Re: Printing labels locally for LTO tapes (physically)
We have used this site in the past, actually back when it was completely free. http://www.mytapelabels.com/ we use Avery 6577 labels in our HP color laser and they are crisp and they stick like crazy. David Tyree System Administrator South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Langdale Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 07:43 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Printing labels locally for LTO tapes (physically) I've done it - generally in an emergency though. I've found all of the IBM libraries to be very forgiving of rather amateurish looking lables. I've only ever done them on a laser printers though. Getting them to stick (and stay) on is always the most challenging bit! Steven On 16 January 2015 at 12:01, Nick Laflamme n...@laflamme.us wrote: Does anyone have any experience with trying to produce labels in-house to relabel physically LTO tapes? We’re going to start using different series of barcode labels as we start working with outside customers; I want to know just by looking at a tape whose data should be on that tape. My manager is worried that if we stock on up tapes as we add each customer, we may end up with too many for one customer and not enough for another, so he wants to be able to physically relabel the tapes. I found one article from HP warning against using inkjets or even “office quality” laser printers as being insufficiently precise for the job. They also warn about alignment issues, and I can imagine issues with labels falling off. However, before I say, “No, we shouldn’t even try; we should work with our tape vendor if we need to relabel tapes,” I want to make sure I’m not running contrary to actual experiences. So, have you tried printing your own labels for LTO tapes, and how’d that work out? Thanks, Nick
Re: corrupted db on test system
I've looked over the log file but no one here speaks db2. David Tyree System Administrator South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Loon, EJ van (ITOPT3) - KLM Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 03:43 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] corrupted db on test system Hi David! I think so too. Did you check the db2diag.log for additional messages? Otherwise It might be a good moment to open a PMR... Kind regards, Eric van Loon AF/KLM Storage Engineering -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: maandag 17 november 2014 16:38 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: corrupted db on test system Since Friday afternoon. I'm pretty sure it should be done by now... David Tyree System Administrator South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Loon, EJ van (ITOPT3) - KLM Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 10:27 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] corrupted db on test system Hi David! Sql code 1117 means SQLE_RC_ROLLFWD_PEND ( -1117 ). From the message manual: SQLE_RC_ROLLFWD_PEND ( -1117 ) indicates a database Roll Forward operation is pending and must complete before activating the database. After the Roll Forward recovery step is complete, the database can be activated by starting the server. How long are you waiting? Kind regards, Eric van Loon AF/KLM Storage Engineering -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: maandag 17 november 2014 15:06 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: corrupted db on test system I guess I'm further along but after I got the database restored I tried to restart the TSM box and it's not coming up. I'm getting: ANR0238E A database recovery task is prohibiting activation of TSMDB1 with sqlcode -1117. Not much success getting an idea what that actually means... Any suggestions? David Tyree System Administrator South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 -Original Message- From: Tyree, David Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 16:23 To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Subject: RE: corrupted db on test system I manually put the tape in the library and then did some hacking around in the devconfig file to tell TSM just where the tape was. Fired off the restore db command again and I saw the library mount the correct tape. Now I'm seeing a db restore running so I think I'm in business now. I understand that a db restore takes about 2 to 3 times as long as a db backup so it should finish in about 3 hours or so... Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. David Tyree System Administrator South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 15:46 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] corrupted db on test system David Tyree wrote- We are running TSM v6.3.1 on a test box and we had a drive fail and it has a corrupted database now and won't start. I did the dsmserv remove db tsmdb1 to get rid of the old database and now I'm about to start the actual database restore. While I was waiting for the offsite database backup tape to be brought back onsite I issued the dsmserv restore db to see what would happen. It failed like I expected because it couldn't find the tape in the library. At least it's seeing the library and all the drives. My question is how do I check in that tape to the library? I can physically put the tape in the library but until TSM knows that it's actually checked in I'm stuck. TSM won't see it until it's checked in but TSM is down. How would I be able to read that tape once I get it on site? The restore process gets all its information about tape volumes from the volume history file and possibly the device configuration file. One approach recommended by some TSM sites is to use a device configuration file modified to show a manual library and then use a library control utility to mount the tape when requested. If you want to use a device configuration files that shows the actual library type, the process depends on the type of library. For a SCSI library you would need to get the tape into the library and add a volume location record for the volume to the device configuration file. For a 3494 I think you would just need to put the volume in the library and use a library control utility to set the category appropriately. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital The information contained in this transmission contains privileged and confidential information. It is intended only
Re: corrupted db on test system
I guess I'm further along but after I got the database restored I tried to restart the TSM box and it's not coming up. I'm getting: ANR0238E A database recovery task is prohibiting activation of TSMDB1 with sqlcode -1117. Not much success getting an idea what that actually means... Any suggestions? David Tyree System Administrator South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 -Original Message- From: Tyree, David Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 16:23 To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Subject: RE: corrupted db on test system I manually put the tape in the library and then did some hacking around in the devconfig file to tell TSM just where the tape was. Fired off the restore db command again and I saw the library mount the correct tape. Now I'm seeing a db restore running so I think I'm in business now. I understand that a db restore takes about 2 to 3 times as long as a db backup so it should finish in about 3 hours or so... Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. David Tyree System Administrator South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 15:46 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] corrupted db on test system David Tyree wrote- We are running TSM v6.3.1 on a test box and we had a drive fail and it has a corrupted database now and won't start. I did the dsmserv remove db tsmdb1 to get rid of the old database and now I'm about to start the actual database restore. While I was waiting for the offsite database backup tape to be brought back onsite I issued the dsmserv restore db to see what would happen. It failed like I expected because it couldn't find the tape in the library. At least it's seeing the library and all the drives. My question is how do I check in that tape to the library? I can physically put the tape in the library but until TSM knows that it's actually checked in I'm stuck. TSM won't see it until it's checked in but TSM is down. How would I be able to read that tape once I get it on site? The restore process gets all its information about tape volumes from the volume history file and possibly the device configuration file. One approach recommended by some TSM sites is to use a device configuration file modified to show a manual library and then use a library control utility to mount the tape when requested. If you want to use a device configuration files that shows the actual library type, the process depends on the type of library. For a SCSI library you would need to get the tape into the library and add a volume location record for the volume to the device configuration file. For a 3494 I think you would just need to put the volume in the library and use a library control utility to set the category appropriately. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital The information contained in this transmission contains privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. CAUTION: Intended recipients should NOT use email communication for emergent or urgent health care matters.
Re: corrupted db on test system
Since Friday afternoon. I'm pretty sure it should be done by now... David Tyree System Administrator South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Loon, EJ van (ITOPT3) - KLM Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 10:27 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] corrupted db on test system Hi David! Sql code 1117 means SQLE_RC_ROLLFWD_PEND ( -1117 ). From the message manual: SQLE_RC_ROLLFWD_PEND ( -1117 ) indicates a database Roll Forward operation is pending and must complete before activating the database. After the Roll Forward recovery step is complete, the database can be activated by starting the server. How long are you waiting? Kind regards, Eric van Loon AF/KLM Storage Engineering -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: maandag 17 november 2014 15:06 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: corrupted db on test system I guess I'm further along but after I got the database restored I tried to restart the TSM box and it's not coming up. I'm getting: ANR0238E A database recovery task is prohibiting activation of TSMDB1 with sqlcode -1117. Not much success getting an idea what that actually means... Any suggestions? David Tyree System Administrator South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 -Original Message- From: Tyree, David Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 16:23 To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Subject: RE: corrupted db on test system I manually put the tape in the library and then did some hacking around in the devconfig file to tell TSM just where the tape was. Fired off the restore db command again and I saw the library mount the correct tape. Now I'm seeing a db restore running so I think I'm in business now. I understand that a db restore takes about 2 to 3 times as long as a db backup so it should finish in about 3 hours or so... Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. David Tyree System Administrator South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 15:46 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] corrupted db on test system David Tyree wrote- We are running TSM v6.3.1 on a test box and we had a drive fail and it has a corrupted database now and won't start. I did the dsmserv remove db tsmdb1 to get rid of the old database and now I'm about to start the actual database restore. While I was waiting for the offsite database backup tape to be brought back onsite I issued the dsmserv restore db to see what would happen. It failed like I expected because it couldn't find the tape in the library. At least it's seeing the library and all the drives. My question is how do I check in that tape to the library? I can physically put the tape in the library but until TSM knows that it's actually checked in I'm stuck. TSM won't see it until it's checked in but TSM is down. How would I be able to read that tape once I get it on site? The restore process gets all its information about tape volumes from the volume history file and possibly the device configuration file. One approach recommended by some TSM sites is to use a device configuration file modified to show a manual library and then use a library control utility to mount the tape when requested. If you want to use a device configuration files that shows the actual library type, the process depends on the type of library. For a SCSI library you would need to get the tape into the library and add a volume location record for the volume to the device configuration file. For a 3494 I think you would just need to put the volume in the library and use a library control utility to set the category appropriately. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital The information contained in this transmission contains privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. CAUTION: Intended recipients should NOT use email communication for emergent or urgent health care matters. For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may
corrupted db on test system
We are running TSM v6.3.1 on a test box and we had a drive fail and it has a corrupted database now and won't start. I did the dsmserv remove db tsmdb1 to get rid of the old database and now I'm about to start the actual database restore. While I was waiting for the offsite database backup tape to be brought back onsite I issued the dsmserv restore db to see what would happen. It failed like I expected because it couldn't find the tape in the library. At least it's seeing the library and all the drives. My question is how do I check in that tape to the library? I can physically put the tape in the library but until TSM knows that it's actually checked in I'm stuck. TSM won't see it until it's checked in but TSM is down. How would I be able to read that tape once I get it on site? David Tyree System Administrator South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155
Re: corrupted db on test system
I manually put the tape in the library and then did some hacking around in the devconfig file to tell TSM just where the tape was. Fired off the restore db command again and I saw the library mount the correct tape. Now I'm seeing a db restore running so I think I'm in business now. I understand that a db restore takes about 2 to 3 times as long as a db backup so it should finish in about 3 hours or so... Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. David Tyree System Administrator South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 15:46 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] corrupted db on test system David Tyree wrote- We are running TSM v6.3.1 on a test box and we had a drive fail and it has a corrupted database now and won't start. I did the dsmserv remove db tsmdb1 to get rid of the old database and now I'm about to start the actual database restore. While I was waiting for the offsite database backup tape to be brought back onsite I issued the dsmserv restore db to see what would happen. It failed like I expected because it couldn't find the tape in the library. At least it's seeing the library and all the drives. My question is how do I check in that tape to the library? I can physically put the tape in the library but until TSM knows that it's actually checked in I'm stuck. TSM won't see it until it's checked in but TSM is down. How would I be able to read that tape once I get it on site? The restore process gets all its information about tape volumes from the volume history file and possibly the device configuration file. One approach recommended by some TSM sites is to use a device configuration file modified to show a manual library and then use a library control utility to mount the tape when requested. If you want to use a device configuration files that shows the actual library type, the process depends on the type of library. For a SCSI library you would need to get the tape into the library and add a volume location record for the volume to the device configuration file. For a 3494 I think you would just need to put the volume in the library and use a library control utility to set the category appropriately. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital The information contained in this transmission contains privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. CAUTION: Intended recipients should NOT use email communication for emergent or urgent health care matters.
