Swan Song
I'll be retiring in a few weeks, and just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who participates on this list. I still see posts from some names I've seen since I first joined this list around 1998. I was running Adstar Distributed Storage Manager, Version 2 back then. Once again, thank you all. Doug
Re: Tapes required by backup stgpool
You could look at the last written date, any tape written to since the last backup backup stgpool was completed Should be needed. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Benhayoune Khalid Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 9:35 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Tapes required by backup stgpool Hi everybody, TSM 6.2 on AIX 5.3 Is there any way to determine the primary tapes needed by a backup stgpool command before launching it. Thanks in advance. Regards.
Re: Antwort: [ADSM-L] tsm reclaim of copy pool
It's also possible that a necessary volume was in use by another process or restore. As Ullrich said, run the reclaim again. Or you can use Move data for the volume. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ullrich Mänz Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 11:07 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Antwort: [ADSM-L] tsm reclaim of copy pool Hi Tim, message ANR1163W is issued at the end of an offline reclamation process that ended before all data could be moved to a new copypool tape. Mostly, you'll get this message if the reclamation process was started using duration parameter. You may run the reclamation process again. - And check for messages just before ANR1163W. The data is taken from primary storage pools. best regards Ullrich Mänz Data Center Services FRITZ MACZIOL Software und Computervertrieb GmbH Ludwig Str. 180D, 63067 Offenbach, Germany Mobil +49 170 7678 434 Fax: +49 69 3801 3500 10 Web: http://www.fum.de Amtsgericht Ulm, Handelsregister-Nummer: HRB 1936 Geschäftsführer: Heribert Fritz Inhaber: Imtech N.V., Gouda, Niederlande Von:Tim Brown tbr...@cenhud.com An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU, Datum: 07.02.2013 19:54 Betreff:[ADSM-L] tsm reclaim of copy pool Gesendet von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Shouldn't a reclaim of a copy pool get the data from the corresponding primary pool if all the tapes besides the current one is marked as offsite. Error message during reclaim: ANR1163W Offsite volume A00018L5 still contains files which could not be moved. (SESSION: 3848, PROCESS: 41) A00018L5 status is Full/Offsite. Thanks, Tim Brown Supervisor Computer Operations Central Hudson Gas Electric
Re: Permissions needed for restores
Make sure that theaccount doing the restore has the Manage auditing and security logs user right. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 1:22 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Permissions needed for restores My employer is preparing to upgrade its workstations from Windows XP to Windows 7. According to the people managing the project, federal regulations governing the handling of clinical data will require us to finish the upgrade within the next year or two. We generally do not provide TSM coverage for workstations, but there are about half a dozen Windows XP systems that have TSM coverage because they perform server functions. I have been testing TSM backup and restore operations with a Windows 7 client OS, TSM 6.2.2.0 client software, and a TSM 6.2.2.0 server running under zSeries Linux. As far as I can tell, backups initiated using the central scheduler work fine. I have created a folder for use as a destination for test restores. I have been able to perform command line restores of data backed up from a number of different folders. However, all attempts at command line restores of files originally located in the folder sub-tree beneath 'C:\Program Files' have failed with the message: ANS4973E An error occurred accessing NTFS security information for file '\\vdid1per-0004\c$' On the other hand, I was able to perform a GUI restore of the contents of one of the folders that triggered the above error when a command line restore was attempted. I have found one potentially relevant oddity in the permissions structure. Neither administrators nor the system account have 'Full control' permission for 'C:\Program Files'. Would this account for the behavior described above? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Re: Select or Query help
This information is available from the Client Command line.
dsmc q backup -nodename=bpsnt91 '{\\bpsnt91\c$}\*' -subdir=yes
-fromdate=10/17/2011 -todate=10/17/2011 c:\filelist.txt
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Geoff
Gill
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 9:13 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Select or Query help
Good day all,
Below is a section of a file I was sent. I'm told the person who did this is
long gone and nobody knows what command he used to get it. I was hoping someone
might recognize it and help recreate it since I'm not sure we'll even be able
to contact that person for help.
There are no headers for the columns but they seem obvious. You can see from
the output the date, file://server/drive, file\path and filename. The filename
and data in the file seems to indicate that this command is run to output one
specific dates worth of data of every file a specific node backed up.
If anyone has any siggestions I would be eternally grateful because I'm being
hammered to get an answer so I can run it and get the data.
2011-10-17 \\bpsnt91\c$ \DOCUMENTS AND NTUSER.DAT
02:36:24.00 SETTINGS\AFSADEV\
2011-10-17 \\bpsnt91\c$ \DOCUMENTS AND NTUSER.DAT.LOG
02:36:24.00 SETTINGS\AFSADEV\
2011-10-17 \\bpsnt91\c$ \DOCUMENTS AND NTUSER.INI
02:36:24.00 SETTINGS\AFSADEV\ Thank You Geoff Gill
Re: 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. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 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: TSM 5.5 : NAS share folder backup from TSM client
Check to make sure that the account that the backup client runs under has the following local rights on the server with the share being backed up. Back up files and directories. Restore files and directories. Manage auditing and security logs. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Grant Street Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 2:38 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM 5.5 : NAS share folder backup from TSM client If your running snapdiff https://www-304.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=swg1IC79757 On 17/02/12 04:29, Robert A. Clark wrote: If you haven't already done so, I advise you setup a script to mount the share and run the backup. If this script is 100% successful, then you can look at whether the service is gaining access to the share with the permissions you expect. I've seen situations where the static mount doesn't have the right permissions when accessed by the service. [RC] ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 02/15/2012 10:27:58 PM: Hi , I have a situation where my share folder backup through ba-client fails with ANS5174E A required NT privilege is not held error message. Share folder from NAS server is mounted to a windows 2003 Standard Edition(SP2) server. Profile(tsm domain profile) which is used to perform tsm backup is used to mount the share folder to windows server and it has read write privilege to the share folder. I am able to create delete a file from the share folder using the tsm profile. I am surprised why my backup fails with this error message when I have the needful privilege. Even at the NAS end I have full permission on this particular share folder. I raised a support call and they suggest me to look at the permission in the windows server. I have checked it and it look fine. has any one encountered this issue before, do share me how this can be fixed. Or Do I need to follow the NAS backup approach, if so Can I perform the backup through LAN instead of attaching a tape drive to NAS server. below are my environment details Server -- TSM server (5.5.5.0) in AIX (6100-04-01-0944). Client -- TSM ba-client (5.5.2.12) in Windows 2003 Standard edition (SP2) NAS server -- QNAP TS-809U-RP Turbo Regards, Rajesh Lakshminarayanan If you are not the intended addressee, please inform us immediately that you have received this e-mail in error, and delete it. We thank you for your cooperation.
Re: Best way to check size of TSM Client ?
If you're still running Version 5 clients, just use the GUI to select the drive or sub folder you want to know about and click on estimate. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Horst Scherzer Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 1:47 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Best way to check size of TSM Client ? Am 15.02.2012 10:38, schrieb Minns, Farren - Chichester: Hi All, What is the best way to get a list of all client nodes and how much disk space would be required for a rebuild? I'm not looking for the total amount of data in backup, but how much data each client actually has on it (roughly) currently? Farren John Wiley Sons Limited is a private limited company registered in England with registered number 641132. Registered office address: The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom. PO19 8SQ. export node xx.yy.zz filed=backup preview=yes for each node should do the job Hth, -- Horst SCHERZER e-Mail: horst.scher...@univie.ac.at Vienna University Computer Center Phone: (+43 1) 4 277 x14053 Ebendorferstraße 10 Cellular: (+43) 0664/60 277 14053 A-1010 Wien/Vienna Fax:(+43 1) 4 277 x9140 Oesterreich/Austria URL: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.scherzer
Re: Deleting STG POOL
Try running an audit volume on each of the volumes. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 12:50 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Deleting STG POOL I'm confident they're empty; just trying to prove it before I delete. CONTENT isn't providing anything, and I can display content of volumes in other pools. Q VOL name FORMAT=DETAILED indicates Pct Util =0 Volume status =Full Pct reclaimable space = 100 Not in error state DEL VOL name DISCARD=NO should be a safe command. If the volume contains files, the volume will not be deleted. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 1:47 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Deleting STG POOL Eventhough they don't show any content, you could always do a delete volume ... discarddata=yes for each volume. From: Vandeventer, Harold [BS] harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 01/20/2012 02:17 PM Subject:[ADSM-L] Deleting STG POOL Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU The goal: delete a storage pool. I've migrated a storage pool to a new pool. Three volumes remain in the pool, such as H:\ DSKT07P\11BF.BFS, which disallow the delete. % Util on them is 0; status is full. Q CONTENT H:\DSKT07P\11BF.BFS returns ANR2034E QUERY CONTENT: No match found using this criteria. Same result for the other two volumes. Q CONTENT volumename against the new pool does display files. I believe that means the volumes on the old pool are in fact empty and I can delete them individually. Correct? 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: disabe/enable a sched via command line
You could update the start date or expiration date. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary D. Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 10:23 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: disabe/enable a sched via command line The closest thing I can come up with is Disable server But this prevents all client connections. To disable schedules, add the line Disablescheds yes To the dsmserv.opt file, then restart the server. When you want to restart schedules, comment out the line, and restart the tsm server again. 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 Tyree, David Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 1:05 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] disabe/enable a sched via command line I'm trying to figure out to enable and disable client schedules from the command line. I've looked over the online help and elsewhere but no luck. If the command was for an admin sched I would do update sched something type=admin active=yes/no . But I don't see a similar command for client schedules. thanks David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155
Re: Ang: Re: [ADSM-L] vtl versus file systems for pirmary pool
Here's an article on the odds of a collision occurring in a hash only environment for Anyone who is interested in more information. http://www.backupcentral.com/mr-backup-blog-mainmenu-47/13-mr-backup-blog/145-de-dupe-hash-collisions.html -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Daniel Sparrman Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 7:19 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Ang: Re: [ADSM-L] Ang: Re: [ADSM-L] vtl versus file systems for pirmary pool I have customers who during an audit sees the object count go from 0 to +2 billion and then starts counting backwards with a - (that was during TSM 5.5) several times. So no, it's not bullocks. I did however mean million (as in, several billion) so a mistake from my side there. Some of those customers also hit the technical limit during 5.5 for the database size (524GB) on several of their TSM instances. Thus having even more instances of TSM today. Sorry for the mistake saying billion and not million. As for how much objects they actually have in each TSM instance, it's fairly hard to tell since there is no possibility to do a select on contents for example to count the amount of objects. Those kind of SQL statements just hangs. And like I said, during the last audit we did on one of the TSM instances, it went up to 21 objects and then started counting backwards several times so we actually have no clue about the exact amount of objects in that database. Regards Daniel Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Växel: 08-754 98 00 Fax: 08-754 97 30 daniel.sparr...@exist.se http://www.existgruppen.se Posthusgatan 1 761 30 NORRTÄLJE -ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU skrev: - Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Från: Ben Bullock Sänt av: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Datum: 10/06/2011 16:11 Ärende: Re: [ADSM-L] Ang: Re: [ADSM-L] vtl versus file systems for pirmary pool Ok, I have been following this thread with some interest, since I have a dedupe appliance. From the conversation, I've come to the conclusion that Daniel is a very cautious administrator who would like to eliminate any risk of data loss. Don't we all, it's a noble and worthwhile endeavor. All the discussed options are worthwhile if you are concerned about hash collisions (copypools, Async replication, reuse delay, etc) At some point in the pursuit, you get to the point where there are diminishing returns and it is not worth the money to eliminate the next .01% probability of failure. Everyone will have a different stopping point. We get it. I think we have beat this horse within an inch of its life. But I gotta ask... Daniel, you said but I've got several TSM customers who have several thousands of billions of objects. Are you telling us that someone has a TSM server with multiple ~TRILLIONS~ of objects backed up? Is that hyperbole or truth? Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Daniel Sparrman Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 3:26 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Ang: Re: [ADSM-L] vtl versus file systems for pirmary pool Hi Remco Not sure if you're talking about hardware de-dup or TSM de-dup (which is using a larger block size due to the load) but: Relatively small? I've only seen it happen once, but then I live in a relatively small market since I live in Sweden. So you're telling me (based on facts) that this haven't happened elsewhere? I seriously have to disagree. In my opinion, it think it's more likley that others that had this issue have decided to keep it in the dark. Sweden is a relatively small market, and the odds that it would have happened here, but nowhere else, is quite small. Not sure about the size or anything in your TSM comparison, but I've got several TSM customers who have several thousands of billions of objects ... And like I said, if it's a chance of 1000.000.000.000 it's much more likely to hit you at 1000.000. It's not a quota that needs to be filled before it hits you. It's a random chance. And, alike the customer I had who got it, if it's a very common block geting that hash conflict, yes, it will hit you badly since every file that contains that block will be invalid. I do agree about your comment about TSM v6 though, I'd consider it very stable, I'd actually (today, with the amount of checking being done) consider it more stable than still being at version 5.5 Regards Daniel Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Växel: 08-754 98 00 Fax: 08-754 97 30 daniel.sparr...@exist.se http://www.existgruppen.se Posthusgatan 1 761 30 NORRTÄLJE -ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU skrev: - Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Från: Remco Post Sänt av: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Datum: 10/05/2011 21:11 Ärende: Re: [ADSM-L] vtl versus file systems for pirmary pool Hi, I saw last week that about half of the people visiting the TSM Symposium were running V6, it's
TSM Compatbility between windows 32 bit and windows 64 bit instances.
Does anyone know if a database backup created from a server instance running on a Window 64 bit system be restored to an instance running on a windows 32 bit system? Assuming both server are running the same TSM version and patch level.
Re: Problem running a script from TSM client
Make sure the account the TSM Scheduler is running under has permissions to run The script. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Kirk S. Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 1:45 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Problem running a script from TSM client Morning, I'm new to this list and pretty new to TSM also, so please let me know if there is any additional information required. We appear to be having a problem running a powershell script from the postschedulecmd of the client on a windows 2003 server. The powershell script runs absolutely fine when run from the command line and returns an exit code of 0 up completion. When trying to run the same command the postschedulecmd, it appears to finish with a return code of 1 and does not run to the extent that so far no logs have been generated by the script when run in this method - it normally logs pretty much every action. Any pointers as to what could be causing this? Is a reduced environment set up to run a command such as this? We are using the dsmcad scheduler, TSM Backup-Archive Client Version 6, Release 1, Level 0.0. Thanks very much, Steve
Import Node
Is it possible to export a node, then import the node back to a Different domain on the same server. If so, will inactive versions of files with no active version be controlled by the policy of the new domain?
Re: Asking for suggestions to eliminate tapes from our operations.
You might do some research on hosting.com I think they might provide the type of service that you are looking for. This is not a recommendation, I just happened to see them at a symposium a couple of weeks ago, Don't know if they are good or not. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of yoda woya Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:03 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Asking for suggestions to eliminate tapes from our operations. Our long-term goal is to get rid of tapes altogether. Currently we utilize IBM TSM 5.4 to backup nodes to a disk based storage pool. We then backup the storage pool to LTO3 tapes, which are latter vaulted offsite. We would like to backup the storage pool directly to an offsite disk based solution and eliminate tapes completely. We are interested in an outsourced solution as we are not interested in buying/managing additional disk arrays. If you have or know of a solution that could address this need, please do not hesitate to let me know.
