One of oour main windows 2003 server crahsed today and the san disk it
turs out is corrupted and we need to restore 2TB of user files to a new
server.
The users cannot login to their workstations because this server is used
in our login process and each user maps a home directory to a share on
I don't know what method you are for a BMR recovery but I have used what
most people in this list suggest. I simply reinstall the OS (from and
install cd or image using something like altiris or nlite) then install
the TSM client then restore C: drive files and then registry and reboot.
Which
I have a Sepaton VTL and it has helped us tremendously to meet our
requirements. Although the VTL did help reduce our backup window by over
70% and we have sustained backup speeds of 150MB/s and I have seen them
has high has 300MB/s. You are going to need to reconfigure the way your
clients
Does anyone know if Tivoli is working on a product that will support BMR
on windows systems. I know Cristie can be used but I don't want another
third party product and ASR recovery on Win2003 takes forever. You
would think that TSM would be able to clone or ghost a windows system at
least.
I spoke with sepaton, emc, copan, IBM, and sun over the course of 4 months
starting in Jan. of 2006. I choose to go with sepaton for a number of
reasons: they scale by size and PERFORMANCE (which is something none of
the others could match), price was good and maint. was reasonable, roadmap
for
I am having problems backing up a large filesystem on a win2003k server.
The backup is failing because its running out of memory which IBM says
is because of the 32bit os limitation. Tried journaling but the server
is very busy and continuously gets buffer overflows and the journal
fails and I
I would suggest don't worry to much about cartridge size more on the
number of cartridges. I have 100+ clients backup directly to the vtl
daily so I created a larger number of tape devices and 200 100GB
cartridges. I migrated the data daily after the nightly backups.
On Thu, May 25, 2006 12:14
I need to do some HSM on a windows systems we have and was wondering if
anyone has any experiences with these products and could provide me with
some feedback on them.
Thanks in advance
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Anyone out
Anyone out there have any good or bad experiences with VTL solutions. I
was thinking about budgeting for 1 or 2 in order to phase out the
current san file system I am using for TSM disk storage. There are
several vendors out there with VTL solutions most notably IBM and EMC.
My first choice
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At 11:33 AM 11/23/2005, Dearman, Richard wrote:
We currently use several TB of san based disk storage for our daily
backups which gets migrated during the day to multiple tape
libraries.
The san disk
, November 24, 2005 8:40 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: VTS or san disk storage
At 11:33 AM 11/23/2005, Dearman, Richard wrote:
We currently use several TB of san based disk storage for our daily
backups which gets migrated during the day to multiple tape libraries.
The san disk
We currently use several TB of san based disk storage for our daily
backups which gets migrated during the day to multiple tape libraries.
The san disk administration has become a nightmare and I was thinking of
replacing it with a VTS from IBM or other disk library such as one from
EMC. Do you
According to APAR IC46817 the TSM client has a limitation on 32 bit
windows platform of only using 2GB of memory and backing up 1 million
files uses approx. 300MB of memory so 7million+ files will causes the
TSM client to shutdown since the 2GB limit will be reached. I have a
system with 15
My TSM database is currently 150GB and I am wondering if I should start
thinking about a second server. Other than the DB being so large
nothing else is wrong.
Thanks
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Subject: Re: How big of a TSM DB is too big?
I'm curious to find out how long your expiration job runs and the number
of times you run it per week.
Chris.
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Please respond
Has anyone used Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files product
on a file server with a very large amount of files and directories. I
have a server with millions of files and directories that I can not get
backed because the TSM client either runs out of memory and shuts down
trying to do an
I'm having the same problem has everyone else. Our imaging system is
going to be 30millioin+ files over 3 disks and 2TB by the end on the
year. I was going to attempt to use a snapshot image backup of each
filesystem which is on a Win2k server. Has anyone tried this before on
a server of this
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I'm having the same problem has everyone else. Our imaging system is
going to be 30millioin+ files over 3 disks and 2TB by the end on the
year. I
Wouldn't the backup take close to the same amount of time has using one
mount point. Because the TSM client on that one server still had to go
through 15 million files whether its doing it in one session or 10
sessions.
