It is up to the (file) server administrator how he/she will setup, tune and
maintain the node.
1 TB of data can be put on a single filesystem - it is up to you. In my
practice I've even seen an Oracle server on Netware with three (separate)
disks compromising a single very large SYS: volume !?!
Are back-up sets a option?
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Van: James healy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Verzonden: dinsdag 18 december 2001 22:22
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Onderwerp: Re: Incremental forever -- any problems? (Scary thoughts)
That seems to be really slow 8 gb per hour. I'm running
The bottleneck in a solution like this is probably not the 3584 drives,
which, as you correctly suggest, should perform about 12-15MB/s.
But, can the local area network perform this can of speed? A 100Mbs
ethernet cannot do 15MB/s.
So, 4-5 for a restore of 700GB is a dream that won't come true.
This test was performed during daily operations. This is usually the time
when you need to do a restore. Therefore, the machine you're trying to
restore won't be the only machine sending packets over the LAN(if you can't
shutdown all of the other servers).
Still, if you can get 14-17GB/hour
If
I had TDP for Domino running on a schedule, and all was good.
Particulars:
Client: BA 4.2.1 - TDP Domino 1.1.2.0 - Domino 5.07a, NT4 SP latest.
Server: TSM 4.1.4.0 - AIX 4.3.3
Suddenly one day, we started getting a Dr. Watson errors on the Domino
Server every morning, the offending
Hi TSM'ers,
A probably dumb question, but I never saw this before :
today we had a user that did an archive of his node using the web
client, and shortly following this operation, I saw the folowing entry
in activity log :
12/19/01 07:52:39 ANR0984I Process 394 for CONVERT ARCHIVE started in
We just installed a WIN2k Cluster and I'm a little confused as to what to do
with TSM. If I read the book correctly, I'm easily confused by the way, it
looks like I'm supposed to install the TSM client more than once. Once on a
local disk and again on a disk out on the SAN the cluster is using.
Can someone please tell me why some clients refuse to backup and the others
just come up with the warnings?
Please let me know
now knowing that TDP in general saves things in the form of archives
(at
least TDP/R3 does) I would wonder if maybe something like what I
described
above is being seen... might be worth while just to query your mgmt
classes
archive copy groups to double check everything is as you expect
That's not enough information, but I would check maxschedsessions
parameter and increase it appropriately if it's limiting the total
amount of sessions. Also, you might want to put a disk pool in front of
your tape pool in order to allow all the data to backup to a pool (not
limited by number of
We are having large troubles getting our TDP for Oracle on a SUN SOLARIS
running:
Platform: SUN SOLARIS
Client OS Level: 5.6
Client Version: Version 4, Release 1, Level 2.0
When we run the aobpswd we get the following message :
signon failed
The following error occured
12/19/2001 15:07:52 ANR0871E Cannot find file space name for node 85, file
space 1073741823.
How can I see which node node 85 is and what filespace 1073741823?
Thanx in advance.
I am trying to restore selective directories from a backupset. The tape
is accessed, and prompt shows the correct node name, and also a counter
of bytes transferred. However this counter stays at zero.
I am able to use the GUI to restore the WHOLE backup set with no
problems.
Using 4.2.0 NT
You could also use some of that 100 GB disk to automate your DB backups.
Then copy the resulting file to DDS3 manually when you are ready to send
offsite.
-Original Message-
From: Steve Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What if any are the know issues with 4.2.1.0 running on NT. Any info would
be appreciated
Mark Remeta
Seligman Data Corp.
100 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Confidentiality Note: The information transmitted is intended only for the
person or entity to whom or which it is addressed and may
Hello.
Query Filespace will work to find the Filespace, or I think query
occupancy.
Q fi nodename f=d.
Q occ.
I've never seen a node reported as a number before so I can't help you
there.
Kevin.
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
What I have done is installed TSM Client on both nodes on their local
drives. I then created 2 dsm.opt files (one called dsm.opt and the other
dsmlocal.opt). The dsm.opt file contained clusternode=yes, which you
will only see the shared drives. The dsmlocal.opt does not have the
clustermode
OK, just an off the wall, slightly related observation.