deduplication status
I've searched the archives but I can't really find the answer I'm looking for. Running on version 6.3.1.0. I have a primary storage pool running dedup. I run the ID DEDUP command, the reclamation command, and the expiration command throughout the daily cycle. I run the Q STGP F=D command to check the Duplicate Data Not Stored numbers and I'm getting 39% right now. Which sounds pretty good, I guess. My question is how to I tell if I'm running the dedup processes aggressively enough. Can I do something to increase that number? I realize that the dedup processes are never really finished because of the new data that is constantly coming in and old data is getting expired. Is there something I can look at to be able to tell if I need to adjust the ID DUP commands I'm running? More processes, less processes or change how long I run it... Something that tells me how much data has not been deduped yet versus how much has been processed. Is that kind of info accessible? David Tyree System Administrator South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155
Re: Backing up desktops/workstations
In our environment we have each of users setup with an individual network share on a server. We then had everyone's My Documents folder mapped to their network share. We ask that the user not keep valuables on their local pc and keep it on mapped drives. That way all the users files are sitting on a server and not on the desktop. We then have assorted excludes to help reduce the mp3 and other files. If the user is required to work with mp3 or other files then they keep those files in a separate mapped drive related to the department they are working in. Instead of backing up countless desktops and related issues we just back a couple of servers. David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 10:42 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing up desktops/workstations I am looking for war-stories, experiences, suggestions, ideas from you folks that have implemented backing up desktop machines, which could expand into thousands of additional TSM nodes. I have been tasked with looking into doing this. The current guidelines is to only backup 'documents and settings/users' folder, excluding all music files (mp3/wmv/wav/flac/ogg). My first thought is to stand-up a new server (or two). Create a default policy-domain with short retention (30-days or less) with few copies (2) and a cloptset with an exclude everything and include doc settings/users plus exclude or the music files. -- *Zoltan Forray* TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html
Re: issue with offsite reclamation
I run reclaim stg offsitecopy thre=60 du=600 to kick off the process. Sometime I vary the duration or threshold but I still get this error every time and I get it almost continuously: ANRD Thread32 issued message from: ANRD Thread32 07FEF7A56A99 OutDiagToCons()+159 ANRD Thread32 07FEF7A504EC outDiagfExt()+fc ANRD Thread32 07FEF74D63DC AfRclmOnsiteVols()+20fc ANRD Thread32 07FEF74D6B5F AfRclmVolumeThread()+1bf ANRD Thread32 07FEF72782A4 startThread()+124 ANRD Thread32 73211D9F endthreadex()+43 ANRD Thread32 73211E3B endthreadex()+df ANRD Thread32 76D5652D BaseThreadInitThunk()+d ANRD Thread32 76E8C521 RtlUserThreadStart()+21 ANRD_1147918115 RclmOffsiteVols(afrclm.c:2975) Thread32: Error 3051 queuing storage pool volumes for offsite reclamation. Offsite reclamation processing may be incomplete. Out of about 175 offsite tapes I have about 30-40 below the 55% mark. David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of James Choate Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 10:35 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] issue with offsite reclamation Hi David. When you run reclamation on your offsite volumes, what is the command you run? You also said you get a few tapes back, but that you get error. What error message are you constantly getting? And, last but not least, you mention that a lot of the offsite volumes have a percent utilization of less than 25%. I usually run the following query to show me what is reclaimable. select volume_name,stgpool_name,pct_utilized,PCT_RECLAIM from volumes where pct_reclaim55 I usually reclaim tapes that have min of 55% - 60% reclaimable space. ~james -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 7:52 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: issue with offsite reclamation Sorry might be a misunderstanding here. I don't have an offsite server. I trying to do reclamation on offsite volumes or trying too. I get a few tapes back sometimes but I'm constantly getting that error message. A lot of the offsite volumes have a percent utilization of less than 25% that should be reclaiming. David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Arbogast, Warren K Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:34 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] issue with offsite reclamation David, If cartridges aren't coming back, you may need to run 'reconcile volumes' . Don't combine 'reconcile volumes' of a virtual-volume based copypool on the on-site server with reclamation of the primary target pool on the offsite server. tsm: reconcile volumes devcl fix=yes Keith Arbogast Indiana University
Re: issue with offsite reclamation
I just started a reclamation process to make sure but all I get is a message saying that the reclamation process started then the errors show up. Looks like call to IBM is next... David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Langdale Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 9:15 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] issue with offsite reclamation David Absolutely no other messages jsut before the ANRD's? Either way, I think your looking at logging a call with IBM (if you've not already). Steven On 5 December 2012 13:22, Tyree, David david.ty...@sgmc.org wrote: I run reclaim stg offsitecopy thre=60 du=600 to kick off the process. Sometime I vary the duration or threshold but I still get this error every time and I get it almost continuously: ANRD Thread32 issued message from: ANRD Thread32 07FEF7A56A99 OutDiagToCons()+159 ANRD Thread32 07FEF7A504EC outDiagfExt()+fc ANRD Thread32 07FEF74D63DC AfRclmOnsiteVols()+20fc ANRD Thread32 07FEF74D6B5F AfRclmVolumeThread()+1bf ANRD Thread32 07FEF72782A4 startThread()+124 ANRD Thread32 73211D9F endthreadex()+43 ANRD Thread32 73211E3B endthreadex()+df ANRD Thread32 76D5652D BaseThreadInitThunk()+d ANRD Thread32 76E8C521 RtlUserThreadStart()+21 ANRD_1147918115 RclmOffsiteVols(afrclm.c:2975) Thread32: Error 3051 queuing storage pool volumes for offsite reclamation. Offsite reclamation processing may be incomplete. Out of about 175 offsite tapes I have about 30-40 below the 55% mark. David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of James Choate Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 10:35 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] issue with offsite reclamation Hi David. When you run reclamation on your offsite volumes, what is the command you run? You also said you get a few tapes back, but that you get error. What error message are you constantly getting? And, last but not least, you mention that a lot of the offsite volumes have a percent utilization of less than 25%. I usually run the following query to show me what is reclaimable. select volume_name,stgpool_name,pct_utilized,PCT_RECLAIM from volumes where pct_reclaim55 I usually reclaim tapes that have min of 55% - 60% reclaimable space. ~james -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 7:52 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: issue with offsite reclamation Sorry might be a misunderstanding here. I don't have an offsite server. I trying to do reclamation on offsite volumes or trying too. I get a few tapes back sometimes but I'm constantly getting that error message. A lot of the offsite volumes have a percent utilization of less than 25% that should be reclaiming. David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Arbogast, Warren K Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:34 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] issue with offsite reclamation David, If cartridges aren't coming back, you may need to run 'reconcile volumes' . Don't combine 'reconcile volumes' of a virtual-volume based copypool on the on-site server with reclamation of the primary target pool on the offsite server. tsm: reconcile volumes devcl fix=yes Keith Arbogast Indiana University
Re: issue with offsite reclamation
Sorry might be a misunderstanding here. I don't have an offsite server. I trying to do reclamation on offsite volumes or trying too. I get a few tapes back sometimes but I'm constantly getting that error message. A lot of the offsite volumes have a percent utilization of less than 25% that should be reclaiming. David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Arbogast, Warren K Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:34 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] issue with offsite reclamation David, If cartridges aren't coming back, you may need to run 'reconcile volumes' . Don't combine 'reconcile volumes' of a virtual-volume based copypool on the on-site server with reclamation of the primary target pool on the offsite server. tsm: reconcile volumes devcl fix=yes Keith Arbogast Indiana University
issue with offsite reclamation
I noticed that I wasn't getting as many tapes back that though I should get and I dug a little deeper and found an error popping up in the activity log: ANRD Thread32 issued message from: ANRD Thread32 07FEF7A56A99 OutDiagToCons()+159 ANRD Thread32 07FEF7A504EC outDiagfExt()+fc ANRD Thread32 07FEF74D63DC AfRclmOnsiteVols()+20fc ANRD Thread32 07FEF74D6B5F AfRclmVolumeThread()+1bf ANRD Thread32 07FEF72782A4 startThread()+124 ANRD Thread32 73211D9F endthreadex()+43 ANRD Thread32 73211E3B endthreadex()+df ANRD Thread32 76D5652D BaseThreadInitThunk()+d ANRD Thread32 76E8C521 RtlUserThreadStart()+21 ANRD_1147918115 RclmOffsiteVols(afrclm.c:2975) Thread32: Error 3051 queuing storage pool volumes for offsite reclamation. Offsite reclamation processing may be incomplete. I get this error whenever i kick off the process. Im running TSM 6.3.1.0 on Windows 2008 R2. David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155
Re: hypothetical situation with dedup turned on
You hit the nail right on the head. Is TSM smart enough to trigger another backup and then fix any issues that might occur because of dedup? David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Alex Paschal Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 1:09 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] hypothetical situation with dedup turned on Hi, David. You can still do as you're already doing: audit volume fix=yes to find the damaged blocks, then do a move data against the good data. That would leave the unreadable data on the volume. If the copypool volume is unavailable for a restore volume, then the only thing you could do is delete volume discarddata=yes and take the concomitant loss of data that refers to the bad blocks. TSM should then re-back up that data during the next full incremental backup. (Full incremental? Oxymoron! Also, maybe too much vodka. Stoli's Orange, tonight. ;-) Question for the IBMers: Is TSM smart enough to delete all of the file objects that refer to the deduped/damaged/discarded blocks? I would expect so, especially with the ~new DB2 referential integrity enforcement, but I think that's exactly what David's question is getting at. Could we get an authoritative answer on that? And a more egg-head question from me: if a few damaged blocks are inside an aggregate, my understanding is that the entire aggregate would be marked bad during the audit, which means TSM wouldn't be able to move data reconstruct=yes, which would cause a larger footprint of data loss. Is my hypothesis correct? Hmm. Now that I think about it, CRC would have to be enabled on the stgpool to detect those few bad blocks within an aggregate, otherwise the headers/magic numbers for the aggregate/blocks would still be readable/good and the aggregate would audit as intact. Thoughts? Another question: do file volumes get magic numbers? Haha (Sorry, I blame the vodka.) On 11/15/2012 12:58 PM, Tyree, David wrote: This a hypothetical situation. In this situation the needed tape from the copy pool is not available. I realize that the data would be lost but how what you do next? if we were still running v5 of TSM we would do a move data (MOVE VOL XXX) to save what we could then delete the volume (DEL VOL XXX). We would lose some data but the next backup cycle would rebackup any missing active data. Since we are now running v6 with dedup it seems like the process would be different. Each volume no longer contains a complete set of files. They now contain parts of files. David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Grigori Solonovitch Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 2:58 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] hypothetical situation with dedup turned on Have you tried to use standard copy pol to recover any problems in primary pool? Grigori G. Solonovitch Senior Technical Architect Ahli United Bank Kuwait www.ahliunited.com.kw Please consider the environment before printing this E-mail -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 10:36 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] hypothetical situation with dedup turned on I've had some sys admins ask me about a possible situation with using dedup on our primary storage pool. We are currently using dedup and I can't come up with a good answer. Ok, our primary storage pool is using dedup. Something (corruption, whatever) happens to one of the files in the primary pool and the data needed to recover the file in the primary pool is not available. I attempt to do a restore of the corrupt file and the needed tape is not available. How would I go about fixing that kind of a situation? Back before we started using dedup we could just do a move volume to save what we could and then do a delete volume and the next backup of the server would straighten everything out. We might lose inactive copies but the next backup cycle would catch the missing active files. With the way dedup works I'm not sure what we would do. Any suggestions? David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 Please consider the environment before printing this Email. CONFIDENTIALITY AND WAIVER: The information contained in this electronic mail message and any attachments hereto may be legally privileged and confidential. The information is intended only for the recipient(s) named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that any use, disclosure
Re: hypothetical situation with dedup turned on
This a hypothetical situation. In this situation the needed tape from the copy pool is not available. I realize that the data would be lost but how what you do next? if we were still running v5 of TSM we would do a move data (MOVE VOL XXX) to save what we could then delete the volume (DEL VOL XXX). We would lose some data but the next backup cycle would rebackup any missing active data. Since we are now running v6 with dedup it seems like the process would be different. Each volume no longer contains a complete set of files. They now contain parts of files. David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Grigori Solonovitch Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 2:58 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] hypothetical situation with dedup turned on Have you tried to use standard copy pol to recover any problems in primary pool? Grigori G. Solonovitch Senior Technical Architect Ahli United Bank Kuwait www.ahliunited.com.kw Please consider the environment before printing this E-mail -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 10:36 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] hypothetical situation with dedup turned on I've had some sys admins ask me about a possible situation with using dedup on our primary storage pool. We are currently using dedup and I can't come up with a good answer. Ok, our primary storage pool is using dedup. Something (corruption, whatever) happens to one of the files in the primary pool and the data needed to recover the file in the primary pool is not available. I attempt to do a restore of the corrupt file and the needed tape is not available. How would I go about fixing that kind of a situation? Back before we started using dedup we could just do a move volume to save what we could and then do a delete volume and the next backup of the server would straighten everything out. We might lose inactive copies but the next backup cycle would catch the missing active files. With the way dedup works I'm not sure what we would do. Any suggestions? David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 Please consider the environment before printing this Email. CONFIDENTIALITY AND WAIVER: The information contained in this electronic mail message and any attachments hereto may be legally privileged and confidential. The information is intended only for the recipient(s) named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that any use, disclosure, copying or distribution is prohibited. If you have received this in error please contact the sender and delete this message and any attachments from your computer system. We do not guarantee that this message or any attachment to it is secure or free from errors, computer viruses or other conditions that may damage or interfere with data, hardware or software.
hypothetical situation with dedup turned on
I've had some sys admins ask me about a possible situation with using dedup on our primary storage pool. We are currently using dedup and I can't come up with a good answer. Ok, our primary storage pool is using dedup. Something (corruption, whatever) happens to one of the files in the primary pool and the data needed to recover the file in the primary pool is not available. I attempt to do a restore of the corrupt file and the needed tape is not available. How would I go about fixing that kind of a situation? Back before we started using dedup we could just do a move volume to save what we could and then do a delete volume and the next backup of the server would straighten everything out. We might lose inactive copies but the next backup cycle would catch the missing active files. With the way dedup works I'm not sure what we would do. Any suggestions? David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155
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: disabe/enable a sched via command line
I have about a dozen schedules but I would like to be able deactivate a couple of them and not affect the others. David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 1:29 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] disabe/enable a sched via command line How about DISABLE SESSIONS? That would not stop schedules, but would disallow the node connection. Still allows mgmt access, doesn't require an edit to opt nor a restart. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Department of Administration/COMPACT harold.vandeven...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary D. Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 12:23 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] 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
licensing question
We are thinking about adding an additional TSM server to our environment to use for an offsite DR. Basically we would duplicate our onsite data to the new offsite TSM server. How would we go about licensing for the additional server? Or does it matter? Thanks David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155
Re: TSM 6.2 Admin Center and IE 7.
Basically the same here. IE7 is way too slow and FF 3.6.16 is just right. 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. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 4:12 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.2 Admin Center and IE 7. I've installed TSM 6.2.2 and its related Admin Center on powerful Windows 2008 R2 servers. My issue seems to be using IE 7 as the interface to Admin Center. It takes up to a minute to change tabs from Storage Devices to Manage Servers. Similar delays and frequent script timeout errors when changing from one area to another or clicking update table. I looked at Admin Center server performance a bit (CPU%, etc) but didn't see any obvious roadblocks. On a whim, I tried Firefox 3.6.10. The difference: nearly instantaneous refresh of the Admin Center screens using Firefox. Is anyone else seeing a similar behavior or is it just my workstation? Thanks for any comments; Harold.