I am experiencing the same problem of an imaging system. I am trying to
go
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Wouldn't the backup take close to the same amount of time has using one
I have a mixture of unix and windows clients and I am now implementing
the DR module and would like a scripted method to insert the clients
info into TSM. I have a script to get the info from the unix clients
but not one for the windows clients. Do any of you have any scripts or
experiences with
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I upgraded from aix 5.1.0.4 to 5.1.0.7 and now when my clients connected
they backup one at a time even if the storage pools for that client is empty
they only backup one at a time. Have anyone seen this before I have clients
connected from last night just hanging in tsm.
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I'm having some problems trying to keep my 3494 library volumes consistent
with TSM. I have a lot of volumes in TSM that are unavailable which I
cann't checkin because they are in the library but TSM set them to
unavailable. I usually have to run set the unavailables back to readw
then run and
I have few home directory server with about 250GB of data about 5-6million
small files with about 23,000 file changes per day. My backups without
journaling are taking 33-40hours. Which is why I want to implement
journaling service. Do any of you guys out there who are currently using
I'm running TSM 5.2.2 on Aix and I have a client that is a Win2k server
which we use as a print server. I tried a test restore by just building a
win2k server and loading TSM client 5.2 on it and restoring from a backup
set. I did a backup of the original print server first including system
I backup 10 win2k servers all with about 150GB of files consisting of 5
million+ files and about 14,000 files change per day per server. With the
current 5.2 tsm client loaded it is taking about 25+ hours to backup. Is
there anyway to speed this up? I tried LVSA and it didn't work because the
I want to exclude some directories from being backed up so I can stop the
file backup failure notifications I get. So I created the following server
client opt statement and assigned it to the options set of this client but
it doesn't appear to be working. I don't set my client opts in the
The tape driver does the switching from active to standby path. Tsm doesn't
know anything about the paths it just sees the device /dev/rmt*
I have 4 3590E driver with dual fiber attachments. Although you must be
using IBM SAN adapters to user this functionality or the aix server will see
an rmt
I tried it a couple of years ago and it was terrible. What version of
Diskextender are you running? What os and version of TSM are you running?
Thanks
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Some of my database volume copies are showing offline. How do I set them
back to online.
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Does anyone have a script to cancel all process? For example you can
cancel sess all to cancel all sessions but there is no cancel proc all
command. So there must be a scripting way of doing this.
THanks
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I am restoring a filesystem to from one aix unix server to another and using
the 5.1 client. The filesystem is named /hci under it is a directory called
/hci/install.3.5.2P but everytime I do a restore it creates two directories
called /hci/install.3.5.2P and /hci/install.3.5.2p as you can see
I do 1TB+ backups nightly which run for about 8 hours. A large part of our
backup is a 500GB Oracle database backup to TSM. The database backups up
over a private 1Gb connection to a AIX P660-6h1 server with 2GB of RAM and 4
processors. The data then goes to nine 2disk stripe sets, over a 1Gb
Does anyone know if TSM 5.2 will have any BMR capabilities build into it for
unix and/or windows clients. Or should I assume that it will never happen
and purchase Baremetal Restore from veritas.
Thanks
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My storage pools filled up causing by backups to go into a mediaw state
waiting for a tape drive to free up. My tape drives were busy migrating
data to free space in my storage pools. Is there anyway to force the
client sessions out of the mediaw and to start sending data to my disk
storage
If you use Jumbo Frames at the client, tsm server and switches. You will
see a higher through put with a lot less cpu utilization. I my experience
the biggest problem with backup speed is the client is the bottle neck.
Either it cann't read from its disk fast enough to support gig speeds or the
? Will this not increase through
put?
