (administrator): SCHNEIJ
Last Update Date/Time: 04/30/13   09:24:48
 Managing profile:
  
   q assoc exch1 incr
  
   Policy Domain Name Schedule Name
Associated Nodes
   -- --
   
   EXCH1  INCR
   CH2WPEXCH1-EXCH
  
   q proxy target

ILMT on RHEL

[Schneider, Jim]

We are planning on moving from ILMT 7.2.2 on AIX to 7.5 on RHEL.  Is anyone 
else using this combination?  Any gotchas?  Aside from the regular considerable 
effort involved in ILMT admin.

Thank you,
Jim Schneider
United Stationers 

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Re: When to dsmserv removedb?

[Schneider, Jim]

I had to run REMOVEDB this afternoon.  We just moved TSM to a new server, 
attached the SAN disk with the database and logs and started it up.  The old 
server is going to run TSM for NDMP backups.  The tsminst1 directory had 
beenmoved to the new server and had to be copied to the old one.  The RESTORE 
DB said there was already a database instance that had to be removed before I 
could run the restore.  If RESTORE DB doesn't complain, no need to remove the 
old DB.

Jim Schneider

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Prather, Wanda
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 2:58 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] When to dsmserv removedb?

Thanks Joerg.

What confuses me, the ADMIN GUIDE (6.3.3) says to do the REMOVEDB.  But the 
Admin REF (6.3.3) info for DSMSERV RESTORE DB does not mention doing the remove 
db, and the PREPARE scripts do not include it.

And I was able to start a restore db this morning without doing it.

So the different sets of information are contradictory.


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of J. 
Pohlmann
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 12:35 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] When to dsmserv removedb?

Hi Wanda. I have done dsmserv removedb with both 6.1 and 6.2 server moves.
In the 6.3.3 Admin Guide, the instructions in the DRM chapter states that you 
need to do a removedb after creating the instance so that you can do the 
restore db.

In the Admin Reference book for 6.3.3, there is now a scary revision code in 
the restore db section. It says that Data cannot be stored on virtual volumes 
- several of my customers do a DBB to virtual volumes. A database restore from 
virtual volumes has worked in the past. The most recent database restore I did 
from virtual volumes was with 6.2.2 - could someone from development also 
comment regarding this new restriction please.

Regards,

Joerg Pohlmann

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Prather, Wanda
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 09:00
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] When to dsmserv removedb?

I have found multiple conflicting documents.

For TSM V6,
if you are going to do
dsmserv restore db,
under what circumstances should you do
dsmserv removed TSMDB1 first?

Specifically trying to figure if this is necessary when restoring TSM DB at a 
DR site, i.e. to different hardware.



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Re: dsmadmc 6.4.0.0

[Schneider, Jim]

Your userid cannot create/modify the log file.

Jim

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Ehresman,David E.
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 2:17 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] dsmadmc 6.4.0.0

Just installed TSM client 6.4.0.0 64 bit on a WIN 7 machine.  Now when I try to 
run dsmadmc as an Administrator, I get the following error:

c:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclientdsmadmc ANS1398E Initialization functions 
cannot open one of the Tivoli Storage Manager logs or a related file: 
c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmerror.log. errno = 13, Permission denied

Anyone else seen this?

David

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Re: Diagnosing ANS1377W: The client was unable to obtain a snapshot of 'volname'. The operation will continue without snapshot support.

[Schneider, Jim]

Try 'vssadmin list writers' from a command prompt.  One of the writers may not 
be working.

Jim Schneider

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Forray
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 10:00 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Diagnosing ANS1377W: The client was unable to obtain a 
snapshot of 'volname'. The operation will continue without snapshot support.

Can someone help me figure out why one of my nodes keeps generating these 
errors and how to diagnose/fix whatever is going on.

ANS1377W: The client was unable to obtain a snapshot of 'volname'. The 
operation will continue without snapshot support.

This is a W2K3 server.  Upgraded the client to 6.4,  which seemed to resolve a 
lot if not all of the issues we were having with journal backups on this 
server.  We have OFS installed, which I figure is the cause of these errors 
since the files that generate these errors are usually open/in use.

Nothing in dsmerror/dsmsched log files to give me more to go on.  Earlier when 
we had can access these files errors, it was caused by the AV program 
blocking them.  Once they were removed, those errors stopped.

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Re: Reclamation of Virtual Tapes

[Schneider, Jim]

I have a Data Domain 880 with 42 active disks, 6 spares, and 4 system disks.  
Capacity is 64,678.1 GB.

Jim Schneider 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Huebner, Andy
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 8:41 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Reclamation of Virtual Tapes

My experience with DataDomain (VTL option) is different than Jim described.  I 
have 2 TSM servers (P6 hardware) using 1 DD.  We have not seen a performance 
difference no matter what is running beyond what you would expect as the 12Gb 
(ISLs) of available bandwidth is used up.
Perhaps the specific DD and the number of disks it has should also be included 
in the discussion.  Mine is an DD880 with 84 active disks.

The only thing we stop during a large restore is any operation for the pool 
that has the data to prevent contention.



Andy Huebner


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Alex 
Paschal
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 4:31 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Reclamation of Virtual Tapes

Pierre, Jim, having read your observation of read performance impact with your 
Data Domain and your DXi, do you guys have thoughts on how you might handle a 
full server recovery or other large restore during your backup window?  Do you 
think you might be forced to stop all backups in order to get a large restore 
done before 6am/8am/whatever production, or is there possibly a workaround?


On 12/27/2012 12:51 PM, Billaudeau, Pierre wrote:
 I noticed a serious performance drop when our backup primary tapes to 
 copypool runs at night (VTL Quantum DXi8500 to TS1140 tapes). The throughput 
 of backups to VTL drops when the DXi rehydrates the deduplicated/compressed 
 virtual tapes. I can imagine the reclamation process does the same thing. 
 There is a need to adjust maintanance schedules to avoid the situation.

 Pierre Billaudeau
 Analyste en stockage
 Livraison des Infrastructures Serveurs Société des Alcools du Québec
 514-254-6000 x 6559

 -Message d'origine-
 De : ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] De la part 
 de Schneider, Jim Envoyé : 27 décembre 2012 11:18 À :
 ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Objet : Re: [ADSM-L] Reclamation of Virtual Tapes

 Our primary (and only) storage is a Data Domain.  Be careful when reclaiming 
 virtual tapes.  It works perfectly but servers backing up to the Data Domain 
 have their bandwidth throughput drop from 85% to 5% during reclamation.  This 
 was determined by watching Windows Task Manager network utilization with 
 reclamation running and then cancelled.

 Our reclamation threshold is set at 95% and runs for about 20 minutes.  The 
 SQL storage pool that holds 1.1 TB files is set at 99% to effectively prevent 
 reclamation.  We had a bad weekend where reclamation started Friday at 5 PM 
 and was 60% complete Monday morning before being cancelled.  All of those 
 weekend backups were slowed and the database backup ran 5 hours instead of 
 1.75 hours.

 Don't make my mistakes!

 Jim Schneider

 -Original Message-
 From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
 Ehresman,David E.
 Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 2:38 PM
 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
 Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Reclamation of Virtual Tapes

 We reclaim our virtual tapes.  They have the same waste patterns as physical 
 tape and are certainly as expensive.

 David

 -Original Message-
 From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf 
 Of Lee, Gary
 Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 2:10 PM
 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
 Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Reclamation of Virtual Tapes

 Sounds like someone set the reclaim storage pool on the virtual tape pool to 
 the physical tape pool.

 I know of no reason why not to reclaim virtual tapes.

 Wish I had one to play with.


 Gary Lee
 Senior System Programmer
 Ball State University
 phone: 765-285-1310



 -Original Message-
 From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf 
 Of Welton, Charles
 Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 11:10 AM
 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
 Subject: [ADSM-L] Reclamation of Virtual Tapes

 Hello:

 We have a TSM instance that uses virtual tapes as our primary backup data 
 pool.  The data on the virtual tapes are eventually migrated to tape.  We are 
 currently down to 3 virtual scratch tapes and 6 physical scratch tapes.  I 
 noticed that we are not running any reclamation processes on our virtual tape 
 pool.  It seems we have a hand-full of under-utilized virtual tapes.  I went 
 ahead and ran a manual reclamation on the virtual tape pool and I noticed the 
 output tape pool is a physical tape.  I assumed that the virtual tape would 
 reclaim to another virtual tape.  Is that not the case?

 Could there be a reason why reclamation shouldn't be ran on a virtual tape 
 pool?

 Thank you...


 Charles

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Re: Reclamation of Virtual Tapes

[Schneider, Jim]

Our primary (and only) storage is a Data Domain.  Be careful when reclaiming 
virtual tapes.  It works perfectly but servers backing up to the Data Domain 
have their bandwidth throughput drop from 85% to 5% during reclamation.  This 
was determined by watching Windows Task Manager network utilization with 
reclamation running and then cancelled.

Our reclamation threshold is set at 95% and runs for about 20 minutes.  The SQL 
storage pool that holds 1.1 TB files is set at 99% to effectively prevent 
reclamation.  We had a bad weekend where reclamation started Friday at 5 PM and 
was 60% complete Monday morning before being cancelled.  All of those weekend 
backups were slowed and the database backup ran 5 hours instead of 1.75 hours.

Don't make my mistakes!

Jim Schneider

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Ehresman,David E.
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 2:38 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Reclamation of Virtual Tapes

We reclaim our virtual tapes.  They have the same waste patterns as physical 
tape and are certainly as expensive.

David

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, 
Gary
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 2:10 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Reclamation of Virtual Tapes

Sounds like someone set the reclaim storage pool on the virtual tape pool to 
the physical tape pool.

I know of no reason why not to reclaim virtual tapes.

Wish I had one to play with.


Gary Lee
Senior System Programmer
Ball State University
phone: 765-285-1310

 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Welton, Charles
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 11:10 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Reclamation of Virtual Tapes

Hello:

We have a TSM instance that uses virtual tapes as our primary backup data pool. 
 The data on the virtual tapes are eventually migrated to tape.  We are 
currently down to 3 virtual scratch tapes and 6 physical scratch tapes.  I 
noticed that we are not running any reclamation processes on our virtual tape 
pool.  It seems we have a hand-full of under-utilized virtual tapes.  I went 
ahead and ran a manual reclamation on the virtual tape pool and I noticed the 
output tape pool is a physical tape.  I assumed that the virtual tape would 
reclaim to another virtual tape.  Is that not the case?

Could there be a reason why reclamation shouldn't be ran on a virtual tape pool?

Thank you...


Charles

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Re: 6.3.3.000 server wont HALT

[Schneider, Jim]

Have you tried a -console session prior to issuing halt?

Jim Schneider

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan 
Forray
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 7:45 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] 6.3.3.000 server wont HALT

This is now becoming a consistent / persistent problem.  I had to kill -9 to 
stop the dsmserv process.  I restarted the server (via service ..
 start) and there didn't seem to be any damage done.

However, attempting to stop/halt it, again, produced the same result - dsmserv 
using 200% CPU and after 2-hours I had to kill -9.