On an NT Domino server just using normal TSM archive, I hit a Dr. Watson
error and was dumped back to a C:\ prompt from my dsmc session.
What my problem was I was performing an archive, using a management
class that didn't have an
Hi Karel,
Server version is 4.1.3.0, and web client version is 4.2.0
-Original Message-
From: Karel Bos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 19 December, 2001 14:42
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: convert archive process ... what does it do ?
Think that is a TSM server -
Chris,
I am assuming you are refering to the sbtio.log and you are running TDPO
2.2.0.0. If my assumption is correct about the version, there was a bug
(APAR IC30670) in TDP for Oracle where the logging to sbtio.log was always
on with full tracing turned on so that this log file fills up quite
Has anyone run across an example of a client (NT, running TSM 4.1.0)
reporting a successful backup, yet the schedule log indicates that the
backup never ran:
12/12/2001 02:13:27 ANS1814E Unable to start scheduled event
'DAILY_INCR'
12/12/2001 02:13:27 ANS1815E Either the window has
Think that is a TSM server - client level related action. What is the
clients level and on what level is the tsm server?
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Van: PAC Brion Arnaud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Verzonden: woensdag 19 december 2001 13:47
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Onderwerp: convert archive
This is on a NT client 4.0 machine, when I try to backup , query filespace
from the client,
the session is rejected.
-Original Message-
From: Kevin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 9:58 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: client is down-level with
On 19-Dec-01 Karel Bos wrote:
12/19/2001 15:07:52 ANR0871E Cannot find file space name for node 85, file
space 1073741823.
This is an old problem and fixed in 4.1.4.
How can I see which node node 85 is and what filespace 1073741823?
You can't.
Cheers,
Henk ten Have
Backupsets can be useful in some situations, but saving time is not one of
their benefits. In the experiments I've done, generating a backupset took
as long as or longer than restoring the client. The generate backupset
process will mount the same tapes as the restore. If you generate
Jeff,
Depending on the number of DB backups you keep and the amount of disk you
could allocate, you could create a devclass of FILE and run the DB backups
to that directory. That way you free up tapes to help with reclamation.
Brian Scott
EDS - Enterprise Distributed Capabilities
MS 3278
Troy,
Looks like it's a known bug. Check the knowledge base, and there's no
real fix according to another message in the forum here.
Sorry,
Kevin.
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
Selva, Perpetua
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 10:13
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 10:10:09 -0500, it was written:
I am trying to restore selective directories from a backupset. The tape
is accessed, and prompt shows the correct node name, and also a counter
of bytes transferred. However this counter stays at zero.
My understanding of restoration from
You should be aware that the TSM Journaling Engine service is not supported
in MS Cluster server. Only one TSm Journaling Engine Service may
be installed on a machine and the TSM Journaling Engine Service
can not dynamically start/stop monitoring shared disk.
Regards, Paul
Joe Cascanette wrote:
I just received a bunch of K tapes and wanted to do a test. I'd like to see
what portion of a tape remains empty if I move data from a J tape that says
it's 100% full to a K tape. Is it possible to specify move data from a
specific tape to a specific empty scratch tape?
Thanks,
Geoff Gill
TSM
Put SEARCHMPQUEUE in de dsmserv.opt and the number of tapemount will reduce
drasticly!
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Van: Robin Sharpe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Verzonden: woensdag 19 december 2001 16:31
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Onderwerp: Re: Incremental forever -- any problems? (Scary
Mark:
That client is buggy, check out this post from February:
http://msgs.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm0102/202.html
This is fixed in the latest versions.
Tim Rushforth
City of Winnipeg
-Original Message-
From: Mark Stapleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001
I am new to this group and to Tivoli, but I successfully used this command
yesterday.
dsmc restore backupset backupsetname \\machinename\c$}\*
I did not have to tell it which tape the set was on, just give it the
correct name, this is not the node name but the backupset name which usually
the
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We have an OS390 TSM server and various clients including netware and win2k
Can anyone enlighten me on the availability of HSM clients for these platforms.