Thank You,
Bill Rosette
Data Center/IS/Papa Johns International
WWJD
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I am running tsm 5.1.5.2 on AIX 5.1.0.2 both are running in 64bit mode.
After I upgraded to 5.1.5.2 every morning I have a few sessions that are
running extremely slow at 20k/s. They start out fine at night running at
40MB/s on the private gig network setup for the two servers. Before they
would
My clients are vms, aix and nt. They all seem to be having the same
problem. I'm going to go back up 32bit mode today and see how it runs
tonight.
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Does anyone know of any fixes for 5.1.5.1? Are there any on the way from
IBM or what. This version is terrible. I have backups running 10hrs longer
than normal.
thanks
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Does anyone know of any fixes for 5.1.5.1? Are there any on the way from
IBM or what. This version is terrible. I have backups
I haven't done aTSM DB backup in the last few days. So I started one today
and it is moving very slow I have a 30GB database and it is only reading at
about 500KB/s. At this rate it will take hours to backup. Before it would
only take 45minutes.
Is this normal?
Thanks
Has anyone tried to script a BMR solution for NT or AIX using tsm. Everyone
keeps saying the Bare Metal Restore is just a bunch of scripts that access
TSM but has anyone tried create those scripts themselves.
Thanks
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I backup my systems to a disk stgpool then backup that stgpool to an offsite
copy stgpool library at 8am then at 11am I migrate the disk stgpool to an
onsite tape library. Currently I schedule the jobs in tsm by just issuing
the proper commands at 8am and 11am. The problem is my 8am backup to
I have this same problem the only way to solve it for me is to restart the
3494 library. The drives show online and available to aix but the library
won't use them. I have this problem whenever I reboot my tsm server. I
then must restart the library as well.
Richard
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I have tested this scenario moving to scsi connected 3590e's and fc
connected 3590e's. Using scsi to got about 20Mb/s and fc about 25Mb/s. I'm
using hardware compressions. I haven't been able to get the high levels of
throughput the IBM claims you can get from moving to fc. Although I haven't
You know I had a problem similar to this. We were doing a large restore of
a system disk about 50,000 files 1.6Gb. It took about 20 minutes to build
the file list. When it started restoring it restored 1Gb fast and then the
session hung for 45minutes. So I killed the session from TSM and it
Does anyone know of any reporting tools that works well with TSM. I know
Tivoli has a Decision Support module for TSM but the price is pretty high.
We don't have the entire Tivoli Framework enviornment implemented so I don't
think it would be best used here. We just use TSM and I'm looking for
Is there anyway to transfer ownership of a filespace from one node to
another node within TSM. I want to re-register the current filespace under
the new node name so I can delete the old node name. The new node name is
also in a different policy domain with different rules. For example: I'm
Is there anyway other than creating a backup set to offfsite data for a
particular day for one server. For example I want to offsite xyz servers
backup of a database every friday just once a week and keep it offsite
indefinitely. Basically, I will have a copy of that server offsite has it
was
Remember no matter how fast your network is you can only move data as fast
as your disk will read or write. I have a setup similiar to this and run
multiple sessions on our Oracle server but don't get gig throughput because
of how fast it can read from disk where the Oracle database lies. The
08, 2001 7:46 AM
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Richard,
Did you check to see if LMCP is running?
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Is anyone familar with the following message using a 3494 library. For some
reason I get these messages in my TSM actlog and I cann't access the
library. I try from a aix prompt to run mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qI and it
errors. Which indicates the server isn't talking to the 3494. Is there any
States Lirary is Offline from host. The library show it being online the
only way I have seen to get it back is to reboot the library.
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Is there a preferred max number of simultaneous backup session? I now
backup about 20 server at a time during one session but I notice that some
have recv wait status if I do a q sess. I thought TSM was multi
threaded and would backup all of them at once. I have a gig card in the tsm
server so
When I run the following script:
dsmadmc -ID=admin -PASSWORD=admin QUERY ACTLOG BEGINDATE=today
BEGINTIME=02:00 ENDDATE=today ENDTIME=NOW SEARCH=FULL backup from server
server* complete ORIGINATOR=ALL | mail -s Exchange_backup_info
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ANS8000I Server
Anyone know of a good way to raise Cache Hit Pct to above 98%. I continue
to get 95.6% and I tried the performance tuning setting an still get cann't
get it above 98%. Tivoli manuals state that Cache Hi Pct should remain
above 98%.