Re: Restore question
You can start dsm or dsmc using the virtualnodename option to run as the powered off node dsmc -virtualnodename=Nodename -password=password -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Avy Wong Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 7:02 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Restore question Hello, Is it possible to restore a file from the backups of a box that is powered off? The old node is still registered on tivoli, it has not been removed yet and subsequently all its backups. They want the file to be restored into the new box. I appreciate your help. Avy Wong Business Continuity Administrator Mohegan Sun 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd Uncasville, CT 06382 (860)862-8164 (cell) (860)961-6976 The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copy of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer.
Re: TDP for SQL vs SQL dumps
That's the way or DBA prefers it. He schedules the dumps with the database tools, and I just back up the dump files. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 12:05 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TDP for SQL vs SQL dumps I was talking about backups with a couple of our DBAs and they mentioned using SQL scripts on the server to export the database and then use the regular TSM client to backup the exported file instead of using the TDP. They suggested building a server with a bunch of shares, one share for each of our SQL servers. Then go into each of the SQL servers and set up a script that dumps the database to share that was created for it. The dump location would have the regular TSM client running to catch all the incoming SQL files. The DBAs did some db dumps and also some log dumps as well and were able to restore them back into the server and they seemed happy with the process. Is there anything I'm missing here? It seems like a reasonable idea to me. David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 Confidential Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
Re: why create a 12TB LUN
OK, I think I have you all beat on the early high tech front. Commodore VIC-20 with a whopping 5K memory, and a cassette player for storage. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Steven Langdale Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 3:46 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: why create a 12TB LUN Well If we're taking a trip down memory lane, I had an original IBM AT built like a tank! I used it up until a few years ago in the garage as a big step to get in the loft space. Steven Langdale Global Information Services EAME Storage Planning and Implementation CITA Backup Recovery Architect ( Phone : +44 (0)1733 584175 ( Mob: +44 (0)7876 216782 ü Conference: +44 (0)208 609 7400 Code: 331817 + Email: steven.langd...@cat.com Jacques Van Den Berg jvandenb...@pnp.co.za Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 28/05/2010 09:40 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] why create a 12TB LUN Caterpillar: Confidential Green Retain Until: 27/06/2010 Had an original IBM 4.77MHz in 1991. 640KB Main memory. 360K Floppy drive a 10MB Hard drive. Kind Regards, Jacques van den Berg TSM / Storage / SAP Basis Administrator Pick 'n Pay IT Email : jvandenb...@pnp.co.za Tel : +2721 - 658 1711 Fax : +2721 - 658 1676 Mobile : +2782 - 653 8164 Dis altyd lente in die hart van die mens wat God en sy medemens liefhet (John Vianney). -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Skylar Thompson Sent: 27 May 2010 10:16 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] why create a 12TB LUN I'm around there too. 20MB Seagate MFM drive in an Epson QX-16. This was actually a dual-processor system (8088 for DOS and Z80 for Epson's CPM clone TPM). I had fired it up just for the heck of it a few years ago and it came up without problems. They don't make 'em like they used to. On 05/27/10 13:04, David McClelland wrote: I can beat than - I have a 20MB 'Winchester' HDD inside a working original Compaq Deskpro 8086 from c 1985. Fired her up last week for some photos, still works a treat. (No TSM client for it though...) /DMc Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: Strand, Neil B.nbstr...@leggmason.com Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 14:45:51 To:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] why create a 12TB LUN Gill, This sounds like an interesting environment. Could you share some of the particulars such as what storage device is providing the LUN, what server OS is using the LUN and what the general reason was for choosing the LUN? Historical note - My first hard disk in my home PC was 20GB Thank you, Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 7:04 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] why create a 12TB LUN I'm guessing many of you will find this quite odd, I know I did, but I had someone come to me and say they were going to ask for a 12TB LUN and wanted to back it up. Without even mentioning the product they want to use, obviously not TSM though, and I'm not even sure it would make difference, how would you manage to get a 12TB LUN backed up daily. I would expect it to be at least 75% full if not more, and even without knowing what percentage of data changes on it, it would seem to me the request seems strange. They're thinking of getting a VTL and backing up through fiber direct, not across the network, but no idea which one or what sort of throughput to expect. Have any of you been approached with this sort of request and if so what was your response? I'm sort of dumbfounded at this point since I've not heard or seen this anywhere. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM/PeopleSoft Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P 4224 Campus Pt. Ct. San Diego, CA 92121 (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) IMPORTANT: E-mail sent through the Internet is not secure. Legg Mason therefore recommends that you do not send any confidential or sensitive information to us via electronic mail, including social security numbers, account numbers, or personal identification numbers. Delivery, and or timely delivery of Internet mail is not guaranteed. Legg Mason therefore recommends that you do not send time sensitive or action-oriented messages to us via electronic mail. This message is intended for the addressee only and may contain privileged or confidential information. Unless you are the intended recipient, you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone any information contained in this message. If you have received this message in error, please
Re: Windows 2000 client
This is the latest Windows 2000 client ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client /v5r4/Windows/Win2000/
Re: Does TSM Have a way to Automatically Determine How many CPUS
I found a freeware utility called WinAudit.exe It collects system information on Windows Servers, including processor information. It took me about 20 minutes to automate the collection on all my clients using a simple batch file run from my workstation. The utility collects a huge amount of info, but has switches to limit what it collects, and can output in text, Html, CSV etc. Here is a sample from the output: The first section of the output (System Overview) shows the number of processors. (Two on this server) -- | Item | Value | -- | Computer Name | X | | Domain Name | X | | Site Name | X | | Roles | Workstation, Server, Non-Domain Controller Server, Backup Browser | | Description | - | | Operating System | Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition 32-Bit | | Manufacturer | HP | | Model | ProLiant DL380 G4 | | Serial Number | | | Asset Tag | | | Number Of Processors | 2 | | Processor Description | Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz | | Total Memory | 3072MB | | Total Hard Drive | 437GB | | Display | Minicom LTD Smart Plus, 15.7 (32cm x 24cm) | | BIOS Version | HP - 2 | | User Account | | | System Uptime | 57 Days, 8 Hours, 16 Minutes | | Local Time| 2010-05-06 10:20:00 | -- Then in the Detailed Information Section, it tells how many Logical processors and how many cores for each processor. Detailed Information | Item | Value | | Processor Number | 1 | | Logical Processors | 2 | | Number Cores | 1 | | Vendor String| GenuineIntel | | Family | 15| | Model| 4 | | Stepping | 1 |
Re: SV: [ADSM-L] define drive without defining a library
DEFINE LIBRARY LIBNANE LIBTYPE=MANUAL DEFINE DRIVE LIBNAME DRIVENAME DEFINE PATH SERVERNAME DRIVENAME srctype=server desttype=drive library=LIBENAME DEVICE=MT#.#.#.# -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mehdi Salehi Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 11:44 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SV: [ADSM-L] define drive without defining a library the problem of a manual library is that there is no medium changer and so you cannot define a path to the library. correct me if I am mistaken: 1- define library 2- define path for library 3- define drive 4- define path for drive
Re: Move data from copystgpool volumes to a new copystgpool
One way is to define a new copy pool using the LT04 and then backup your storage pools to The new pool. When done, you can delete the old volumes. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Moyer, Joni M Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 12:20 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Move data from copystgpool volumes to a new copystgpool Hello everyone, I will be changing from LTO2 media to LTO4 media in the near future and I would like to get the already existing LTO2 offsite copy storage pool volumes moved to new LTO4 media. How would I go about doing this? Thanks in advance! Joni Moyer Storage Administrator III (717)302-9966 joni.mo...@highmark.com This e-mail and any attachments to it are confidential and are intended solely for use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not keep, use, disclose, copy or distribute this e-mail without the author's prior permission. The views expressed in this e-mail message do not necessarily represent the views of Highmark Inc., its subsidiaries, or affiliates.
Re: Problems backing up CIFS
Try running the Scheduler service under the same account that you use to sign on when you are able to successfully manually run the backup. It that works It's a permissions issue. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Huebschman, George J. Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 11:37 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Problems backing up CIFS Greetings all, Please hold your snorts of mirth until the end of my e-mail. I am having a strange problem backing up a CIFS share (on an out of support OS and an out of support client). Client OS - Windows 2000 SP4 TSM Client - 5.1.5.0 TSM Sever OS AIX 5.3.0.0 TSM Server 5.5.1.0 Last Friday a client began failing its backup. The only really significant item in the dsmerror.log is this item referencing a CIFS share: 12/23/2009 03:18:03 ANS1228E Sending of object '\\filer00\CIFSname' failed 12/23/2009 03:18:03 ANS1063E Invalid path specification It is configured the same way as other clients in our environment that backkup CIFS are configured, the share is referenced as a domain entry in the dsm.opt file: DOMAIN \\filer00\CIFSname I can map to that location from the client server. I can map to that location from my workstation and other servers. I can perform manual backups of that share from the client server. I have stopped and restarted the TSM Scheduler Service (not using the CAD). We did an ipconfig /flushdns. I could try upgrading the client, but we have a change freeze until after the holidays. I would prefer to figure out what is wrong. Happy Holidays George Huebschman Storage Support Team, Media Librarian Legg Mason, LMTS Please plant a tree before printing this e-mail, and remember, E-Mail is forever ...but Diamonds are a girl's best friend. IMPORTANT: E-mail sent through the Internet is not secure. Legg Mason therefore recommends that you do not send any confidential or sensitive information to us via electronic mail, including social security numbers, account numbers, or personal identification numbers. Delivery, and or timely delivery of Internet mail is not guaranteed. Legg Mason therefore recommends that you do not send time sensitive or action-oriented messages to us via electronic mail. This message is intended for the addressee only and may contain privileged or confidential information. Unless you are the intended recipient, you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone any information contained in this message. If you have received this message in error, please notify the author by replying to this message and then kindly delete the message. Thank you.
Re: Never ending reclamation process
Update reclamation to a high value, then cancel the process. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu]on Behalf Of Mario Behring Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 1:09 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Never ending reclamation process Hi list, I have a reclamation process that is running for several days nowsome Einstein ran the command at the CLI using a 5% value for the threshold. Now the process never ends and looks like it is really doing notthingexcept keeping the 2 drives busy and not letting any backup schedules run... I´ve already tried to cancel the process, halting the serverthe first cannot stop it and stays pending, the latter stops it, but as soon as the server comes up, the reclamation starts again Any help is appreciated. Mario
Re: Backup error I can't find What to do for.
Did you check the DSMSCHED.LOG on the client? Looks like the error occurred during the system state backup. I have seen these occasionally, but so far they haven't been persistent errors. Sometimes caused by a hiccup with the volume shadow copy service. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu]on Behalf Of Lee, Gary D. Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:27 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Backup error I can't find What to do for. Tsm server 5.4.4 on Suse sles9 under zvm 5.3. Client windows xp running tsm client 5.4.2. I get the following messages, and the help text for ANS1931 says correct the command. Sorry kids, no command issued, this is a standard scheduled incremental backup By the way, nothing whatsoever in the server log. Any ideas where to look next? Messages follow. 18:41:56 ANS1228E Sending of object 'C:' failed 18:41:56 ANS1931E An error saving one or more eventlogs. Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University phone: 765-285-1310
Re: Copypool using more tapes then primary tapepool
Issue a query occupancy, and send the output to a spreadsheet. You can figure out how much data is in each of your storage pools. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu]on Behalf Of Huebschman, George J. Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 1:48 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Copypool using more tapes then primary tapepool Are all the tapes in the copy pool library as full as in the primary pool? The tapes may not completely fill before the backup copy pool operation completes. Running more than one process, each process is going to open a tape. Those tapes may not fill completely. We send tapes physically offsite daily and that is an issue for us. We have a hard time threshold where tapes are ejected each day. Some tapes leave with very low utilization and are quickly reclaimed. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Larry Peifer Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 4:39 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Copypool using more tapes then primary tapepool Why are we using more tapes in the copypool library vs the primary tape library? There is a 6 - 9 tape difference between the copypool and the primary tape pool. We average ~500 GB per tape so that's 1.5 - 4.5 TB of data. It doesn't seem like there should be that much of a discrepancy. There is both backup data and archive data mixed on the tapes and the DbBackups are taken into account. We have 2 identically configured IBM 3584 tape libraries. On a daily basis our disk pools are migrated (migrate stgpool diskpool lo=0) to the primary tape pool. Then a daily schedule (backup stgpool tapepool6 tapepool7 maxprocess=4) is run to keep everything equal between the 2 tape libraries. Daily expiration and reclamation processes finish fine. Schedules report successful completion daily. Running TSM Server 5.4 with AIX 5.3 on p520 server. LTO2 tapes with HW compression Storage Pool configurations: Storage Pool Name: DISKPOOL Storage Pool Type: Primary Device Class Name: DISK Estimated Capacity: 2,400 G Space Trigger Util: 0.4 Pct Util: 0.4 Pct Migr: 0.4 Pct Logical: 100.0 High Mig Pct: 90 Low Mig Pct: 70 Migration Delay: 0 Migration Continue: Yes Migration Processes: 4 Reclamation Processes: Next Storage Pool: TAPEPOOL6 Reclaim Storage Pool: Maximum Size Threshold: No Limit Access: Read/Write Description: Main Disk Storage Pool Overflow Location: Cache Migrated Files?: No Collocate?: Reclamation Threshold: Offsite Reclamation Limit: Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed: Number of Scratch Volumes Used: Delay Period for Volume Reuse: Migration in Progress?: No Amount Migrated (MB): 1,235,496.70 Elapsed Migration Time (seconds): 9,284 Reclamation in Progress?: Last Update by (administrator): admin Last Update Date/Time: 08/24/07 09:50:37 Storage Pool Data Format: Native Copy Storage Pool(s): Active Data Pool(s): Continue Copy on Error?: Yes CRC Data: No Reclamation Type: Overwrite Data when Deleted: Storage Pool Name: TAPEPOOL6 Storage Pool Type: Primary Device Class Name: LTOCLASS6 Estimated Capacity: 121,841 G Space Trigger Util: Pct Util: 32.9 Pct Migr: 47.0 Pct Logical: 99.3 High Mig Pct: 90 Low Mig Pct: 70 Migration Delay: 0 Migration Continue: Yes Migration Processes: 2 Reclamation Processes: 2 Next Storage Pool: Reclaim Storage Pool: Maximum Size Threshold: No Limit Access: Read/Write Description: Primary Sequential Tape Overflow Location: Cache Migrated Files?: Collocate?: No Reclamation Threshold: 100 Offsite Reclamation Limit: Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed: 300 Number of Scratch Volumes Used: 152 Delay Period for Volume Reuse: 3 Day(s) Migration in Progress?: No Amount Migrated (MB): 0.00 Elapsed Migration Time (seconds): 0 Reclamation in Progress?: No Last Update by (administrator): admin Last Update Date/Time: 04/07/09 14:06:34 Storage Pool Data Format: Native Copy Storage Pool(s): Active Data Pool(s): Continue Copy on Error?: Yes CRC Data: Yes Reclamation Type: Threshold Overwrite Data when Deleted: Storage Pool Name: TAPEPOOL7 Storage Pool Type: Copy Device Class Name: LTOCLASS7 Estimated Capacity: 120,330 G Space Trigger Util: Pct Util: 32.3 Pct Migr: Pct Logical: 99.3 High Mig Pct: Low Mig Pct: Migration Delay: Migration Continue: Yes Migration Processes: Reclamation Processes: 2 Next Storage Pool: Reclaim Storage Pool: Maximum Size Threshold: Access: Read/Write Description: Copy Pool Overflow Location: Cache Migrated Files?: Collocate?: No Reclamation Threshold: 100 Offsite Reclamation Limit: No Limit Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed: 300 Number of Scratch Volumes Used: 157 Delay Period for Volume Reuse: 3 Day(s) Migration in Progress?: Amount Migrated (MB): Elapsed Migration Time (seconds): Reclamation in Progress?: Yes Last Update by (administrator): admin Last Update Date/Time: 12/14/07 13:56:37 Storage Pool Data Format: Native Copy Storage Pool(s): Active Data Pool(s): Continue Copy on Error?: CRC Data: No
Re: TSM and single LTO2 drive
Yes you can, see Reclaiming Volumes in a Storage Pool with One Drive in the Admin Guide. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu]on Behalf Of Jerome Alet Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 2:52 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM and single LTO2 drive Hi, I'd like to know if it's possible to use TSM in an environment with only a single LTO2 tape drive and a few TB of hard disk space. In particular I'd like to know how tape reclamation could be done, or if it can be done at all. Thanks in advance Jerome Alet
Re: TSM and single LTO2 drive
John, I think you meant to reply to Jerome, My message was just pointing him to the Admin Guide. Doug -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu]on Behalf Of Schneider, John Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 3:25 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM and single LTO2 drive Doug, I set up a TSM environment at a remote office with a desktop PC as the server and a single 8MM tape drive as the only tape, and about 200GB of disk space (not that I am recommending this as design goal, mind you!). It backed up 6 servers each night, and I had a secretary in that office who received the requests for tape mounts during the day for the backup stgpools and reclamations. I set up an icon on her desktop which would bring up the administrator's window in -console mode so she could see the mount requests. So yes, it can be done, but it takes somebody willing to swap multiple tapes during the day. One thing I would suggest is that you don't use a scratch pool. If you do it that way, then your tape operator has to go looking at your storage pools every day to figure out which tapes are now scratches, because TSM will ask the operator to mount a scratch tape. Instead, label your tapes and then define them into the storage pool you want them in. I have found that makes it much easier for your tape operator to do her job. TSM always asks for a specific tape to be mounted, instead of asking for a scratch tape, and the tape operator just does what she is requested to do, without having to understand a lot about the process. Having said that, are you sure you can't afford a smallish tape library with more than one drive in it? They really aren't that expensive, are they? If you consider your tape operator's time, it should be possible to justify a small tape library. Best Regards, John D. Schneider Phone: 314-364-3150 Cell: 314-750-8721 Email: john.schnei...@mercy.net -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Thorneycroft, Doug Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 4:59 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM and single LTO2 drive Yes you can, see Reclaiming Volumes in a Storage Pool with One Drive in the Admin Guide. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu]on Behalf Of Jerome Alet Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 2:52 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM and single LTO2 drive Hi, I'd like to know if it's possible to use TSM in an environment with only a single LTO2 tape drive and a few TB of hard disk space. In particular I'd like to know how tape reclamation could be done, or if it can be done at all. Thanks in advance Jerome Alet This e-mail contains information which (a) may be PROPRIETARY IN NATURE OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED BY LAW FROM DISCLOSURE, and (b) is intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the addressee, or the person responsible for delivering this to the addressee(s), you are notified that reading, copying or distributing this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact the sender immediately.