Re: reclamation question
On occasion I have deleted a vol from a copypool when the percent utilized number dropped to a couple of percent. In our setup we have three identical data pools so we should ok but it's not something I do very often. I have watched the offsite reclamation process sit there for most of an hour or more just thinking about it before it would load a tape and get to work. I'm kinda ok with that because of all the work going on under the hood. 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. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 2:48 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation question A more draconian method (not recommended) is to perform a Delete Volume for the copy storage pool volumes you would reclaim, where their former content would be freshly written to tape in the next Backup Stgpool. That leaves you with one less copy of the data, of course, so not the best approach. The reclamation of offsite copy pool tapes can put a drag on your TSM server, as the processing involves inventorying the files on the offsite tape to be reclaimed, then identifying the onsite tapes containing the files, and compile that into a list ordered so as to minimize mounts and repositioning. That can be a lot of database work, which can be observable as reclamation processing seems to pause for a time. Where realistic, I like to bring a batch of offsite tapes back onsite, check them all in at once, then start reclaiming, where the span-from and span-to companion volumes are thus likely to be mountable, preventing the process from having to revert to primary pool tapes for the duration of the volume reclaim because of the spanning. (It continues using the surrogate primary pool volume(s) even after having gotten past a span into the volume being reclaimed, where such processing can result in a bunch of primary pool tape mounts and think time between each, resulting in a reclaim which can run about 8x slower than a straight reclaim.) You can spot check for spanning by performing Query Content Volser F=D Count=1 for a span-into condition, and Query Content Volser F=D Count=-1 for span-out-of. To assess process progress, I employ a macro called 'processes', whose contents are: SELECT Char(PROCESS_NUM,6) as Number, PROCESS as Process , - Left(Char(START_TIME),19) as Start Time , - FILES_PROCESSED as Files , Char(BYTES_PROCESSED,14) as Bytes , - STATUS as StatusFROM PROCESSES This is more useful than Query PRocess in that you can directly see how much data has been checkpoint committed, not just how much has been physically operated upon thus far. Richard Sims http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts
Re: reclamation question
That sounds interesting, I might need to give that a shot. thanks 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. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 1:38 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation question Or just mark them offsite, even though they are still in the library. You could create a script that does update vol * wherestgpool=onsitecopy access=offsite before you start reclamation, then reverse it when reclamation finishes. W -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary D. Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 1:26 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation question About the only way I can think of to do this is to mark the onsite copy pool volumes as unavailable. This would force data to be pulled from the primary file pool. The reason it does this for the offsite pool, is that offsite volumes are presumed to be unavailable, thus data must be pulled from the primary source. Hope this helps. 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: Monday, April 11, 2011 12:54 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] reclamation question We have three storage pools, the primary pool is a devtype FILE and the two copy pools are devtype LTO3. The offsite copy pools gets transferred offsite via DRM. Whenever I run a reclamation on the offsite copy pool the system grabs a scratch tape and then copies files from the primary pool and starts filling up tapes. I'm perfectly happy with that process. I have an issue when I do the reclamation of onsite tapes. It loads up a tape (might be scratch) and then another tape to copy the data from. It ends up doing a tape to tape copy. In a way it uses twice as many tape mounts as an offsite reclamation. And since I only have 6 drives it kinda cramps up my options sometimes. Is there a way to do a reclamation of the onsite copy pool and have it pull data from the primary pool instead of doing a tape to tape copy? I mean it can do it for the offsite pool, why not the onsite as well? 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.
reclamation question
We have three storage pools, the primary pool is a devtype FILE and the two copy pools are devtype LTO3. The offsite copy pools gets transferred offsite via DRM. Whenever I run a reclamation on the offsite copy pool the system grabs a scratch tape and then copies files from the primary pool and starts filling up tapes. I'm perfectly happy with that process. I have an issue when I do the reclamation of onsite tapes. It loads up a tape (might be scratch) and then another tape to copy the data from. It ends up doing a tape to tape copy. In a way it uses twice as many tape mounts as an offsite reclamation. And since I only have 6 drives it kinda cramps up my options sometimes. Is there a way to do a reclamation of the onsite copy pool and have it pull data from the primary pool instead of doing a tape to tape copy? I mean it can do it for the offsite pool, why not the onsite as well? 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: Using TSM to restore a mailbox
Nice. Have you seen something similar using TSM? 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. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Storer, Raymond Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 5:27 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Using TSM to restore a mailbox David, Please give these two links a read. I believe you'll find them very instructive. Cmd line http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997694(EXCHG.80).aspx Gui http://www.petri.co.il/using_rsg_in_exchange_2007.htm Ray -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 4:35 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Using TSM to restore a mailbox We are in the process of transitioning from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2007. Our TSM server is at 5.5.4.1 (we are going to 6.x within 6 months or so). We are currently doing legacy backups using the 5.x TDP for Exchange. We plan to start out doing legacy backups with the 6.x TDP on the new server and then switch over to VSS once we get the 6.x TSM server up and running. Currently if a user accidently deletes something from their mailbox we use a product called Exchange Recovery Manager from a company called Quest. I do a TSM restore of an older Exchange backup into the Quest recovery manager and I can then bring back whatever the user lost. We have never used the Quest product as a part of our DR plan, we only use it for accident prone users. At this point we are just learning about all the new features in Exchange 2007 and one of the items we are looking at is the Recovery Storage Group within Exchange 2007. It appears that we can use that group to do essentially the same thing as the Quest product for our accident prone users. It looks like we can do a restore from backup into the Recovery Storage Group and then restore mailboxes and or emails. Are we going down the right road or our we completely off base here? Thanks 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. 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.
Using TSM to restore a mailbox
We are in the process of transitioning from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2007. Our TSM server is at 5.5.4.1 (we are going to 6.x within 6 months or so). We are currently doing legacy backups using the 5.x TDP for Exchange. We plan to start out doing legacy backups with the 6.x TDP on the new server and then switch over to VSS once we get the 6.x TSM server up and running. Currently if a user accidently deletes something from their mailbox we use a product called Exchange Recovery Manager from a company called Quest. I do a TSM restore of an older Exchange backup into the Quest recovery manager and I can then bring back whatever the user lost. We have never used the Quest product as a part of our DR plan, we only use it for accident prone users. At this point we are just learning about all the new features in Exchange 2007 and one of the items we are looking at is the Recovery Storage Group within Exchange 2007. It appears that we can use that group to do essentially the same thing as the Quest product for our accident prone users. It looks like we can do a restore from backup into the Recovery Storage Group and then restore mailboxes and or emails. Are we going down the right road or our we completely off base here? Thanks 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: TDP Exchange indiviual mailbox restore failure
We use a product from Quest Software, for our Exchange 2003. http://www.quest.com/recovery-manager-for-exchange/ they say it supports Exchange 2007 and 2010 as well. Our only experience has been with the 2003 version. And that experience has been great. We use to recover emails that users have accidently deleted. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Bjoern Rackoll Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 7:49 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP Exchange indiviual mailbox restore failure Hi Del, As Cory stated and is documented: For Exchange 2010, both the Client Access (CAS) role and the Mailbox role must be installed on the machine where the Data Protection for Exchange mailbox restore is being performed. yes, I've read that document. Since we cannot go that road, I'm looking for alternatives. Is there any other (probably even third-party) tool that can be used to extract one user's mailbox from a complete Exchange database restore? This is a current limitation that will require a fix from Microsoft and possibly some updates to Data Protection for Exchange to resolve completely. IBM is working with Microsoft to resolve this limitation. Is there any timeframe for that? Any technote by Microsoft? Until a fix is available, the only workaround is to perform the IMR restore on a machine that has the CAS role installed. The machine that has the CAS role installed has no mailbox role, and no access to storage. That will stay that way. I'm sorry to say that IMR with CAS and mailbox roles separated are an absolute requirement in our setup, so if there's no solution in a not-too-long timeframe (and be it with some third-party tool), we have to look for a completely different backup solution for Exchange. Regards, -- Bjoern Rackoll University of Hamburg Regionales Rechenzentrum Zentrale Dienste Schlueterstr. 70 D-20146 Hamburg Tel.: +49 (0)40 42838 - 63 11 Fax: +49 (0)40 42838 - 62 70 Mobil: +49 (0)172 427 0301 E-Mail: bac...@rrz.uni-hamburg.de
Client for Exchange 2007
We are going to be upgrading our current Exchange to Exchange 2007 on a 64bit box in the next few weeks. Our current TSM server is running 5.5.4.1. We will be going to 6.x around the first of the year. I was looking over the doc for the Exchange 2007 client and I noticed that the 6.1.0 client is able to work with our current 5.5.4.1 TSM server. Am I reading this right? I was hoping that we would upgrade the TSM to 6.x first but they decided that they wanted to do the Exchange upgrade first. 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: Client for Exchange 2007
Thanks, I was a little bit worried there. We really need to work on planning around here. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11:26 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Client for Exchange 2007 Yep. 6.1 Exchange client works just fine with a 5.5. server. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11:23 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Client for Exchange 2007 We are going to be upgrading our current Exchange to Exchange 2007 on a 64bit box in the next few weeks. Our current TSM server is running 5.5.4.1. We will be going to 6.x around the first of the year. I was looking over the doc for the Exchange 2007 client and I noticed that the 6.1.0 client is able to work with our current 5.5.4.1 TSM server. Am I reading this right? I was hoping that we would upgrade the TSM to 6.x first but they decided that they wanted to do the Exchange upgrade first. 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: slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2
I just looked at numbers in the host and it's not showing any stress on the server. About the most bump I saw was 10-15% on the CPU. All the other numbers show a very unused box. Policy says that if the vender supports VM then we use it. At this point TSM is not supported on VM so it's staying physical. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Adamson Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 8:43 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2 You should be able to easily confirm if it is in fact an issue regarding the performance of the ESX server by taking a close look at the performance tab of the VM and ESX host. VMware does a pretty good job of providing performance reporting. Personally, I have kept my TSM servers (and Admin Center) on physical hardware. ~Rick Adamson Jax, Fl. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 3:51 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2 Both servers respond promptly when I do stuff via linemode. The test box is running on older hardware and a slower network connection but I can't really tell much difference between the two. I do a lot of things via linemode and have always liked it... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Roger Deschner Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 1:59 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2 Or you could just try entering the linemode commands to do the same thing w/ dsmadmc, and see how long that takes. (e.g. QUERY NODE followed by UPDATE NODE.) SOAPBOX Who knows - you could become a new convert to linemode. They may finally persuade me to install Admin Center when we go to 6.2, but I won't go happily, and I will probably use it as little as possible. I believe in doing simple things simply, which means linemode. /SOAPBOX Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago rog...@uic.edu === The command line is your friend. === (stolen from Andy Raibeck) On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Lindsay Morris wrote: I guess you could watch dsmadmc -console output and see how long TSM is taking to respond to the query. Maybe THAT's the bottleneck. Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Tyree, David david.ty...@sgmc.org wrote: I've watched the task manager server while I'm doing something within the Admin Center and I'm not seeing much of a bump at all. I'm getting a 70% bump on the server when I first log in to admin center but it quickly drop down to about 4-5%. When I go to modify a client and wait for the processing screen to go away I get 40-50% bump on the server when I first hit the modify button then it drops down to background noise. While I'm waiting several seconds for the processing screen to go away the CPU has already dropped down to nothing. I'm seeing bigger bumps on my local machine but nothing really substantially different. I can't really tell any difference between IE or Firefox. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Lindsay Morris Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 2:34 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2 You can watch task manager as you issue a request. If you see IE (or whatever browser you're using) using low CPU for 10 seconds, then see it busy as the page loads, the slowness is somewhere behind that. If you see if busy all 10-15 seconds, then it's your browser, or browser settings. Try Firefox instead of IE; we've seen that make a huge difference on some web apps. You can do similar tricks watching task manager on the Admin Center box. At least you have a repeatable problem. ;-} Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Tyree, David david.ty...@sgmc.org wrote: I'm running a new install of the 6.2.0.0 version of the Storage Manager Admin Center on a VM box. It's loaded on Windows 2008 R2 Standard (64-bit) with a pair of 2.66 GHz CPUs with 4 gig of memory. It's dedicated to TSM support and nothing else is loaded on the machine. It's pointed to a pair of separate TSM servers, the production system running 5.5.4.1 and a test system running 6.1.0.0. According to the product info screen the WebSphere is at 7.5.1.0, Java is Standard Edition IBM Corporation 1.5.0, VM is IBM J9 VM 2.3. The task manager within the OS says the server is not busy at all and appears to have plenty of available power. The numbers from the ESX
Re: slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2
The admin center box is running on a ESX VMWare box and our VM admin has swears the network settings are correct. He has this box set up the same as the 30-40 other VM's we have and they are fine as far as network speeds are concerned. The production TSM (5.5) box is running dual gig nics and has been for a couple years. It's day to day performance a TSM server has always been just fine. I would expect issues with the test TSM (6.1) since it's running on old hardware and only has a single 100 meg nic. But it doesn't matter which of the TSM servers I work with through the admin center. It always seems sluggish. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Harry Husfelt Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 1:52 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2 Have you tried to determine there are any network issues between the machine on which browser runs and the machine on which the AdminCenter is running? Are there any network issues between the machine on which the AdminCenter is running and the machine on which the TSM server is running? I see the AdminCenter is pointing at 2 different TSM servers. Do you get the same performance regardless of the TSM server being used? Harry Husfelt From: Tyree, David david.ty...@sgmc.org To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Date: 06/14/2010 12:06 PM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2 Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu I've watched the task manager server while I'm doing something within the Admin Center and I'm not seeing much of a bump at all. I'm getting a 70% bump on the server when I first log in to admin center but it quickly drop down to about 4-5%. When I go to modify a client and wait for the processing screen to go away I get 40-50% bump on the server when I first hit the modify button then it drops down to background noise. While I'm waiting several seconds for the processing screen to go away the CPU has already dropped down to nothing. I'm seeing bigger bumps on my local machine but nothing really substantially different. I can't really tell any difference between IE or Firefox. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Lindsay Morris Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 2:34 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2 You can watch task manager as you issue a request. If you see IE (or whatever browser you're using) using low CPU for 10 seconds, then see it busy as the page loads, the slowness is somewhere behind that. If you see if busy all 10-15 seconds, then it's your browser, or browser settings. Try Firefox instead of IE; we've seen that make a huge difference on some web apps. You can do similar tricks watching task manager on the Admin Center box. At least you have a repeatable problem. ;-} Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Tyree, David david.ty...@sgmc.org wrote: I'm running a new install of the 6.2.0.0 version of the Storage Manager Admin Center on a VM box. It's loaded on Windows 2008 R2 Standard (64-bit) with a pair of 2.66 GHz CPUs with 4 gig of memory. It's dedicated to TSM support and nothing else is loaded on the machine. It's pointed to a pair of separate TSM servers, the production system running 5.5.4.1 and a test system running 6.1.0.0. According to the product info screen the WebSphere is at 7.5.1.0, Java is Standard Edition IBM Corporation 1.5.0, VM is IBM J9 VM 2.3. The task manager within the OS says the server is not busy at all and appears to have plenty of available power. The numbers from the ESX server also tell me the box isn't being stressed. When I go into the webpage for the Admin Center via IE or Firefox on my desktop (or others) it's just painfully slow. If I want to modify a client node in Client Nodes and Backup Sets tab I have to wait for 10-15 seconds for the page to refresh. Then if I make a change then I have to wait several more seconds for another refresh. And so on. It doesn't matter if I'm hitting the production server or the test server, both take 10-15 seconds for something to happen. I really like the new look of the Admin Center but this is slowness is killing me. Do I have something wrong here? 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