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Either start using collocation on the tape storage pool, which will help in
the future with restore speeds. But for now I would say create a backup set
for the machine you are going to restore. The backupset will take sometime
to create but the restore will go quickly.
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If all my tape drives are busy during the day doing reclaims and someone
needs to do a restore from a tape will TSM stop a reclaim process and let
the restore take place.
Thanks
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for a restore that needs
that tape. I have also seen on the 4.1 code ADSM give the message of data
unavailable when tape drives are not immediately available on the server (3
seconds). If anyone has changes to resolve. Please let us know.
Jeff Bach
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I cann't find this in my guide is there a TSM 4.1 Admin Guide available.
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From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Subject: Re: Reclaims Ques
If all my tape drives are busy during the day doing reclaims
Is there any real difference between archiving and running a regular backup.
I currently just run backups and do no archiving. Although to do keep data
for years in some cases. What are your opinions? Should I change my backup
strategy and create archive storage pools.
Thanks for your input
as well.
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From: Dearman, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Is anyone using the HSM for NT product that intergrates with TSM called
OTG
In order to do point in time restores on a Unix (AIX) machines must you run
an Full Image backup once a week and incrementals the rest of the week. Or
can you just do your normal incrementals everyday. Basically, is the full
image backup necessary.
Thanks
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Is anyone using the HSM for NT product that intergrates with TSM called OTG
Diskextender? Or is there any other products that do HSM on NT that
intergrate with TSM. The OTG product is not very good I am having alot of
problems with it.
Thansk
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Is anyone using the HSM for NT product that intergrates with TSM called OTG
Diskextender? Or is there any other products that do HSM on NT
Anyone know of a non intensive way to move a large storage pool from being
non collocation to using collocation.
Thanks
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My exchange database restores move slow about 600kb/s but any other type of
database restore to the same machine moves very quickly. Is any one else
experiencing this type of slow performance on exchange database restores.
Its taking me roughly 2 1/2 hors to restore a 8 GB database.
Thanks
I noticed that when I do a restore my client may indicated 5GB restored but
when I do a q session on the server it will indicated that 3GB or so was
sent. This hasn't happen before until I moved to Gigabit ethernet last
week. Does anyone one know how to correct this.
Thanks
I'm trying to generate statistics on restoring from a 3494 library using
3590E tape drives. I haven't been able to get a restore rate of more than
1MB/s. Is anyone out there doing restores faster than that coming from tape
using a 3590 tape drive.
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Is there anyway to remotely administer a 3494 from AIX or any other way. I
need to be able to remotely reboot it or check on the status of drives or
set them on and offline.
Thanks
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Does anyone know if TDP for Exchange version 2.2 is available yet?
thanks
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How do you redirect error report resource names to a shell script. I have a
shell script that will send emails on resource names from the errpt but I
don't know how to pass those resource names to the shell script.
Thanks for you help
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Is there a preferred db volume size for TSM for optimal performance. I am
currently making my database volumes in 2GB increments my database is 20GB
in total.
Thanks
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When is it a good time to start implementing multiple TSM servers. Also, I
have two H70 with one node running TSM 4.1 connected to a 3494. The other
node is setup as a standby both running HACMP. I was thinking of
implementing the other standby H70 in production and start using TSM on it
as
I am trying to run the nohup dsmc sched 2 /dev/null command on my AIX
4.3.3 machine and it works but every time I exit. It says There are jobs
running so I exit again and whe I check the dsmc sched process is not
running. I thought the nohup command was suppose to let process run even
after
I have 2 raid-5 sets with 1 volume of a storage pool sitting on each raid
set. I am noticing that when I backup that I don't write to both volumes
all the time in parellel. My network through put isn't limiting me. Is
there any way to force tsm to write to both volumes in a storage pool at the
Anyone know the command on a 3494 library to checkin volumes using the
barcode only. I added 300 new tape to my library and it wants to mount each
one instead of just using the barcode. What is the typical command you
guys use to check in new scratch tape on a 3494.