So, obviously there are big enough changes in 6.3.3 vs 6.3.2, to cause problems 
like this, since none of my 6.3.x or 6.2.x servers exhibit this behavior.

Any suggestions on how to diagnose this issue before I contact IBM and open a 
PMR?


On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Zoltan Forray zfor...@vcu.edu wrote:

 Just did my first install/conversion of a 6.2.3 TEST server to 
 6.3.3.000 (RH Linux)

 While the install and startup went fine, it won't HALT.

 After the install/upgrade, I got in via dsmadmc just fine.  Checked 
 the actlog - saw all the schema changes/upgrades.  Updated/registered 
 the licenses and then issued HALT.  Got the usually warning and said YES.

 Now it has been sitting for 25-minutes since the halt.

 Can't get back in via dsmadmc.

 Top shows dsmserv using 200% CPU.

 I tried standard kills, with no luck.   I hate to do a kill -9 but will if
 I don't have a choice.

 What the heck is it doing?  Should I wait longer or just kill it with 
 extreme prejudice?

 --
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 Virginia Commonwealth University
 UCC/Office of Technology Services
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Re: 6.3.3.000 server wont HALT

[Schneider, Jim]

I meant 'dsmadmc -id=id -pass=pass -console' from a telnet/ssh session.
It displays all console messages as they are generated.  I use it to monitor 
the progress of long-running processes (deletion of filespaces, macros that 
update volume access, etc.).

Jim  

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan 
Forray
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 8:12 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] 6.3.3.000 server wont HALT

Not sure what you mean by console session.  I use TSMManager and issue the 
halt via it's console/monitor window, if that is what you are referring to - 
and yes, it shows the halt is issued and then the server goes non-responsive, 
as suspected.  Then from ssh/Linux the process dsmserv never halts/stops.


On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Schneider, Jim jschnei...@ussco.com wrote:

 Have you tried a -console session prior to issuing halt?

 Jim Schneider

 -Original Message-
 From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf 
 Of Zoltan Forray
 Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 7:45 AM
 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
 Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] 6.3.3.000 server wont HALT

 This is now becoming a consistent / persistent problem.  I had to kill 
 -9 to stop the dsmserv process.  I restarted the server (via service ..
  start) and there didn't seem to be any damage done.

 However, attempting to stop/halt it, again, produced the same result - 
 dsmserv using 200% CPU and after 2-hours I had to kill -9.

 So, obviously there are big enough changes in 6.3.3 vs 6.3.2, to cause 
 problems like this, since none of my 6.3.x or 6.2.x servers exhibit 
 this behavior.

 Any suggestions on how to diagnose this issue before I contact IBM 
 and open a PMR?


 On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Zoltan Forray zfor...@vcu.edu wrote:

  Just did my first install/conversion of a 6.2.3 TEST server to
  6.3.3.000 (RH Linux)
 
  While the install and startup went fine, it won't HALT.
 
  After the install/upgrade, I got in via dsmadmc just fine.  Checked 
  the actlog - saw all the schema changes/upgrades.  
  Updated/registered the licenses and then issued HALT.  Got the usually 
  warning and said YES.
 
  Now it has been sitting for 25-minutes since the halt.
 
  Can't get back in via dsmadmc.
 
  Top shows dsmserv using 200% CPU.
 
  I tried standard kills, with no luck.   I hate to do a kill -9 but will
 if
  I don't have a choice.
 
  What the heck is it doing?  Should I wait longer or just kill it 
  with extreme prejudice?
 
  --
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  TSM Software  Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth 
  University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 
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Re: Client 6.4 installation causing Win Server 2012 to restart?

[Schneider, Jim]

I have had reboot requests when upgrading Windows servers.  I circumvent them 
by copying dscenu.txt from the install directory to the baclient directory.

Jim Schneider

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Maurice van 't Loo
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 2:23 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Client 6.4 installation causing Win Server 2012 to 
restart?

Also 6.3 clients can cause a reboot during installation. I'm not sure why.
I see it with approx. 1 of 10 installs where the prerequisite needs to be 
installed om servers who are in use. Never seen the reboot on new and clean 
windows installs, so I assume it has something to do with other software icw 
the prerequisites.

Regards,
Maurice van 't Loo
http://mvantloo.nl
 Op 28 nov. 2012 18:51 schreef RonHextall tsm-fo...@backupcentral.com het 
volgende:

 Hello all,


 I started the installation of TSM Client version 6.4 on one of our new 
 Windows Server 2012 servers and went to do other things while waiting 
 on the installation to finish.
 When I went back to the server after about ~5 minutes I realized that 
 the TSM Client installation hade restarted the machine, without 
 installing the client yet, causing angry phonecalls from concerned users.

 I figure that the installation of the prerequisite Microsoft 
 packages is the reason behind this? Has anyone here experienced this 
 before? I've searched through various installation notes from TSM 
 regarding the 6.4 client but I havent really found anything indicating this.

 I have installed 5 or 6 clients on other Windows Server 2012 machines 
 and numerous of older TSM clients on other servers without 
 experiencing this before. The concerned server is used as an TS-server.

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Re: EMERGENCY -- NEED TO RESTORE ANOTHER NODE'S DATA IN WINDOWS

[Schneider, Jim]

Use dsmc -virtualnodename node1 or change dsm.opt 'nodename' to node1.

Jim


Lee, Gary g...@bsu.edu wrote:

We have had a serious corruption issue, and need to do a point-in-time restore 
data backed up by node1 to node2.  However, we cannot be logged in as node1, 
because it is still active and will be backed up tonight during the restore.

Need a quick answer PLEASE.





Gary Lee
Senior System Programmer
Ball State University
phone: 765-285-1310


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Re: Restoring single mailbox TDP for Exchange

[Schneider, Jim]

Why clear the filters?  I think the filter restricts the restore to the 
selected date.  And, while you probably did so, make sure to use the tab key 
after entering the date.

Jim

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Michael Devenney
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:34 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Restoring single mailbox TDP for Exchange

Hello Jim

I open the GUI, select Utilities - Restore Mailbox. I select the user's name, 
and underneath this is a line that says: Backup Date. I put in August 17 2012 
and left the time as is. I clicked on clear filters and clicked on restore.  I 
still get the ACN5924e error. I am wondering if it could be a permissions issue?

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Schneider, Jim
Sent: August-28-12 9:30 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Restoring single mailbox TDP for Exchange

Michael,

From the Recover tab, Mailbox Restore option click Show Filter Options click 
Add Row The Column Name drop-down lets you select 'Backup Date'
The only Operator available is =
Under Value enter the backup date.
Note:  after you enter the backup date, press the tab key.  Won't work if you 
don't hit the tab key.  (This little step stopped us for a while).

The Exchange admin was able to recover a single email from a prior backup.

Hope this helps,
Jim Schneider

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Michael Devenney
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 8:16 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Restoring single mailbox TDP for Exchange

Hello Gary

The email backup retention is set to 21 days. The Management class has the 
following settings; Different versions - no limit, number of days to keep 
inactive versions - 30 days.

Thanks

Michael Devenney

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Gary
Sent: August-28-12 8:01 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Restoring single mailbox TDP for Exchange

What are your retention settings on the copygroup in the management class for 
email backups?

Gary Lee
Senior System Programmer
Ball State University
phone: 765-285-1310


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Michael Devenney
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 8:51 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Restoring single mailbox TDP for Exchange

Hello

I am running TSM 6.2.3.0 on Windows 2008 R2, TDP for Exchange version 6.1.3.2 
and Exchange 2010. I need to recover a single user's mailbox from August 17th 
2012. When I try this through the TDP GUI (I select the user's name from the 
list and enter in the time and date to restore from as August 17 2012 at 
8:00pm), I get the following error:
ACN5924E No usable backups found on the TSM server.
I checked the log from August 17th 2012 and the Exchange databases backed up 
successfully. Does anyone have any ideas on what is happening and how to fix 
it? I tried to research the error and found basically nothing.

Thanks

Michael Devenney CNE, MCP, A+, Server+
Service Administrator
River East Transcona School Division
589 Roch Street
Winnipeg, Mb. R2K 2P7
Canada

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Re: Restoring single mailbox TDP for Exchange

[Schneider, Jim]

Michael,

From the Recover tab, Mailbox Restore option
click Show Filter Options
click Add Row
The Column Name drop-down lets you select 'Backup Date'
The only Operator available is =
Under Value enter the backup date.
Note:  after you enter the backup date, press the tab key.  Won't work if you 
don't hit the tab key.  (This little step stopped us for a while).

The Exchange admin was able to recover a single email from a prior backup.

Hope this helps,
Jim Schneider

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Michael Devenney
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 8:16 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Restoring single mailbox TDP for Exchange

Hello Gary

The email backup retention is set to 21 days. The Management class has the 
following settings; Different versions - no limit, number of days to keep 
inactive versions - 30 days.

Thanks

Michael Devenney

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, 
Gary
Sent: August-28-12 8:01 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Restoring single mailbox TDP for Exchange

What are your retention settings on the copygroup in the management class for 
email backups?

Gary Lee
Senior System Programmer
Ball State University
phone: 765-285-1310


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Michael Devenney
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 8:51 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Restoring single mailbox TDP for Exchange

Hello

I am running TSM 6.2.3.0 on Windows 2008 R2, TDP for Exchange version 6.1.3.2 
and Exchange 2010. I need to recover a single user's mailbox from August 17th 
2012. When I try this through the TDP GUI (I select the user's name from the 
list and enter in the time and date to restore from as August 17 2012 at 
8:00pm), I get the following error:
ACN5924E No usable backups found on the TSM server.
I checked the log from August 17th 2012 and the Exchange databases backed up 
successfully. Does anyone have any ideas on what is happening and how to fix 
it? I tried to research the error and found basically nothing.

Thanks

Michael Devenney CNE, MCP, A+, Server+
Service Administrator
River East Transcona School Division
589 Roch Street
Winnipeg, Mb. R2K 2P7
Canada

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Re: Passport Advantage failure?

[Schneider, Jim]

I just logged in using url 
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/howtobuy/passportadvantage/

Jim Schneider

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Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:06 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Passport Advantage failure?

I'm getting a remarkably official-looking This page is no longer available 
from the passport advantage customer login links scattered all over IBM web 
space.

You folks seeing the same?  The page tastes like a 'removed this feature' sort 
of page, not like a D'oh, app busted! page.

- Allen S. Rout

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Re: RMAN direct to NFS

[Schneider, Jim]

One Data Domain Fun Fact for you:  When you upgrade the DD OS you will
have to remount all of the NFS shares on the servers that write to it
directly.

Jim Schneider

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Richard Rhodes
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 8:07 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] RMAN direct to NFS

I don't know if we'd have gone with VTLs if we were architecting this 
from scratch, but as we went from tape-based to virtual technology, the

VTL interfaces made the transition logically simpler, and it appeased 
the one team member who has an irrational hatred of NFS. We're now 
under pressure to adopt a new reference architecture that is NFS based,

not VTL based. I'm skeptical about that will work, but because we're 
changing everything except the fact that we're still a TSM shop, if it 
doesn't go well, everyone will have a chance to blame someone else for 
any problems.

