I believe that the GB backed up only references clients, not the backup
stgpool command. In that case, you could assume that whatever storage size
your stgpool is, your copy pool will be same (unless there were any errors
in executing an admin command schedule, which would also show in that report
Hi *SM'ers,
I'm facing a strange problem, in that my DB began to grow at an abnormal
rate, a couple of weeks ago. I tried to find out the reason why, and
build a query based on the occupancy table, which was counting the
number of files found for all existing storage pools. Problem is that I
I'm facing a strange problem, in that my DB began to grow at an abnormal
rate, a couple of weeks ago. I tried to find out the reason why ...
As we keep advising List members: Run regular TSM accounting reports and
review the results, both for quick detection of runaway clients and for
long term
Richard,
As a relatively experienced ADSM/TSM user, I entirely agree with what
you said, but, as told in my mail, I doubt that any of my client has
begun sending more files than usually, because following query select
sum(num_files) from occupancy returns a relatively constant value. From
my
Arnaud,
Have you queried the activity log over the last week As your database is
increasing so raoidly the client session stats
should show clients with large numbers of objects backed up
PAC Brion Arnaud
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
alpina.com
has someone increased the number of days that activity is retained in
the db?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/04/2004 9:04:27 AM
Arnaud,
Have you queried the activity log over the last week As your database
is
increasing so raoidly the client session stats
should show clients with large numbers of objects
Depending on the server version (4.2.x) there was an issue where Win2k System objects
were not expiring based on the retention policies. Try and run cleanup backupgroups
Keep an eye as it can run the log up rather quickly. Once this process completed for
us we saw or 120GB DB go from 80% to
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 6:02 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ANR1163W. Bug?!
On Tuesday, May 4, 2004, at 06:58 Australia/Sydney, Yury Us wrote:
Hi ALL,
I have found bunch strange messages recently in
is that run with TSM up or down? Up I assume.
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From: Hart, Charles [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 8:19 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM DB growing, but number of files remains the same ...
Depending on the server version
Actually q cont gives me a bunch of files from different nodes. I checked few
filesystems, they have been removed a while ago.
I assuming that all files like that, but it would be more reliable to be sure about it.
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL
As a relatively experienced ADSM/TSM user, I entirely agree with what
you said, but, as told in my mail, I doubt that any of my client has
begun sending more files than usually, because following query select
sum(num_files) from occupancy returns a relatively constant value. From
my perception, if
John : nope, I hoped to find another way doing it, something easier, but
I'll be olbliged to follow your advice !
Lawrence : I thought to that one too, but it's not the case ...
Charles : As we're actually running a 5.2 version, this should not be a
problem : even when we where with 4.2, I never
Richard,
Many thanks for that clarification, I really appreciate ! I believe what
I have to do now is to build some solid queries to explore our activity
log... Fortunately it has a retention of 30 days, what should allow me
to find out where it began to hurt. Wish me good luck, I'll keep you
Speaking of the accounting log, what version and patch level actually
came out with corrections for problems that were introduced in the 4.x
versions?
I don't even remember now what version it was that broke.
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oh ! please dont come in situation to see any light at the end of the tunnel
:-)
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From: PAC Brion Arnaud [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: TSM DB growing, but number of files remains the same ...
Richard,
Many
Lawrence Clark wrote
has someone increased the number of days that activity is retained in
the db?
This is a user controlled value SET ACTLOGRETENTION
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The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally
Arnaud,
I believe what I have to do now is to build some solid queries to explore
our activity
log...
Unless I'm mistaken, I believe that you may have misread Richard's
advice. (Correct me if I'm wrong, Richard.) His recommendation:
I stress accounting log reporting because it is the very best,
While its up and running... just keep an eye on the log... Couldn't hurt to run.
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Coats, Jack
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 8:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM DB growing, but number of files
We upgraded from 4.1.c to 5.1 and did not go through the 4.2 Release with that bug,
but ran it anyway and it cleaned up Millions and Millions of SysObj... Worth a try.
Once you start the process you can watch it to see if it does delete obj...
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From: ADSM: Dist
I heartily agree with Richard's note about using the ACCOUNTING (not the
activity) log.
We tried several things with Servergraph, and found that:
-- activity log messages are sometimes erroneous
-- summary table data is sometimes unreliable
-- frequent queries against these tables can
Ted,
Now I realise you where certainly right ! Unfortunately I disabled
accounting some times ago, as it leaded us to server crash, because /usr
was full. At that time I did not knew how to direct it anywhere else as
it's standard path, and afterwards forgot to reactivate it : like
allways higher
Arnaud,
You could always make the accounting log file a softlink to a more
forgiving location...
It probably would also make sense to do some kind of regular log rotation
with the file.
Ted
At 10:39 AM 5/4/2004, you wrote:
Ted,
Now I realise you where certainly right ! Unfortunately I disabled
Any one have any idea on what the target is for this much needed feature ?
I thought it was originally targeted for 5.2.2 (unless I missed it
somewhere !).
I have 125 tapes with less than 10% used, due to collocation and a bunch
of small nodes and I really need to reduce that number !