Re: Query Backup syntax for Windows 5.2 Client
Andy, Today everything is working as it should. Yesterday, when I shut down my machine, it seemed to be hanging. I opened task manager and found several cmd.exe processes sitting there that I had to force. I don't know if there was something going on with one of these sessions that was messing with me, or if more likely, I was just a little brain dead, and kept inserting typo's into the command line. For now, I'll just pretend that it was the machine and not me. Thanks for the help. Doug -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu]on Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 11:58 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Query Backup syntax for Windows 5.2 Client OK... so that shows it can be made to work, but I'm still puzzled why the batch mode does not work. It would be interesting to see the results of the query when you run from both batch mode and loop mode (complete copy paste of the output, not just selected lines; except for lots lots of file entries on successful query, the entire list is not necessary). Best regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development Level 3 Team Lead Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/i...@ibmus Internet e-mail: stor...@us.ibm.com IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManager.html The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 03/02/2009 01:55:12 PM: [image removed] Re: Query Backup syntax for Windows 5.2 Client Thorneycroft, Doug to: ADSM-L 03/02/2009 02:06 PM Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Andy, Thanks Andy, it works if I start dsmc first, the run the query -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu]on Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 10:34 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Query Backup syntax for Windows 5.2 Client Hi Doug, I'm not sure why you are seeing what you are seeing. It should work. Try running dsmc -nod=ct100. Once you are in the TSM command prompt, do a QUERY SESSION to make sure the node name in session is indeed CT100. Next, do a q fi command to see if the \\ct120 shares show up. If they do, try q ba \\ct120\ -su=y to see if *any* files show up. What version of the client was used to back up the \\ct120 files? Was it a later version than 5.2? Best regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development Level 3 Team Lead Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/i...@ibmus Internet e-mail: stor...@us.ibm.com IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/ IBMTivoliStorageManager.html The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 03/02/2009 01:02:02 PM: [image removed] Re: Query Backup syntax for Windows 5.2 Client Thorneycroft, Doug to: ADSM-L 03/02/2009 01:06 PM Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Andy, I tried your suggestions with the same results. I'm running the commands from my desktop, not from the server that is performing the backup. That is why I'm using the - nodename option. (the client level is the same on both machines) I went to source machine (CT100) and the command worked fine, for both the drive local to CT100 and the remote share backed up by CT100. So, for some reason, when using the -nodename option, I can only view the drives that were local to node I'm working with when using the Cli, but if I start the GUI, with the -nodename option, I can work with them all. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu]on Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 9:42 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Query Backup syntax for Windows 5.2 Client Ah, I reread the original post, and I see it is necessary to use the -nodename option in this case. :-) Best regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development Level 3 Team Lead Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/i...@ibmus Internet e-mail: stor...@us.ibm.com IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/ IBMTivoliStorageManager.html The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Query Backup syntax for Windows 5.2 Client
Hello,
I'm trying to issue a query backup for a filespace that is backed up as a UNC,
and can't
get the syntax right. The filespace is a shared drive on a remote drive using
the UNC in the domain
statement.
Backup is run on Node CT100 the share I'm trying to query is on CT120
the domain statement for CT100 is:
DOMain ALL-LOCAL
DOMain \\ct120\apps
DOMain \\ct120\images
When I run
dsmc q backup -nodename=CT100 '{\\CT100\d$}*.*' Everything works fine
When I run\
dsmc q backup -nodename=CT100 '{\\CT120\ct120\apps}*.*'
or
dsmc q backup -nodename=CT100 '{\\CT120\\ct120\apps}*.*'
I get ANS1081E Invalid search file specification
There is no problem viewing or restoring the files from the GUI, I just
can't get the command line syntax right.
Re: Query Backup syntax for Windows 5.2 Client
Andy, Thanks Andy, it works if I start dsmc first, the run the query -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu]on Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 10:34 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Query Backup syntax for Windows 5.2 Client Hi Doug, I'm not sure why you are seeing what you are seeing. It should work. Try running dsmc -nod=ct100. Once you are in the TSM command prompt, do a QUERY SESSION to make sure the node name in session is indeed CT100. Next, do a q fi command to see if the \\ct120 shares show up. If they do, try q ba \\ct120\ -su=y to see if *any* files show up. What version of the client was used to back up the \\ct120 files? Was it a later version than 5.2? Best regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development Level 3 Team Lead Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/i...@ibmus Internet e-mail: stor...@us.ibm.com IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManager.html The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 03/02/2009 01:02:02 PM: [image removed] Re: Query Backup syntax for Windows 5.2 Client Thorneycroft, Doug to: ADSM-L 03/02/2009 01:06 PM Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Andy, I tried your suggestions with the same results. I'm running the commands from my desktop, not from the server that is performing the backup. That is why I'm using the - nodename option. (the client level is the same on both machines) I went to source machine (CT100) and the command worked fine, for both the drive local to CT100 and the remote share backed up by CT100. So, for some reason, when using the -nodename option, I can only view the drives that were local to node I'm working with when using the Cli, but if I start the GUI, with the -nodename option, I can work with them all. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu]on Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 9:42 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Query Backup syntax for Windows 5.2 Client Ah, I reread the original post, and I see it is necessary to use the -nodename option in this case. :-) Best regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development Level 3 Team Lead Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/i...@ibmus Internet e-mail: stor...@us.ibm.com IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/ IBMTivoliStorageManager.html The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 03/02/2009 12:31:39 PM: [image removed] Re: Query Backup syntax for Windows 5.2 Client Andrew Raibeck to: ADSM-L 03/02/2009 12:34 PM Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager How about this? dsmc q ba \\ct120\apps\ -nod=ct100 Hints: a) Put your hyphenated options at the end of the command, e.g., after the file spec as in my example above. b) If you mean all files, use * instead of *.*. Otherwise *.* will include only those files that have an extenstion. For example, a file named \\ct120\apps\somefile will not be displayed when using *.*. c) If you mean all files, you can omit the * altogether, and just end the file spec with the backslash (as in my example above). d) You only need -nodename if you need to override the client options file (or default) nodename. Best regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development Level 3 Team Lead Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/i...@ibmus Internet e-mail: stor...@us.ibm.com IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/ IBMTivoliStorageManager.html The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 03/02/2009 12:14:32 PM: [image removed] Query Backup syntax for Windows 5.2 Client Thorneycroft, Doug to: ADSM-L 03/02/2009 12:21 PM Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Hello, I'm trying to issue a query backup for a filespace that is backed up as a UNC, and can't get the syntax right. The filespace is a shared drive on a remote drive using the UNC
Re: Quality alternative to VMware's Virtual Consolidated Backup?
If you don't want to use the consolidate backup, you can install a client on each virtual machine, and treat is the same way you treat a real physical client. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 8:15 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Quality alternative to VMware's Virtual Consolidated Backup? Anyone know of an alternative method of backing up VMs, with the ability to run file-level or full VM backups? A product, scripting, anything? God bless you!!! Chip Bell Network Engineer I IBM Tivoli Certified Deployment Professional (ITSM) Baptist Health System Birmingham, AL - Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this email message is privileged and confidential information and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named in the address. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this information is strictly prohibited. If you received this information in error, please notify the sender and delete this information from your computer and retain no copies of any of this information.
Re: Labelling mass volume of tapes with Label Libvol
Use the search=yes option -LABEl LIBVolume--library_name +-volume_name---+ '-SEARCH--=--+-Yes--+---+-+--LABELSource--=--+-Barcode+-' | '-| A |-' | +-Prompt-+ '-Bulk---' '-Vollist--| B |-' .-OVERWRITE--=--No--. --+-+--+---+-- '-CHECKIN--=--+-SCRatch-+-' '-OVERWRITE--=--+-No--+-' '-PRIvate-''-Yes-' -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Collyer Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 7:36 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Labelling mass volume of tapes with Label Libvol Hi, I have a new TS3500 library with 2500 scratch tapes. I'm running a LABEL LIBVOL command within TSM 5.5.1.1 but unfortunately it is labelling one tape at a time. I'm using the barcode as the source. Is there a way to label more than one tape at a time? It's a good waste of time and plenty of drives! Thanks. Andrew - Find out about our efforts to create gardens in Yorkshire's primary schools using a million green fingers by following this link: http://greenfingers.yorkshirewater.com/ The information in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged. The contents are intended for recipient only and are subject to the legal notice available at http://www.keldagroup.com/email.htm Yorkshire Water Services Limited Registered Office Western House Halifax Road Bradford BD6 2SZ Registered in England and Wales No 2366682
IBM Mainframe Client?
Is there such a beast as an IBM Mainframe client (VM) that will backup to a Windows TSM Server?
Re: Scheduling client backups
You can set up an admin schedule, or a bat file to run on Mondays that issues the following command: update schedule domain-name schedule-name Dayofweek=weekday Then on Thursday, run update schedule domain-name schedule-name Dayofweek=thu -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lee, Gary D. Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:38 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Scheduling client backups Looked at admin reference, and help define schedule. V5.2.10 must not support enhanced client schedules. No sign of enhanced anywhere. Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University phone: 765-285-1310
Re: TSM Database 83.5 % Full
Look up define dbvolume in the Admin guide -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Yee, Julie Y. Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:56 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM Database 83.5 % Full Can you give me the exact command for define a new db volume?? How do I migrate the existing DB vol(D:\database\db1.dsm) to the new db vol?? Do you have any detail steps of how to?? Thanks! -JYY -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:50 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Database 83.5 % Full Yes, you must ALWAYS define either a new DB or LOG volume before you can EXTEND/use them. Yee, Julie Y. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 10/28/2008 03:24 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject [ADSM-L] TSM Database 83.5 % Full I got this message from daily report. TSM Database 83.5 % full Copy 1 on D:\database\db1.dsm30 GB Copy 2 on F:\database\dbcopydb1.dsm 30 GB Copy 1 on D:\databased###.dbv7.5 GB Copy 2 on F:\database\databased###.dbv 7.5 GB q spacetrigger db f=d got the following output: DB full Percentage: 90 DB space expansion percentage: 25 DB expansion prefix: d:\database DB Maximum size (Megabytes): 0 Mirror prefix 1: f:\database Mirror prefix 2: Only 4 GB of space left on D drive. 3.5 GB of space left on F drive. How do I Extend DB ?? Do I need to define db volume first?? Please advice!