Compared to what you guys are describing, we are a small.
We run 10 main TSM servers, 50tb/night, 3000 nodes, 2 x 3584 libs with
50 drives each, and now we've added 4 DataDomains.  We replicate between
the DD's.

For the first two, we decided to use the NFS interface.  Our experience
is that we are now ONLY
interested in NFS file based interface.   For the TSM instances we've
moved on the DD, It has
 GREATLY simplified our TSM instances and processing.

The Good:
- no tape (zoning, paths, stuck tapes, scsi reservation errors,
   rmt/smc devices, atape, etc)
- no copy pool  (we use DD replication.  This cuts the I/O load in
half.)
- quick migration (we migrate disk pool at 10% to the DD.
   It runs all night, so migration in the moring is
minimal.
- protect disk pool with lower max file size (we pass any file over 5gb
directly
   to the DD pool.)
- simpler batch processing.  No copy pool!!!  We let reclamation fun
 automatically whenever a vol needs it.  We are using 30gb volumes,
 so many need little reclamation.
- We collocate the DD pool by node.
  I'm working on a script to see the DD compression per node.
- NFS has been very reliable.  Our TSM servers are in lpars on several
  chassis.  We're using VIO to share a 10g adapter per chassis.
  I'm seeing 150-250mb/s during migrations per TSM instance.
  (Jumbo packets are a MUST.)
- DR is simpler.  DB and recplan gets backed up to the DD along with
  other stuff, which all gets replicated to the DR site.
  When brought up we have the PRI pool.

The Not-so-good:
- Yes, it's NFS.  AIX can be tied in a knot if the NFS server (DD in
this
case)
has a problem.  Since the DD is a non-redundant architecture (not a
cluster)
I DO expect problems if the DD dies.  The one change I've made that
DD doesn't
recommend is that I mount the shares soft.
- No way to take the DD file pool offline.  You can mark it
unavailable, but that
only effects client sessions, not reclamation or other internal
processes.
- When you take the DD down for some reason, you have to kill
sessions/processes
using it, mark the pool unavailable, then umount the share on all
servers.
- As mentioned about, the architecture if the DD is non-redundant.  That
was
a kind of comfort with all the tape pieces/parts.  Individual
piece/part
can break, but it only effected the one part.  With the DD, if it it
crashes all users have problems.

For us, this has been a major step forward.  It's not often that a
product

truly simplifies what we do, but the DD's with NFS interface is one that
stands out.

Rick






From:   Nick Laflamme dplafla...@gmail.com
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date:   07/10/2012 08:11 PM
Subject:Re: RMAN direct to NFS
Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU



This is more about VTLs than TSM, but I have a couple of questions,
influenced by my shop's experience with VTLs.

1) When you say 40 VTLs, I presume that's on far fewer frames, that
you're using several virtual libraries on each ProtecTier or whatever
you're using?
2) I see that as 128 tape drives per library. Do you ever use that many,
or is this just a because we could situation? (We use 48 per library,
and that may be overkill, but we're on EMC hardware, not IBM, so the
performance curves may be different.)
3) Do I read 1) and 4) to mean that you're sharing VTLs among TSM
servers?
Why, man, why? Can't you give each TSM server its own VTL and be done
with it? Or are you counting storage agents as TSM instances?

I don't know if we'd have gone with VTLs if we were architecting this
from scratch, but as we went from tape-based to virtual technology, the
VTL interfaces made the transition logically simpler, and it appeased
the one team member who has an irrational hatred of NFS. We're now under
pressure to adopt a new reference architecture that is NFS based, not
VTL based.
I'm skeptical about that will work, but because we're changing

Re: DR restore question

[Schneider, Jim]

Try 'q nodedata server,server,...' 

Jim Schneider

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Geoff 
Gill
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 3:58 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] DR restore question

Hi Everyone,
 
I have a question about DR testing as it relates to only testing restores of a 
limited number of nodes. we are going to do a DR test wherin the TSM server and 
6 other nodes will be brought back up. The TSM server being my responsibility, 
the other nodes some other administrator.
 
My part also includes making sure tapes are available at the DR site for those 
nodes that are part of the test. My question is how to figure out what tapes 
need to be sent since we obviously don't want to send everything. 
 
Does anyone have a easy way to extract that kind of info?

 
Thank You
Geoff Gill

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Re: tsm linux clients and scheduler

[Schneider, Jim]

Tim,

Try using the absolute path to the dsmc command.  On my AIX system a
symbolic link was automatically created during client installation,
letting me use /usr/bin/dsmc.

Jim Schneider

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Tim Brown
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 12:12 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] tsm linux clients and scheduler

Have 2 Linux servers that I was able to install tsm client on.

I was able to run an initial incremental backup. I am attempting to

load scheduler via the command



Nohup dsmc schedule 2 /dev/null 



I verify it afterwards via



Ps -ef |grep dsmc



root 27798 26371  0 06:23 pts/000:00:00 grep dsmc

[1]+  Exit 127Nohup dsmc schedule 2/dev/null



But then it stops and I don't see any errors in dsmerror.log



Not sure what the [1]+  Exit 127  is, other linux servers have no issues



Any one seen this.





Thanks,



Tim Brown
Supervisor Computer Operations

Central Hudson Gas  Electric
284 South Ave
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
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Wrong backup duration reported

[Schneider, Jim]

Greetings TSMers.

TSM Server 6.2.2.0 on AIX 6.1 TL6
Client 6.2.2.0, Windows 2003 SP2

I'm not asking for help but want to let you know about an odd situation
I encountered this morning.  An incremental backup of a Windows server
scanned its usual 5,000,000 files and ran for 3 1/2 hours, but the
client session reported a duration of 201 hours.  Specifically:
Start time: 05/23/12   23:01:32
End time:   05/24/2012 02:34:14

End-of-session messages:

05/24/2012 02:34:15 Total number of objects inspected: 5,027,603
05/24/2012 02:34:15 Total number of objects assigned: 3,650
05/24/2012 02:34:15 Total number of objects backed up:1,458
05/24/2012 02:34:15 Total number of objects updated:  0
05/24/2012 02:34:15 Total number of objects rebound:  0
05/24/2012 02:34:15 Total number of objects deleted:  0
05/24/2012 02:34:15 Total number of objects expired: 97
05/24/2012 02:34:15 Total number of objects failed:   3
05/24/2012 02:34:15 Total number of subfile objects:  0
05/24/2012 02:34:15 Total number of bytes inspected:  1.71 TB
05/24/2012 02:34:15 Total number of bytes transferred:4.27 GB
05/24/2012 02:34:15 Data transfer time:2,847.60 sec
05/24/2012 02:34:15 Network data transfer rate:1,572.75 KB/sec
05/24/2012 02:34:15 Aggregate data transfer rate:  42,949,671.88
KB/sec
05/24/2012 02:34:15 Objects compressed by:0%
05/24/2012 02:34:15 Total data reduction ratio:   99.76%
05/24/2012 02:34:15 Subfile objects reduced by:   0%
05/24/2012 02:34:15 Elapsed processing time:   200:58:26

I've never seen the elapsed processing time reported incorrectly before.
Has anybody else seen this?

Thank you,
Jim Schneider
United Stationers

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Re: Backup data access issue w/recovered DR server

[Schneider, Jim]

Rick,

I have had the same problem reading from replicated Data domain file
devices on my DR server.  Update the file volumes to read-only.  I run a
macro to do this, takes 10-25 minutes.

Jim Schneider

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Rick Adamson
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 2:02 PM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: [ADSM-L] Backup data access issue w/recovered DR server

Before logging a call I thought I would see if anyone else has seen this
issue?

 

System details:

TSM Server 5.5..5.2, two replicating Data Domain DD880's. 

Backup data and TSM DB's are replicated from production data center to
DR site.

Cold stand-by TSM servers are recovered using replicated DB backups.

 

Issue:

During disaster recovery restore testing client files fail to restore
due to a mount failed/access denied issue on the virtual volume (file
device). 

 

ANRD Thread44 issued message  from:

ANR8501E System return code 6 received opening volume

\\192.168.135.4\BACKUP\TSM\F4\000186DD.BFS with file name

\\192.168.135.4\BACKUP\TSM\F4\000186dd.bfs

ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume

\\192.168.135.4\BACKUP\TSM\F4\000186DD.BFS - mount failed.

ANRD_1663301079 (pspvrfio.c:285) Thread44: Open error on file

\\192.168.135.4\BACKUP\TSM\F4\000186dd.bfs with LastError(5): Access is

denied.

 

I have noticed that it only appears to be an issue with accessing
volumes that are in a state of filling.

 

The restore mounts other full and DB volumes with no problems.

 

The TSM servers in production and DR use a local admin account (windows)
to run the TSM Server service, and the account is duplicated on the
DD880's with admin rights.

 

Thanks

 

~Rick

Jacksonville,FL.

 

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Re: DataDomain and dedup per node

[Schneider, Jim]

We have already encountered this situation although TSM was not part of
the picture.  Oracle data that was written directly to the DD was not
deleted by the RMAN cleanup process.  Our DD utilization at the
replication client was above 95% and we needed to reclaim space.  We
deleted several TB of old data and the DBAs implemented RMAN cleanup.
We had to wait for the snapshots to expire, then had to wait for the
Tuesday DD cleaning process.  With daily snapshots/one week retention it
took about two weeks for deleted files to finally stop using space.

Jim Schneider

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Allen S. Rout
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 9:39 AM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] DataDomain and dedup per node

On 04/19/2012 10:04 AM, Schneider, Jim wrote:
 The most serious problem we have encountered is the effect of 
 reclamation on backup throughput.  We have a 1 GB backup network that 
 is used for servers to write directly to the Data Domain, bypassing
TSM.
 When only one client is writing directly to the DD we see backup 
 network utilization around 85%.  When reclamation is running the 
 client gets 5% backup network utilization.  I've cancelled reclamation

 and watched the client throughput increase, then drop again when 
 autoreclamation restarts.  We now only run reclamation when the 
 client's 1 TB daily backup is complete (a 4- to 5-hour process).


Another axis on which reclamation will affect your DD behavior is the
amount of dead space due to uncleaned snapshots.   You can think of this
as analogous to PENDING physical volumes.. Below I've included a
terribly contrived example, which I hope is at least a little clear.

The key is that there's a gap of formally unusued, but not-yet-available
space on the DD.  The size of this gap is related to the churn rate of
the files.  If you reclaim madly, you'll eventually make that gap grow,
a lot.

OTOH, some of that space will dedupe (I'd guess that copying 'most of' a
file from A to B on the DD ought to dedupe pretty darn well. :)



Say you run snapshots daily and keep 7.  You write one volume a day,
keep two weeks of them.  You've got REUSEDELAY set to 5, and we'll start
on a Sunday, Jan 1.

So, at day 14 two Sundays downrange, you've got files

/ddfiles/vol01  - vol14   present in TSM, on the filesystem

On Monday the 15th, vol01 is PENDING to TSM, but still present on the
filesystem.

On Saturday the 20th, vol01 is deleted from the filesystem, but
referenced by the snapshot you took on the 19th.  Gotta keep it around.