Re: slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2
Both servers respond promptly when I do stuff via linemode. The test box is running on older hardware and a slower network connection but I can't really tell much difference between the two. I do a lot of things via linemode and have always liked it... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Roger Deschner Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 1:59 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2 Or you could just try entering the linemode commands to do the same thing w/ dsmadmc, and see how long that takes. (e.g. QUERY NODE followed by UPDATE NODE.) SOAPBOX Who knows - you could become a new convert to linemode. They may finally persuade me to install Admin Center when we go to 6.2, but I won't go happily, and I will probably use it as little as possible. I believe in doing simple things simply, which means linemode. /SOAPBOX Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago rog...@uic.edu === The command line is your friend. === (stolen from Andy Raibeck) On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Lindsay Morris wrote: I guess you could watch dsmadmc -console output and see how long TSM is taking to respond to the query. Maybe THAT's the bottleneck. Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Tyree, David david.ty...@sgmc.org wrote: I've watched the task manager server while I'm doing something within the Admin Center and I'm not seeing much of a bump at all. I'm getting a 70% bump on the server when I first log in to admin center but it quickly drop down to about 4-5%. When I go to modify a client and wait for the processing screen to go away I get 40-50% bump on the server when I first hit the modify button then it drops down to background noise. While I'm waiting several seconds for the processing screen to go away the CPU has already dropped down to nothing. I'm seeing bigger bumps on my local machine but nothing really substantially different. I can't really tell any difference between IE or Firefox. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Lindsay Morris Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 2:34 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2 You can watch task manager as you issue a request. If you see IE (or whatever browser you're using) using low CPU for 10 seconds, then see it busy as the page loads, the slowness is somewhere behind that. If you see if busy all 10-15 seconds, then it's your browser, or browser settings. Try Firefox instead of IE; we've seen that make a huge difference on some web apps. You can do similar tricks watching task manager on the Admin Center box. At least you have a repeatable problem. ;-} Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Tyree, David david.ty...@sgmc.org wrote: I'm running a new install of the 6.2.0.0 version of the Storage Manager Admin Center on a VM box. It's loaded on Windows 2008 R2 Standard (64-bit) with a pair of 2.66 GHz CPUs with 4 gig of memory. It's dedicated to TSM support and nothing else is loaded on the machine. It's pointed to a pair of separate TSM servers, the production system running 5.5.4.1 and a test system running 6.1.0.0. According to the product info screen the WebSphere is at 7.5.1.0, Java is Standard Edition IBM Corporation 1.5.0, VM is IBM J9 VM 2.3. The task manager within the OS says the server is not busy at all and appears to have plenty of available power. The numbers from the ESX server also tell me the box isn't being stressed. When I go into the webpage for the Admin Center via IE or Firefox on my desktop (or others) it's just painfully slow. If I want to modify a client node in Client Nodes and Backup Sets tab I have to wait for 10-15 seconds for the page to refresh. Then if I make a change then I have to wait several more seconds for another refresh. And so on. It doesn't matter if I'm hitting the production server or the test server, both take 10-15 seconds for something to happen. I really like the new look of the Admin Center but this is slowness is killing me. Do I have something wrong here? 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
slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2
I'm running a new install of the 6.2.0.0 version of the Storage Manager Admin Center on a VM box. It's loaded on Windows 2008 R2 Standard (64-bit) with a pair of 2.66 GHz CPUs with 4 gig of memory. It's dedicated to TSM support and nothing else is loaded on the machine. It's pointed to a pair of separate TSM servers, the production system running 5.5.4.1 and a test system running 6.1.0.0. According to the product info screen the WebSphere is at 7.5.1.0, Java is Standard Edition IBM Corporation 1.5.0, VM is IBM J9 VM 2.3. The task manager within the OS says the server is not busy at all and appears to have plenty of available power. The numbers from the ESX server also tell me the box isn't being stressed. When I go into the webpage for the Admin Center via IE or Firefox on my desktop (or others) it's just painfully slow. If I want to modify a client node in Client Nodes and Backup Sets tab I have to wait for 10-15 seconds for the page to refresh. Then if I make a change then I have to wait several more seconds for another refresh. And so on. It doesn't matter if I'm hitting the production server or the test server, both take 10-15 seconds for something to happen. I really like the new look of the Admin Center but this is slowness is killing me. Do I have something wrong here? 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: slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2
I've watched the task manager server while I'm doing something within the Admin Center and I'm not seeing much of a bump at all. I'm getting a 70% bump on the server when I first log in to admin center but it quickly drop down to about 4-5%. When I go to modify a client and wait for the processing screen to go away I get 40-50% bump on the server when I first hit the modify button then it drops down to background noise. While I'm waiting several seconds for the processing screen to go away the CPU has already dropped down to nothing. I'm seeing bigger bumps on my local machine but nothing really substantially different. I can't really tell any difference between IE or Firefox. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Lindsay Morris Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 2:34 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2 You can watch task manager as you issue a request. If you see IE (or whatever browser you're using) using low CPU for 10 seconds, then see it busy as the page loads, the slowness is somewhere behind that. If you see if busy all 10-15 seconds, then it's your browser, or browser settings. Try Firefox instead of IE; we've seen that make a huge difference on some web apps. You can do similar tricks watching task manager on the Admin Center box. At least you have a repeatable problem. ;-} Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Tyree, David david.ty...@sgmc.org wrote: I'm running a new install of the 6.2.0.0 version of the Storage Manager Admin Center on a VM box. It's loaded on Windows 2008 R2 Standard (64-bit) with a pair of 2.66 GHz CPUs with 4 gig of memory. It's dedicated to TSM support and nothing else is loaded on the machine. It's pointed to a pair of separate TSM servers, the production system running 5.5.4.1 and a test system running 6.1.0.0. According to the product info screen the WebSphere is at 7.5.1.0, Java is Standard Edition IBM Corporation 1.5.0, VM is IBM J9 VM 2.3. The task manager within the OS says the server is not busy at all and appears to have plenty of available power. The numbers from the ESX server also tell me the box isn't being stressed. When I go into the webpage for the Admin Center via IE or Firefox on my desktop (or others) it's just painfully slow. If I want to modify a client node in Client Nodes and Backup Sets tab I have to wait for 10-15 seconds for the page to refresh. Then if I make a change then I have to wait several more seconds for another refresh. And so on. It doesn't matter if I'm hitting the production server or the test server, both take 10-15 seconds for something to happen. I really like the new look of the Admin Center but this is slowness is killing me. Do I have something wrong here? 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: TDP for SQL vs SQL dumps
The DBAs claim they can configure the SQL boxes to send an email with the success/failure of each db dump. As long as somebody actually monitors the emails.. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 4:49 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP for SQL vs SQL dumps That works fine. Upside: No TDP for SQL license required Downside: You (the TSM admin) get no notification if those dumps fail (or accidentally get turned off). I went into a new TSM customer last year and we found 7 out of 12 SQL servers that were supposedly backing up to disk had somehow gotten the backups turned off... -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 3:05 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] 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.
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: reclamation no longer working
I started a reclamation on that pool yesterday afternoon and it sat there for several hours before it finally started moving anything. I guess I got behind doing the reclamation. But that doesn't make any sense because the offsite pool and the onsite pool have the same settings and the same content. Only difference is that one goes off site. I use the same settings when I run reclamation on both pools but I run them at completely different times and the times don't overlap. When I run the onsite copypool script the process starts without delay. The same settings for the offsite copypool takes forever to actually kick off. I guess I'll need to keep a closer eye on things -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 2:17 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working On Thu, 6 May 2010 11:11:34 -0400, Tyree, David david.ty...@sgmc.org said: I've run the threshold up and down from a few percentage points up to 80-90% hoping something would change but no difference. I have plenty of scratch tapes and mount points. Try running one at 99% and _no_ time limit, and expect it to run for days. There's a huge amount of bookkeeping work TSM does at the outset. If you've gotten yourself stuck somewhere, and lots of time has passed, you may have a large backlog. In that case, trying little nibbles is the only way to go. You could also approach this from the -OFFSITERECLAIMLimit--=--number_of_volumes- side, limiting it to just a few at a time. - Allen S. Rout
reclamation no longer working
TSM server 5.4.1.0 running on Windows 2003. I have an offsite copypool that has decided to no longer do reclamation. I noticed that I had far more tapes in that pool that I would have expected. I checked the pct_utilized numbers and saw that the tapes varied from 99% down to just 5-6% utilized. When I manually run the reclamation process and then do q process I see that I have the right number of processes that start up. But the status never changes from showing zero moved files. It just sits there like it's thinking about it but never mounts anything. It runs for the duration I set then closes out. I also moved the duration back and forth from a few minutes to a couple of hours and that didn't help either. I've run the threshold up and down from a few percentage points up to 80-90% hoping something would change but no difference. I have plenty of scratch tapes and mount points. I have another onsite tapepool that is identical. But it will do reclamation just fine. Just for the heck of it I created a new offsite tapepool using essentially the same settings as the old pool and it's appears to run reclamations just fine. Nothing has been changed in the settings for the offsite copypool and the onsite copypool either. 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: reclamation no longer working
Nope, no mention of waiting on a tape and/or volume -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Adamson Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:29 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working When you query the process or mounts does it state that it is waiting on a volume (input or output)? It is possible that one of them is unavailable, and/or mounted by another process. Thank you, ~Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:12 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working TSM server 5.4.1.0 running on Windows 2003. I have an offsite copypool that has decided to no longer do reclamation. I noticed that I had far more tapes in that pool that I would have expected. I checked the pct_utilized numbers and saw that the tapes varied from 99% down to just 5-6% utilized. When I manually run the reclamation process and then do q process I see that I have the right number of processes that start up. But the status never changes from showing zero moved files. It just sits there like it's thinking about it but never mounts anything. It runs for the duration I set then closes out. I also moved the duration back and forth from a few minutes to a couple of hours and that didn't help either. I've run the threshold up and down from a few percentage points up to 80-90% hoping something would change but no difference. I have plenty of scratch tapes and mount points. I have another onsite tapepool that is identical. But it will do reclamation just fine. Just for the heck of it I created a new offsite tapepool using essentially the same settings as the old pool and it's appears to run reclamations just fine. Nothing has been changed in the settings for the offsite copypool and the onsite copypool either. 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: reclamation no longer working
It's on the calender -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Adamson Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 1:20 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working David, Seeing as there have been many, many, fixes since you release I would consider an upgrade to at least the most recent version of 5.4 As a matter of fact a couple of the 5.4.1.1 apars were reclamation related. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21273797 Thank you, ~Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 1:02 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working Nope, no mention of waiting on a tape and/or volume -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Adamson Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:29 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working When you query the process or mounts does it state that it is waiting on a volume (input or output)? It is possible that one of them is unavailable, and/or mounted by another process. Thank you, ~Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:12 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working TSM server 5.4.1.0 running on Windows 2003. I have an offsite copypool that has decided to no longer do reclamation. I noticed that I had far more tapes in that pool that I would have expected. I checked the pct_utilized numbers and saw that the tapes varied from 99% down to just 5-6% utilized. When I manually run the reclamation process and then do q process I see that I have the right number of processes that start up. But the status never changes from showing zero moved files. It just sits there like it's thinking about it but never mounts anything. It runs for the duration I set then closes out. I also moved the duration back and forth from a few minutes to a couple of hours and that didn't help either. I've run the threshold up and down from a few percentage points up to 80-90% hoping something would change but no difference. I have plenty of scratch tapes and mount points. I have another onsite tapepool that is identical. But it will do reclamation just fine. Just for the heck of it I created a new offsite tapepool using essentially the same settings as the old pool and it's appears to run reclamations just fine. Nothing has been changed in the settings for the offsite copypool and the onsite copypool either. 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: reclamation no longer working
I'm doing a move data now. Or trying too. The process has been running for about 30 minutes with zero bytes moved. Nothing showing from a q request, nothing showing from a q mount. All drives online and plenty of mount points. I would expect it to mount a scratch tape and start moving data primary pool to the tape. I guess I'll go ahead and do the update to version 5.5.x sooner than I planned.. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Jorge Amil Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:59 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working I recomend you do a move data with 99% tapes. Regards Jorge Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 11:11:34 -0400 From: david.ty...@sgmc.org Subject: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU TSM server 5.4.1.0 running on Windows 2003. I have an offsite copypool that has decided to no longer do reclamation. I noticed that I had far more tapes in that pool that I would have expected. I checked the pct_utilized numbers and saw that the tapes varied from 99% down to just 5-6% utilized. When I manually run the reclamation process and then do q process I see that I have the right number of processes that start up. But the status never changes from showing zero moved files. It just sits there like it's thinking about it but never mounts anything. It runs for the duration I set then closes out. I also moved the duration back and forth from a few minutes to a couple of hours and that didn't help either. I've run the threshold up and down from a few percentage points up to 80-90% hoping something would change but no difference. I have plenty of scratch tapes and mount points. I have another onsite tapepool that is identical. But it will do reclamation just fine. Just for the heck of it I created a new offsite tapepool using essentially the same settings as the old pool and it's appears to run reclamations just fine. Nothing has been changed in the settings for the offsite copypool and the onsite copypool either. 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. _ Diseñar aplicaciones tiene premio. ¡Si eres desarrollador no esperes más! http://www.imaginemobile.es
Re: reclamation no longer working
After about an hour of waiting the move data finally got rolling. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 2:12 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working On May 6, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Tyree, David wrote: I'm doing a move data now. Or trying too. The process has been running for about 30 minutes with zero bytes moved. Nothing showing from a q request, nothing showing from a q mount. All drives online and plenty of mount points. I would expect it to mount a scratch tape and start moving data primary pool to the tape. In my experience, that is a manifestation of the TSM server running through the database (you should see a lot of disk activity there) compiling a list of all the onsite tapes necessary to represent all the files on the offsite tape which is to be reclaimed. Eventually, this would result in a list of such onsite volumes, in ANR1157I messages - if all goes well. The higher the capacity of the offsite tape, and the more remaining unexpired data on it, the longer this can take. Watch for the conclusion of the Move Data in the Activity Log, one way or the other; and check for abnormalities reflected in that log during the discovery process. There may be some database problems or unavailable onsite tapes thwarting this process. Bringing offsite tapes back and reclaiming them onsite is much faster; but, of course, then that data is not offsite. Richard Sims http://people.bu.edu/rbs/
Re: TSM 6.2
Am I seeing something about capacity based licensing on page 21? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:41 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.2 Here is the announcement letter: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/9/897/ENUS210-029/ENUS210-029.PD F - 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.