Re: window OS, SP version and TSM client version
select node_name as node, CLIENT_OS_LEVEL as OSVer, client_version as v, client_release as r, client_level as l, client_sublevel as sl from nodes order by v,r,l,sl c:\Outputfilename.txt -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Avy Wong Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 12:08 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: window OS, SP version and TSM client version Hello, Is there anyway I can run a select statement to capture the node names, TSM client version, Window OS and SP version? I see vss error popping out more than usual, and I want to determine the SP version on the Window boxes without logging into each box to find out. Thank you for y our help. Avy Wong Business Continuity Administrator Mohegan Sun 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd Uncasville, CT 06382 (860)862-8164 (cell) (860)961-6976
Re: window OS, SP version and TSM client version
I don't think that Tivoli digs any deeper than the base level. there are windows scripts that will return that info. You could either manually run one on each client, or set it to run as part of a pre or post schedule command. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Avy Wong Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 12:20 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: window OS, SP version and TSM client version Thanks Doug. Is there a way to also capture the Window Service pack version into the select statement? Avy Wong Business Continuity Administrator Mohegan Sun 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd Uncasville, CT 06382 (860)862-8164 (cell) (860)961-6976 Thorneycroft, Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] To CSD.ORG ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent by: ADSM:cc Dist Stor Manager Subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: [ADSM-L] window OS, SP version .EDU and TSM client version 10/03/2008 03:11 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU select node_name as node, CLIENT_OS_LEVEL as OSVer, client_version as v, client_release as r, client_level as l, client_sublevel as sl from nodes order by v,r,l,sl c:\Outputfilename.txt -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Avy Wong Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 12:08 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: window OS, SP version and TSM client version Hello, Is there anyway I can run a select statement to capture the node names, TSM client version, Window OS and SP version? I see vss error popping out more than usual, and I want to determine the SP version on the Window boxes without logging into each box to find out. Thank you for y our help. Avy Wong Business Continuity Administrator Mohegan Sun 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd Uncasville, CT 06382 (860)862-8164 (cell) (860)961-6976
Re: window OS, SP version and TSM client version
Avy, if you have access to the remote computers from a PC running XP xpprofessional, you can run the command: systeminfo /s computername(computername being the network name of machine you are quering) This will list all the servicepack and uptates on the machine. I think that the command only runs on XP Professional, but I have used to remotely collect info. on win2000 and win2003 machines. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Avy Wong Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 12:39 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: window OS, SP version and TSM client version Ok thanks Richard. Avy Wong Business Continuity Administrator Mohegan Sun 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd Uncasville, CT 06382 (860)862-8164 (cell) (860)961-6976 Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM:To Dist Stor ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Manager cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Subject Re: [ADSM-L] window OS, SP version and TSM client version 10/03/2008 03:26 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU From my experience, the Client OS Level which TSM captures is the basic level, which identifies the OS generation, rather than deep details. In Unix, such basic info is obtained via the uname() system call, and in Windows via the os() call. Richard Sims
Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM
With TSM, it doesn't really make sense to make two copies of a tape, since things are managed at the object level. Copy Pools are used instead. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 7:56 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: NBU user considering switch to TSM At 06:58 PM 9/29/2008, steve sorenson wrote: 1. He could make simultaneous copies during the initial backup, but not during migration and while copying to the copy pool. TSM can migrate from random-access disk to serial (tape), simultaneously copying to the copy pool(s). I don't have first-hand experience with this, but plan to soon. I was referring to the feature of creating two copies of one set of data simultaneously. NBU calls this Inline Tape Copy, where NBU takes one backup stream and twins it, sending one stream to one device and another stream to another device. It can do this either during the initial backup, or when copying backups after the backup is done, like when you're migrating data or making copies to go offsite. The point is to read the data and transfer it in memory only one time, but have two copies when you're done. I was told that TSM had a similar feature, but that it could only do this during the initial backup, not when copying data. Do I understand this feature correctly? In TSM, generally you have a disk storage pool in front of tape. At least, this is always the way I've used it, as this enables more concurrent backup sessions and collocation on tape. With progressive incremental, I don't really see the need to write to two devices simultaneously as the backup data is coming in over the network from clients. The point is, if you want to ensure that you've always got tape-resident data on at least 2 different tape volumes, you can do that in TSM. If you want to be sure that your data is fully protected on disk, before it gets to tape, I suppose you could do that with a disk subsystem that implements synchronous mirroring of some sort. If you want to have the incoming data be resident on both disk and a tape synchronously, as it comes in, you can't do that. I'm not that familiar with NBU, but if it does not employ progressive incremental, perhaps the desire to only have the data in memory once is more important? -- Paul ZarnowskiPh: 607-255-4757 Manager, Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801Em: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMware and TSM Backup - Survey
Wouldn't it be nice if we could just issue q lic and pay X$ for each Managed System, or to issue a q auditocc, sum up the Total Storage Used column and multiply by X$ per MB or GB or TB. There must be some way for IBM to set a well defined, and easy to understand licensing plan, based on easy to find statistics. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Howard Coles Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 11:41 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: VMware and TSM Backup - Survey Steve's response does make more sense, due to the fact that you are backing up the VMware server, not just the VCB, and not licensing the VMware host would cut seriously into IBM's profits. However, I'd like to think Kelly's is true and I've heard that from more than one person. See Ya' Howard -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schaub, Steve Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 1:35 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VMware and TSM Backup - Survey That depends on who you talk to - some Tivoli reps will say that the VMWare host cores need licenses as well. -steve -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Lipp Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 11:23 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VMware and TSM Backup - Survey The license for the TSM client in this case is based upon the VCB proxy server running the TSM client. Kelly Lipp From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schaub, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 9:08 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VMware and TSM Backup - Survey FYI - the waters get even murkier when you start down the VCB path. Try posing this scenario to your Tivoli rep: all VMWare guest backups have been offloaded to VCB proxy servers, and the TSM client has been uninstalled from the guests. No TSM software exists on the VM hosts at all. Now ask them which physical cores need to be counted for Tivoli licensing - the answer may surprise you. Steve Schaub Systems Engineer, Windows Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee 423-535-6574 (desk) 423-785-7347 (mobile) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cpreston Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 1:06 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] VMware and TSM Backup - Survey Wanda Prather wrote: Licensing is by physical cores. Throw up as many VM clients as you want; you still just pay for the cpus (cores) on the physical box. Just to be clear -- that includes TDP licenses? There was a question today on the list ( http://tinyurl.com/47zjbe ) where at least one of the answers seemed the opposite of what you're saying, and another said nobody knows. I speak about VMware backups, and so I get asked this a lot. I just want to make sure my answer is dead on. TIA +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm
Re: backing up mapped drives
The unc should work, and it does show up with the local drives. You might need to tweak the permissions on the account that the scheduler is running under. A local account probably won't have access across the network -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 12:56 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: backing up mapped drives I was wondering if someone who might be backing up mapped drives on a particular server could weigh in on this please. We have a server, and I have not seen the setup because I have no access at this point, that I am told has mapped drives from a netapp. They want this drive backed up with TSM and I am looking to find the proper way to do this. Are either of these acceptable and if so when looking to restore data do these drives show up in the 'local' tree? DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL F: DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL \\host\d$ Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Journaling database retaining upon reboot?
Can the PreserveDbOnExit be changed on the fly so that it can be turned on as part of controlled reboot, then left off in case of a crash? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:48 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Journaling database retaining upon reboot? Well, I have to have some relief here, considering there's nothing that I can do about the setup. That means after they are using all 36 mount point (millions of files each), and there's a reboot, 36 different backups with journaling are going to have to start from scratch. Not only is that terrible, but there's nothing I can do about it! So for those reading this, what would you do in my situation, set PreserveDbOnExit to 1 or 0? The TSM client host in question has 36 NTFS mount points, each will 5 million+ files. Per IBM TSM Support recommendations, I set the host machine up with a TSM node for each mount point (therefore, 36), and configured journaling for each mount point as well. All per their guidelines and instruction. The application (an imaging app) on the host machine writes to a mount point until reaching a 80% utilized threshold, and then begins writing to the next numerical mount point. Last February, they started with mount point 1, and now they are on 12. That means when they patched the machine last night and rebooted, several backups have failed with memory errors, and there are 4 running right now, each just spinning their wheels on directories that mostly unchanged. I am really trying to remain calm, though it's sickening to think that there is simply nothing that I can do about it. :( -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:42 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Journaling database retaining upon reboot? Sooo...with all of these issues with jbb, are they being worked on/fine-tuned? Yes and no. For the case where you use PreserveDbOnExit=1 and the journal service is shut down for some period of time, the behavior will remain unchanged. Use at your own risk. If the journal service is down, it cannot effectively monitor file system changes so there is no known solution for this. For the journal corruption issue, we are currently targeting an enhancement that allows the journal service to know whether the database was closed cleanly (by a clean journal service shutdown). Upon restart, if the journal service does not detect the I was closed cleanly flag in the journal database, it will effectively ignore PreserveDbOnExit=1 and reset the journal database, as if PreserveDbOnExit=0 was in effect. This would be in a future release of the product. Note that this does not represent a formal announcement or commitment, so this is subject to change. A THEORETICALLY cleaner solution could include implementation of of a journal database with transactional capabilities, including rollback, more thorough structural integrity checking, etc. Even in a rollback scenario, in-flight file system changes would be lost (like the case where you use PreserveDbOnExit=1 and journal service is down for some period of time), leaving a less than perfect solution. But this is all hypothetical, and there are no plans in place. Best regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development Level 3 Team Lead Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManager. html The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 07/09/2008 09:02:05 AM: The way the downtime for this particular machine goes, there should be no file system changes occurring. Sooo...with all of these issues with jbb, are they being worked on/fine-tuned? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:40 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Journaling database retaining upon reboot? While the journal service is down, any file system changes are not tracked. If a file changes while the journal service is down, it will not be backed up until either another full (non-journaled) backup runs, OR the file changes again and the journal service is able to track it at that time. If the journal service is not shut down cleanly (e.g., a cluster failover in a cluster setup, or something else that causes the journal to not shut down cleanly), the journal database might be in an inconsistent (corrupt) state, after which behavior is unpredictable. Unpredictable could run
Re: Backing up NT4
Depending on what needs to be backed up on the machine, it might be easiest to share the drives/directories needing backup and backup the share from another node. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Norman Bloch Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 1:12 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Backing up NT4 did you try ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client/v5r1/Windows/WinNT/v518/ ? Evans, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 18/06/2008 22:02 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject [ADSM-L] Backing up NT4 We just upgraded to TSM 5.5 server on AIX 3.5, is there a client for NT4 that will connect? An hour of searching on IBM and Google did not help. Thank you, Bill Evans Research Computing Support FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER 206.667.4194 ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quota for clients?
Maybe you should have whoever is responsible for the system give you a list of the files they need backed up, not to exceed XXX Mb's. And just backup up what's on the list. That way at least they will know what they have protected. You could limit the size of each backup by assigning the node it's own disk storage pool, set to the size limit, and don't allow the pool to migrate. But chances are pretty good that Critical files will be missed. Why even bother backing up if you can't restore what's needed? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 7:25 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Quota for clients? Schemes to limit client activity are contrary to the overall purpose of TSM, where denying a department the ability to safeguard its data can result in losses which would be painful to the organization. But, TSM server administrators do have to deal with pests at various times. Where social engineering does not work, and measures are sanctioned to safeguard TSM service to the community as a whole, more draconian measures can be pursued. By various means (e.g., accounting records monitoring), client activity can be gauged and quelled by measures such as setting MAXNUMMP to 0, which stops backup/archive tape use but allows needed restore/retrieve. A real nuisance deserves a LOCK Node for some period of time. Richard Sims at Boston University
Re: VTL and TSM - Hyper Reclamation ????
Our reclaim settings vary with the storage pool. The storage pool that I point our database servers to gets a lot of large files each night, but also expires a lot of large files each day. I keep it set at 70%, Occasionally, a volume will stall and just sit there day after day at 40 or 50%. When this happens, I either run reclamation at a lower % or use move data. The storage pool that houses our user files holds lots of small files, with files added each night but few changed or deleted files. It takes forever for a volume to reach 50% reclaimable, so I use 25% on those. The best setting depends on your environment, the faster reclaimable space builds in your volumes, the higher you can set reclamation. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Huebner Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 7:47 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: VTL and TSM - Hyper Reclamation We run ours at 50%. One thing to consider is whether your server and VTL will have the bandwidth to reclaim at those percentages. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 8:08 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] VTL and TSM - Hyper Reclamation We are investigating VTL's as a replacement for our 3494 libraries. A vendor was describing their sizing calculations and assumptions. One of their assumptions BLEW US AWAY!! The vendor recommended that reclamation be done on VTL volumes at a 20-30% Reclamation Percentage. YES, that's right, they recommend that a volume get reclaimed when only 20-30% of the data is expired. They claim that this is possible due to the efficiencies and speed of the VTL, and thus allow us to run at a much higher average utilization. The argument is that with a higher average utilization we can purchase less disk, and thus a less expensive VTL. Currently, for our tapes, we reclaim at 55-60%. Q) Has anyone every heard of performing reclamation at a percentage as low as 20-30%? Q) Is anyone with a VTL actually performing reclamation at 20-30%? Thanks! Rick - The information contained in this message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately, and delete the original message. This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.
Re: VMware and TSM Backup - Survey
Uh gee Kelly, I was hoping to use STORServers agent to manage VMware Consolidated Backup. Please don't tell me there's a better way! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kelly Lipp Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:22 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: VMware and TSM Backup - Survey Folks, I'm trying to determine what our community is doing with respect to backing up VMware to TSM. If you are so inclined, please answer and send to me privately. I am interested in understanding the intersection between TSM and VMware... Are you backing up VMware Virtual Machines? Are you using VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) or are you using a TSM Client in the VM or both? Are you using TSM's new Backup VM command (available in TSM V5.5)? How many ESX servers and how many VMs? If you aren't Virtualized yet, do you intend to be? Have you thought about how to backup your VM environment? Any other ideas/issues you want to kick around... If it is true this is a subject of general interest, we can leave it in the forum as we go round and round. Thanks, Kelly Lipp CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 www.storserver.com
Re: Tape Reclaim Question
Are the onsite tapes full or filling? Onsite tapes are not eligible for reclamation until they are full. A filling tape with only 1% used has 99% of it's space left to fill. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lamb, Charles P. Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 2:58 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Tape Reclaim Question Hi. TSM V5.4.3.0 AIX V5.3 TL7 I have been doing some checking on on-site tapes via q volume * f=d command and other scripts. The two TSM database values which we have been checking are percent utilized and percent reclaim. Some of the on-site tapes do not have a reverse of each other numbers. Some on-site tapes show percent utilized at 1% and at 0% reclaim. Are they not to add up to 100?? Off-site tapes look OK regarding these numbers. I thought that any tape at 30% or below utilized value or 70% or above reclaim value, they would be part of the tape reclaim process if reclaim is set at 70? Did I miss something during my TSM classes and the years of being a TSM admin?? or am I thinking I have lost my mind. What have I missed??
Re: Scheduled backups running twice/day
You will get that message if you start a client session using the -nodename=node switch from a machine other that the client machine. Then again when the client next contacts the server. the ANR1639I Attributes changed message should give you the machine name where the client sessions was run. A query filespace for the node in question should make it apparent If there is more than one machine backing up with that name. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Strand, Neil B. Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:46 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Scheduled backups running twice/day Roger, Could you have two clients with identical node names? Look for ANR1639I messages showing different an attribute change for the suspect nodes. Cheers, Neil Strand Storage Engineer - Legg Mason Baltimore, MD. (410) 580-7491 Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Deschner Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:52 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Scheduled backups running twice/day We have a couple of client nodes whose scheduled backups are oddly running twice per day. We have a normal backup window scheduled from 5PM to Midnight. However, these clients are also running an extra scheduler-triggered backup in the middle of the afternoon. Both client and server are v5.5 Client systems are being left on all night Client is Windows XP, server is AIX. Any idea what could be causing this? Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==I have not lost my mind -- it is backed up on tape somewhere.= IMPORTANT: E-mail sent through the Internet is not secure. Legg Mason therefore recommends that you do not send any confidential or sensitive information to us via electronic mail, including social security numbers, account numbers, or personal identification numbers. Delivery, and or timely delivery of Internet mail is not guaranteed. Legg Mason therefore recommends that you do not send time sensitive or action-oriented messages to us via electronic mail. This message is intended for the addressee only and may contain privileged or confidential information. Unless you are the intended recipient, you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone any information contained in this message. If you have received this message in error, please notify the author by replying to this message and then kindly delete the message. Thank you.
Re: Retain All Existing TSM Backup / Archive Data for 10Yrs
I can't help but to wonder if a company that wants to keep all their data for 10 years has a functioning legal department. Are they aware that all that data is subject to e-discovery?
Re: Offsite tapes not being brought back.