On Friday the 26th, this is _still_ true.  vol01 is deleted but still
referenced by an active snapshot.  It's now in the company of
vol02-vol06.  Sometime that day, though the snapshot from the 19th will
expire.  BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE...

You don't get the space back from the expired snapshot until the cleanup
on (by default) the following Tuesday. So on January 30th, if all goes
well, you'll run the administrative process which returns to you the
space occupied by vol01.


We're accustomed to thinking in terms of volumes and reusedelays:  this
is really just another few iterations of that, but it's important to
keep in mind that they sum.


  - Allen S. Rout

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Re: Inclexcl File Syntax Question

[Schneider, Jim]

I have to exclude all /uxx/ file systems except /u01/oradata/dwhprod.
I'm not always told when new file systems are added so I use

exclude.dir /u0[2-9]/oradata/dwhprod
exclude.dir /u[1-9][0-9]/oradata/dwhprod

Jim Schneider

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Ballenger, Craig
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 1:33 PM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Inclexcl File Syntax Question

Yes.

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Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 2:24 PM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Inclexcl File Syntax Question

Do those specific names show up as individual filesystems in a df
output ?  (i.e. not subdirectories, etc)

Regards,
Shawn

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All,


On systems where we're running Oracle database instances, we generally
have four filesystems dedicated to Oracle named: /u01, /u02, /u03, 
/u04.



Since these are used by a DBMS, we don't want to back them up with TSM
using normal filesystem backups as those backups would be useless.



(The databases are instead backed up via TDPO or RMAN.)



So, we want to exclude those four filesystems from TSM backups.



We should be able to put these entries in the include-exclude file
(normally configured as /{usr|opt}/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/inclexcl)

to exclude those filesystems:



exclude.fs /u01

exclude.fs /u02

exclude.fs /u03

exclude.fs /u04



...but, I've found that for some reason those don't seem to work.



So, instead, I've tried these entries:



exclude.dir /u01

exclude.dir /u02

exclude.dir /u03

exclude.dir /u04



...which do seem to work.

Which is the correct syntax to exclude the filesystems?

Thanks,

Craig



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Re: DataDomain and dedup per node

[Schneider, Jim]

The most serious problem we have encountered is the effect of
reclamation on backup throughput.  We have a 1 GB backup network that is
used for servers to write directly to the Data Domain, bypassing TSM.
When only one client is writing directly to the DD we see backup network
utilization around 85%.  When reclamation is running the client gets 5%
backup network utilization.  I've cancelled reclamation and watched the
client throughput increase, then drop again when autoreclamation
restarts.  We now only run reclamation when the client's 1 TB daily
backup is complete (a 4- to 5-hour process).

Collocation will increase the number of files used to store data and to
be reclaimed.  If you can run reclamation when no other processing is
running there should be no impact, but watch your network stats for
verification.

Side Comment:  We run NDMP backups across fiber to a VTL on the Data
domain.  There is no effect on backup network utilization when the NDMP
backups are running.  I'm still puzzled by this.  Reclamation seems to
use enough DD resources to slow backup network data ingestion but NDMP
backups running with a higher throughput don't use enough DD processing
power to slow (or even effect) a direct write by a client over Ethernet.

Jim Schneider

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Richard Rhodes
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 8:28 AM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: [ADSM-L] DataDomain and dedup per node

Hi Everyone,

As we have been implementing our two new DD boxes we have been setting
them up like our existing two DD boxes - file devices with the pool NOT
collocated.  This is what DD recommends and it seems to work very well
this way.

But, I've been thinking about collocating anyway!

I was poking around the DD command line and found that you can get the
dedup/compression information for any individual directory or file.  For
example, below is the dedup/comp factors for a file volume in a pool
with one node I'm testing with:

  rsbkup:/tsmdata/tsm_scripts==./run_cmd.ksh tsm2 q nodedata
WVLOGS01P
| grep isdd2260
  WVLOGS01p/isdd2260/tsm2/test/0002267E.BFSTEST-PRI-ISDD2260
 30,551.83
  WVLOGS01P/isdd2260/tsm2/test/0002267F.BFSTEST-PRI-ISDD2260
 30,621.15
  WVLOGS01P/isdd2260/tsm2/test/00022680.BFSTEST-PRI-ISDD2260
 30,601.55
  WVLOGS01P/isdd2260/tsm2/test/00022682.BFSTEST-PRI-ISDD2260
 30,604.08
  WVLOGS01P/isdd2260/tsm2/test/00022683.BFSTEST-PRI-ISDD2260
 30,620.86
  WVLOGS01P/isdd2260/tsm2/test/00022684.BFSTEST-PRI-ISDD2260
 4,731.24

  rsbkup:/tsmdata/tsm_scripts==./run_cmd.ksh tsm2 q vol
/isdd2260/tsm2/test/0002267E.BFS
  /isdd2260/tsm2/test/0002267E.BFSTEST-PRI-ISDD2260   TEST
30.6 G  100.0   Full

  sysadmin@isdd2260# filesys show compression
/data/col1/tsm2/test/0002267e.bfs
  Total files: 1;  bytes/storage_used: 4.6
 Original Bytes:   32,332,636,620
Globally Compressed:   30,695,597,675
 Locally Compressed:6,930,888,022
  Meta-data:   98,615,480

In this case, this vol is getting a 4.6x overall dedup/comp factor.

So, if I collocate the pool in TSM I should be able to use q nodedata
node to get a list of vols used by a node, then I can query the DD to
get the dedup/comp stats for that node.  A little scripting and I can
generate a report of dedup/comp ratios by TSM node.  This would help us
maintain which nodes make sense to put/keep on the DD.

Just curious if anyone is using collocation for a DD file pool?  To do
so would use more volumes and more filling volumes, but I can't think of
any real reason to not collocate.

Rick




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Re: DataDomain and dedup per node

[Schneider, Jim]

I misspoke in my previous email.  The server on the backup network
writes to TSM using the TDP for SQL client, not directly to the Data
Domain.

Jim Schneider

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Richard Rhodes
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 8:28 AM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: [ADSM-L] DataDomain and dedup per node

Hi Everyone,

As we have been implementing our two new DD boxes we have been setting
them up like our existing two DD boxes - file devices with the pool NOT
collocated.  This is what DD recommends and it seems to work very well
this way.

But, I've been thinking about collocating anyway!

I was poking around the DD command line and found that you can get the
dedup/compression information for any individual directory or file.  For
example, below is the dedup/comp factors for a file volume in a pool
with one node I'm testing with:

  rsbkup:/tsmdata/tsm_scripts==./run_cmd.ksh tsm2 q nodedata
WVLOGS01P
| grep isdd2260
  WVLOGS01p/isdd2260/tsm2/test/0002267E.BFSTEST-PRI-ISDD2260
 30,551.83
  WVLOGS01P/isdd2260/tsm2/test/0002267F.BFSTEST-PRI-ISDD2260
 30,621.15
  WVLOGS01P/isdd2260/tsm2/test/00022680.BFSTEST-PRI-ISDD2260
 30,601.55
  WVLOGS01P/isdd2260/tsm2/test/00022682.BFSTEST-PRI-ISDD2260
 30,604.08
  WVLOGS01P/isdd2260/tsm2/test/00022683.BFSTEST-PRI-ISDD2260
 30,620.86
  WVLOGS01P/isdd2260/tsm2/test/00022684.BFSTEST-PRI-ISDD2260
 4,731.24

  rsbkup:/tsmdata/tsm_scripts==./run_cmd.ksh tsm2 q vol
/isdd2260/tsm2/test/0002267E.BFS
  /isdd2260/tsm2/test/0002267E.BFSTEST-PRI-ISDD2260   TEST
30.6 G  100.0   Full

  sysadmin@isdd2260# filesys show compression
/data/col1/tsm2/test/0002267e.bfs
  Total files: 1;  bytes/storage_used: 4.6
 Original Bytes:   32,332,636,620
Globally Compressed:   30,695,597,675
 Locally Compressed:6,930,888,022
  Meta-data:   98,615,480

In this case, this vol is getting a 4.6x overall dedup/comp factor.

So, if I collocate the pool in TSM I should be able to use q nodedata
node to get a list of vols used by a node, then I can query the DD to
get the dedup/comp stats for that node.  A little scripting and I can
generate a report of dedup/comp ratios by TSM node.  This would help us
maintain which nodes make sense to put/keep on the DD.

Just curious if anyone is using collocation for a DD file pool?  To do
so would use more volumes and more filling volumes, but I can't think of
any real reason to not collocate.

Rick




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Re: Occupancy discrepancy between 6.1.5.10 and 6.2.3.0 server

[Schneider, Jim]

I found I had to run 'audit licenses' to update the occupancy values.  I
have no idea why this would be the case.

Jim Schneider

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Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 12:33 PM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Occupancy discrepancy between 6.1.5.10 and 6.2.3.0
server

A correction/addition to this.  I just went through the apar and it says
it affects ALL 6.x servers...and while the apar page says it should
be fixed in 6.1.5.10, Bill indicates this is not totally
truenote the new REPAIR OCCUPANCY tool  (
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21579500)


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To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date:   03/07/2012 01:24 PM
Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] Occupancy discrepancy between 6.1.5.10 and
6.2.3.0 server
Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU



Bill,

Thanks for the update/info.  I guess I will wait for 6.1.5.200, which is
scheduled for 1Q2012.

Yes, we did switch to the Unified Recovery license model but with
enough room for growth/shrinkage so I don't know if this will matter
that much (roughly 15TB difference on this, my only 6.1 server).  I will
pass this on to let know folks that Occupancy numbers on this server are
artificially inflated and therefore inaccurate (high by about 15% if
my gozinta is correct).


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From:   Colwell, William F. bcolw...@draper.com
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date:   03/07/2012 09:24 AM
Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] Occupancy discrepancy between 6.1.5.10 and
6.2.3.0 server
Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU



Zoltan,

occupancy numbers were made incorrect by various bugs in early 6.1 code,
see apar ic73005.  There is a special utility to fix the numbers,
repair occupancy.
It was supposed to be in 6.1.5.10 but isn't, you need an e-fix for
6.1.5.102.

Of course, you can ignore the errors unless you are using the unified
recovery license.


Bill Colwell
Draper Lab



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Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 8:26 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Occupancy discrepency between 6.1.5.10 and 6.2.3.0 server

Doing some reorganization, we recently moved (server-to-server export)
some nodes from a 6.1.5.10 server to a 6.2.3.0 server.  Now, the
occupancy numbers on the 6.2 (71mb) server are lower than the 6.1.5
(83mb) server, eventhough the file/object counts are identical (static
file system)?

All of the apars I found (so far) that address occupancy information are
at (supposedly) patch levels below these levels.

Anyone else see this kind of discrepancy?

Zoltan Forray
TSM Software  Hardware Administrator
Virginia Commonwealth University
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Re: Tsm command line admin client and windows 7

[Schneider, Jim]

I've had to install Java on some servers to get the GUI client working.
Run dsm or dsmj from a command prompt to see if there are 'Java missing'
messages.