Re: SV: TSM 6.2
I'll be a no show at Pulse. I presume you are referring to the cpu2tsm product? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Christian Svensson Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:29 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] SV: TSM 6.2 Only for Space managment. But if you will be at pulse can I show you a easy way to report in all CPUs to TSM Server so you can have a nice spreadsheet with all CPUs/Cores and PVUs Best Regards Christian Svensson Cell: +46-70-325 1577 E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se Skype: cristie.christian.svensson Supported Platform for CPU2TSM:: http://www.cristie.se/cpu2tsm-supported-platforms Från: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ads...@vm.marist.edu] f#246;r Tyree, David [david.ty...@sgmc.org] Skickat: den 17 februari 2010 16:44 Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Ämne: Re: TSM 6.2 Am I seeing something about capacity based licensing on page 21? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:41 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.2 Here is the announcement letter: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/9/897/ENUS210-029/ENUS210-029.PD F - 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.
last 5.x version?
I've looked over the ftp site and Passport Advantage and it looks like the newest (or last?) version of TSM server for Windows is version 5.5.4.0. Is there anything newer that that version? I was looking for the latest non 6.x version to make sure we stay in support until we take the 6.x plunge late this year. Thanks 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: per-terabyte licensing deals...
Can you give us rough idea of the numbers (TSM sever count, number of clients, data volume, etc) you provided to IBM about your TSM environment? I just got our bill for support and I curious about your setup. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Frank Fegert Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 2:35 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] per-terabyte licensing deals... Hello, On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 02:22:42PM -0500, Allen S. Rout wrote: Having seen some discussion of recent sighting of per-TB licensing in the wild, I trundled over to my business partner to get the skinny. Fine BP said no such thing exists to his knowledge. Could one of you fine folks who have actually seen one of these go by provide a few more details, so I can point the hounds in the right direction? well, your BP is - at least from his point of view - right. There actually isn't a pure volume based licensing, it's just a different way to calculate how much PVUs you get for the buck for each TSM product. IMHO the best course of action is: Got directly to your IBM TSM sales rep. Tell them you want a business case for switching to TSM volume based licensing. Don't take not available in your region, yet for an answer, tell them to go figure it out ASAP. If they are uncooperative - which i don't expect from my experience - escalate immediately to the next level and pull the there are other non-IBM backup products card. Your time is just too valuable to go back and forth for weeks on no end. Anyway, you'll be asked a few numbers about your environment: number of clients for each TSM product, number of TSM servers, amount of backup volume (sadly including copy pools), expected growth on all numbers over a course of 3 to 5 years, expected additional client platforms and/or additional TSM products. As soon as they have the numbers and the BC ready, you need to setup a meeting an discuss if volume licensing is an option for you. If so and you prefer to do buisness over your BC, they will receive a offer from IBM to sell the new amount of PVUs for the negotiated amount of money. Again, no volume licenses per se, so even if you decide to switch back again to PVU based licensing after some time, it's no trouble at all, since you only purchased PVUs in the first place! We switched to volume based licensing as of 1st of January. In our environment it made sense, because we have a proportionately high amount of clients compared to the relatively low backup volume. TSM license audit is now only a matter of calculating the sum of all storage pools, so no more CPU counting, no more PVU nitpicking and no sublicensing hassle! As mentioned before, the only drawback is that copy pools do count as well. If it weren't for this, i think IBM would see a lot more buisness coming its way **hint, hint**. HTH best regards, Frank
dumb question about v6.1
I ordered the v6.1 package from Passport Advantage and I was looking it over and noticed something odd. I'm currently running v5.5 of Storage Manager Extended Edition and I have the older packages from Passport Advantage that actually say Extended Edition. This new package for v6.1 just says Storage Manager, nothing about Extended Edition. Did I miss something somewhere? Did I order the wrong package? 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: Cloned Win servers and multiple backups
I think this only work if you had open registration. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Len Boyle Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 9:09 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Cloned Win servers and multiple backups Rick, If your hostnames are unique in of themselves, you can leave the nodename out of the dsm.opt file. TSM will use the hostname for the tsm nodename. If you have clients with the name of xyz.abc.com and xyz.qxr.com then you would have a problem with this scheme. len -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 8:12 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Cloned Win servers and multiple backups This is a strange problem. Once in a while, our Windows support team will clone a Windows server. The clone will have the exact same TSM setup as the source server. I'm not familiar with the Win BA client, but it seems it always has a nodename line for the dsm.sys file, so the clone reports to TSM server that it's the same node as the clone source. They both appear to respond to the same schedule. This results in the new server performing good backups to the exact same node as the server that is the clone source. The end result seems to be to two different servers happily backing up the same TSM node. Obviously what we get is a useless mess. When they clone a system they are supposed to use a source without a TSM setup, or, clean out the TSM setup right away, but sometimes this doesn't happen. I've tried to find a way to detect this from the TSM server, but I'm not coming up with anything obvious. I'm interested if anyone else has fought this problem and what you've done. 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.
end of support for TSM ver5.5?
Anybody have a guess on when EOS for TSM 5.5 will occur? 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: end of support for TSM ver5.5?
Ya, I was looking over that link earlier. I'm looking at going to 6.1 but it might be time to overhaul our hardware first to get the most out if it. As tight as money has gotten around here it's going to be hard getting anything approved. Looks like we will be running 5.5 for a couple years. I'm thinking about doing some bake sales and some car washes to raise money for a new TSM server -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Colin Dawson Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10:16 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] end of support for TSM ver5.5? Howdy, The products are generally supported for 5 years from the date of general availability (GA). So, based on the link that Richard Sims posted, TSM Extended Edition 5.5 GA'ed 14 Dec 2007. Support for 5 years would show an end of service as December 2012. In addition to the standard 5 years of support, it is possible to purchase an extended service contract for an additional 3 years, which would then take the support out to potentially December 2015. Please refer back to the link provided by Richard Sims from time to time... This is updated periodically and will eventually show the TSM 6.1 GA as well as updates for EOS for the existing TSM products. Thanks, Colin - Colin Dawson TSM Server Development col...@us.ibm.com From: Richard Sims r...@bu.edu To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 04/07/2009 06:47 AM Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] end of support for TSM ver5.5? On Apr 7, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Tyree, David wrote: Anybody have a guess on when EOS for TSM 5.5 will occur? http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/eos.html indicates not yet determined.
TSM 6.x and dedupe
Can users of TSM 6.x comment on it's data dedupe functionality? I'm curious as to how it functions and would like some info about it. 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: TSM v6 -announcement
They might want to recheck that time for the webcast. It's listed as starting at 1 AM! I suspect it's at 1 PM. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 2:28 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM v6 -announcement On Feb 13, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Tim Brown wrote: Where can one get information on this offering, is it a web seminar ? Storage Technical Exchange being given 2/26 (8:00 am PST) on an overview of TSM V6 http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/supp_tech_exch.html
Re: ?? TDP for DBs - does it support SQL Express?
Not sure of all the functionality with SQL Express but what about scheduling a DB dump within SQL Express and then letting the standard TSM pick up the dumped files? Would be cheaper as well. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Boyer Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:20 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ?? TDP for DBs - does it support SQL Express? The interesting thing about that I found is that if the SQLServer service is running, the TSM client doesn't even see the MDF/LDF files for the active databases. I mean they just plain don't show up in the list with little X's that say they are excluded. You stop the service and the files are there. Had a similar experience with the latest Oracle and their VSS component. But they at least showed up in the QUERY INCLEXCL list as operating system. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phillip Burgess Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:53 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: ?? TDP for DBs - does it support SQL Express? Hi Lisa The only way I can think of would be to stop the SQL services and then backup the files up with the BA client. You may need to use an old version of the BA client though, as I've read reports that the 5.5 client excludes mdf and ldf files regardless of any includes in the dsm.opt file. Phil From: Laughlin, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 19/11/2008 15:10 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] ?? TDP for DBs - does it support SQL Express? Good Morning! I am looking in the various and sundry locations of documentation for the TDP for DBs to see if it supports SQL Expressand can find nothing. Does anyone know if it works/ is supported? thanks! lisa
backup stgpool issue
I've got something strange going on here. If I run a backup storage pool command from my primary pool to one of my offsite copy pool everything is fine. It will finish whenever it is done. Same when I do a backup to my onsite copy pool. As long as let them finish everything is ok. However, if for some reason I do a cancel on the process things get interesting. I do the cancel on the process and wait for it to finish. I do some q proc's to check to see if it's finished yet. Once it finishes I then go back and start another backup stgpool. I get an error saying that a backup is already in progress. The q proc is coming back with nothing and I do a q mount just for the heck of it and it comes back with nothing mounted. It's like a hidden process that I have no control over and can't monitor. I end up having to halt and restart TSM to get control again. I'm running TSM 5.4.1 on a Windows 2003 box. Any ideas? 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.
TSM version 6.x?
I remember some discussions about some new features that might be included in TSM 6.x whenever it comes out. Wasn't one of those possible features something to do with data de-duplication? We are in the very very early stages of looking at de-dup products and if TSM can do what we need then it might make in the list. It would be a year or more before we implemented anything any way. thanks 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: Vista oddness
Ok, I'll give that a try. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 2:35 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Vista oddness Don't know myself, but someone else posted a while back that the System State on Vista is many GB. That is consistent with what you are seeing - a scheduled backup will do the System State, whether things have changed or not. And selecting the C: drive will not do the system state. As a test, try your backup from thh GUI again, but this time select System STate as well as the C: drive, see if the results change... And please post back the results! On 12/6/07, Tyree, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are testing Vista and I'm seeing something odd. TSM seems to want to do almost a full backup every time it runs automatically. I'm running the 5.5.0 client on a VMware (6.0) Vista Ultimate box that is talking to a TSM server running 5.4.1 on Windows. The backup on the Vista machine is automated using the DSMCAD service. The incremental backup kicks off at the correct time, but it ends up doing a full backup. I've looked through the dsmsched log on the Vista machine and I'm seeing where it has contacted the TSM server and picked up the schedule name and the action. The schedule name is correct and the action is set to incremental. And several lines in the dsmsched log mention Incremental backup of '\\is-vista-test-d\c$' finished. The log shows everything just like what I would expect to say, the issue is that it ends up backing up almost 8 gigs of files each time the backup runs. I've run scheduled incremental backups almost back to back on the machine and it picks up 8 gigs each time. The machine is just sitting there between backups; I'm not doing anything on the machine in between. If I open the GUI and tag the c drive for incremental backup it goes out and looks at all the files on the drive and backs up a few dozen files and it done. Just like I would expect it to. If I go to the baclient folder and run dsmc incr from the command line it ends up doing what looks like a full backup. In the last couple of hours I had a scheduled backup run that moved about 8 gigs worth of files. Right after that finished I did a c drive backup from the GUI. It moved a few hundred megs of files. Right behind that I did the dsmc incr. So far it's moved over 4 gig of files and is still running. Anybody got a idea what's going on here? PS, Vista looks good. Except most of our software doesn't run. The UAC (User Account Control) is a real piece of work. And they have moved everything around so you can't find what you're looking for. But at least it looks good 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: Vista oddness
I did a backup using the GUI and selected system state along with the C: drive. The backup was 8 gig when it finished. I went back and did a C: drive only and it was only a few hundred meg. Then I did a system state only and got the 8 gig again. That system state in Vista is just crazy. I need to go back and really look at some of my servers and see just how big the system state backups are. I'll also take a close look at a few Win XP Pro desktops that I'm backing up and see what the numbers look like. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 2:35 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Vista oddness Don't know myself, but someone else posted a while back that the System State on Vista is many GB. That is consistent with what you are seeing - a scheduled backup will do the System State, whether things have changed or not. And selecting the C: drive will not do the system state. As a test, try your backup from thh GUI again, but this time select System STate as well as the C: drive, see if the results change... And please post back the results! On 12/6/07, Tyree, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are testing Vista and I'm seeing something odd. TSM seems to want to do almost a full backup every time it runs automatically. I'm running the 5.5.0 client on a VMware (6.0) Vista Ultimate box that is talking to a TSM server running 5.4.1 on Windows. The backup on the Vista machine is automated using the DSMCAD service. The incremental backup kicks off at the correct time, but it ends up doing a full backup. I've looked through the dsmsched log on the Vista machine and I'm seeing where it has contacted the TSM server and picked up the schedule name and the action. The schedule name is correct and the action is set to incremental. And several lines in the dsmsched log mention Incremental backup of '\\is-vista-test-d\c$' finished. The log shows everything just like what I would expect to say, the issue is that it ends up backing up almost 8 gigs of files each time the backup runs. I've run scheduled incremental backups almost back to back on the machine and it picks up 8 gigs each time. The machine is just sitting there between backups; I'm not doing anything on the machine in between. If I open the GUI and tag the c drive for incremental backup it goes out and looks at all the files on the drive and backs up a few dozen files and it done. Just like I would expect it to. If I go to the baclient folder and run dsmc incr from the command line it ends up doing what looks like a full backup. In the last couple of hours I had a scheduled backup run that moved about 8 gigs worth of files. Right after that finished I did a c drive backup from the GUI. It moved a few hundred megs of files. Right behind that I did the dsmc incr. So far it's moved over 4 gig of files and is still running. Anybody got a idea what's going on here? PS, Vista looks good. Except most of our software doesn't run. The UAC (User Account Control) is a real piece of work. And they have moved everything around so you can't find what you're looking for. But at least it looks good 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.