When you send the tapes offsite, do you update them to access=offsite? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Hensley Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 6:28 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Offsite tapes not being brought back. I have tapes in my offsite tapecopypool that are not being returned. How do I bring these tapes back for use? Dave Hensley Technical Analyst McNeilus Companies, Inc. Desk: 1-507-374-8587 Cell: 1-507-244-0921 Although this e-mail and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect which might affect any computer system, it is the responsibility of the recipient to check that it is virus-free and the sender accepts no responsibility or liability for any loss, injury, damage, cost or expense arising in any way from receipt or use thereof by the recipient. The information contained in this electronic mail message is confidential information and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above, and may be privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please contact the sender immediately, delete this material from your computer and destroy all related paper media. Please note that the documents transmitted are not intended to be binding until a hard copy has been manually signed by all parties. Thank you.
Time to reclaim LTO tapes
We may be going to LTO 3 or 4 in the near future. How long does it take to reclaim a LTO3 tape at 50% full, and how long for a LTO4? Doug Thorneycroft Senior Systems Analyst Computer Technology Section County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County 1955 Workman Mill Road Whittier, CA 90601 (562) 699-7411 Ext. 1058 Fax. (562)695-6756 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Query to list .pst files
dsmc q backup -nodename=NODE_NAME '{FILESPACE_NAME}\*.pst' -subdir=yes
-inactive -detail C:\Output.txt
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Angus Macdonald
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:18 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Query to list .pst files
Can someone point me towards a query that I can use to discover how much of my
storage capacity is used up by .pst files? I suspect it's a lot but need some
hard figures to wave at authority.
Thanks
Angus
Re: ANS1512E error on Windows 2000sp2 client baclient 5.2.4.0
anything in the dsmerror.log? are you running Pre or post schedule commands? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Choate Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 3:52 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: ANS1512E error on Windows 2000sp2 client baclient 5.2.4.0 I have a 5.4.3.0 TSM server running running on Windows 2003 server. My client in Windows 2000 sp2 server with ba client 5.2.4.0 My schedule SQL_SERVER_SCHEDULE fails because I get an ANS1512E error in my dsmsched.log file. However when I review the log file, it appears that everything was successful. Any ideas on how to fix this? Snippet of the dsmsched.log file from client: 04/15/2008 00:39:28 Node Name: SRVICE 04/15/2008 00:39:28 Session established with server SRVTSMBACK1: Windows 04/15/2008 00:39:28 Server Version 5, Release 4, Level 3.0 04/15/2008 00:39:28 Server date/time: 04/15/2008 00:39:28 Last access: 04/14/2008 18:40:27 04/15/2008 00:39:28 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT BEGIN SQL_SERVER_SCHEDULE 04/15/2008 00:10:00 04/15/2008 00:39:28 Incremental backup of volume '\\srvice\c$' 04/15/2008 00:39:28 Incremental backup of volume '\\srvice\d$' 04/15/2008 00:39:28 Incremental backup of volume 'SYSTEMOBJECT' 04/15/2008 00:39:28 Backup System Object: 'COM+ Database'. 04/15/2008 00:39:28 Backup System Object: 'Event Log'. 04/15/2008 00:39:28 Backup System Object: 'System and Boot Files'. 04/15/2008 00:39:28 Backup System Object: 'Registry'. 04/15/2008 00:39:28 Backup System Object: 'RSM Database'. 04/15/2008 00:39:28 Backup System Object: 'WMI Database'. 04/15/2008 00:39:31 ANS1898I * Processed 500 files * 04/15/2008 00:39:32 ANS1898I * Processed 1,000 files * 04/15/2008 00:39:33 ANS1898I * Processed 2,000 files * 04/15/2008 00:39:34 ANS1898I * Processed 3,000 files * 04/15/2008 00:39:35 ANS1898I * Processed 3,500 files * 04/15/2008 00:39:36 ANS1898I * Processed 4,500 files * . . . . 04/15/2008 00:41:55 Normal File--15,120 \\srvice\c$\WINNT\upwizun.exe [Sent] 04/15/2008 00:41:55 Normal File--20,240 \\srvice\c$\WINNT\vmmreg32.dll [Sent] 04/15/2008 00:41:55 Normal File-- 256,192 \\srvice\c$\WINNT\winhelp.exe [Sent] 04/15/2008 00:41:55 Normal File-- 270,608 \\srvice\c$\WINNT\winhlp32.exe [Sent] 04/15/2008 00:41:55 Normal File-- 193,296 \\srvice\c$\WINNT\winrep.exe [Sent] 04/15/2008 00:41:55 Successful incremental backup of 'System and Boot Files' 04/15/2008 00:41:55 Normal File--28,672 \\srvice\c$\adsm.sys\W2KReg\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SAM\Device\HarddiskVolume2\WINNT\system32\config\SAM [Sent] 04/15/2008 00:41:55 Normal File--45,056 \\srvice\c$\adsm.sys\W2KReg\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SECURITY\Device\HarddiskVolume2\WINNT\system32\config\SECURITY [Sent] 04/15/2008 00:41:55 Normal File--10,420,224 \\srvice\c$\adsm.sys\W2KReg\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Device\HarddiskVolume2\WINNT\system32\config\software [Sent] 04/15/2008 00:41:56 Normal File-- 2,650,112 \\srvice\c$\adsm.sys\W2KReg\REGISTRY\MACHINE\SYSTEM\Device\HarddiskVolume2\WINNT\system32\config\system [Sent] 04/15/2008 00:41:56 Normal File-- 143,360 \\srvice\c$\adsm.sys\W2KReg\REGISTRY\USER\.DEFAULT\Device\HarddiskVolume2\WINNT\system32\config\default [Sent] 04/15/2008 00:41:56 Successful incremental backup of 'Registry' 04/15/2008 00:41:56 Normal File-- 126,976 \\srvice\c$\WINNT\system32\NtmsData\Export\NtmsData [Sent] 04/15/2008 00:41:56 Normal File-- 780 \\srvice\c$\WINNT\system32\NtmsData\Export\NtmsReg [Sent] 04/15/2008 00:41:56 Successful incremental backup of 'RSM Database' 04/15/2008 00:41:56 Normal File-- 770,359 \\srvice\c$\adsm.sys\WMI\WMIDBFILE [Sent] 04/15/2008 00:41:56 Successful incremental backup of 'WMI Database' 04/15/2008 00:41:57 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS BEGIN 04/15/2008 00:41:57 Total number of objects inspected: 24,925 04/15/2008 00:41:57 Total number of objects backed up:2,078 04/15/2008 00:41:57 Total number of objects updated: 0 04/15/2008 00:41:57 Total number of objects rebound: 0 04/15/2008 00:41:57 Total number of objects deleted: 0 04/15/2008 00:41:57 Total number of objects expired: 19 04/15/2008 00:41:57 Total number of objects failed: 0 04/15/2008 00:41:57 Total number of bytes transferred:484.84 MB 04/15/2008 00:41:57 Data transfer time: 45.66 sec 04/15/2008 00:41:57 Network data transfer rate:10,872.67 KB/sec 04/15/2008 00:41:57 Aggregate data transfer rate: 3,329.97 KB/sec 04/15/2008 00:41:57 Objects compressed by:0% 04/15/2008 00:41:57 Elapsed processing time: 00:02:29 04/15/2008 00:41:57 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END 04/15/2008 00:41:57 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END SQL_SERVER_SCHEDULE 04/15/2008 00:10:00 04/15/2008 00:41:57 ANS1512E Scheduled event
Re: Problem is still there with a LTO volume
Give it a try, Ive done this in the past, and on an empty volume, the audit process never requested a mount, but wouldn't start until the tape was updated to readw. If the audit does request a mount, just cancel it. (The cancel process might hang for awhile, because the system is waiting for a mount, but it should eventually time out.) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jacquelin Bouchard Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 5:13 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Problem is still there with a LTO volume Hi, Is the audit process read the tape, because the volume is really offsite in vault ? Jacquelin Bouchard At 14:16 2008-04-03 -0700, you wrote: Update vol to access=readwrite and try the audit again. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jacquelin Bouchard Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:20 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Problem is still there with a LTO volume Hi Richard, I have tried to audit the volume: audit volume a00043 fix=yes Output: ANR2425E AUDIT VOLUME: Unable to access volume A00043 - access mode is set to offsite. Jacquelin Bouchard At 15:35 2008-04-03 -0400, you wrote: This volume is probably the victim of a TSM database inconsistency, where an AUDit Volume will likely be needed to clear its problem. Richard Sims
Re: Top 20 (or so) misunderstood things about TSM
If you or your bosses insist on a Grandfather-father-son backup rotation, buy a product designed for it, not TSM. From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 2:49 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Top 20 (or so) misunderstood things about TSM Hey there, folks! I'm working very hard on my next book, which will have some product-specific information in it. I'm covering multiple products, so I won't go TOO deep on individual products, but I'd like to do my best to cover misunderstood or frequently asked topics for each major product. I figured that no one would know better than this list which topics people tend to get confused. What topics do you think should go on that list? (I've got my personal preferences, but I don't want to prejudice your thoughts.) What are the top 5/20/30 things about TSM that you think people get wrong? TIA --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies
Re: Problem is still there with a LTO volume
How can i delete a volume with access mode offsite? update vol A00043 access=readw -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jacquelin Bouchard Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 12:23 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Problem is still there with a LTO volume 1) q vol a00043 f=d Output: Volume Name : A00043 Storage Pool Name : TPCE_BCK_DATA_COPY Device Class Name : LTO2 Estimated Capacity : 381 468 Scaled Capacity Applied : Pct Util : 0,2 Volume Status :Filling Access : Offsite Pct. Reclaimable Space : 100 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 : 07-06-12 09:48:25 EDT Approx. Date Last Read : 07-06-11 15:53:01 EDT Date Became Pending : Number of Write Errors : 0 Number of Read Errors : 0 Volume Location : vault Volume is MVS Lanfree Capable : No Last Update by (administrator) : ADMIN Last Update Date/Time : 07-06-12 13:15:32 EDT Begin Reclaim Period : End Reclaim Period : Drive Encryption Key Manager : 2) q content a00043 f=d Output: Date/Time : 08-04-03 14:03:09 EDT Message : ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: QUERY CONTENT a00043 f=d (SESSION: 213681) Date/Time : 08-04-03 14:03:09 EDT Message : ANR2034E QUERY CONTENT: No match found using this criteria. (SESSION: 213681) 3) delete volume a00043 Output: Date/Time : 08-04-03 13:57:50 EDT Message : ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: DELETE VOLUME a00043 (SESSION: 213681) Date/Time : 08-04-03 13:57:50 EDT Message : ANR2406E DELETE VOLUME: Volume A00043 still contains data. (SESSION: 213681) 4) move data a00043 Output: Date/Time : 08-04-03 15:20:57 EDT Message : ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: MOVE DATA a00043 (SESSION: 214470) Date/Time : 08-04-03 15:20:57 EDT Message : ANR2209W Volume A00043 contains no data. (SESSION: 214470) 5) delete volume a00043 discard=yes Output: Date/Time : 08-04-03 14:00:08 EDT Message : ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: DELETE VOLUME a00043 discard=yes (SESSION: 213681) Date/Time : 08-04-03 14:00:08 EDT Message : ANR1423W Scratch volume A00043 is empty but will not be deleted - volume access mode is offsite. (SESSION: 213681) How can i delete a volume with access mode offsite? Thanks, Jacquelin Bouchard, UQTR
Re: Problem is still there with a LTO volume
Update vol to access=readwrite and try the audit again. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jacquelin Bouchard Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:20 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Problem is still there with a LTO volume Hi Richard, I have tried to audit the volume: audit volume a00043 fix=yes Output: ANR2425E AUDIT VOLUME: Unable to access volume A00043 - access mode is set to offsite. Jacquelin Bouchard At 15:35 2008-04-03 -0400, you wrote: This volume is probably the victim of a TSM database inconsistency, where an AUDit Volume will likely be needed to clear its problem. Richard Sims
Re: Long Wait for Disk Pool Volumes
Do you ever migrate the data from the diskpools, if not, you could be severely fragmented. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Carlson Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:12 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Long Wait for Disk Pool Volumes I am running TSM 5.3.2.3 on AIX 5.3.6. We started using big disk pools for our onsite data some time ago. We are noticing an odd behaviour. It takes up to 20 minutes for disk volumes to start varying online, and can take longer obviously for it to finish. Before opening an incident with IBM (which I assume will be put in performance, and suck the life out of me), I was wondering if anyone had seen anything like this before. We restarted our smallest DB instance this morning, and the link below shows the actlog from the restart. Restarted at 06:34, first volume varied on at 06:58. Thanks. http://www.agcbsm.org/tsmvactl.txt -- Andy Carlson --- Gamecube:$150,PSO:$50,Broadband Adapter: $35, Hunters License: $8.95/month, The feeling of seeing the red box with the item you want in it:Priceless.
Re: Select statement for space occupied by type of file?
dsmc q backup -nodename=node '{\\node\d$}\directory\*.pst' -subdir=yes
c:\path\output.txt
Load the output into excel as fixed width text.
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Thach, Kevin G
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 5:20 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Select statement for space occupied by type of file?
Hello-
I'm trying to determine the amount of space occupied by .pst files for a
certain node. I cannot figure out a good way to gather this
information. The backups table doesn't have size information, and the
occupancy table doesn't have file information. Can anyone offer up a
select statement that would work?
Thanks so much!