Also, are any of these bundled in with 4.2 TSM or are they expensive add ons.
thanks,
John
In addition to making sure that the DSCOPT and DSCLANG are allocated, if
this has never worked, I would check the APPLY step for the admin client
FMID. Making sure that the DDDEF's are set correct for the TCP and LE
options. The SYS1.SAMPLIB(ANRDDEF) member is used to create them.
Bill Boyer
No, not directly, but you could mark all of the tapes that you don't want to
use to private. It would then have to pick the one you want. If you have
lots of tapes this is not going to be fun! Another way that might work is
to define the volume to the pool rather than letting TSM take a
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Hello all,
I would like to find out whether I can do the DBDUMP/ DBLOAD to disk - the
problem is that I would like to do this on a test server which does not have
any tape drives or ATL attached to it. Any help/ suggestions are
appreciated.
Thanks (and Happy Holidays to everyone).
Arthur
I have a win2k cluster as well. We currently have the local
backup/archive client backing up each associated resource on each
cluster node. I want to configure TSM for failover services as well.
My understanding of the install goes like this:
1. Install the b/a client on both cluster nodes.
Yeah, and when you start to restore 512 byte files the performance will
really go into the dumper.
This problem is not about tape speed, network speed or disk speed. It's
about software. If anybody has significantly better numbers than 10 GB
/hour I'd love to hear about it. This for
How about backing up the db to a device class of type file? You could then
burn the files onto CDs or just make sure the files are kept away from the
server, perhaps at another site or at least on another system? You could
even use NT backup to put the files on your 4mm tape.
100 GB tape for
Arnaud,
Here's what I found in the TSM 4.2 Reference Guide:
CONVERT ARCHIVE (Allow Clients to Query Archive Files by Description )
Use this command to improve the efficiency of a command line or API client
query of
archive files and directories using the description option. Previously, an
API
These require add-ons.
w2k: http://www.otg.com/Products/DX2000/ (Tivoli partner)
novell: http://www.knozall.com/filewizardtsm.htm (NOT Tivoli partner)
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Senior Consultant
Solution Technology, Inc
630 718 4238
John Naylor
Nope, didnt work. It started the restore, but the bytes indictor stayed
at zero and nothing was restored. I left it for over 10 minutes just to
make sure.
Joe
-Original Message-
From: Adams, Matt (US - Hermitage) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 10:21 AM
To:
I am attempting to schedule a restore from one Novell server to another. I
have the schedule working and the restore completes successful.
My problem is after the restore completes the session is left open.
Is there a way to suppress the prompt, like the -noprompt option on the
delete command.
Yep, just define a devclass like and use it... (I set the est/max capacity
to the size of the filespace)
tsm: q dev flatfile f=d
Device Class Name: FLATFILE
Device Access Strategy: Sequential
Storage Pool Count: 0
Device Type: FILE
I would like some input from the group on how I could accomplish the
following with the least amount of user intervention/maintenance.
The following is my dilemma:
There are two sets of backups on the client server. One is the system
backup and the other is the database backup (not yet
Does anyone have experience setting up and using this product? Gotchas,
impressions, etc?
Thanks,
Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
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(719)531-5926
Fax:
Joe, it took me 1 hour and 28 minutes to restore a 264k text file when I did
it. Have you ever seen how long it takes to list the contents of a backup
set. Remember, the file you are trying to restore from a backupset was
backed up as a complete filespace, but it is possible to extract one file
I'm seeing a bizzare situation I can't explain on an NT client running a
backup(I'm still hanging on to version 3.7)
I have my policy for this client setup for copy serialization=dynamic
which states that TSM should backup the file or directory on the firs
attempt regardless of whether the file
I would use backups (nightly incrementals) to cover op system, application
code (the installed oracle code, etc...)
and I would use archives to save all the oracle .dbf files...
This way (as you said) all the open/active oracle files are excluded from
nightly incremental processing.