Vista oddness
We are testing Vista and I'm seeing something odd. TSM seems to want to do almost a full backup every time it runs automatically. I'm running the 5.5.0 client on a VMware (6.0) Vista Ultimate box that is talking to a TSM server running 5.4.1 on Windows. The backup on the Vista machine is automated using the DSMCAD service. The incremental backup kicks off at the correct time, but it ends up doing a full backup. I've looked through the dsmsched log on the Vista machine and I'm seeing where it has contacted the TSM server and picked up the schedule name and the action. The schedule name is correct and the action is set to incremental. And several lines in the dsmsched log mention Incremental backup of '\\is-vista-test-d\c$' finished. The log shows everything just like what I would expect to say, the issue is that it ends up backing up almost 8 gigs of files each time the backup runs. I've run scheduled incremental backups almost back to back on the machine and it picks up 8 gigs each time. The machine is just sitting there between backups; I'm not doing anything on the machine in between. If I open the GUI and tag the c drive for incremental backup it goes out and looks at all the files on the drive and backs up a few dozen files and it done. Just like I would expect it to. If I go to the baclient folder and run dsmc incr from the command line it ends up doing what looks like a full backup. In the last couple of hours I had a scheduled backup run that moved about 8 gigs worth of files. Right after that finished I did a c drive backup from the GUI. It moved a few hundred megs of files. Right behind that I did the dsmc incr. So far it's moved over 4 gig of files and is still running. Anybody got a idea what's going on here? PS, Vista looks good. Except most of our software doesn't run. The UAC (User Account Control) is a real piece of work. And they have moved everything around so you can't find what you're looking for. But at least it looks good 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: TSM backup speed on a Windows server
In our case, we set the speed to the highest speed supported by the port on the switch and the server. If either side is set to auto then we end up with really poor performance. But not in every case, we have a couple of boxes that are set to auto and they are running just fine. Try different settings until you find the right one. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 10:40 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM backup speed on a Windows server On Apr 5, 2007, at 10:27 AM, Luc Beaudoin wrote: Is it recommend to set the speed to AUTO-NEGOCIATE on my Windows 2K and 2K3 servers ?? The only recommendation is to use whatever works best. Unfortunately, networking equipment is all over the place as to what combination of brands, models, and settings will actually do what you want it to. I've had to make counter-intuitive configuration settings in some cases to get proper operation. Confer with the networking people at your site for best advice for what you have there, then do testing. Richard Sims
SQL TDP error message
TSM server running 5.3.2 on a Win2k box. We have put in a new server in running Windows 2003R2 Standard Edition and SQL 2005. I installed TSM client 5.3.2 and got it configured with no problem. I then installed the TDP for SQL 5.2.1.0. When try to do a SQL backup using either the GUI or the command line I get the same error, ACO5423E The following string is too long: CSqlApi::CopyUToN:566:1908 strlen(139 9...):74. I looked up ACO5423E in the archives here and got nowhere. Any ideas before I call support? David Tyree Enterprise Backup Administrator South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 txt pager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: SQL TDP error message
All fixed, thanks -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 8:53 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] SQL TDP error message David, Go to: http://www.ibm.com/us/ and search for: ACO5423E You will find your answer. Bascially, it says you need to obtain Data Protection for SQL 5.2.1.03 or later for SQL Server 2005 support. Thanks, Del ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 01/04/2007 08:37:40 AM: TSM server running 5.3.2 on a Win2k box. We have put in a new server in running Windows 2003R2 Standard Edition and SQL 2005. I installed TSM client 5.3.2 and got it configured with no problem. I then installed the TDP for SQL 5.2.1.0. When try to do a SQL backup using either the GUI or the command line I get the same error, ACO5423E The following string is too long: CSqlApi::CopyUToN:566:1908 strlen(139 9...):74. I looked up ACO5423E in the archives here and got nowhere. Any ideas before I call support?
testing an assumption here
TSM 5.3 server running on W2k server and a TSM 5.2.3 client running on a W2k box. On the client I'm getting about 20+ gig of bytes transferred during each backup. Only problem is that the server only has about 8-10 gig of data on the entire thing. The bytes transferred number comes from the dsmsched log file on the client side and mostly matches up with the numbers from the query node info. I looked really closely at the dsmsched log and noticed that I had a lot of 500-800 meg files that are not backing up on the first try because they are in use. Once it fails on the first try then I have it set to retry 5 times. I'll address the file in use issue separately. It eventually gives up and moves on to the next file and the same thing happens again. It looks like the system is transferring a big chuck of the file then it fails and then restarts the transfer again and again. Just like it's supposed to. ach time it's actually transferring some data that counts towards the bytes transferred total but the file never really gets transferred. The end result is that my bytes transferred numbers are being inflated by incomplete transfers. Is my reasoning for the inflated numbers correct? David Tyree Enterprise Backup Administrator South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 txt pager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: OT? TSM in a hospital environment
We are in the process of installing the GE Centricity RIS/PACs system for our radiology department. At this point GE is telling our project manager that nothing can be installed on the servers. The guy on our side and GE has been going around and around on this but it looks like GE will have the final say on this. I suspect that someone on our side didn't completely read (and understand) the contract that was signed with them. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barnhart, Troy Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 1:51 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] OT? TSM in a hospital environment Been there done (and still doing) that... We have TSM and related products for our facilities. (We have standardized our database backups on BMC's SqlBackTrack.) We weigh the need of the app and usually strong-arm them back... If a vendor says that we can't touch their data, we DON'T touch their data. We put them on the hook for recovery. I think most healthcare-vendors are use to hospitals that simply write a check to the vendor for services. We are very hands-on with our own data... Usually, a vendor's South Dakota support resources are not too spectacular, and after a disaster or two, they come around to our way of thinking. Plus, Hospitals seem to have a bit different IT enviroment as shops in other industries. We have literally hundreds of applications from different vendors. We have different servers, facilities, operating systems, VENDOR's REQUIREMENTS, etc... Anything specific giving you problems? Regards, Troy Troy Barnhart, Sr. Systems Programmer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rapid City Regional Hospital, Rapid City, South Dakota, 57701 ph: 605-719-8068 / fax: 605-719-4206 -Original Message- From: Tyree, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 11:29 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] OT? TSM in a hospital environment Are there any folks on the list that are using TSM in a hospital? Sometimes we have to battle with some of our software venders to allow us to backup their system using TSM. Sometimes they will tell us that the system is FDA approved as is and must be backed up using a built-in tape drive and we can't touch the system. Some times that might be believable but not always. It seems that GE appears to be especially hard headed in this regard. We bought into TSM because you back up anything (well most anything) and not have to worry about having assorted different tape drives scattered everywhere. I would like to compare notes with other TSM people if possible. thanks David Tyree Enterprise Backup Administrator South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 text pager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
OT? TSM in a hospital environment
Are there any folks on the list that are using TSM in a hospital? Sometimes we have to battle with some of our software venders to allow us to backup their system using TSM. Sometimes they will tell us that the system is FDA approved as is and must be backed up using a built-in tape drive and we can't touch the system. Some times that might be believable but not always. It seems that GE appears to be especially hard headed in this regard. We bought into TSM because you back up anything (well most anything) and not have to worry about having assorted different tape drives scattered everywhere. I would like to compare notes with other TSM people if possible. thanks David Tyree Enterprise Backup Administrator South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 text pager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
TSM and Centera
We have an EMC Centera that we have data on that we would like to protect from disaster. One option is to get another Centera and put it another location and then just duplicate the data from one to the other. Another option is to backup the Centera with TSM in some way. I heard something one time about a client from somewhere that would allow you to backup data from a Centera into TSM. Does such an animal still exist? David Tyree Enterprise Backup Administrator 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: TSM and Centera
I think we have a misunderstanding here. I want the Centera box to be just another client. I have assorted medical records that are being written to the Centera box by different systems for storage and recall as needed by the medical systems. I would like to provide additional protection for the data by backing it up to our TSM system. I would rather use some kind of TSM type of client to backup the data on the Centera and put it on tape instead of buying another Centera and put it in another location. I don't want to use the Centera as a component of our TSM system. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Stapleton Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 1:58 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM and Centera ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 04/10/2006 12:43:24 PM: We have an EMC Centera that we have data on that we would like to protect from disaster. One option is to get another Centera and put it another location and then just duplicate the data from one to the other. I heard something one time about a client from somewhere that would allow you to backup data from a Centera into TSM. Does such an animal still exist? Please refer to your current TSM administrator's guide and administrator's reference, and search for centera. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) MR Backup and Recovery Management 262.790.3190 -- Electronic Privacy Notice. This e-mail, and any attachments, contains information that is, or may be, covered by electronic communications privacy laws, and is also confidential and proprietary in nature. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that you are legally prohibited from retaining, using, copying, distributing, or otherwise disclosing this information in any manner. Instead, please reply to the sender that you have received this communication in error, and then immediately delete it. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. ==
DSM.OPT file
I've got a question about the usage of the TCPSERVERADDRESS line in the dsm.opt file on the clients. Currently I have the IP address of the TSM server listed in the dsm.opt file on the clients. We will be implementing a new addressing scheme for all of our servers in a couple of months and that includes the TSM server itself. In our case the DNS name of the server happens to match the name of the TSM server instance. Since our TSM server only has one NIC and thus only one IP address I went ahead and changed the line to show the DNS name of the TSM server instead of the IP on a few of the clients. The DNS name of the TSM server will not be changing, only the IP address. I wasn't sure at the time if the TSM client would work with the DNS name instead but I since found in the TSM docs it would. And found that it actually did work just fine. The next issue is that we are thinking about adding another NIC in the TSM at some point in the future to help split the load on the network. At that point the TSM server will then have two IP's. Any clients that I want to have come into the TSM server on the second NIC would have to have the IP of the second NIC in its dsm.opt file. That part makes complete sense. But what about any clients that I have with the DNS name of the TSM server in the dsm.opt file instead of the IP address? Which NIC would they connect to? If I absolutely wanted to ensure that the clients came into the TSM server on the right NIC I would make sure I had the right IP listed in that clients options file. But what would happen if I left the DNS entry in the options file? David Tyree Enterprise Backup Administrator 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.
TSM Reporting tools
I'm looking for some tools that will allow me to track the data coming in from each node and then allow me to see trends. Throwing the info into a spreadsheet and then accessing it through a web interface would be good. I also would like to generate other reports on how things are going, check on the general health of my TSM environment and do some assorted tweaking if needed. I played around with TSMManager several months ago and it had some interesting features but I wasn't able to follow through with it. I'm currently running TSM 5.2 on a Windows box, but I'll be going to 5.3 and ISC in the next few weeks. I don't really care for ISC but I'll get used to it. David Tyree Enterprise Backup Administrator 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.
TSM Support Technical Exchange webinars
I was looking around at the webinars on the Support Technical Exchange website and I don't see anything listed for next year. Does anyone know if they will be having any more of them? David Tyree Enterprise Backup Administrator 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: TSM Support Technical Exchange webinars
I just sent them an email asking about next years class. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 4:00 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Support Technical Exchange webinars On Dec 19, 2005, at 3:35 PM, Tyree, David wrote: I was looking around at the webinars on the Support Technical Exchange website and I don't see anything listed for next year. Does anyone know if they will be having any more of them? David - Your best bet would be to click on the link associated with For more information or to suggest a future Exchange session, contact Support Technical Exchange. -- on that Web page and see what they have to say. Richard Sims
Re: curious behavior
I just rechecked things with the comments from the list. It seems the current access level of the tape didn't have any bearing on the situation. Right now I have a q mo showing one tape as R/W and the other as R/O. The q vol f=d is telling me that both tapes are Read/Write. tsm: BACKUP1q pr Process Process Description Status Number - 616 Space ReclamationOffsite Volume(s) (storage pool NEWCOPYPOOL), Moved Files: 5868, Moved Bytes: 22,303,511,754, Unreadable Files: 543, Unreadable Bytes: 0. Current Physical File (bytes): 11,347,126,815 Current input volume: 03L2. Current output volume: 93L2. tsm: BACKUP1q mo ANR8330I LTO volume 03L2 is mounted R/O in drive DRV4 (mt0.5.0.5), status: IN USE. ANR8330I LTO volume 93L2 is mounted R/W in drive DRV2 (mt0.3.0.5), status: IN USE. ANR8334I 2 matches found. tsm: BACKUP1q vol 03l2 f=d Volume Name: 03L2 Storage Pool Name: NEWTAPEPOOL Device Class Name: LTO2 Estimated Capacity (MB): 431,430.2 Scaled Capacity Applied: Pct Util: 93.8 Volume Status: Full Access: Read/Write Pct. Reclaimable Space: 6.6 Scratch Volume?: Yes In Error State?: No Number of Writable Sides: 1 Number of Times Mounted: 18 Write Pass Number: 1 Approx. Date Last Written: 03/29/2005 17:13:29 Approx. Date Last Read: 04/01/2005 12:36:43 Date Became Pending: Number of Write Errors: 0 Number of Read Errors: 0 Volume Location: Volume is MVS Lanfree Capable : No Last Update by (administrator): Last Update Date/Time: 03/28/2005 21:27:17 tsm: BACKUP1q vol 93l2 f=d Volume Name: 93L2 Storage Pool Name: NEWCOPYPOOL Device Class Name: LTO2 Estimated Capacity (MB): 204,800.0 Scaled Capacity Applied: Pct Util: 10.3 Volume Status: Filling Access: Read/Write Pct. Reclaimable Space: 0.0 Scratch Volume?: Yes In Error State?: No Number of Writable Sides: 1 Number of Times Mounted: 1 Write Pass Number: 1 Approx. Date Last Written: 04/01/2005 12:47:32 Approx. Date Last Read: 04/01/2005 12:02:48 Date Became Pending: Number of Write Errors: 0 Number of Read Errors: 0 Volume Location: Volume is MVS Lanfree Capable : No Last Update by (administrator): Last Update Date/Time: 04/01/2005 12:01:20
curious behavior
(Running TSM 5.2.2 on Win2k with 4 LTO2 drives in a Powervault 136T) I've been seeing this for quite a while on our system. It's not an issue but it sure does look strange. Unless I'm missing something here, if you are running a process that is copying data from the tapepool to the copypool shouldn't the results of a Q mount show that you have a tape with R/O and another one showing R/W? I've seen this in other processes that involve multiple drives. If you do the q proc it tells you where it is reading from and where it is writing to. But if you go back and do a q mount then it doesn't match up with the info from the q proc. I know which tape is in which drive and I know that the data is actually going where I want it to but the q mount info kinda startles every once in a while. As you can see here, it looks like the q mo is telling that I'm writing to both tapes. The q proc tells me otherwise. I've done a quick series of q mounts back to back and the drives always show the same. It looks like I'm writing to both drives in this case. tsm: BACKUP1q mo ANR8330I LTO volume 26L2 is mounted R/W in drive DRV2 (mt0.3.0.5), status: IN USE. ANR8330I LTO volume 33L2 is mounted R/W in drive DRV3 (mt0.4.0.5), status: IN USE. ANR8334I 2 matches found. tsm: BACKUP1q pr Process Process Description Status Number - 582 Backup Storage Pool Primary Pool NEWTAPEPOOL, Copy Pool NEWCOPYPOOL, Files Backed Up: 2, Bytes Backed Up: 16,792,685, Unreadable Files: 0, Unreadable Bytes: 0. Current Physical File (bytes): 59,738,060,746 Current input volume: 26L2. Current output volume: 33L2. Even if I have all four drives churning away on different processes the q mo will tell me one thing and the q proc will tell me something else. It's completely random. If a drive shows up as right for one process then the next time it gets used for another process then it might show up wrong. Again, everything is actually working as it should it just looks strange. Is this a bug or a feature? Thanks... David Tyree Enterprise Backup Administrator 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.