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Re: How to reclaim FILLING volumes
Are your disk pools large enough? If your diskpool fills, then your backups will write direct to tape. Check you activity log to see what is happening around the time that the extra filling tapes are defined to the storage pool. What process or session is first grabbing the tape, and what other processes and sessions are running at the same time. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ochs, Duane Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:34 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: How to reclaim FILLING volumes I ran into a similar issue and found a new STG was defined and the new default for collocate is group. I changed that to none. Then did a move data on every volume in the filling state. I reviewed every STG for all 4 TSM servers and did not find that issue but did find a number of low utilized volumes. I'm still trying to figure out why. If anyone has any theories on why I have more than normal filling with low utilization I'd appreciate the input. Thanks, Duane -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicholas Rodolfich Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 2:08 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: How to reclaim FILLING volumes Hi All, Thanks for your help!! I have TSM server 5.3.5 on AIX 5.3.5 with an IBM 3584 library with 16 drives. In my offsite pool I have approximately 300 volumes with very low utilization but they are in the FILLING state, I would expect them to be in the FULL, EMPTY or PENDING state. Is there a way to target these volumes with reclamation? I suppose I could do a move data on all of them? Nicholas Rodolfich Network Administrator (AIX) East Jefferson General Hospital 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-1187 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Re: I would like to scratch a copypool volume with no data on it
Try running an Audit Volume (Fix=yes) on one of the volumes and see if that takes care of the problem. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nicholas Rodolfich Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 1:41 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: I would like to scratch a copypool volume with no data on it I have the same issue with a few volumes. they are at 0.1 % utilized but a move data says there is no data on the volumes and a del vol says the volume can't be deleted because it conatins data. The discard=yes should delete it though. I haven't done that yet as I was trying to find a solution as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/9/2007 2:55 PM Hello TSM's, I have a copypool volume with nothing on it, meaning q content - no data. When I try to #delete volume xxx discarddata=yes - it returns - volume contains data. When I use move data - it returns - volume contains no data. DRM says it is in vault status. I would like to make this volume as scratch and put it back into the scratch pool. Any suggestions? Regards, Kamran H. Rao IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
Re: Archives across Wan Best practices
Have you thought about mirroring the remote data to local storage, then backing up the local. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Daniel Lane Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 7:33 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Archives across Wan Best practices Hello everyone, We have similar situation and questions... We also have a T1 line for doing Monthly Archival Full backups that take 6 full days to complete (line is completely saturated during this time), if all of the daily changes are not too large which shares this line also. The line is dedicated to TSM backups/restores. What I was thinking for speed of backups and being able to certify that every backup happens quickly and completely every night is to setup a second TSM server that would backup at that location to a virtual tape library then trickle those changes to the main site to tapes or to the san at that main site and then to tape. Is this possible or a valid solution? We are also running TSM 5.3.4 and all clients are current with 5.3.4. Possibility of adding more bandwidth i.e. T2 or greater is good. Which is better more bandwidth or a second TSM server? Can TSM servers work together to get backups done, kind of like a load balanced Backup? Thank You, Dan Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Email This email message and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the American Board of Family Medicine immediately -- by replying to this message or by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are not the intended recipient, you must immediately destroy all copies of this message and any attachments without reading or disclosing their contents. Thank you. For more information regarding the American Board of Family Medicine, please visit us at https://www.theabfm.org/.; -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 9:56 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Archives across Wan Best practices On Sep 25, 2007, at 9:38 AM, Hayden, Mark wrote: Hi All, just wanted to be pointed in the right direction to find information on best practices on Archives across the T1 WAN? We are having trouble finishing monthly archives on weekends running normal Archives. I have tried to talk with upper management about getting rid of Archives, but no go. We are running TSM 5.3.4 with older versions of clients up to 5.3.4. Please advise Thanks Mark - Exactly what is trying to be achieved? It kinda sounds like they are trying to perform what amounts to a full backup over what was a high- speed link in 1962, based upon old-thinking full+incremental backups. TSM Incremental may supply what they actually need; otherwise, client compression would be the best they could probably do with the networking they have and approach they are trying to use. We could advise better if we had more information. Richard Sims
Re: ANR1076E Path not found on UNC name in the domain
Try running dsmc from a domain admin account and see if it's a rights/permissions issue. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Boyer Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 2:06 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: ANR1076E Path not found on UNC name in the domain Windows 2003 server, TSM client 5.3.2.0, TSM Server 5.3.2.0 on Windows. The share in question is on a NAS type device called a SNAP! server. We have changed the TSM Scheduler service to use a domain logon that has access to that share. For testing we logged on as that user and were able to map a drive to that share \\snap001\metafile. I put this in the DOMAIN in the dsm.opt file and I get the ANS1076E path not found error. Having 2 C: command prompts open I had DSMC running in one. I entered 'i \\snap01\metafile' and got the error. In the other at the C: prompt I entered dir \\snap001\metafile and got back the file listing. Now in the dsmc if I issue i \\snap001\metafile\metafile\' and specifiy a subdirectory of the share, then the backup runs. Don't know why I can access the share from DOS, but not from DSMC. Any ideas? Bill Boyer Select * from USERS where CLUE0 0 rows returned
Re: Rename filespace
Thanks Richard,
This is windows, so It might not behave like the rest
of the world.
I'm not sure how it will handle the FSID, Will it retain the
current FSID 4 and use that fsid for the new drive, or will I
wind up with \\servername\j$ FSID 4 and \\servername\j$ FSID 9?
Do I just issue the command
Ren filespace servername {\\servername\e$} {\\servername\j$}
or do I need to specify nametype and newnametype?
I haven't done this since ADSM V2 at that time,
the drive you moved the data to just had to have the same
volume label.
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Richard Sims
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 5:18 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Rename filespace
Doug -
Under normal circumstances (same file system type, etc.) the rename
causes the prevailing filespace to fully represent that client file
system, so you should get a simple incremental. I've done this many
times in Unix.
Richard Sims
On Jul 25, 2007, at 7:08 PM, Thorneycroft, Doug wrote:
Hello,
I need to move some data from one drive (E:) to a new larger
drive on the same
server (J:)
The TSM Filespace name for the E: drive is \\servername\e$ with FSID 4
The J: drive does not yet exist on the server.
After moving the data to the J: Drive, if I rename filespace \
\servername\e$ to \\servername\j$
and Delete the E:drive from the server, will TSM see the J: drive
as existing data, and perform
an incremental, or will it back it all up again, treating it as a
new filespace with a different FSID?
Re: Rename filespace
Thanks again Richard
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Richard Sims
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 8:27 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Rename filespace
On Jul 26, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Thorneycroft, Doug wrote:
Thanks Richard,
This is windows, so It might not behave like the rest
of the world.
I'm not sure how it will handle the FSID, Will it retain the
current FSID 4 and use that fsid for the new drive, or will I
wind up with \\servername\j$ FSID 4 and \\servername\j$ FSID 9?
Do I just issue the command
Ren filespace servername {\\servername\e$} {\\servername\j$}
or do I need to specify nametype and newnametype?
The FSID is TSM's internal identification number for the file system,
within the node. It's a physical identity, independent of the
filespace name. If you rename the filespace, its FSID remains the
same. (Give it a try.)
Richard Sims
Rename filespace
Hello, I need to move some data from one drive (E:) to a new larger drive on the same server (J:) The TSM Filespace name for the E: drive is \\servername\e$ with FSID 4 The J: drive does not yet exist on the server. After moving the data to the J: Drive, if I rename filespace \\servername\e$ to \\servername\j$ and Delete the E:drive from the server, will TSM see the J: drive as existing data, and perform an incremental, or will it back it all up again, treating it as a new filespace with a different FSID?
Re: Somewhat OT: Sizing a VTL solution
You have to consider that just like a real tape library, you have to allow for reclaimable space. Take a look at your present tape library and see how much of your occupied space is reclaimable. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of William Boyer Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 11:03 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Somewhat OT: Sizing a VTL solution Has anyone just gone through sizing a VTL solution for a library replacement? Is it as simple as taking your current occupancy/retention, applying for some compression and using that figure for the amount of storage behind the VTL? Or maybe I'm just trying to make something harder than it is. Wouldn't be the first time! :-) TIA. Bill Boyer Select * from USERS where CLUE0 0 rows returned
Re: Moving one nodes date from primary direct access disk
Set your Sequential access pool as next pool on your random access pool, then migrate the data. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Carlson Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 8:21 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Moving one nodes date from primary direct access disk I would like to move about 6TB of data for a node from Random Access disk to sequential accesss. Since move nodedata doesn't work on random access pools, I was wondering if there is an easy way to do it. The data is archive data, and the only plan I could come up with was moving data from individual volumes to a staging area, a sequential access pool, then moving nodedata from there to the final destination sequential access pool. Anyone have any better ideas? Thanks for any input. TSM Server: 5.3.2.3 -- Andy Carlson --- Gamecube:$150,PSO:$50,Broadband Adapter: $35, Hunters License: $8.95/month, The feeling of seeing the red box with the item you want in it:Priceless.
Re: Moving one nodes date from primary direct access disk
Maybe you could export/import the node. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Carlson Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 8:45 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Moving one nodes date from primary direct access disk The problem with that, is that it will migrate all date, not just this one nodes data. On 6/19/07, Thorneycroft, Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set your Sequential access pool as next pool on your random access pool, then migrate the data. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Carlson Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 8:21 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Moving one nodes date from primary direct access disk I would like to move about 6TB of data for a node from Random Access disk to sequential accesss. Since move nodedata doesn't work on random access pools, I was wondering if there is an easy way to do it. The data is archive data, and the only plan I could come up with was moving data from individual volumes to a staging area, a sequential access pool, then moving nodedata from there to the final destination sequential access pool. Anyone have any better ideas? Thanks for any input. TSM Server: 5.3.2.3 -- Andy Carlson --- Gamecube:$150,PSO:$50,Broadband Adapter: $35, Hunters License: $8.95/month, The feeling of seeing the red box with the item you want in it:Priceless. -- Andy Carlson --- Gamecube:$150,PSO:$50,Broadband Adapter: $35, Hunters License: $8.95/month, The feeling of seeing the red box with the item you want in it:Priceless.
Re: LTO2 autoloader
Can't we all just get along, and get back to business? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 1:45 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: LTO2 autoloader SIGH As I SAID ALREADY... I simply misunderstood the post and was just trying to help AND I didn't mean to send it to the whole list. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Crnjanski Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 1:23 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] LTO2 autoloader I didn't know it is getting more and more exiting on good old boring ADSM list. It is very nice of you that you are playing Bond, James Bond and trying to protect the Community from evil offers. I'm member of this list around 5 years and this is a first time that we are selling ONE autoloader that WE removed from our data center. If you want I can show you invoice from Ingram Micro (our distributor) from apr/04 when we purchased this autoloader. And last information; we paid for this autoloader more than $1 and I'm willing to sell it for less than $3000. What a deal for us. And for Canadians, enjoy a long weekend; Joe Crnjanski Infinity Network Solutions Inc. Phone: 416-235-0931 x226 Fax: 416-235-0265 Web: www.infinitynetwork.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 3:05 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: LTO2 autoloader First, I didn't mean to reply to the list. (I didn't notice that the reply-to was set to the list.) Second, I was just trying to help. His posting did not appear to be a user selling his own stuff. It appeared to be a gray-market reseller. (The wording of the post as well as his URL suggested that.) Third, my signature simply states my title and my credentials. It's no different than other signatures that explain what size environment you're admining, or where you're doing it. I can't say I admin a 200 TB TSM environment, but I can say I wrote a few books, which usually causes people to give SOME credence to what I write. I'm just trying to get more connected to and participate in the TSM community. I'm sorry if my attempts to do so somehow ruffle your feathers. --- W. Curtis Preston Author of O'Reilly's Backup Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Laflamme Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 11:35 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] LTO2 autoloader Frankly, your signature, Curtis, strikes me as more commercial than Joe's offer. And, yet, we haven't run you off yet. Not that anyone has died and made me list czar, but the LISTSERV lists I've been on for more than a decade, including ADSM-L, have a long history of users offering up surplus equipment to list members as a win-win situation. Joe's not trying to make a profit selling LTO2 autoloaders; he's just trying to make a friendly offer. If that's too commercial for you, to find some pure ivory tower to play in, and let us used to our culture enjoy it. Says me, anyway. Nick Curtis Preston wrote: This is a commercial posting that is not allowed on this list. --- W. Curtis Preston Author of O'Reilly's Backup Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Crnjanski Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 1:03 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] LTO2 autoloader Hello, Does anybody need IBM LTO2 7 tapes autoloader? Just removed from data centre. Excellent condition. Purchased Apr/04 Toronto, Canada Price negotiable. Regards, Joe Crnjanski Infinity Network Solutions Inc. Phone: 416-235-0931 x226 Fax: 416-235-0265 Web: www.infinitynetwork.com
Re: Millions of files failed... Wha?
What does the error log show? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 8:20 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Millions of files failed... Wha? I've a client on windows 5.3.0.0 (He's thinking about moving to 5.4.0.2) who's seeing, every day, reports like this: Total number of objects inspected: 1,323,867(SESSION: 6278) Total number of objects backed up:0(SESSION: 6278) Total number of objects updated: 1(SESSION: 6278) Total number of objects rebound: 0(SESSION: 6278) Total number of objects deleted: 0(SESSION: 6278) Total number of objects expired: 25,022(SESSION: 6278) Total number of objects failed:1,323,867(SESSION: 6278) I would normally expect a scheduler log full to overflowing with 1.3M iterations of Can't get file [x] for reason [y]. But the scheduler log is nearly empty: Just the normal expiration messages. So, a riddle: What is it that fails a million files, but makes no noise? - Allen S. Rout
Re: Ramifications of turning client compression on?
The Ramifications really depend on the nature of what is being backed up, your network speed, client processor speed, memory, etc. I have one 8 GB database that stores jpg images. Trying to compress the already compressed data causes it to grow by 35%. On another database, storing mostly text, I get 80% compression. You might save backup time using client compression on remote clients, sending their data over phone lines. While you will get minimal time savings on a local network. The summary of your backup sessions will tell you how much compression you are getting, so you can estimate how much storage you will save, and monitoring the duration of the backups with and without compression will give you an idea of the performance gain or loss. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Monahan Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 5:51 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Ramifications of turning client compression on? My first thought after reading this goes back to what the main goal should be in any TSM environment: How are your restores affected? Will you still be able to meet your SLAs for restore times (especially a full restore)? That is an area that is often overlooked until it is too late. IMO, too much engineering time in many TSM environments is spent around backups, when a bulk of the time should be spent around engineering the fastest and most reliable restores possible. Just something to remember when considering the benefits/drawbacks of client compression. __ John Monahan Consultant Logicalis, Inc. 5500 Wayzata Blvd Suite 315 Golden Valley, MN 55416 Office: 763-417-0552 x109 Mobile: 952-221-6938 Fax: 763-417-0554 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.us.logicalis.com Schneider, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 05/01/2007 05:18 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Ramifications of turning client compression on? I am going to weigh in on this one. Client compression can work great, depending on the kind of problems you are trying to solve, and if you do it right. Here was our situation: I recently took on responsibility for a TSM environment with 1 shared library with 14 tape drives, 6 TSM AIX servers, and about 760 clients backed up per night. When I started working here, we were at the very edge of keeping up. Disk storage pools were filling up in the middle of the night so much that migration was running for hours in the middle of backups, and backup storage pools weren't completing in the timeframe we had during the day. So we were forced to cancel backup storage pools on some days just to get the offsite tapes off before 5PM. Then migration would run most of the time until the night's backups began. We only had a couple hours per day to run reclamation, because migration would need to kick off and use the tape drives. Things were a mess. I gradually rolled in client compression. Today we are backing up over 100 clients more than before, and about 1.5 TB per day more data. Migration never happens in the middle of the night (except for an extraordinary circumstance). Backup stgpools complete every day, and are finished by about noon. Migration runs until early evening, and we have 6-7 hours to run reclamation. While part of the improvement came from scheduling changes to keep all the tape drives busier, I credit client compression with a big part of it. The TSM servers are only having to absorb and write to disk about half as much data. So the network load is cut in half, the data to migrate is cut in half, backup stgpools are cut in half, and so on. As you know, a TSM server has to read and write the same data lots of times during the life of the data. Migration, backup stgpool, and who knows how many iterations of reclamation before the data finally expires will mean that the data has to be copied from disk or tape multiple times. When you are using compression on the tape drive, each time you have to copy the data, it is uncompressed, copied in it's original form into TSM's memory, and back out trough the FC switches, where it is recompressed back onto tape. But during the time it is going through the SAN, and TSM's memory and disk, it is in uncompressed form, and that means more load and slower performance. With client compression, the data is compressed once, and stays in it's most efficient size for the entire time TSM has to handle it, no matter how many times TSM has to copy it. I think that constitutes a significant improvement in efficiency. But everybody asks, Don't the clients take a lot longer to back up? Each individual client takes longer to back up, but you can compensate for that by starting more backups earlier in the evening. Since the clients are only going to send about half as much data, you can have twice as many simultaneous clients
Re: Test Message, Please ignore
Now I've seen everything, Curtis Preston asking to ignored? Can't be true! Must be an imposter! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 6:35 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Test Message, Please ignore This is not the message you're looking for. --- W. Curtis Preston Author of O'Reilly's Backup Recovery and Using SANs and NAS VP Data Protection GlassHouse Technologies
Re: from SEZ
If the original filling tape is in use, and another session or process needs to write, The system will select a new scratch. Look back in your activity log to see your tape mount activity. You can probably find the answer there. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Lenssens Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 2:35 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: from SEZ Hi, Info: TSM V5R2L2.0, Sun Solaris, StorageTek L20 LTO2 drives with LT02 tapes ... and I'm not a specialist in TSM First: In the Sequential Access Storage Pool I've got a pool with an number of tapes in. Sometimes at the morning a scratch tape is added to the pool using a small number of %util (0.4%) although there is a tape in that pool with a %util of 34% and 0%reclamation; so data can be added to this tape (readwrite, no problem with the tape, I'm sure). In that case I do a move data on a storage pool volume and TSM takes the 34%-util tape, the 0.4%-util tape become scratch. Does someone know the reason of taking a scratch tape instead of filling (further) the 34%-util tape? Second: Last week I've checked in 4 brand new tapes from a brand new pack. After the first use of the tapes, 3 of 4 tapes become 'readonly' and thereafter 'unavailable'. Could be a problem with the tapes? But my care is how to treat them and to save the information on those tapes? I've already done an audit vol fix=yes but that takes hours and I cancelled the process. Thanks in advance. Chris Lenssens ICT-A.Z Sint-Elisabeth Ziekenhuis
Re: TSM DB Restore
The HBAAPI vendor library might be Host bus adapter API Vendor Library, Could this be software/hardware installed on the source machine, but missing from the target? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of TSM User Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 7:54 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM DB Restore Hello out there, I'm trying to restore my production TSM database which was running on a Win2K server on to my dev server running Win2K3 and I get the following error: C:\Tivoli\tsm\serverdsmserv restore db todate=04/03/2007 totime=12:21 ANR0900I Processing options file c:\tivoli\tsm\server1\dsmserv.opt. ANR7800I DSMSERV generated at 11:34:40 on Sep 27 2005. Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Version 5, Release 3, Level 2.0 Licensed Materials - Property of IBM (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1990, 2004. All rights reserved. U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corporation. ANR4726I The ICC support module has been loaded. ANR8200I TCP/IP driver ready for connection with clients on port 1500. ANR0200I Recovery log assigned capacity is 2048 megabytes. ANR0201I Database assigned capacity is 2048 megabytes. ANR4600I Processing volume history file volhist.out. ANR8880W Device type of drive GENDRV_0.0.5 in library LTOLIB1 was determined to be GENERIC_TAPE. ANR4620I Database backup series 8 operation 0 device class HPLTO. ANR4622I Volume 1: TAPE06. ANR4634I Starting point-in-time database restore to date 04/03/2007 12:21:00. ANR0300I Recovery log format started; assigned capacity 2048 megabytes. ANRD icrest.c(2079): ThreadId0 Rc=33 reading header record. ANRD ThreadId0 issued message from: -10587268 outDiagf()+168 -0012C398 Unknown -44393939 Unknown ANR0301I Recovery log format in progress; 4 megabytes of 2048. ANR2032E RESTORE DB: Command failed - internal server error detected. ANRD ThreadId0 issued message 2032 from: -10586D80 outMsgf()+20 -10064525 AdmRestoreDb()+1695 -1000 DllMain()+ -0041 UnknownA NR1792W HBAAPI vendor library failed to load or is missing. TSM Server 5.3.2 Any ideas?