Charles,
No chance that time :
05/04/04 16:55:56 ANR0847I CLEANUP BACKUPGROUPS evaluated 7233
groups, and
deleted 0 orphan groups with 0 members deleted.
(SESSION:
645615)
Thanks anyway !
Arnaud
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Ted Byrne
You could always make the accounting log file a softlink to a more
forgiving location...
It probably would also make sense to do some kind of regular log
rotation
with the file.
Once a month, run
cd
Mark : thanks for the tip, I'll give it a try !
Ted : as per TSM help : The environment variable,
DSMSERV_ACCOUNTING_DIR, specifies the directory where the accounting
file is located. Now I know this, but as said before, forgot to
reactivate accounting ...
Arnaud
I've always the same problem:
The libobk.a link is well; LIBPATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH include first the
$ORACLE_HOME/lib directory. but the sbttest command give the following
errors
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ sbttest a -libname
/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64/libobk64.a
Hi Arnaud,
You can also take a look at the SUMMARY table, which contains a lot of the
same information that appears in the account log. Something like this
might prove to be a useful starting point:
select entity as NODE,
date(end_time) as DATE,
activity,
sum(examined) as
Hi, Chris
I used the method that you told me, but it still has this problem, do you have another
method?
thanks
Andy
Christian Wadl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
Ignore it. The Error tells you that TSM tries to do an snapshot based
backup, but cant handle it, so it does a normal backup, as
The 2507 is a return code number that we give back to Oracle which in turn
reports it as bsercerrno=2507. You will find that 2507 is:
TDP_ORC_LOWER_APIVER
ANU2507E
Runtime API version is outdated
Runtime API is lower than compile time API.
Check compile time API level, obtain same or higher
Zoltan, why not set up a SMALL_SERVERS policy domain which has MC
definitions the same as your normal server PD with one difference - send
the data to a different hierarchy where the tape storage pool is not
collocated. The client nodes that are candidates for this PD are nodes
that have small
Hi All,
We currently have a large 2.6TB (ever growing) SAP database that we
perform a full hot archive on each day. The primary DB server sync's a
BCV mount, and then we backup the mirror directly on the TSM server.
The TSM server is an IBM H80 running AIX 5.1.0.5, TSM Server 5.2.2.0,
and connects
Hi,
I tryed to use snapshot image backup my D$, and I have enough storage pool in the TSM
server, but I failed when I used this function. it said Server out of data storage
space. I don't know why, could you tell me how I can do?
Thanks
Andy
C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclientdsmc backup
A new Mac client, v5.2.2.10, was just released. Has anyone been
able to run the Mac client successfully on a dual G4 or dual G5?
OS is 10.3.x. I know one of the duals is an XServe, not sure
about any of the others that are having problems.
Gretchen Thiele
Princeton University
The only big problem I have had with the Mac client was when the Arial
font was not installed. This fix solves that problem(IC40043).
I have not had a problem running 5.2.2.0 on OSX 10.3.x with a Dual G4 pmac
when the Arial font is installed.
-Jonathan
On Tue, 4 May 2004, Gretchen L. Thiele
I have already thought of this idea. I was hoping for GROUP COLLOCATION.
The problem with this idea/design is I have to essential duplicate
*EVERYTHING*, such as admin processes, operator training, etc. Also, this
means I have to set aside disk storage (which is very limited on my zOS
system) to
If you want to use less tapes, set maxscratch to a smaller value for your
storage pool. If you have more nodes than tapes then they will share tapes.
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From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: May 4, 2004 9:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: What ever
One confusion is why do I have so many partially filled tapes ? I
don't have this many nodes ?
You might want to do some queries against the volumeusage table. That data
can be massaged to see what tapes are being used. You could also use q
content volume_name count=1 against all of the
Hi all,
This may be a little off topic as it relates to TSM specifically but I do
have a reason for asking. I'd like to see how the TSM server is running
during different periods of processing. With that said..
I was wondering if anyone has a favorite GUI tool that can be run locally or
snmp customization and mrtg ?
R.
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From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 1:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AIX question (off topic possibly)
Hi all,
This may be a little off topic as it relates to TSM specifically but I do
Big Brother with the larrd add-in works nicely.
See http://bb4.com/
Or contact me directly . . .
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc
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From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 3:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AIX question (off topic
Zoltan,
I don't know what you were specifically told about the new feature, but
keep in mind that any such disclosures are usually with the caveats
subject to change. :-)
To the best of my knowledge this is currently targeted for our next major
release this fall. (Caveat: This statement does
The most likely reason for multiple filling tapes for the same node is
that a filling tape is in use by reclamation or storage pool backup and
migration is starting to run. Migration then cannot add to the filling
tape for the node and instead gets itself a new scratch tape. You now have
two
...
One confusion is why do I have so many partially filled tapes ? I
don't have this many nodes ?
Zoltan,
Andy's observations were excellent, as always.
I can only add a suggestion to check subject
Shrinking (dwindling) number of available scratch tapes
in ADSM QuickFacts, where I
Hello there,
Has anyone had any experience trying to limit the number of backups of
the system state objects in Win2K?
I thought the obvious choice was to use the new include.systemobject
ALL mgmtclass option and set the backup copygroup in the specified
management class to have a non-zero copy
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