Centera Boxes
I looked around in the archives here and found info on backing TO a Centera box but nothing about backing up the data FROM a Centera box. We are in the process of migrating assorted files on to our box and we need to see about backing up the data we move onto it. We are aware that the box itself has got all kinds of redundancy built in to protect the data that is stored on it but we are concerned about the box itself being lost due to fire, flood, locusts, or some IS guy going nuts with a shotgun. The vender said something about buying a mirror copy of what we already have but that's very expensive. Isn't there someway to backup the data on a Centera for purposes of disaster recovery? David Tyree Enterprise Backup Administrator 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.
strange reclaimation behavor
I have something strange going on with my reclaimations. I have the system issue a command in the afternoons to start reclaiming tapes by dropping the levels to 60%. I then have it issue another command around midnight to raise the levels back to 100%. When I get here in the morning I will usally find that reclaiming is still going on. I have verified that the stop_reclaim scripts are actually running by looking at the actlog for the time period involved. I end up doing a cancel process to get it to stop. I could understand it still running if it was in the middle of a 50-60 gig file but it's only moving small (several meg) files. It's had about eight hours to stop on it's own. I would have thought it would have found an opertunity to stop after eight hours. The contents of all of the scripts involved are correct. I have one starting the tapepool and another to start the copypool and another couple to raise the level back up. I alternate different pools each night. Any ideas here? I'm running 5.2.2 on a Win2k server with 4 LTO2 drives in a PV136T library. David Tyree Enterprise Backup Administrator 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.
Windows NT4 and TSM client
We have some older WinNT4 servers still hanging around and I want to update them to the newest possible TSM client. All of our newer Win2k and Win2k3 servers are running some flavor of version 5.2+ currently. If I attempt to install that one on a NT4 box I get an error message about wrong OS version. I looked over the docs for 5.2.x and found that NT4 was no longer supported. I've looked around on the Tivoli site and the docs but I can't find the last version of TSM that will install on a WinNT4 box. I have a couple running 5.1.5.2. Is that the last one for WinNT4? David Tyree Enterprise Backup Administrator 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.
3494 library with unusable accessor
I came in this morning and found that the accessor in the library was down. I have a call in for service so at least it will be worked on shortly. In the mean time, I can't remember for the life of me how to run the system by hand. I'm running TSM 5.1.6 on win2k. The library has a pair of 3590 drives that are just fine if I can just feed them the tapes that the system needs. I know the tapes that TSM is looking for but I don't remember how to run the system in some kind of a manual mode. I'm sure it can be done Thanks David Tyree Enterprise Backup Administrator 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.
Looking for 3590 tape supplier
We need to get some more 3590K tapes for our library and our regular supplier is not able to help us right now. All we need is 30 new tapes to tide us over while we migrate to LTO-2. Any suggestions? David Tyree Enterprise Backup Administrator 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.
Very slow backups of Exchange 5.5 with tpdexcc
We are running Exchange 5.5 on a box running Win2k Sp2, 1.1 GHz x2 with 2.6 gig ram, TSM version 5.1.5.2, and TDP version 5.1.5.0. It's talking a TSM server running 5.1.6. The backups are normally ran via a batch file using the command line program with the switches we want, tdpexcc backup * full /tsmoptfile=dsm.opt /logfile=excsch.log excfull.log. All paths are correct. The log is telling me that it runs for about 10 hours each night and will send a total of 35 gig. We looked at various things, network, CPU usage, etc. The scheduled backup is ran after 5 PM when most of the users are gone for the day. We have watched the CPU usage during the day and with just normal activity the usage was 5-10 %. After the backup was started it jumped to 10-20 % with occasional bumps to 80 %. Still not breaking too much of a sweat though. Then just for the heck of it we ran the same backup via the GUI (tdpexc.exe) and it finished in less than an hour. Same file size, same everything else. We watched the incoming bandwidth on the backup server and when we ran the backup via the GUI it was almost exactly 10 times faster than when we ran it via the command line. In both cases, the full backups were ran during the day with all users online and the backup server itself doing nothing else. Is something going on here that we are missing? David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist 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.
Restoring NT file security settings
We have a Win2k server that has 75+ shares based on the hospital department that uses it. The security on the folders is configured so that users can only access there own department's folder. And, depending on the user, they can only do certain things within each folder. The director of the department has full rights and each user down the line has less and less rights all the way down to the lowest person in the department who has almost no rights. Yes, it's complicated but that's the way they want it. One of our IS guys decided to add a superuser to the shares and somehow screwed up all the security settings on the folders. All the settings are wrong now and we can't figure out what he did to screw it up so bad. It would take far too long to restore all the files. I have been playing with the restore using the command line to try and do a directory only restore. I have restored the directory tree to another location to see if it is doing what I want it to do and it looks like it might work. The restored folders have all the right security settings. I'm using the restore d:\wrkgrp\*.* -dirsonly d:\temp\ command on the local server to bring back the directory structure. Is this a good approach to repair this mess? I'm running TSM 5.1.5 on the server. David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist 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.
Client install on a MS Cluster with SQL 2000
We will be setting up a new cluster server running Win2k and MS SQL 2000. We are at 5.1 on our TSM server. We are backing up another cluster server running the same OS but without any SQL on it. And we are backing up SQL 2000 running on a non-cluster server. Both have the newest clients installed and running fine. Is there anything that's not in the book on running a SQL client on a MS cluster that I might need to know? Thanks... David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist 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: Keeping an handle on client systems' large drives
*.gho are image files produced by the Ghost program from Symantec. I think *.nrg files are something to do with CD burning programs, something like an *.iso file. *.rm is an audio/video file from RealAudio -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 11:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Keeping an handle on client systems' large drives Mark, I know about mp3s and we do exclude them; what are : .nrg, .wmf, .rm, and .gho? -Original Message- From: Mark Stapleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 8:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Keeping an handle on client systems' large drives From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dan Foster Not every site is lucky enough to be able to convince the beancounters the merits of having a backup system that keeps up with the needs of the end users, even if it means one has to explain doomsday predictions on the business bottom line -- they invariably hear that then say Oh, pshaw, you're just exaggerating because you want money It sucks to be the one that's right ;) And the ones who warns well before a nasty event occurs may also be the first one to be fired out of spite after something happens and gets the blame for not having prevented it. There is only one thing that will convince the beancounters that backup resources must be kept to adequate levels: one bad day Put your objections in email, send that email to those who matter, and *keep* *a* *copy*. Gently (but regularly) remind the powers-that-be that your backup resources are inadequate. In the meantime, aggressively filter what is being backed up. An increasingly large amount of data is going to files with extensions like .nrg, .wmf, .mp3, .rm, and .gho (my current unfavorite). Don't back 'em up. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Certified TSM consultant Certified AIX system engineer MSCE
Expanding our system
We currently have a 3494 library with two 3490E1A drives attached to a WinNT4 box running quad Xeon 550's and a gig of RAM. TSM is version 4.2. We have about 30-40gig of data coming in over about an eight hour time window each evening and night. Things are fine for now. We are looking to do some improvements in the next several months. First thing we would like to do is to reload the server with Win 2000 and TSM version 5.xx. In our shop, we can only speak MS. Other OS's aren't an option. This we would like to do in 3-4 months. I think we can handle this ourselves. Next on the agenda, we are working towards getting some kind of a SAN in the budget for the first of the year. I don't know all of the details at the moment but they are talking about 3-4 terabyte capacity. Don't know how this will impact on new data coming into TSM. But the boss man wants to see about adding another complete library with two more tape drives. The people we that installed our original system are gone so we can't go back to them for more hardware. Any suggestions on someone to do this for us? David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist 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.
Installing TDP for SQL 2.2
We are trying to install the TDP for SQL version 2.2 on to a WinNT4 machine running MS-SQL. So far we have the client (version 4.2.1.20) installed to catch all the non SQL files. It's set up to be called by the TSM server to run and it's doing fine. All the non SQL backups are fine. We have the SQL folders set to be excluded. We are now trying to install the SQL part now and it does not want to play nice. We loaded version 2.2.0.0 and we have gotten it working to point where we can do a SQL backup from the command line and from within the GUI. We can't get it run when it's called from the TSM server. The programs are all installed to the default locations and I ran the dsmcutil install command from the baclient folder to create a new scheduler service for the SQL part. I referred it to the dsm file in the tdpsql folder just like the docs said. I've got a schedule on the TSM server set to kick off at a certain time but nothing happens. I've looked at the assorted log files nothing shows up. If I run tdpsqlc backup * full it runs just fine. Am I missing something here? Do I need to call the sqlfull.cmd from one of the dsm.opt files? David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist 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.
FW: Installing TDP for SQL 2.2
I've got the script name correct in the schedule. I had someone else look at it make sure I hadn't gone blind. I'm watching the console messages go by and I see the messages showing the session starting and then end for the node. I go back to the logs on the client and nothing shows up as being done. All I see is an entry in the dsmerror.log ANS1029E Communications have been dropped at the time the schedule ran. -Original Message- From: Bill Maloney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installing TDP for SQL 2.2 David, Make sure that script name in the schedule is identical to the name of the script on the NT box. Check the .extension of the script. Bill - Original Message - From: Tyree, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 1:58 PM Subject: Installing TDP for SQL 2.2 We are trying to install the TDP for SQL version 2.2 on to a WinNT4 machine running MS-SQL. So far we have the client (version 4.2.1.20) installed to catch all the non SQL files. It's set up to be called by the TSM server to run and it's doing fine. All the non SQL backups are fine. We have the SQL folders set to be excluded. We are now trying to install the SQL part now and it does not want to play nice. We loaded version 2.2.0.0 and we have gotten it working to point where we can do a SQL backup from the command line and from within the GUI. We can't get it run when it's called from the TSM server. The programs are all installed to the default locations and I ran the dsmcutil install command from the baclient folder to create a new scheduler service for the SQL part. I referred it to the dsm file in the tdpsql folder just like the docs said. I've got a schedule on the TSM server set to kick off at a certain time but nothing happens. I've looked at the assorted log files nothing shows up. If I run tdpsqlc backup * full it runs just fine. Am I missing something here? Do I need to call the sqlfull.cmd from one of the dsm.opt files? David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist 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.
FW: Installing TDP for SQL 2.2
Except for some minor changes it's almost exactly what it has in the book on page 199. Def sched current sql_webtrend desc=Webtrend SQL action=command objects=d:\sqlfull.cmd priority=2 starttime=16:00 duration=15 duru=minutes period=1 perunits=day dayofweek=any -Original Message- From: Adams, Matt (US - Hermitage) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 3:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installing TDP for SQL 2.2 David, What do the parameters of your schedule look like on the TSM server?? Matt Adams Tivoli Storage Manager Team Hermitage Site Tech Deloitte Touche USA LLP 615.882.6861 -Original Message- From: Tyree, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 12:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Installing TDP for SQL 2.2 We are trying to install the TDP for SQL version 2.2 on to a WinNT4 machine running MS-SQL. So far we have the client (version 4.2.1.20) installed to catch all the non SQL files. It's set up to be called by the TSM server to run and it's doing fine. All the non SQL backups are fine. We have the SQL folders set to be excluded. We are now trying to install the SQL part now and it does not want to play nice. We loaded version 2.2.0.0 and we have gotten it working to point where we can do a SQL backup from the command line and from within the GUI. We can't get it run when it's called from the TSM server. The programs are all installed to the default locations and I ran the dsmcutil install command from the baclient folder to create a new scheduler service for the SQL part. I referred it to the dsm file in the tdpsql folder just like the docs said. I've got a schedule on the TSM server set to kick off at a certain time but nothing happens. I've looked at the assorted log files nothing shows up. If I run tdpsqlc backup * full it runs just fine. Am I missing something here? Do I need to call the sqlfull.cmd from one of the dsm.opt files? David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist 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. - This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. - If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited.
Re: Installing TDP for SQL 2.2
While I've been fighting this, I downloaded the 2.2.0.1 version of SQL. I'll update the client tomorrow. I'll get the newer client and do the same with it. Thanks for the files, I'll look them over and see how they are different from what I've been trying to do. -Original Message- From: Edgardo Moso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 4:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installing TDP for SQL 2.2 David, I have the same environment as you are. The TSMclient version 4.1.2.20 has many problems. What I did was, I upgraded mine to 4.1.3.11 It's now working fine. Also install the latest patch for TDP ver 2.2.0.0 , TDPver 2.2.0.1. Here's my sample dsm.opt file. Be sure to specify the correct TCPCLIENTADDRESS (client ip address) and TCPCLIENTPORT(1502 - be sure this is not used by other network) (See attached file: dsm.opt) This is the command that you need to define in your service schedule ( under object). You can try running in the command line. (See attached file: sqlfull.cmd) You need this also. Please take note: you may either run using integrated ( NT authentication) or sqluserid ( sql defined id). Either of this need to have a SA privilege in the SQL and NT system admin. (See attached file: tdpsql.cfg) Ed Moso From: Adams, Matt (US - Hermitage) [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/22/2002 03:20 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Installing TDP for SQL 2.2 David, What do the parameters of your schedule look like on the TSM server?? Matt Adams Tivoli Storage Manager Team Hermitage Site Tech Deloitte Touche USA LLP 615.882.6861 -Original Message- From: Tyree, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 12:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Installing TDP for SQL 2.2 We are trying to install the TDP for SQL version 2.2 on to a WinNT4 machine running MS-SQL. So far we have the client (version 4.2.1.20) installed to catch all the non SQL files. It's set up to be called by the TSM server to run and it's doing fine. All the non SQL backups are fine. We have the SQL folders set to be excluded. We are now trying to install the SQL part now and it does not want to play nice. We loaded version 2.2.0.0 and we have gotten it working to point where we can do a SQL backup from the command line and from within the GUI. We can't get it run when it's called from the TSM server. The programs are all installed to the default locations and I ran the dsmcutil install command from the baclient folder to create a new scheduler service for the SQL part. I referred it to the dsm file in the tdpsql folder just like the docs said. I've got a schedule on the TSM server set to kick off at a certain time but nothing happens. I've looked at the assorted log files nothing shows up. If I run tdpsqlc backup * full it runs just fine. Am I missing something here? Do I need to call the sqlfull.cmd from one of the dsm.opt files? David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist 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. - This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. - If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited.