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Thorneycroft, Doug
Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 9:31 AM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Tsm command line admin client and windows 7

It might be windows7 User Account Control. try right clicking the
shortcut and selecting Run as Administrator.
Or you can set UAC to its lowest setting.

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Lee, Gary
Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 7:15 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Tsm command line admin client and windows 7

Just installed tsm on a windows 7 pc.
The command line backup archive client seems to work well, however, the
admin client does nothing.
I run either from the shortcut in the start menu or directly from the
command line, and nothing happens; at least not as far as the screen
reader tells me.

Has anyone else seen this and have a fix?

Gary Lee
Senior System Programmer
Ball State University
phone: 765-285-1310

 

Re: Firewall problem

[Schneider, Jim]

I've had to use schedmode polling to get some firewall backups to run.

Jim Schneider

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Shawn Drew
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 11:35 AM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Firewall problem

compare the q opt output from an instance that works with the instance
that doesn't.  There might be a conservative timeout setting.

Other long-shot things to compare are q node (NODENAME) f=d for the
specific nodes that are having trouble and q stat

Regards,
Shawn

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Hi Everyone,

We have six TSM v5.5.5 instances (on AIX)  named TSM1 to TSM6.   All six
instances  handle backups for nodes that are  behind firewalls, although
only five work.  The six instances are on separate servers, so each has
it's own  IP address and firewall rules.  The firewall rules are all
identical so we can put any node on any TSM server.

We cannot get firewall backups to work to our TSM5 instance.  Since it
was brought up a couple years ago we have fought to get firewall backups
to work but have failed.  Nodes out behind a firewall are able to
contact the TSM server, a sessions is established, then it is
immediately disconnected.  This repeats over and over as the node
retries.  You can sometimes see 50 or more sessions - all hung - for a
firewalled node.
We've done everything we can think of:  check/double/triple checked FW
rules, talked with IBM support, run traces for them, check AIX setup,
checked TSM5 setup, compared anything related to TSM5 to the other
working instances.  If we move the node to one of our other TSM
instances it worked just fine!! In all, we firgured this HAD to be a
firewall setup problem of some kind.

This past weekend we move TSM5 (and TSM6 also) to new servers/lpars.
The new servers had to have new IP addresses and run a newer AIX v6.
We've done this upgrade for the other TSM servers already.  With new IP
addresses we had to create new FW rules.  We figured that with a whole
new setup FW backups would have to work - we're kicking it real hard
NOPE
- it didn't help!   The only thing that didn't change in this server
swing
was the actual TSM instance.  It seems our FW backup problem on this one
instance HAS to be in TSM itself.

Question:  Is there any setting in TSM that could explain failing
backups for firewalled servers?

Thanks

Rick






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Re: million files backup

[Schneider, Jim]

Jorge,

On Unix systems:
I've done it in two steps.  Create a tar file of the file system and zip
it.  Create a second file listing all the files in the tarred directory.
The tar extract command allows single files to be recalled if the
absolute path name is available.

I've used this to backup a Sterling Commerce flat file database with
multiple subdirectories holding more than 1.5 million files.  The
tar/gzip command took 5 or 6 hours for a 500 GB file system.  

I have not tried to do this on a Windows system.

Jim Schneider

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Jorge Amil
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 8:30 AM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: [ADSM-L] million files backup

Hi everybody,

Does anyone know what is the best way to make a filesystem backup than
contains million files?

Backup image is not posible because is a GPFS filesystem and is not
supported.

Thanks in advance

Jorge
  

Re: Generate backupset error issue

[Schneider, Jim]

Tim,

Look at the TOCMGmtclass parameter of the 'generate backupset' command.

Jim Schneider

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Hughes, Timothy
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 9:06 AM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: [ADSM-L] Generate backupset error issue

I am trying to generate a backup set for a Windows box and I am getting
the following error, has anyone had this issue?


generate backupset govsrv3X1 govsrv3X1  1  devclass=lto3class
retention=nolimit scratch=yes description=govsrv3X1forever ANR1112W
GENERATE BACKUPSET: No table of contents destination storage pool
available for backup set for node GOVSRV3X1 (data type File). The table
of contents will not be created.
ANS8003I Process number 39922 started.


Thanks in advance

Re: Generate backupset error issue

[Schneider, Jim]

Tim,

The TSM output you posted ended with:
ANS8003I Process number 39922 started.

It looks like it's working.  Did you get a subsequent error?

Jim

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Hughes, Timothy
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11:52 AM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Generate backupset error issue

Thanks Jim,

We won't be using a TOC for these however shouldn't a generate backup
command work.

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Schneider, Jim
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 10:36 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Generate backupset error issue

Tim,

Look at the TOCMGmtclass parameter of the 'generate backupset' command.

Jim Schneider

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Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 9:06 AM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: [ADSM-L] Generate backupset error issue

I am trying to generate a backup set for a Windows box and I am getting
the following error, has anyone had this issue?


generate backupset govsrv3X1 govsrv3X1  1  devclass=lto3class
retention=nolimit scratch=yes description=govsrv3X1forever ANR1112W
GENERATE BACKUPSET: No table of contents destination storage pool
available for backup set for node GOVSRV3X1 (data type File). The table
of contents will not be created.
ANS8003I Process number 39922 started.


Thanks in advance

Re: Delete STGPOOL issue

[Schneider, Jim]

Harold,

Use 'q stg' to see which storage pool has the target pool defined as
'next'.  Update the storage pool definition so the target pool is no
longer 'next'.

Jim Schneider

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Vandeventer, Harold [BS]
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 11:15 AM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: [ADSM-L] Delete STGPOOL issue

I'm attempting to delete STGPOOLs on TSM 5.5.4 and 5.5.2.

The content has been migrated to new pools; queries against the pools to
be deleted indicate 0 M estimated capacity.

All scripting has been modified to use the new pools.

Attempts to delete the old pools get ANR2385E indicating the pool is
defined as a Next or Reclamation pool for another pool.

I can't find the alleged pool by looking a properties of each; the pools
to be deleted are not listed as Next in any pool via the Admin Center.
Is there a command line command that will tell me what pool is the
another pool?

Thanks.


Harold Vandeventer
Systems Programmer
State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information
Technology Services
harold.vandeven...@da.ks.govmailto:dane.woodr...@da.ks.gov
(785) 296-0631

Re: Backing up EMC SourceOne

[Schneider, Jim]

Bill,

We have one SourceOne server using a database on a separate server.  We
run the job sequence using BMC's Control-M scheduler.

SourceOne server1) Activity Suspend vbs
2) Native Archive Suspend vbs
Database server 3) Database export
4) Archive of export
SourceOne server5) Archive of SourceOneMessageCenter,
SourceOneIndex directories
6) Native Archive resume vbs
7) Activity Resume vbs
The entire process takes about 20 minutes.

I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but hope it helps.

Jim Schneider
United Stationers

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Bill Boyer
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 2:15 PM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing up EMC SourceOne

Anyone out there backing up a multiple server SourceOne configuration?
This
is the replacement product for MailXtender. There is a script to run
preschedule to set SourceOne up for backup. And then you also have to
backup
the other servers in the SourceOne configuration while this is 'Paused'.



Any help would be greatly appreciated!



Bill Boyer

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Re: TSM 6.2.2 unrecoverable DB backup

[Schneider, Jim]

Richard,

We are using devtype=file for the storage pools and a VTL.  I create a
fastcopy of the VTL tapes so they can be imported into a DR library.  So
far I'm running reclamation prior to the DB backup, hoping that the
volumes will remain stable for trial testing.  Other application write
data directly to the Data Domain, so the plan is to stop replication
prior to a week-long test.

The problem I have with a snapshot is that TSM uses full path names for
the file-type volumes.  We would have to re-engineer the file systems
and recreate NFS and CIFS shares for other servers writing directly to
the Data Domain.  Had I known more about this ahead of time it would
have been planned better.

I'm writing the DB backup directly to the Data Domain across an NFS
share.  A check of the manual tells me I'm doing it wrong.  I'll change
the process to back up to local disk and copy to NFS.

Jim Schneider

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Cowen, Richard
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 10:22 AM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.2.2 unrecoverable DB backup

Jim,

I would suggest, on the recovery dd, creating the snap and using
fastcopy, and then using the resulting frozen data for TSM restores.
Don't forget to expire the snap (or create it with a short life.)
Trying to use data that may be changed by ongoing replication (you
didn't break replication, did you?) is not a good idea.
Plus, as you noticed, the replication target files are not to be opened
for writing, since that could affect the replication integrity.
Are you using a VTL or devtype=file for the library volumes?

Richard

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Schneider, Jim
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 4:50 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.2.2 unrecoverable DB backup

Richard,

We use a Data Domain 880 for constant replication.
The database backup, devconfig, volhist, and prepare file time stamps
matched the source.
The DD880 file system is mounted as read-only on the server performing
recovery.
I have not used snapshots for access database and storage pool data.

NB: After a successful recovery I update TSM volume access to read-only.
If this is not done then I cannot recovery from any filling volumes.

Jim
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Cowen, Richard
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 3:07 PM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.2.2 unrecoverable DB backup

Jim,

What method/appliance for replication are you using?
Did the datetime stamp for all 3 files (dbbackup, devconfig, volhist)
match up with the source system?
Did you snap the replicated side to make it read only before attempting
the restore?

Richard Cowen


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
Schneider, Jim
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 3:06 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.2.2 unrecoverable DB backup

Hello TSMers

AIX 6.1
TSM 6.2.2.0

I have been testing DR recovery using replicated DB backups and storage
pools, recovering to a second TSM instance on a remote server.  I have
found that I cannot restore from every database backup.
 
I ran successful restores on Monday and Wednesday but today's restore
attempt failed.  db2diag messages include

2011-09-22-09.24.36.455938-300 I1562137A367   LEVEL: Warning
PID : 17105122 TID  : 2111PROC : db2sysc 0
INSTANCE: tsminst1 NODE : 000
EDUID   : 2111 EDUNAME: db2logmgr (TSMDB1) 0
FUNCTION: DB2 UDB, data protection services, sqlpgRetrieveLogFile,
probe:4130
MESSAGE : Started retrieve for log file S223.LOG.

2011-09-22-09.24.36.456575-300 E1562505A576   LEVEL: Error
PID : 17105122 TID  : 2111PROC : db2sysc 0
INSTANCE: tsminst1 NODE : 000
EDUID   : 2111 EDUNAME: db2logmgr (TSMDB1) 0
FUNCTION: DB2 UDB, data protection services, sqlpgRetrieveLogDisk,
probe:3500
MESSAGE : ZRC=0x860F000A=-2045837302=SQLO_FNEX File not found.
  DIA8411C A file S223.LOG could not be found.
DATA #1 : String, 110 bytes
This might mean that end-of-logs has been reached.  Check for other
errors
to verify whether this is the case.

2011-09-22-09.24.36.457229-300 E1563082A434   LEVEL: Warning
PID : 17105122 TID  : 2111PROC : db2sysc 0
INSTANCE: tsminst1 NODE : 000
EDUID   : 2111 EDUNAME: db2logmgr (TSMDB1) 0
FUNCTION: DB2 UDB, data protection services, sqlpgRetrieveLogFile,
probe:4165
MESSAGE : ADM1847W  Failed to retrieve log file S223.LOG on chain
12 to 
  /arclog/recovery/RstDbLog/.