AIT5 Tape Drives
Is anyone using AIT5 tape drives? I don't see them listed on the device support list.
Re: AIT5 Tape Drives
Hmmm, maybe I'm one of the lucky ones, I've been running an ait2 library for almost 6 years, and have only had one unrecoverable error. That was caused by an operator killing power during a write, and that only affected the file that was being written. What problems have others been having? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kelly Lipp Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 1:14 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: AIT5 Tape Drives Run! Don't walk! AIT is of the devil! Kelly J. Lipp VP Manufacturing CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thorneycroft, Doug Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 1:59 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] AIT5 Tape Drives Is anyone using AIT5 tape drives? I don't see them listed on the device support list.
Re: scratch tapes
If you're really really sure you don't need the data, you can issue delete volume vol_name discarddata=yes But, make your boss sign a guarantee that you won't lose your job if someone decides later that they need the data. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Avy Wong Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 2:23 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: scratch tapes It was a backup that we do not want, we already have a copy of the same files. It is taking up too much real estate. Volume Name Estimated Pct Volume Capacity Util Status -- -- - CA0386 312,895.2 57.8Full CA0387 868,062.3 85.2Full CA0389 794,037.4 99.7Filling CA0390 905,219.6 100.0 Full CA0393 524,491.8 90.2 Full Thanks, Avy Wong Business Continuity Administrator Mohegan Sun 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd Uncasville, CT 06382 (860) 862-8164 cell (860) 961-6976 Kelly Lipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] COM To Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Re: [ADSM-L] scratch tapes 04/03/2007 05:09 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU Either let the data expire through defined retention policies, or move the data off of them using move data commands. Deleting them is not a good idea as you are destroying your backup data if you do. Are you running reclamation on your storage pools? Volumes with a low percentage utilized and high percentage reclaimable should be reclaimed and returned to scratch automatically. Kelly J. Lipp VP Manufacturing CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Avy Wong Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 1:50 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] scratch tapes Hello, Currently there are a number of volumes that contains data but I would like to flush them and turn those volumes into scratch . What would be the correct way to do that? Thanks. Avy Wong Business Continuity Administrator Mohegan Sun 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd Uncasville, CT 06382 (860) 862-8164 cell (860) 961-6976 ** The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copy of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. ** ** The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copy of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. **
Re: Contents of Copy Storage Pool ?
You can run q occ to see how many files and bytes each node is storing in each storage pool. You can compare how much data is in the primary pools with how much in in the copy pools to see if anything is being missed. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 4:48 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Contents of Copy Storage Pool ? On Mar 27, 2007, at 12:28 AM, Peter Billam wrote: Greetings. We're confused about what gets put in the Copy Storage Pool. Do the Inactive versions get put there, as well as the Active version ? ... Yes. From the 5.4 AIX Admin Guide: Copy storage pools and active-data pools provide additional levels of data protection for clients. Copy storage pools can contain any combination of active and inactive data, archive data, or space- migrated data. Active-data pools, on the other hand, contain only active versions of client backup data. (The uncertainty has arisen because our copy-pool tapes seem too empty to be holding all the data we thought they were supposed to be holding.) Without knowing the basis for that belief, check that your Backup Stgpool operations are running to completion, and that such an operation is being performed on each primary storage pool in the hierarchy. Richard Sims
Re: Shrinking scratch pools - tips?
Are your tapes mostly full, or are there a lot of filling volumes?
Re: Ramifications of delete vol xxxxxx discardd=y
Just a note, Only active files will be backed up, you'll lose all inactive versions. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Booth Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 7:40 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Ramifications of delete vol xx discardd=y On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:35:14AM -0600, Bell, Charles (Chip) wrote: Quick question. If I delete a volume to get it back from a read-only access state into the scratch pool, will the next incremental backup for the node data affected back up those files again? Does the database know that there are no longer references for that node data on primary storage? If not, what is the alternative than 'delete vol', restoring the vol from copy stgpool? The data will be backed up once again by TSM. If you do a delete volume on the primary, the references to the copy data will also be deleted, and a backup stg will pick that up as well. hth, bob
Re: NO SLOTS
Try doing q libvol libraryname if the volume is listed as private, and the last use column is blank, then the volume is probably scratch. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lepre, James Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 9:35 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: NO SLOTS I have done the first 4 steps already.. What I believe is happening is that when some scratch tapes were put in TSM tried to use them, couldn't and mark them as private.. Is there a command to check to see if this is happening -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Orville Lantto Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 12:33 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] NO SLOTS First, get a reliable inventory of what tapes are in your library, perhaps forcing the library to do an inventory beforehand. Do not use TSM for this. Second, reconcile the hardware inventory against what TSM reports in q libvol for this library, perhaps doing a TSM library audit beforehand. Third, investigate the disparities. You unavailable tapes could be out of the library or were made unavailable when TSM couldn't mount them because of drive errors or whatever. If they are in the library and not damaged, just update them to readwrite. Fourth, review your reclamation policy and procedures. Fifth, if you still are out of slots, upgrade your tape technology, get another frame on your library, or eject tapes and start storing them outside your library. Orville L. Lantto Storage Consultant GlassHouse Technologies, Inc. 200 Crossing Boulevard Framingham, MA 01702 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.glasshouse.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lepre, James Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:15 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] NO SLOTS Hello Everyone, I am having problem with no available slots in my 3584 library. I am running tsm 5.3.2.5 and have 450 slots in the library. I also have over 50 unavailable tapes listed in TSM. I am struggling to figure out what to do first. Does anyone have a suggestion to where I should start to solve this problem. Thank you in advance James --- Confidentiality Notice: The information in this e-mail and any attachments thereto is intended for the named recipient(s) only. This e-mail, including any attachments, may contain information that is privileged and confidential and subject to legal restrictions and penalties regarding its unauthorized disclosure or other use. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or the taking of any action or inaction in reliance on the contents of this e-mail and any of its attachments is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender via return e-mail; delete this e-mail and all attachments from your e-mail system and your computer system and network; and destroy any paper copies you may have in your possession. Thank you for your cooperation.
Re: Cannot backup mapped drive contents
Make sure the account has the following rights. Backup Files Restore Files Manage Auditing and Security Logs (Normally when we see that message, it's the Manage Auditing and Security Logs right that's missing) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Yiannakis Vakis Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 12:06 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Cannot backup mapped drive contents Hi list, When attempting to backup a folder in a mapped drive I get ANS1449E A required NT privilege is not held I checked the archives, and previous postings suggest that I check my user policies. My domain user (the one I'm attempting the backup with) is in the administrators group. Any other suggestions ? Thanks Yiannakis Yiannakis Vakis Storage and Database Administration Systems Support Group, I.T.Division Tel. +357-22-848523 Mob. +357-99-414788 Fax. +357-22-337770
Re: size of each node on TSM
Q occ and Q AUDITOCCUPANCY (Before you run q auditoccupancy, you should run 'audit license') -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Avy Wong Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 9:30 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: size of each node on TSM Hello, I understand q node f=d gives me a bunch of stats of each of the nodes registered on the TSM. But it does not say how much space it takes up on TSM. How do I go about getting the space size each node occupies on TSM? Thanks. Avy Wong Business Continuity Administrator Mohegan Sun 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd Uncasville, CT 06382 ext 28164 ** The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copy of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. **
Re: Disposition of Failed Storage Devices
You might take a look at this site, their members specialize in totally destroying things like tapes and disk drives. (National Associating for information destruction) http://www.naidonline.org/ -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kauffman, Tom Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 8:57 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Disposition of Failed Storage Devices Given the security group's position, I think your options are sledghammer or iron smelter. And you'll really need to put everything you've got into the sledgehammer, if you go that route. A thermal lance or oxygen cutting torch might also fill the requirements. I doubt you'll get anything in writing from either IBM or EMC that will be satisfactory. You'll also need to get quotes from both on how much the maintenance fees will increase if the failed media device is rendered non-salvageable before return. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lamb, Charles P. Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 11:07 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Disposition of Failed Storage Devices Hi Our IT management is looking at implementing a process for disposition of failed storage devices. We have a hardware contract with both IBM and EMC. Our IT management is not sure that our data would be secured and deleted correctly. Here is an excerpt from our security group. From my perspective, what we have from IBM/EMC so far isn't sufficient. My opinion is that in order for us to consider a vendor's approach suitable- there needs to be more focus on data breach law compliance support. For example, if we can confirm that their approach (or related optional enhancements) is audited, secured, traceable, employee/subcontractor vetting/background checking, and includes appropriate notification of potential data breach, etc and that their program is also periodically third party audited ( ideally court case tested).. we're in a much better position. If/when they notify us of loss, we also would need full cooperation in related investigation efforts and confirming ultimate disposition. Your company's process would be appreciated. Thoughts?? Tnx's a bunch for your input. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.
Re: delete by filespace number?
Type 'help delete filespace' for the syntax. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lawrence Clark Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 1:10 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: delete by filespace number? to delete files by filespace number, is it: del file node name fsid=fsid number ?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/24/07 3:11 PM No, you will need to do an audit vol to resolve the differences between the storage pool and the DB. Lawrence Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/24/2007 3:07 PM I have disk that no longer has data the TSM database entries have as existing. I need to clear off the disk ( from the TSM DB perspective) If I set it to migrate will TSM clear it's DB entries if it does not find the files there? The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain information that is confidential, privileged, and/or otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If this electronic message is from an attorney or someone in the Legal Department, it may also contain confidential attorney-client communications which may be privileged and protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this message in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying is strictly prohibited. Please notify the New York State Thruway Authority immediately by either responding to this e-mail or calling (518) 436-2700, and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain information that is confidential, privileged, and/or otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If this electronic message is from an attorney or someone in the Legal Department, it may also contain confidential attorney-client communications which may be privileged and protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this message in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying is strictly prohibited. Please notify the New York State Thruway Authority immediately by either responding to this e-mail or calling (518) 436-2700, and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments.
Re: Library out of space. Time for disks?
main disadvantage is Fragmentation -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Orin Rehorst Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:59 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Library out of space. Time for disks? I could use an external drive rack, build a RAID array, and use it to replace my primary tapepool, correct? What would be the disadvantages of that vs. a VTL? TIA Orin Rehorst -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thorneycroft, Doug Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 10:18 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Library out of space. Time for disks? That's what we are doing. Our primary is a 6.4 TB VTL. So far, it's working very well. Excellent performance. Main concern is if the device fails, how long will it take to restore all those terabytes of primary storage from offsite volumes. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Orin Rehorst Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 8:02 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Library out of space. Time for disks? Our IBM 3583 tape lib is out of space. What do you think of this idea? Acquire disk-based appliance i.e. 3 TB. Use it for primary. Use 3583 for off site tapes only. Please advise. TIA Orin Rehorst
Re: Library out of space. Time for disks?