OH, the TDP
You did not say what type of system the client is. This was easy on our
unix boxes. The dsm.sys file is made to be in stanza format and thus we use
two different client nodes. One for the system and one for Oracle. Since
these are treated as two separate nodes to TSM, they do not get in each
Dwight is quite correct about the include/exclude... if you do that, you'll
wind up expiring files you've just backed up. There are several ways to
handle this, and the topic has been discussed here several times.
Briefly, you could do the archive the database, backup everything else
method as
They seem to be different files to me...
*.utx
*.xtu
Unless, there is something that I am not seeing here!
-Original Message-
From: James healy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 1:37 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: retries happenning with
And look at the syntax to see if you can use a -subdir=yes to go below.
This is one of those things you get to play with until it works.
Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
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www.storsol.com or
but what happens if the disk that your database backups are on craps out???
-Original Message-
From: Scott, Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 10:42 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Managing DB and Log Backups
Jeff,
Depending on the number of DB
Yep that will work when restoring from the server. I am restoring from a
tape unit that is not connected to the server.
Joe
-Original Message-
From: Mark Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 10:43 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Backupset Restore
The way this is done with agents is by creating a second scheduler
service/daemon using a separate dsm.opt file. Since you then have two
clients as far as TSM is concerned you can have two schedules: one for
normal files excluding the db files and one just for the database. The
schedule for the
SM*ers,
Recently, I have been pondering over the concept of performing Journal based
backups vs. Traditional full incremental backups. Previously, before
upgrading to 4.2.1.15, which I was able to use the Journaling Service, one
of my NT file servers (NT 4.0 SPK6 ADSM 3.1.0.6) was taking well
Hi TSMers,
Can someone help me with with the following. I am trying to select from the
actlog all entries for a client in the past 7 hours and send them to the user
in a daily report. I may not be doing the sql select right. Nothing is
selected even though the client just did a backup.
= cat
Does ADSM or TSM support NCR Unix 3.02?
Please reply asap.
Thanks.
Rosa Leung
Distributed Storage Services
Tel: (416) 490-5151 Fax: (416) 490-5283
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Try in your dsm.sys file underneath the Oracle Server Stanza:
|
SErvername adsm
NODenamenode1
COMMMethod TCPip
TCPPort 1500
TCPServeraddressalmvmd.almaden.ibm.com
Yes, its happenning over and over again with more than 1 file, but my
question is if I have dynamic coded, why does it retry at all?
Malbrough, Demetrius [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 12/19/2001
03:43:48 PM
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Sent by: ADSM:
One thought:
When certain users or processes open files, they DENY READ ACCESS
to the files for any other user or process. When this happens, even
with serialization set to DYNAMIC or SHRDYNAMIC, ADSM does not back
up the file.
Is it only happening with these files with these extensions???
So either a actual file or the whole thing?! I am going to try the same
command without the * '\\qbssnf11\c$\program~1\' and see what happens.
Joe
-Original Message-
From: Mark Stapleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 10:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would try:
- backing up to disk first (disk pool)
- or backup to multiple tape drives at once. How many tape drives to you have?
- collocate by filespace might help (but I'm not sure for P T)
- tune your TSM database (what is your server?)
- make multiple volumes on your NetWare server or you
Hello,
I have an AIX 4.3.3 system that performs many archive sessions daily via TSM
client 4.1.3. Since we updated from 3.7, each day, we have at least one
dsmc processes hung on the client where there is no session on the server
for the hung dsmc. Our server is running 4.1.3. Other nodes
Morning / afternoon / good day to you all
I was wondering if anybody can help with this issue.
I want to be able to restore a Oracle DB that was backed up using TDPO and
RMAN from one node to another node.
I have already thought about spoofing the target machine by either copying
across or
Just a note to tell those few who know me that I'll be unsubscribing shortly
(and to those who don't, apologies for wasting bandwidth).
I expect to be doing more TSM work sometime next year so I may be back, but
in the meantime... well, I know where the archives are if I need them.
So long, and
Well then you'd be up the creek. The thought is to take periodic tape
backups or get the files off disk onto something else.
Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
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