2011-09-22-09.24.36.657930-300 I1563517A561   LEVEL: Error
PID : 17105122 TID  : 10078   PROC : db2sysc 0
INSTANCE: tsminst1 NODE

TSM 6.2.2 unrecoverable DB backup

[Schneider, Jim]

Hello TSMers

AIX 6.1
TSM 6.2.2.0

I have been testing DR recovery using replicated DB backups and storage
pools, recovering to a second TSM instance on a remote server.  I have
found that I cannot restore from every database backup.
 
I ran successful restores on Monday and Wednesday but today's restore
attempt failed.  db2diag messages include

2011-09-22-09.24.36.455938-300 I1562137A367   LEVEL: Warning
PID : 17105122 TID  : 2111PROC : db2sysc 0
INSTANCE: tsminst1 NODE : 000
EDUID   : 2111 EDUNAME: db2logmgr (TSMDB1) 0
FUNCTION: DB2 UDB, data protection services, sqlpgRetrieveLogFile,
probe:4130
MESSAGE : Started retrieve for log file S223.LOG.

2011-09-22-09.24.36.456575-300 E1562505A576   LEVEL: Error
PID : 17105122 TID  : 2111PROC : db2sysc 0
INSTANCE: tsminst1 NODE : 000
EDUID   : 2111 EDUNAME: db2logmgr (TSMDB1) 0
FUNCTION: DB2 UDB, data protection services, sqlpgRetrieveLogDisk,
probe:3500
MESSAGE : ZRC=0x860F000A=-2045837302=SQLO_FNEX File not found.
  DIA8411C A file S223.LOG could not be found.
DATA #1 : String, 110 bytes
This might mean that end-of-logs has been reached.  Check for other
errors
to verify whether this is the case.

2011-09-22-09.24.36.457229-300 E1563082A434   LEVEL: Warning
PID : 17105122 TID  : 2111PROC : db2sysc 0
INSTANCE: tsminst1 NODE : 000
EDUID   : 2111 EDUNAME: db2logmgr (TSMDB1) 0
FUNCTION: DB2 UDB, data protection services, sqlpgRetrieveLogFile,
probe:4165
MESSAGE : ADM1847W  Failed to retrieve log file S223.LOG on chain
12 to 
  /arclog/recovery/RstDbLog/.

2011-09-22-09.24.36.657930-300 I1563517A561   LEVEL: Error
PID : 17105122 TID  : 10078   PROC : db2sysc 0
INSTANCE: tsminst1 NODE : 000 DB   : TSMDB1
APPHDL  : 0-37 APPID: *LOCAL.tsminst1.110922142314
AUTHID  : TSMINST1
EDUID   : 10078EDUNAME: db2redom (TSMDB1) 0
FUNCTION: DB2 UDB, recovery manager, sqlpPRecReadLog, probe:1275
RETCODE : ZRC=0x071000D7=118489303=SQLP_EXT_NOT_IN_CHAIN
  This extent is not a successor of the previous extent.  Fwd
Recovery can not continue.

I ran another DB backup, backed up devconfig, volhist, and ran prepare.
After waiting for the data to replicate to the remote site my restore
test was successful.  The error messages I listed did not occur during
the successful restore attempt.  There were no activity log messages
indicating an error during the first (unusable) DB backup.  It appears
that I cannot recover from all of my DB backups and wonder if anybody
else has run across the same situation.

I'm trying to determine if the problem is mine or ours.

With confused and gracious desperation,
Jim Schneider
United Stationers

Re: TSM 6.2.2 unrecoverable DB backup

[Schneider, Jim]

Richard,

We use a Data Domain 880 for constant replication.
The database backup, devconfig, volhist, and prepare file time stamps
matched the source.
The DD880 file system is mounted as read-only on the server performing
recovery.
I have not used snapshots for access database and storage pool data.

NB: After a successful recovery I update TSM volume access to read-only.
If this is not done then I cannot recovery from any filling volumes.

Jim
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Cowen, Richard
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 3:07 PM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.2.2 unrecoverable DB backup

Jim,

What method/appliance for replication are you using?
Did the datetime stamp for all 3 files (dbbackup, devconfig, volhist)
match up with the source system?
Did you snap the replicated side to make it read only before attempting
the restore?

Richard Cowen


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
Schneider, Jim
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 3:06 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.2.2 unrecoverable DB backup

Hello TSMers

AIX 6.1
TSM 6.2.2.0

I have been testing DR recovery using replicated DB backups and storage
pools, recovering to a second TSM instance on a remote server.  I have
found that I cannot restore from every database backup.
 
I ran successful restores on Monday and Wednesday but today's restore
attempt failed.  db2diag messages include

2011-09-22-09.24.36.455938-300 I1562137A367   LEVEL: Warning
PID : 17105122 TID  : 2111PROC : db2sysc 0
INSTANCE: tsminst1 NODE : 000
EDUID   : 2111 EDUNAME: db2logmgr (TSMDB1) 0
FUNCTION: DB2 UDB, data protection services, sqlpgRetrieveLogFile,
probe:4130
MESSAGE : Started retrieve for log file S223.LOG.

2011-09-22-09.24.36.456575-300 E1562505A576   LEVEL: Error
PID : 17105122 TID  : 2111PROC : db2sysc 0
INSTANCE: tsminst1 NODE : 000
EDUID   : 2111 EDUNAME: db2logmgr (TSMDB1) 0
FUNCTION: DB2 UDB, data protection services, sqlpgRetrieveLogDisk,
probe:3500
MESSAGE : ZRC=0x860F000A=-2045837302=SQLO_FNEX File not found.
  DIA8411C A file S223.LOG could not be found.
DATA #1 : String, 110 bytes
This might mean that end-of-logs has been reached.  Check for other
errors
to verify whether this is the case.

2011-09-22-09.24.36.457229-300 E1563082A434   LEVEL: Warning
PID : 17105122 TID  : 2111PROC : db2sysc 0
INSTANCE: tsminst1 NODE : 000
EDUID   : 2111 EDUNAME: db2logmgr (TSMDB1) 0
FUNCTION: DB2 UDB, data protection services, sqlpgRetrieveLogFile,
probe:4165
MESSAGE : ADM1847W  Failed to retrieve log file S223.LOG on chain
12 to 
  /arclog/recovery/RstDbLog/.

2011-09-22-09.24.36.657930-300 I1563517A561   LEVEL: Error
PID : 17105122 TID  : 10078   PROC : db2sysc 0
INSTANCE: tsminst1 NODE : 000 DB   : TSMDB1
APPHDL  : 0-37 APPID: *LOCAL.tsminst1.110922142314
AUTHID  : TSMINST1
EDUID   : 10078EDUNAME: db2redom (TSMDB1) 0
FUNCTION: DB2 UDB, recovery manager, sqlpPRecReadLog, probe:1275
RETCODE : ZRC=0x071000D7=118489303=SQLP_EXT_NOT_IN_CHAIN
  This extent is not a successor of the previous extent.  Fwd
Recovery can not continue.

I ran another DB backup, backed up devconfig, volhist, and ran prepare.
After waiting for the data to replicate to the remote site my restore
test was successful.  The error messages I listed did not occur during
the successful restore attempt.  There were no activity log messages
indicating an error during the first (unusable) DB backup.  It appears
that I cannot recover from all of my DB backups and wonder if anybody
else has run across the same situation.

I'm trying to determine if the problem is mine or ours.

With confused and gracious desperation,
Jim Schneider
United Stationers



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TSM 6.2.2. restore from Data Domain 880

[Schneider, Jim]

Is anybody else performing Disaster Recovery testing of AIX 6.1 TSM 6.2.2.0 by 
restoring the database directly from a Data Domain 880 file device?

My problem is that I can restore the database some of the time, and get 
ANR4522E RESTORE DB failed with LOG file error. the rest of the time.  I have 
opened PMR 36668,122 but the tech seems to think the problem is that I'm using 
a script to generate the db restore command, despite the fact that I've 
explained that the problem is intermittent.

I've copied the database files to local storage prior to a restore attempt.  If 
I can restore from the local copy I can restore directly from the DD880.  If 
the local copy restore files with a log file error, the DD880 restore has the 
same problem.  It looks like corrupted Db backup files are being written 
(sometimes).  I'm searching through logs and would appreciate any suggestions.

Jim Schneider
United Stationers

Re: Syntax for query volume where deviceclass=file

[Schneider, Jim]

Keith,

This is one case where the quest is case-sensitive.
Try: q vol /adsm/vg014/0026.BFS

Good lock,
Jim Schneider

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Keith Arbogast
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 1:11 PM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: [ADSM-L] Syntax for query volume where deviceclass=file

I'm in syntax purgatory trying to get output from query volume on a
devclass=file storage pool. If I add the reported volume name as an
argument, 'No match' is returned to the query. If I omit the Volume
name, and append 'deviceclass=file' or 'stg=stgpool_name', with
format=detailed, normal output is returned but for all volumes in the
storage pool.  No library or paths or storage agents are defined on this
TSM server.   Would someone please clear the smoke for me? 

Here is what I'm doing and the output.

tsm: TSMVEI01q vol stg=vmsnap

Volume NameStorageDevice
Estimated   Pct  Volume 
  Pool Name   Class
Name  Capacity  Util  Status 
   ---
--   -   - 
/adsm/vg014/0026.BFS VMSNAP  FILE  16.4 G
0.0 Filling 
/adsm/vg014/002A.BFS VMSNAP  FILE  16.4 G
11.4 Filling 
/adsm/vg015/0021.BFS VMSNAP  FILE  16.4 G
0.0   Full  
/adsm/vg015/0027.BFS VMSNAP  FILE  16.3 G
100.0   Full  
/adsm/vg100/0028.BFS VMSNAP  FILE  16.4 G
46.4 Filling 
/adsm/vg101/0029.BFS VMSNAP  FILE  16.4 G
45.1 Filling 
/adsm/vg103/0019.BFS VMSNAP  FILE  16.4 G
0.0   Full  

tsm: TSMVEI01q vol /adsm/vg014/0026.bfs
ANR2034E QUERY VOLUME: No match found using this criteria.
ANS8001I Return code 11.


Thank you,
Keith

Re: DR with replicated data - cannot restore client data

[Schneider, Jim]

Mike,

I have resolved the problem of restoring with replicated data.

I'm using a Data Domain 880 to host the storage pools using file type
devices, which is replicated to a DD880 at our second/DR data center.

The first issue was file level permissions.  The server that backs up
the data and the DR instance now have the same user name (tsminst1) and
group (tsm).  I no longer need to adjust file permissions every time I
want to run a test.  I'm running on AIX and made sure the uid and gid
are the same on both systems.  This means that the production TSM
instance at the DR location is now owned by tsminst2.  I find this
personally annoying, but I'm the only one bothered by it.