Thanks
with multiple threads using Gigabit Fiber Channel
Interface.
2. Configure Copy group to send backup data directly to tapes( Don't use
disk group)
-Bandu
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Why would I send the data to tape first writing to disk is faster.
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the
machine backing up to the disk pool. This is just comparing Total
Elapsed
Time and nothing else.
Imagine that!
Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305
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From: Dearman, Richard
I need to backup a 500GB database and my current setup is my tsm server is
on the same ip subnet has the database server. Tsm is connected to 500GB of
SSA storage with 5 RAID5 sets with two 50GB tsm volumes on each raid set.
My though put to the disk only seems to be 9000 kB/s. Which doesn't
is faster .But need to
purchase additional s/w.
pinni
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I need to backup a 500GB database and my current setup is my tsm server
: Friday, April 27, 2001 12:25 PM
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And it depends on the type of DB. TSM only supports a couple in LAN-free
mode.
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Importance: High
Hi
If I am correct IBM offers LAN free backup which is faster .But need to
purchase additional s/w.
pinni
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a 100mb LAN, then that is very good
and you
are not going to move data faster over the LAN.
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I am not using any TDP product. I'm picking up
RAID5
3. SAN storage
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9000 kB/s is only 9mb per second. Over a 100meg ethernet LAN. That
doesn't
sound to god to me
I'm new to the AIX world so forgive me if the question seems stupid. I
installed two nic cards in my H70 running AIX 4.3.3. Both are on different
ip subnets. Everytime I set the default gateway for the second nic card it
changes the default gateway on the first card to be the same as the
I seen this situation once before when the parity is unsynced corruption
can be caused in the filesystems on the ssa array. And cause the data to
become unrecoverable. I saw this happen on an AIX 4.2.1 system before IBM
told me that there was nothing that could be done to recover the data and
Our TSM server is on one ip subnet and a large system I backup every night
about 300GB of data nightly is in the same room as the TSM server but on
another ip subnet. I would like the data going into TSM from that large
system to be switched not routed to TSM.
Does anyone know if TSM can listen
I'm not sure I understand, is this what you are saying? My current TSM
server has one nic card on 11.0.0.0 subnet. Install another nic card in my
TSM server and put it on another ip subnet lets say 10.0.0.10. Then on my
client change the dsm.opt to backup to that ip address of 10.0.0.10? If I
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Importance: High
Hi
Just try LAN FREE BACKUP FROM IBM.
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Our TSM server is on one
Currently I do regular TSM ncremental backups of my servers every night. I
was wondering is there any reason I should start creating Backup Sets. I
still have the ability to restore my server to its last backed up state if
it were to fail. Therefore I don't see much reason for doing Backup
I use the "top"utility to monitor my server adsm server load. I noticed
that the Real memory statement is showing 812M files is being used. What
does the files statement mean? it seems whatever files means is taking up
all of my memory.
Load averages: 0.10, 0.04, 0.04 adsmsrv1
I run my backups at night around 10:30pm. I have around 50 servers doing
incrementals concurrently at this time. I noticed that about half are
experiencing MEDIAW when I do a "q session". They seem to be waitng to for
a tape to load in my library for them to write to but the storage pool that
I have been seeing high memory utilization and high disk busy problems on
the disks that my database sits on when I do backups. I'm running AIX
4.3.3 with in a H70 with 2 cpu's and 1gb of memory. I was thinking of
moving my tsm database to a RAID 0+1 setup from a RAID5 setup to see if I
gain
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