That's what we are doing. Our primary is a 6.4 TB VTL. So far, it's working very well. Excellent performance. Main concern is if the device fails, how long will it take to restore all those terabytes of primary storage from offsite volumes. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Orin Rehorst Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 8:02 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Library out of space. Time for disks? Our IBM 3583 tape lib is out of space. What do you think of this idea? Acquire disk-based appliance i.e. 3 TB. Use it for primary. Use 3583 for off site tapes only. Please advise. TIA Orin Rehorst
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You might also try running an Audit Volume before the restore volume command. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Stapleton Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:41 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Whitlock, Brett Here's the scenario...A primary pool tape was damaged. After performing a restore volume from the copy pool I got a message saying: ANR1256W Volume volume name contains files that could not be restored. Will TSM back these files up during the next incremental? No. What that means is that there were files on the (damaged) primary tape volume that cannot be accessed using the copy pool volumes supplied for the restore. One of two things happened here. 1. Either you didn't bring back all the copy pool volumes needed to do a full restore of the damaged primary pool volume, or 2. there are files on the primary pool volume that never got copied to the copy pool (or were deleted from the copy pool later). The first scenario can be tested by running RESTORE VOL badvolserial PREVIEW=YES If that comes back with additional copy pool volumes, you can perform further restores. If it doesn't, the second option above is true, and you've restored as much as you can. -- Mark Stapleton Senior TSM Engineer Evoloving Solutions, Minneapolis
Re: tsm not recognizing tape unit
Do you have your TSM device driver set to start at boot? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mario Behring Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:58 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: tsm not recognizing tape unit Richard, The device is connected to a SCSI 160 and is being recognized by the SCSI interface during the boot process. Windows 2000 also recognizes the unit. I am updating the firmware and returning the driver to the version you have pointed. The Windows RSM service is disabledbut, what about the TSM Device Driver component? Should I install it? I´ve tried with and without it.some notes at the Admin Guide are saying that I can do either way. Please advise. Mario - Original Message From: Richard van Denzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 4:17:14 AM Subject: Re: tsm not recognizing tape unit Hi Mario, Guessing from your notes, you have ran the install.exe that comes with the driver. The driver you are using is not the latest (6.1.3.8 is). Have you tried using an older driver like 6.0.8.2 (I can e-mail it if you don't have it)? What FW has the LTO3 drive, if not the latest have you tries upgrading the FW on the drive? Is the drive visible on the HBA (Fibre or SCSI) during the BIOS part of the boot process? Is the HBA at a supported FW level? If the HBA is a SCSI-320? If so, have you tried setting it to 160, there is an issue when the drive or library is on a 320 channel. Is the drive visible under W2K? Met vriendelijke groet, with kind regards, Richard van Denzel -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Mario Behring Verzonden: dinsdag 10 oktober 2006 22:45 Aan: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Onderwerp: [ADSM-L] tsm not recognizing tape unit Hi list, I have the following environment: TSM 5.3.2 Server running on a W2K box IBM ULTRIUM III LTO 3580 connected via SCSI I´ve installed the windows certified driver downloaded from the ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Windows/Win2000/Latest/ and ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Windows/Win2000/LTO_WHQL_Cert.I´ve tried both versions...looks like that only the certified one works.the install output is below: Running installation application, version 6.1.3.5. Preparing system for driver installation... Uninstalling existing tape drives... Existing tape drives successfully uninstalled. Installing/updating the tape bus enumerator... Successfully installed/updated the tape bus enumerator. Installing driver for tape drives... Driver for tape drives installed. Program successful. I´ve also disabled the Windows Removable Storage service. Unfortunatelly TSM does not recognize the tape unit. I´ve tried this with and without the TSM Device Driver. Looks like TSM Device Driver does not support the IBM LTO Ultrium tape unitsThe output from the tsmdlst command is as follows: tsmdlst Tivoli Storage Manager -- Device List Utility Licensed Materials - Property of IBM 5697-TSM (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 2000, 2005. All rights reserved. U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corporation. Computer Name: TIVOLI OS Version: 5.0 OS Build #: 2195 TSM Device Driver: ADSMScsi - Not Running No HBAs were detected. Reason: Unable to load HBA vendor library. TSM Name ID LUN Bus Port SSNWWN TSM Type Device Identifier mt6.0.0.26002- - LTO IBM ULT3580-T D3 57F7 Completed in: 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes, 1 seconds. I am not sure about what´s going on..any help is appreciated. Thanks Mario
Re: tsm not recognizing tape unit
Yes, it does, you also have to enable Windows 2000 and Optical Device Support. This is on a WIN2k Server, Running TSM ver. 5.2 I don't know if it is different on Win2003 or for TSM Ver 5.3, Check the admin guide. The following is copied from the 5.2 admin Guide. Under the heading: Controlling All Devices with the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Device Driver From the Tivoli Storage Manager Console: 1. From the Tivoli Storage Manager Console, expand the tree to Tivoli Storage Manager Device Driver for the machine that you are configuring. 2. Expand TSM Device Driver and Reports. 3. Click Service Information in the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Console tree. The Service Information window appears in the right panel. 4. Right click IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Device Driver. A pop-up menu appears. 5. Click Properties in the pop-up menu. The Device Driver Options dialog appears. 6. Click to check the Enable Windows 2000 and Optical Device Support check box. The startup type is set to Boot as a default. 7. Click OK. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mario Behring Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:48 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: tsm not recognizing tape unit No. But, just out of curiosity, is there any difference if it is started at boot time or not ? Mario - Original Message From: Thorneycroft, Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 4:38:52 PM Subject: Re: tsm not recognizing tape unit Do you have your TSM device driver set to start at boot? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mario Behring Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:58 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: tsm not recognizing tape unit Richard, The device is connected to a SCSI 160 and is being recognized by the SCSI interface during the boot process. Windows 2000 also recognizes the unit. I am updating the firmware and returning the driver to the version you have pointed. The Windows RSM service is disabledbut, what about the TSM Device Driver component? Should I install it? I´ve tried with and without it.some notes at the Admin Guide are saying that I can do either way. Please advise. Mario - Original Message From: Richard van Denzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 4:17:14 AM Subject: Re: tsm not recognizing tape unit Hi Mario, Guessing from your notes, you have ran the install.exe that comes with the driver. The driver you are using is not the latest (6.1.3.8 is). Have you tried using an older driver like 6.0.8.2 (I can e-mail it if you don't have it)? What FW has the LTO3 drive, if not the latest have you tries upgrading the FW on the drive? Is the drive visible on the HBA (Fibre or SCSI) during the BIOS part of the boot process? Is the HBA at a supported FW level? If the HBA is a SCSI-320? If so, have you tried setting it to 160, there is an issue when the drive or library is on a 320 channel. Is the drive visible under W2K? Met vriendelijke groet, with kind regards, Richard van Denzel -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Mario Behring Verzonden: dinsdag 10 oktober 2006 22:45 Aan: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Onderwerp: [ADSM-L] tsm not recognizing tape unit Hi list, I have the following environment: TSM 5.3.2 Server running on a W2K box IBM ULTRIUM III LTO 3580 connected via SCSI I´ve installed the windows certified driver downloaded from the ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Windows/Win2000/Latest/ and ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Windows/Win2000/LTO_WHQL_Cert.I´ve tried both versions...looks like that only the certified one works.the install output is below: Running installation application, version 6.1.3.5. Preparing system for driver installation... Uninstalling existing tape drives... Existing tape drives successfully uninstalled. Installing/updating the tape bus enumerator... Successfully installed/updated the tape bus enumerator. Installing driver for tape drives... Driver for tape drives installed. Program successful. I´ve also disabled the Windows Removable Storage service. Unfortunatelly TSM does not recognize the tape unit. I´ve tried this with and without the TSM Device Driver. Looks like TSM Device Driver does not support the IBM LTO Ultrium tape unitsThe output from the tsmdlst command is as follows: tsmdlst Tivoli Storage Manager -- Device List Utility Licensed Materials - Property of IBM 5697-TSM (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 2000, 2005. All rights reserved. U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corporation. Computer Name: TIVOLI OS Version: 5.0 OS Build #: 2195
Re: TSM and Junction Points
Remember, I'm using mounted volumes, not DFS. I wasn't sure which you were using. If you are mounting a volume to a directory, instead of assigning it a drive letter, then you should see the two or more filespaces. If you are using DFS, then I'm clueless. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of LeBlanc, Patricia Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 7:01 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM and Junction Points I don't see both filespaces as you listed below. I only see one for the drive itself. hmmm -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thorneycroft, Doug Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 5:12 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM and Junction Points We use windows mount points (mounting a logical drive to an empty directory on another drive) The mount point is backed up and restored as an empty directory. the drive that is mounted, and the data in it is stored as a separate filespace. (We don't use DFS) Take a close look at q filespace for the server and see what's there. Do you see something like \\servername\d$ \\servername\d$\mountedvolume In this case, the mounted volume is the botton filespace. the top filespace is the drive containing the directory used as a mountpoint. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of LeBlanc, Patricia Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 1:19 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM and Junction Points Have a windows server with junction points set up. My understanding is that I need to include DFSBackupmntpnt YES In my dsm.opt on the server. I have included this. Just did a whole server restore and the directory got restored as a junction point when I look thru ms-dos, but no files are in it. Additionally, when I open the GUI to backup, the folders don't contain any data in the GUI viewbut they do when I look on the server itself. Any help on junction points is appreciated. Thought we had this figured out. Thanks,
Re: TSM and Junction Points
Just a thought. Have you tried running the GUI, Going into Backup, and trying to follow the path in the selection windows? Also, check the permissions at the root of the drive, make sure that the account running the backup has full control to the root and see what happens. (it's a little tricky to set the permissions on a mounted volume, because you have two independent objects to set permissions on. One is the folder used for the mount point, and the other is the logical drive mounted to the folder. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of LeBlanc, Patricia Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 7:01 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM and Junction Points I don't see both filespaces as you listed below. I only see one for the drive itself. hmmm -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thorneycroft, Doug Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 5:12 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM and Junction Points We use windows mount points (mounting a logical drive to an empty directory on another drive) The mount point is backed up and restored as an empty directory. the drive that is mounted, and the data in it is stored as a separate filespace. (We don't use DFS) Take a close look at q filespace for the server and see what's there. Do you see something like \\servername\d$ \\servername\d$\mountedvolume In this case, the mounted volume is the botton filespace. the top filespace is the drive containing the directory used as a mountpoint. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of LeBlanc, Patricia Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 1:19 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM and Junction Points Have a windows server with junction points set up. My understanding is that I need to include DFSBackupmntpnt YES In my dsm.opt on the server. I have included this. Just did a whole server restore and the directory got restored as a junction point when I look thru ms-dos, but no files are in it. Additionally, when I open the GUI to backup, the folders don't contain any data in the GUI viewbut they do when I look on the server itself. Any help on junction points is appreciated. Thought we had this figured out. Thanks,
Re: TSM and Junction Points
We use windows mount points (mounting a logical drive to an empty directory on another drive) The mount point is backed up and restored as an empty directory. the drive that is mounted, and the data in it is stored as a separate filespace. (We don't use DFS) Take a close look at q filespace for the server and see what's there. Do you see something like \\servername\d$ \\servername\d$\mountedvolume In this case, the mounted volume is the botton filespace. the top filespace is the drive containing the directory used as a mountpoint. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of LeBlanc, Patricia Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 1:19 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM and Junction Points Have a windows server with junction points set up. My understanding is that I need to include DFSBackupmntpnt YES In my dsm.opt on the server. I have included this. Just did a whole server restore and the directory got restored as a junction point when I look thru ms-dos, but no files are in it. Additionally, when I open the GUI to backup, the folders don't contain any data in the GUI viewbut they do when I look on the server itself. Any help on junction points is appreciated. Thought we had this figured out. Thanks,
Re: Migrate Inactive Files Feature Proposal
I put out this idea a couple of years ago, It didn't generate a whole lot of interest then. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Orville Lantto Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 12:14 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Migrate Inactive Files Feature Proposal I had an idea over the weekend and would like some comment on its feasibility. With the growing need for disk-to-disk-to-tape backup strategies, it would be very nice to be able to migrate ONLY inactive copies of files out of a storage pool. I can come up with no reason that this should be difficult or impossible to be added as a TSM feature. Any comments? Orville L. Lantto Glasshouse Technologies, Inc.
Re: Mount and write to a specific tape
You can define an additional copy pool, use the define volume command to assign the volume to the new pool, then backup a primary storage pool to the new pool. Since this is an additional copy pool, you can delete the volume when done testing. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Mochnaczewski Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 8:01 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Mount and write to a specific tape Hi Everybody, I am having a strange problem where some newly labelled and initialized tapes once they are taken from the scratch tape pool process get errors regarding the label and the tape is changed to inaccessable and becomes private. I've checked out the tape and checked it in and would like to try and mount the tape and write directly to it to reproduce the problme rather than wait until the tape comes around to be mounted. Is this possible ? My library is a 3494, the drives are 3590, and TSM version is 5.3.2.3 running on AIX 5.2. Rich
Re: restore -ifnewer isn't working
Does the account running the restore have sufficient rights to overwrite the file? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Troy Frank Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 1:55 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: restore -ifnewer isn't working The source server is the Reference time server for our whole tree, and after checking, it is in sync with the target. We'd be having a lot more problems anyway with nds sync if they were that far out of whack. There are files on the target with a 7/25 date, that still haven't been overwritten by files on the source with a 8/11 date. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/14/2006 3:18 PM -ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote: - I've got a poor man's replication job setup to, twice a day, backup a folder on one server and restore it to a different server (both netware). I realize this isn't real replication (deletes from the source don't happen on the target), but it's good enough for now. The problem I'm having is that the restore job is failing to overwrite target files when the source is newer. I get a ANS1946W message in dsmerror.log , and it says the file was skipped because it already exists on target. Which is true, but the newer version from the source should've overwrote it. I've listed my restore command line below... restore -fromnode=np-fa1 -replace=all -ifnewer -subdir=yes np-fa1/Vol1:\Data\Share\Epic\* ne-fa1/vol1:\Data\Share\ Are thre clocks on the two Netware systems synchronized? Confidentiality Notice follows: The information in this message (and the documents attached to it, if any) is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken, or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error, please delete all electronic copies of this message (and the documents attached to it, if any), destroy any hard copies you may have created and notify me immediately by replying to this email. Thank you.
Re: VTL Sepaton vs SUN/STK(FalconStor)
A few VTL's are on TSM's supported devices list) In theory, a VTL will work with TSM, as long as it emulates a TSM supported library, but it's comforting to know that the one you buy has been tested in a TSM environment. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 1:28 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: VTL Sepaton vs SUN/STK(FalconStor) I have been reviewing many VTL solutions for use in our TSM environment. I am curious to know what other vendors you considered and eliminated. There are many out there. I am also wondering if you considered the data-reduction or de-duplication capabilities of the various products. This is a relatively new technology that is being added to many VTL products. Sepaton has announced theirs, and I believe that FalconStor will have this at some point too. Some advantages that I see with Septaton's product are that they are TSM-aware, particularly in their de-duplication technology, and also they have scalable performance. If you went with FalconStor, would you buy your own disk storage and use their software? Or would you buy one of the products that is based on FalconStor (there are many)? I'm also intrigued by Diligent's product and wondered if you had considered them or not. And if you eliminated them, what your reasons were (if you care to share). Sepaton seems to have gotten some traction, particularly in the TSM space. I'm not so sure about Diligent. Sepaton's deduplication engine is out-of-band. That is to say that the deduplication is done after the fact. Diligent's is in-band. There are pros and cons for doing it each way, I guess. ..Paul At 04:02 PM 8/11/2006, you wrote: We've narrowed down our search for a VTL appliance to use with TSM to the 2 subject vendors. I'd like to hear the pros/ cons from the TSM users community on their experiences with these devices: Reliability, vendor service, performance etc. All comments welcomed. Larry Peifer TSM / AIX Administrator -- Paul ZarnowskiPh: 607-255-4757 Manager, Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801Em: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: restore directly from copy pool tapes
You can update all the primary tapes to unavailable -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Hammersley Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 7:40 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: restore directly from copy pool tapes I'm working on a disaster recovery scenario where our TSM server (AIX) and tape library (3584)that has 90 LTO tapes in tape pools is destroyed and several other servers are destroyed. We have approx. 85 copy pool tapes off site. Our thought is to recreate the TSM server via mksysb, restore the TSM database, etc. Then get several of our critical other systems up and restore their data by using the copy pool tapes and then recreate the tapes in the tape pools in the tape library. How does one set up the recreated TSM server so that it does not think that the tape pool tapes are in the tape library ? How does one restore from copy pool tapes ? Are we going about this in a realistic way ? Thank you. Richard