The second issue was that the name of the storage pool volume includes
the absolute path name of the file.  I created an NFS mount point on the
DR server who's name matches the original server's mount point.  I
cleverly called it TSMDD (for Data Domain).

The third issue was that I could only restore from full volumes, not
from filling ones.  I changed all storage volumes to readonly on the DR
instance.  Since it's only a change to the database definition I'm not
affecting the replicated data.

The only issue remaining is figuring out how to access the replicated
VTL data holding the NDMP backups.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Thank you,
Jim Schneider

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mikec
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 8:53 AM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: [ADSM-L] DR with replicated data - cannot restore client data

Jim, We are having the same problem here. Were you able to correct you
issue

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DR with replicated data - cannot restore client data

[Schneider, Jim]

Hi folks,

I'm getting anr9905w errors when attempting to restore data from a
replicated primary storage pool and have no clue how to solve this
problem.

TSM 6.2.2.0 on AIX 6.1 has its primary storage pool on a Data Domain
880.  The data is replicated to a remote location.  The remote TSM
server is the same version, same OS.  The owner and group names and
gid/uid are identical on the primary and DR TSM instances.  The DD880
file system is mounted with the same name on both servers so that the
absolute path name of the files in the storage pool is identical.  I've
restored the database on the DR system by reading the database backup
files on the DD880, so there's not a general problem with accessing the
data.  When I try a client file restore I get the following errors:

ANR9905W Unable to open file /tsmdd/tsm/tsmba/00f3.bfs.  The file
access permissions do not allow the specified action.
ANR8501E System return code 13 received opening volume
/tsmdd/tsm/tsmba/00F3.BFS with file name
/tsmdd/tsm/tsmba/00f3.bfs 
ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume /tsmdd/tsm/tsmba/00F3.BFS -
mount failed.

I have an open PMR but was not able to get help for this problem.  I'm
told I have one day to get this working.

Any suggestions?  Please?

Thank you,
Jim Schneider

FW: DR with replicated data - cannot restore client data - resolved

[Schneider, Jim]

I got it working.  I was the victim of a file moved by reclamation.
When I selected other files I found one that I could restore.  I've been
pounding my head against the keyboard for the better part of a week over
this.

Jim Schneider

-Original Message-
From: Schneider, Jim 
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 11:06 AM
To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager'
Subject: DR with replicated data - cannot restore client data

Hi folks,

I'm getting anr9905w errors when attempting to restore data from a
replicated primary storage pool and have no clue how to solve this
problem.

TSM 6.2.2.0 on AIX 6.1 has its primary storage pool on a Data Domain
880.  The data is replicated to a remote location.  The remote TSM
server is the same version, same OS.  The owner and group names and
gid/uid are identical on the primary and DR TSM instances.  The DD880
file system is mounted with the same name on both servers so that the
absolute path name of the files in the storage pool is identical.  I've
restored the database on the DR system by reading the database backup
files on the DD880, so there's not a general problem with accessing the
data.  When I try a client file restore I get the following errors:

ANR9905W Unable to open file /tsmdd/tsm/tsmba/00f3.bfs.  The file
access permissions do not allow the specified action.
ANR8501E System return code 13 received opening volume
/tsmdd/tsm/tsmba/00F3.BFS with file name
/tsmdd/tsm/tsmba/00f3.bfs 
ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume /tsmdd/tsm/tsmba/00F3.BFS -
mount failed.

I have an open PMR but was not able to get help for this problem.  I'm
told I have one day to get this working.

Any suggestions?  Please?

Thank you,
Jim Schneider

DR configuration - instance startup failure

[Schneider, Jim]

Hello TSMers.

I'm attempting to configure DR recovery for TSM 6.2.2.0 on AIX 6.1 TL 4.
I have a Data Domain 880 that holds the storage pools, database backup,
devconfig, volhist and prepare files.  The data is replicated to a DD880
at a second site.  The second site has a production TSM instance running
and a second DR instance defined.  I've modified the replicated
devconfig and volhist files so the paths to the storage pools, DB backup
file, etc., are accessible to the DR instance.

In my optimistic theory, I should be able to modify the devconfig and
volhist files, alter the DB restore command from the Prepare file and
have the DR instance running.  The DB restore command completes
successfully but I get the following error when I attempt to start the
DR instance:

ANR0990I Server restart-recovery in progress.
ANR0152I Database manager successfully started.
Error 2121 collecting the server database creation timestamp.  The
server stops.
ANR0172I rdbdb.c(1298): Error encountered performing action Release and
Deactivate.
ANR0162W Supplemental database diagnostic information:  -1493:**No State
Information Available (-2)**:-1493
(**No Other Information Available (70)**).

Any ideas on how to proceed to solve this problem?

Thank you,
Jim Schneider

Re: Help with tsm script

[Schneider, Jim]

I have a script that lists reclaimable space by volume for a given
storage pool.  I've added line numbers so I can see how many tapes would
be reclaimed at a given percentage.  It runs on Unix from a command
prompt.

===
#!/usr/bin/ksh
#
# This script checks reclaimable space in a tape storage pool
# The list is displayed with line numbers and is sorted by
# reclaimable space in descending order.


# Check that a parameter is passed
if [[ $# != 1 ]]
then
   echo Usage: cr \storage_pool_name\
   exit 4
fi

dsmadmc -id=user id -pass=password -displ=list q vol stg=$1 f=d |
grep Reclaimable | sort -n -r -k 4  $1.usage
cat -n $1.usage | more
rm $1.usage
===
Sample output:
ch2uptsm1 $ ./cr ch2win_offsite
 1  Pct. Reclaimable Space: 99.3
 2  Pct. Reclaimable Space: 98.7
 3  Pct. Reclaimable Space: 98.1
 4  Pct. Reclaimable Space: 97.9
 5  Pct. Reclaimable Space: 97.5
 6  Pct. Reclaimable Space: 97.4
 7  Pct. Reclaimable Space: 96.8
 8  Pct. Reclaimable Space: 93.1
 9  Pct. Reclaimable Space: 88.9
10  Pct. Reclaimable Space: 87.8
11  Pct. Reclaimable Space: 86.9
12  Pct. Reclaimable Space: 86.3
13  Pct. Reclaimable Space: 86.0
14  Pct. Reclaimable Space: 84.6
15  Pct. Reclaimable Space: 83.9
16  Pct. Reclaimable Space: 80.9
17  Pct. Reclaimable Space: 79.0
18  Pct. Reclaimable Space: 77.9
19  Pct. Reclaimable Space: 77.1
20  Pct. Reclaimable Space: 76.0

Hope this helps,
Jim Schneider

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Lee, Gary D.
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 9:24 AM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: [ADSM-L] Help with tsm script

I have a script which under tsm 5.5.4 server gives a report of

The storage pool name, count ov reclaimable volumes, and reclaimable
space for the specified percentage.
You execute as follows:

Run reclaim-check 55

Under tsm 6.2.2, I get an arithmetic exception sqlstate 22003.
I don't see the problem.

Script follows:

 SELECT distinct stgpool_name as Pool, - 
count(volume_name) as No. Volumes, - 
cast(sum(cast((est_capacity_mb / 1024 *  - 
(pct_utilized / 100)) - 
as decimal(9,3))) as decimal(9,3)) - 
as GB Reclaimable - 
 FROM   volumes - 
 WHERE  pct_reclaim$1 - 
 GROUP BY stgpool_name 


Any ideas?
The error message gives no help as to what part of the expression gives
the exception.
Thanks for any help you can give.


Gary Lee
Senior System Programmer
Ball State University
phone: 765-285-1310

 

Re: Smoothing active backup sessions

[Schneider, Jim]

Is it possible to control this with MAXSESSIONS?  Associate a large
number of servers with a long backup schedule and set MAXSESSIONS to 40.
With a MAXSCHEDSESSIONS value of 50 (percent) you would only run 20
backups at a time.  The optimistic UNTESTED result would be to start new
backups when to session total falls below 20.

I have not tried this, but it might work.

Regards,
Jim Schneider

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Keith Arbogast
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 9:51 AM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: [ADSM-L] Smoothing active backup sessions

A bar graph of our active backup sessions during the night is far from a
Golden Rectangle. It's more like a big city skyline. We are backing up
510 clients now, but that number is increasing steadily. I am mulling
over ways to smooth our session load. The hoped for benefit would be to
make more effective use of available resources, and to delay the need
for more TSM servers. We run TSM server version 6.2.2.2 on RHEL5 on a
Dell R810 server. It's fibre connected to a Hitachi SAN.

Till now we have just aimed to average the number of associations within
each schedule.That isn't effective since clients have widely different
run times. Both of the following techniques use changes in Scheduling
options to attempt to effect session smoothing. I would be glad to hear
opinions on how well, or not, they might work.  

1) The first idea is to overlap Schedule Start Times. The randomization
server option is there to avoid starting all backups in a Schedule
together. That's a major knob for smoothing, but the highest setting for
it is '50' which distributes actual start times over only the first half
of a backup window. This allows clients to retry before the window
expires. Since actual start times are spread over the first half of the
window only, session count is necessarily higher in that half, which
effectively de-smoothes the two halves of the window. Sawtooth City. 

We have few client communication errors, so we could set each Schedule's
start time to be midway through the window of the previous Schedule.
Then, the lightly used second half of the previous schedule would be
filled with sessions from the first half of the overlapping schedule.
If Schedule Durations were an hour, Schedules would start every
half-hour. There would be more defined Schedules, but fewer Associations
per schedule. 

To be most effective, this technique may depend on the elapsed backup
times of the clients in the overlapping schedules being more or less
equal. So, it may need to be combined with the next technique which
defines associations based on the experienced or expected elapsed run
time of the client.

2) Another way to smooth sessions could be to make schedule Durations
inversely proportional to the usual elapsed time of the clients
associated with them rather than setting all Durations to an hour. About
twenty-five percent of our backups finish in one minute or less. About
fifty percent finish in five minutes or less. The easiest way to spread
the good effect of all those light loads is to put them in a long window
and let Randomization distribute their actual start times.  I am
thinking of starting with a four hour duration for the clients with run
times of less than one minute. 

Clients with long elapsed times would be associated with schedules of
shorter duration so their start times could be more tightly controlled.
Clients with intermediate elapsed times would be associated with
schedules of intermediate duration. 

Since this technique depends on Randomization working as well with long
Schedule Durations as with shorter, does anyone have experience with
Durations of four hours or more? Did it go alright?

Any reactions to these ideas would be gratefully accepted.

With my thanks and best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University



  

Re: TSM Recovery log is pinning since upgrade to 5.5.5.0 code

[Schneider, Jim]

Answer to rookie question:

All files backed up create an entry in the transaction log.  When the
file backup is complete the entry is eligible to be written to the
database.  TSM only writes the oldest entry in the transaction log.  If
a file backup takes a long time it can become the oldest entry in the
log.  Any new entries for backed-up files are stored in the log until
the long-running file backup is complete.  This is called log pinning.

If the backup for one file takes too long the transaction log can become
more than 80% full, at which time TSM slows down its backup process to
allow transaction log processing to complete.  If the transaction log
becomes completely full, TSM processing stops.