List of tapes in vault
Does anyone have a easy way to find out which tapes are supposed to be in the vault? I need to check every so often to make sure the operator is bringing back the tapes correctly. I'm not sure if the following is correct: select volume_name as Tape Number from drmedia where state='VAULT' OR STATE='VAULTRETRIVE' OR STATE='COURIERRETIRVE' If I run this I get a list of tapes that I should find in the vault right? David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist 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.
Dumb Exchange question
We will be upgrading to the new TDP for Exchange 2.2 from version 1.1 some time after the first of the year and we are wondering if the newer version supports individual mailbox recovery. I know the 1.1 version didn't easily support mailbox recovery, you had to build a new Exchange box, dump an entire database restore to it and then export the mailbox back to the production system. Do will still need to jump through all the same hoops again to restore a mailbox in version 2.2?? David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist 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.
TDP for SQL question
We have a situation where we are trying setup a test SQL database on a server. The server (WinNT4 w/TSM client 3.7.2 and SQL client 1.1.2 and MS-SQL 6.5) itself is cramped for space and we need to make a copy of the database so that we can do some testing and still keep the production database running. Our database guy says that MS-SQL has a way to dump the database to a flat file and then you can just import it into a new database. Unfortunately, he says that you can only dump the file to a drive on the server itself and not another network drive. The server doesn't have enough drive space to do the dump on to its self. Now the question, can we tell the TDP client to do a restore of the production database but then redirect it to another server running SQL? We have a spare server that has plenty of space that can be used for this. Thanks David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist 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.
Client for VMS on a Digital Alpha box
We have an older Digital Alpha box (4+ years) that we are going to load VMS onto one day soon. Does TSM have a client to back this thing up? I've looked around the Tivoli web site but I didn't see it. Am I blind? We are running TSM 4.1 on the backup server so I imagine that most any client will talk to the server. Thanks... David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist 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: Client for VMS on a Digital Alpha box
I was hoping that I wouldn't need to go to a third party solution. Does TSM have something themselves? -Original Message- From: Coviello, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 11:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Client for VMS on a Digital Alpha box yes they do it is not the same type of client your use to ie:(windows,Unix) go to the following website www.storsol.com look for a product ABC Archive Backup Client for VMS. paul Paul J Coviello Sr Systems Analyst Catholic Medical Center 2456 Brown Ave Manchester NH 03103 (603) 663-5326 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Tyree, David [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Client for VMS on a Digital Alpha box We have an older Digital Alpha box (4+ years) that we are going to load VMS onto one day soon. Does TSM have a client to back this thing up? I've looked around the Tivoli web site but I didn't see it. Am I blind? We are running TSM 4.1 on the backup server so I imagine that most any client will talk to the server. Thanks... David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist 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.
Bad tape
Is there a procedure to replace the data on a tape that has went bad? We use 3590 tapes on our AS/400 side and they are known to break the tape or just become unusable for some reason. We haven't had a bad tape on the PC side yet. We use a library that has the tapepool tapes in it and have our copypool tapes in the vault. I know it will happen one day and I need some way to replace the data that was on the unusable tape either from the library or from the vault. Server is a WinNT4 running 4.1.3. Thanks... David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist 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.
Web client access on a Cluster server
We are running a 3.7.2 server on a WinNT 4 sp5 machine talking to a 4.1.2 client on a Win2k sp2 Cluster server. All the backups and the restores on the cluster server are fine. The problem is that we can't get the web client piece to work on all the nodes. The only way I can do restores is from the GUI on the cluster server. It would be nice to be able to do a restore from a users PC and not have to go back to the computer room. All of the other web clients work just fine. I used the following node names, darthvader, darthmaul, v_darthvader, and v_darthmaul. The darthvader and darthmaul nodes cover the local drives that contain the OS. The other two cover the shared resources. I can go to http://darthmaul:1581 http://darthmaul:1581 and http://darthvader:1581 http://darthvader:1581 and get to the local drives for restores and backups. If I try to go to http://v_darthvader:1581 http://v_darthvader:1581 or http://v_darthmaul:1581 http://v_darthmaul:1581 I get a This page cannot be displayed error. The dsm.opt files look right to me, at least the normal scheduled backups are running fine. I've got a call into support (PMR80135,BRE) but nothing so far. Any ideas?? David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist 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.
3.7 to 4.1 and the license issue
Can someone explain just what the change in licensing is all about? We need to do the 3.7 to 4.1 update soon. We have 75 licenses running right now in version 3.7. Am I going to lose these and have to start from scratch? David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist 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.
3590-B1A to 3590-E1A, Part II
Ok, I've looked over some more info and some comments that I've got. We are running (1) 3494 library with (2) 3590-B1A drives attached to an IBM Netfinity 7000 M10 server running WinNT4 SP5, TSM version 3.7.3. I'm thinking of having the CE convert both drives to the E1A version on the same day. When he gets done then I would do the following: 1. UPDATE DEVCLASS 3590CLASS FORMAT=DRIVE 2. DELETE DRIVE IBM3494A MT0.0.0.2 -FOR THE FIRST DRIVE 3. DELETE DRIVE IBM3494A MT0.0.0.3 -FOR THE SECOND DRIVE 4. DEFINE DRIVE IBM3494A MT0.0.0.2 DEVICE=MT0.0.0.2-FIRST DRIVE 5. DEFINE DRIVE IBM3494A MT0.0.0.3 DEVICE=MT0.0.0.3-SECOND DRIVE 6. Run a SQL script to get a list of tapes in the library that would need to be made readonly: select volume_name from volumes where stgpool_name='TAPEPOOL' 7. Do an UPDATE VOLUME X ACCESS=READONLY for each tape on the list. If I understand this process correctly, as the tape reclamations are done on the tapepool tapes they will move from a readonly status to a readwrite status and then become usable with the greater capacity. Also, as the copypool tapes come back from offsite they will also then be usable with the greater capacity. Am I at least close on my thinking?? David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist 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.
3590-B1A to 3590-E1A
We will be doing an update to our tape drives around the end of the month. I've looked over the older messages concerning this and all I saw was a dilemma about microcode levels. The messages were dated the last part of 1999, so I would image that the microcode has been updated since then. Here's the situation, we are running (1) 3494 library with (2) 3590-B1A drives attached to an IBM Netfinity 7000 M10 server running WinNT4 SP5, TSM version 3.7.2. We currently have about 250 "J" tapes on hand and we will have those used up in about 60-90 days. That's why we are going with the newer drives. We understand that they have 256 tracks on the new drives as opposed to the 128 tracks on the older ones. Thus doubling our tape capacity. Now the question, we have been told that the new drives will read and write to our current "J" tapes just fine. They will read the 128 tracks and then as we do our tape reclamations it will then write to the tape on 256 tracks. As we cycle in the older tapes in for reclaiming they all become 256 track at some point. We generally have about 5-6 tapes a day go offsite and about that many returning each day as well. Is this correct?? I also understand the E1A drives will work the best if we go to the newer "K" tapes, however you can't have "J" and "K" tapes in the library at the same time for some reason. David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist 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: 3590-B1A to 3590-E1A
Will the 3590E write to the J's as 256 tracks? -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 2:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3590-B1A to 3590-E1A Ditto. No problem with J's K's together. And the 3590E's read and write the J's just fine. -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 1:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3590-B1A to 3590-E1A Now the question, we have been told that the new drives will read and write to our current "J" tapes just fine. They will read the 128 tracks 256 tracks. As we cycle in the older tapes in for reclaiming they all become 256 track at some point. We generally have about 5-6 tapes a day go offsite and about that many returning each day as well. Is this correct?? I can't verify how many of your tapes go offsite each day, but can verify that J tapes that are re-used get written as 256-track in 3590E drives and thus double your capacity. I also understand the E1A drives will work the best if we go to the newer "K" tapes, however you can't have "J" and "K" tapes in the library at the same time for some reason. Yes, you can, and many of us do. Refer to the server README file for particulars on upgrading your drives in a TSM environment. Richard Sims, BU
Exclude-Include question
I still pretty new to our ADSM system and some of the settings are still confusing to me. One thing I'm trying to do is to backup just the contents of one directory on a server. The database on the server (WinNT4) does it's own database dumps at certain times during the day. All we need is to grab the contents of that directory, nothing else. In case of disaster, we would reload the OS and the database structure from CD's and then repopulate the database from the last database dump via ADSM. I would rather just use the ADSM system and back the entire server up. But, I've been told to backup only the dumps and nothing else on the server. Here's the details: Server: NT4 SP5 Client: version 3.7.2 (We are going to 4.1 on the clients shortly if that would help) Data path of the dumps F:\backup\data dumps\*.* I'm running version 3.7.3 on the ADSM server itself (NT4 SP5). The Exclude-Include info would go in the dsm.opt file on the server that is being backed up. I've worked with the documentation and tried different things in the dsm.opt file but I haven't had much luck. Any ideas? David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155
Several tapes with zero capacity and zero utilization
I'm new with the ADSM system, so I hope I don't sound to dumb here! I've been looking at the list for a couple of months and I've gotten a lot of good information from it so far. Here we go, I run a select command every few days to check on the number of reclaimable tapes we have in the system. When I get several tapes with a PCT_RECLAIM above 70-80% I run the reclamation process. We do the tape reclamation manually. Here is the select command we use: select volume_name,est_capacity_mb,pct_utilized,pct_reclaim from volumes where stgpool_name='COPYPOOL' order by pct_reclaim desc The following is part of the result I get: VOLUME_NAME EST_CAPACITY_MB PCT_UTILIZED PCT_RECLAIM SG0113 19317.595.9 4.1 SG0117 14658.097.1 2.8 SG0007 0.0 0.0 0.0---?? SG0009 0.0 0.0 0.0---?? SG0014 0.0 0.0 0.0?? SG0027 0.0 0.0 0.0?? SG0030 13671.799.9 0.0 SG0046 0.0 0.0 0.0-?? SG0047 13533.1 100.0 0.0 SG0075 0.0 0.0 0.0?? SG0108 0.0 0.0 0.0?? SG0124 0.0 0.0 0.0-?? SG0133 0.0 0.0 0.0?? SG0135 11764.2 100.0 0.0 SG0139 10122.4 100.0 0.0 How can I have a tapes with 0 capacity and 0 utilization? We use 3590 tapes in a 3494 library attached to an IBM Netfinity server running NT 4 using ADSM version 3.7.3. Any ideas? David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist South Georgia Medical Center 912.333.1155
Re: Several tapes with zero capacity and zero utilization
I did the q vol status=pending and it has the same tapes. They are pending. I had forgotten that the tapes stay in the pending status for three days. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Doug Thorneycroft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 10:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Several tapes with zero capacity and zero utilization They are probably pending, do a q vol status=pending and see if the list matches your zero capacity tapes. On Wednesday, October 18, 2000 7:10 AM, Tyree, David [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I'm new with the ADSM system, so I hope I don't sound to dumb here! I've been looking at the list for a couple of months and I've gotten a lot of good information from it so far. Here we go, I run a select command every few days to check on the number of reclaimable tapes we have in the system. When I get several tapes with a PCT_RECLAIM above 70-80% I run the reclamation process. We do the tape reclamation manually. Here is the select command we use: select volume_name,est_capacity_mb,pct_utilized,pct_reclaim from volumes where stgpool_name='COPYPOOL' order by pct_reclaim desc The following is part of the result I get: VOLUME_NAME EST_CAPACITY_MB PCT_UTILIZED PCT_RECLAIM SG0113 19317.595.9 4.1 SG0117 14658.097.1 2.8 SG0007 0.0 0.0 0.0---?? SG0009 0.0 0.0 0.0---?? SG0014 0.0 0.0 0.0?? SG0027 0.0 0.0 0.0?? SG0030 13671.799.9 0.0 SG0046 0.0 0.0 0.0-?? SG0047 13533.1 100.0 0.0 SG0075 0.0 0.0 0.0?? SG0108 0.0 0.0 0.0?? SG0124 0.0 0.0 0.0-?? SG0133 0.0 0.0 0.0?? SG0135 11764.2 100.0 0.0 SG0139 10122.4 100.0 0.0 How can I have a tapes with 0 capacity and 0 utilization? We use 3590 tapes in a 3494 library attached to an IBM Netfinity server running NT 4 using ADSM version 3.7.3. Any ideas? David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist South Georgia Medical Center 912.333.1155
Re: Several tapes with zero capacity and zero utilization
That sounds like an excellent idea. At the moment we are running short on tapes until we get a new batch in. Do you know of an _easy_ way to tell just how many scratch tapes we have? We are using select statements using the info in the volumes table. The problem is the tapes only show in stgpool_name as either copypool or tapepool. I run a select statement to get the number of copypool tapes then another to get the number of tapepool tapes. Then I have to add then together and subtract that from the number of tapes we put in the library to begin with. It's a convoluted process but that's the best I can come up right now. I can't find a direct way to tell me the number of scratch tapes I have. -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 10:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Several tapes with zero capacity and zero utilization When I get several tapes with a PCT_RECLAIM above 70-80% I run the reclamation process. David - Another approach to scratch pool management is to wait until the number of scratches reaches a comfortable minimum, and only then start reclamation. I prefer to let attrition empty tapes as much as possible, rather than subject tapes to wear in copying remaining contents sooner than necessary - considering also that that remainder may expire soon anyway, making that much copying wasteful. How can I have a tapes with 0 capacity and 0 utilization? What your display doesn't tell you is the state of the tapes. Particularly for a copy storage pool, REUsedelay should be in effect, and the volumes would thus be Pending. Richard Sims, BU