Hope this helps,
Jim Schneider

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Mark Mooney
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 11:23 AM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Recovery log is pinning since upgrade to
5.5.5.0 code

Rookie Question, What is Log Pinning?

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
Loon, EJ van - SPLXO
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 10:19 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: TSM Recovery log is pinning since upgrade to 5.5.5.0 code

Hi Richard!
 So is 5.5.5.0 also having this issue with the log pinning?
Yes. As soon as the log hist 80% TSM starts delaying transactions. In
this level a bug was fixed which caused the log to fill too soon after
it reached 80%. I'm running 5.5.5.2 and it's still filling to 80%
multiple times a night.
Kind regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
Cheung, Richard
Sent: zondag 15 mei 2011 04:02
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: TSM Recovery log is pinning since upgrade to 5.5.5.0 code

Hi

The worry about this is I had a PMR opened for this issue on my servers,
which are currently at 5.5.4. I was advised it's a known issue, refer to
APAR IC64438, and the recommended fix is to go to 5.5.5.0

So is 5.5.5.0 also having this issue with the log pinning?

I also believed this was happening in early versions of TSM v6.. But the
later builds are okay - can anyone confirm?


Richard Cheung | Server Engineer | Information Systems | Santos Limited
Santos Centre | 60 Flinders Street Adelaide SA 5000 Australia
Ph +61 8 8116 7125 | 7 Fax +61 8 8116 5073 |   richard.che...@santos.com


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
Dave Canan
Sent: Saturday, 14 May 2011 1:22 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Recovery log is pinning since upgrade to
5.5.5.0 code

Andy Raibeck and I have been monitoring this thread for the past few
weeks and have been having numerous discussions about what we need to do
to address these problems. In addition, we have noted the many PMRs
coming into the IBM support queue, and many of these PMRs are now on my
queue. Andy will be assisting me along with other support people as
needed.

As part of this analysis we will be doing, we have a new questionnaire
(titled Items to Gather for a PMR with Log Pinning Condition for TSM
V5) that customers will be filling out that ask several questions
regarding your environment. We understand that this involves extra work
to gather this information, but there can be many different areas that
can cause log pinning conditions, so this information is needed. In
addition, there will be a script provided (named serverperf5a.pl) that
will help us gather additional data. Both of these will be provided to
you by support. When these PMRs are now opened, please make sure that
level 1 support adds the keyword LOGPIN55 to the PMR. This will allow
Andy and I to quickly find all the PMRs being worked for this issue.

Eric, your PMR is now one that I have on my queue (or I will shortly
today).
We will be contacting you to work the PMR.

Dave Canan
IBM ATS TSM Performance
ddcananATUSDOTIBMDOTCOM
916-723-2410

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Loon, EJ van - SPLXO
eric-van.l...@klm.com
 wrote:

 Hi Rick!
 You are running in normal mode. In this mode the recovery log only
 contains uncommited transactions. Don't you agree that in this case,
 the log should NEVER reach 90%? It should not even reach something
like 40%!
 I don't want to have to implement extra monitoring to keep TSM from
 crashing. It should just work. Like it did when we were running 5.3...
 Kind regards,
 Eric van Loon
 KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

 -Original Message-
 From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf
 Of Richard Rhodes
 Sent: donderdag 12 mei 2011 15:04
 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
 Subject: Re: TSM Recovery log is pinning since upgrade to 5.5.5.0 code

 I have a cron job that checks log utilization every 15m.  If the log
 goes over 90% the scripts displays a bunch of stuff (q sess, q proc, q
 log, show logpin, etc),  runs a 

Re: Does Move Data recover space on virtual volumes?

[Schneider, Jim]

Yes.

I use 'move data' to consolidate virtual filling volumes and reduce 'Pct
Migr' in the storage pool.  Judging by the time taken to move data,
empty space is not moved.  After the data is moved off of the volume it
becomes a scratch volume.

Jim Schneider

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Keith Arbogast
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 10:08 AM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: [ADSM-L] Does Move Data recover space on virtual volumes?

We are running TSM 6.2.2.2 on RHEL 5. 

It is my understanding that all the space used by a virtual volume is
kept until every file on it has been expired. Virtual volumes don't
shrink in size, just like physical cartridges, even though their
pct_utilization may go down. Therefore, if some file in a virtual volume
never goes inactive, that virtual volume will live forever and all its
space be indefinitely unreclaimable.  

Are my starting point, and its consequences correct? If not, please
correct my misunderstanding.

If virtual volumes with expired files don't shrink, does 'move data' on
a virtual volume recover empty space like it does on a physical
cartridge?  Or, does the empty space get moved too?  

Move data is not an efficacious solution to this problem. Is there a
better one?

With my thanks, 
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University

Re: Does Move Data recover space on virtual volumes?

[Schneider, Jim]

Keith,

The status after the move is 'EMPTY.'

I have an script that moves data off of 'filling' tapes.  I found that
while the percent utilization in a storage pool might be low, the
percent migratable was high.  Every used volume in a storage pool adds
to % migratable, even if it does not hold much data.  When % migratable
is too high, no data can be written to the storage pool, regardless of
the storage pool's utilization.  I script a 'q vol stgpool=???
st=filling', use that data in a 'q vol' to get utilization, then move
data off of the least full tape.  I have a loop that executes the
process because utilization values change between iterations.  The
volumes are assigned to storage pools, so I guess they aren't scratch,
but they are empty and usable.

Jim

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Keith Arbogast
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 10:46 AM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Does Move Data recover space on virtual volumes?

Jim,
You must mean FULL rather than FILLING, and PENDING rather than SCRATCH,
yes/no? 

Thanks again,
Keith

Re: Does Move Data recover space on virtual volumes?

[Schneider, Jim]

I was under the impression that reclamation only affected full volumes,
not filling ones.  I have had backups fail because of lack of space when
% utilization was relatively low but % migratable was high.  I checked
the reclaim stgpool help info and it does not say it excludes filling
tapes.  Am I just wasting time and delaying expiration/reclamation with
the move data process?  Maybe TSM is so easy to administer I'm just
trying to make it more interesting?

Confused,
Jim

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Shawn Drew
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 12:22 PM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Does Move Data recover space on virtual volumes?

Why wouldn't normal reclamation be used for this?  It's the automatic
move data intended to consolidate empty space.
As long as expiration is running on both source and target server space
will be reclaimed.


Regards,
Shawn

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Yes.

I use 'move data' to consolidate virtual filling volumes and reduce 'Pct
Migr' in the storage pool.  Judging by the time taken to move data,
empty space is not moved.  After the data is moved off of the volume it
becomes a scratch volume.

Jim Schneider

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Keith Arbogast
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 10:08 AM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: [ADSM-L] Does Move Data recover space on virtual volumes?

We are running TSM 6.2.2.2 on RHEL 5.

It is my understanding that all the space used by a virtual volume is
kept until every file on it has been expired. Virtual volumes don't
shrink in size, just like physical cartridges, even though their
pct_utilization may go down. Therefore, if some file in a virtual volume
never goes inactive, that virtual volume will live forever and all its
space be indefinitely unreclaimable.

Are my starting point, and its consequences correct? If not, please
correct my misunderstanding.

If virtual volumes with expired files don't shrink, does 'move data' on
a virtual volume recover empty space like it does on a physical
cartridge?  Or, does the empty space get moved too?

Move data is not an efficacious solution to this problem. Is there a
better one?

With my thanks,
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University



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TSM 6.2.2 CPU requirements

[Schneider, Jim]

Good morning, TSM fans!

I'm building an AIX 6 TL4 server to run TSM Server 6.2.2.0.  The
Performance Tuning manual tells me I need one core per expiration or
deduplication process.  How many processors are you folks using, and
does additional processing power have a significant benefit?

Thanks in advance,
Jim Schneider

Re: De-dup ratio's

[Schneider, Jim]

Amos,

We are looking into purchasing one of these options.  Do have your
DataDomain device configured at disk or VTL?

Thank you,
Jim Schneider

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Amos ADSM
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 12:25 PM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] De-dup ratio's

Hi All,

Im Using in the last 3 years Protectier, and most of my backup are SQL
Servers ans some ESX Servers, i get 3.9-4 Dedupe ratio, in good times i
manage to get to 6,
In the last 3 Weeks, im running DataDomain , and i get ratio 9 and its
just the begining :-) ( I hope)

In My Site we got 11 TSM Servers, 3 in the Center with more that 1000
Clients (Aix,Linux SQL) and My Diff Backup for my SQL Servers its almost
2 TB a day, and my DD Writes only 100 Gb.

Amos





On 12/11/2010 18:23, Druckenmiller, David wrote:
 I'm curious what others are seeing for de-dup ratios for various
methods.

 We're using IBM's ProtecTier for our TSM (5.5) primary pools and only
see about a 4 to 1 ratio.  This is less than half of what IBM was
projecting for us.  We have roughly 400 clients (mostly Windows servers)
totalling about 135TB of data.  Biggest individual uses are Exchange and
SQL Dumps.

 Just wondering what others might be getting for other appliances or
with TSM v6?

 Thanks
 Dave



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Re: rotating private tapes into/out of 3584 manually

[Schneider, Jim]

A temporary fix is to use 'move data' commands on filling tapes.  If a
dataset does not span tapes it's a quick way to get more scratch tapes.

Jim

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Steve Roder
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:06 PM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] rotating private tapes into/out of 3584 manually

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Keith Arbogast wrote:

 John,
 Thank you for those details.  It sounds doable.

 When I return private volumes to the 3584, I run 'checkin libv
library_name volume_name search=bulk checklabel=yes. Then; update volume
volume_name access=readw.

 If I'm misunderstanding something, please let me know.

...been there, done this a long time ago, and never again...

I usually include stat=private on the checkin, even though TSM will not
assign a private tape a status of scratch.  You may want to use
access=offsite instead of unavailable, as TSM will mark tapes as
unavailable in certain circumstances.  If you are also using that
access,
how will you distinguish between your unavailables tapes (removed) vs.
TSM's (in need of attention).

Note, however, with access of offsite or unavailable, I restore job that
needs one might fail, vs. access=readw, which will cause the server to
issue a checkin request to the server console, which you would then need
to monitor, and checkin the tape for the restore.

If you do thet into this very ugly situtation, try to checkout tapes
that
are less likely to be used in a restore job, or get reclaimed.  So full
tapes with low percentages of reclaimable space, or owned by nodes that
are highly unlikely to need a restore.

Sorry if I am rambling here, but this is now bringing back memories (bad
ones!).

How full is your tape pool?  You can set maxscr on the pool to the
number
of tapes you have, and continue with all your tapes inside for a while.
This will eventually defeat the purposes of collocation, as your number
of
filling tapes goes down, and you do not have scratch tapes, or cells to
place them in.  Once you add a frame and tapes, this situation will
resolve itself over time, and you can also hasten it via move data and
move nodedata to reorg some of your client data to better collocate
things.

I have told my Mgmt that having primary volumes outside our tape
libraries
is an unacceptable situation.

Steve Roder
University at Buffalo
(s...@buffalo.edu | (716)645-3564)