Re: Strange problem with the same ACTIVELOG files opened multiple times

2016-12-07 Thread Dury, John C.
torage pools). No deduplication. We haven't yet placed a support call with IBM about the variance in DB backup times, but intend to. -- Graham Stewart Network and Storage Services Manager Information Technology Services University of Toronto Libraries 416-978-6337 On 12/06/2016 01:41 PM, Dury, John

Re: Strange problem with the same ACTIVELOG files opened multiple times

2016-12-06 Thread Dury, John C.
We continue to see this on all 4 TSM 7.x servers. I do not see this behavior on the TSM 6.x servers at all. Anyone else running TSM 7.x on RHEL 7.x? The /tsmactivelog/NODE/LOGSTREAM/S0018048.LOG is open simultaneously a total of 386 times. This can't be normal behavior. We have two

Strange problem with the same ACTIVELOG files opened multiple times

2016-11-11 Thread Dury, John C.
We have two TSM v7.1.7.0 server running on different RHEL 7.x servers. The primary storage pool is BACKUPPOOL which has it's volumes in the local OS mounted as NFS volumes across a 10g network connection. The volumes live on the Data domain which does it's own deduplication in the background.

server script to find what schedules a node is associated with?

2016-10-04 Thread Dury, John C.
Anyone have any idea how to query a TSM server (v6 or v7) to find what backup schedules a node is associated with? I'm trying to do the reverse of a "q assoc" command and looking for way to supply a node parameter to a script and have the TSM server tell me it is in the following list of

Re: All volumes in STGPOOL show as full. Please help.

2016-01-14 Thread Dury, John C.
We do not have a backup of the DEDUP pool but it is being replicated to a different TSM server. The copy stgpool option is disabled. John -Original Message- From: Stef Coene [mailto:stef.co...@docum.org] Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 8:54 AM To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager; Dury, John C

Re: All volumes in STGPOOL show as full. Please help.

2016-01-13 Thread Dury, John C.
: Rettenberger Sabine [mailto:sabine.rettenber...@wolf-heiztechnik.de] Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 10:35 AM To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Cc: Dury, John C. Subject: AW: All volumes in STGPOOL show as full. Please help. Hi John, did you try a RECLAIM at the DEDUP-Pool to get the volumes free? What says

All volumes in STGPOOL show as full. Please help.

2016-01-13 Thread Dury, John C.
We have 2 storage pools. A BACKUPPOOL and a DEDUP pool. All nightly backups come into the BACKUPPOOL and then migrate to the DEDUP pool for permanent storage. All volumes in the DEDUP pool are showing FULL although the pool is only 69% in use. I tried doing a move data on a volume in the DEDUP

Re: How can I exclude files from dedupe processing?

2015-08-03 Thread Dury, John C.
can just= change the destination storage pool for that class to go to a non-duplicat= ed storage pool. ..Paul (sent from my iPhone) On Aug 2, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Dury, John C. jd...@duqlight.commailto:JDury= @DUQLIGHT.COMmailto:jd...@duqlight.com%3cmailto:JDury=%2...@duqlight.com wrote

How can I exclude files from dedupe processing?

2015-08-02 Thread Dury, John C.
I have a 6.3.5.100 Linux server and several TSM 7.1.0.0 Linux clients. Those linux clients are dumping several Large Oracle databases using compression, and then those files are being backed up to TSM. Because the files are compressed when dumped via RMAN, they are not good candidates for

Re: recovering a DB from full backup when one of TSM DB DIR became corrupt and DB is in roll forward mode (need help)

2014-11-24 Thread Dury, John C.
The issue was that I needed a way to recreate the actual files in the dbdirs. It is fixed now. Original Message From: Erwann Simon Sent: Mon, Nov 24, 2014 12:42 AM To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ; Dury, John C. CC: Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] recovering a DB from full backup when one

recovering a DB from full backup when one of TSM DB DIR became corrupt and DB is in roll forward mode (need help)

2014-11-23 Thread Dury, John C.
Long story short, I have a full DB backup taken on a linux system running TSM 6.3.4.300 with the DB in roll forward mode. The DB is spread across 4 different dbdirs file systems. One of the file systems became corrupt and I need to recover the DB from the full backup. I have the dbdirs file

Re: Anyone else doing replica backups of exchange datastores? Need some help please.

2014-11-05 Thread Dury, John C.
ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU wrote on 10/31/2014 02:47:25 PM: From: Dury, John C. JDury AT DUQLIGHT DOT COM To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU Date: 10/31/2014 02:49 PM Subject: Re: Anyone else doing replica backups of exchange datastores? Need some help please. Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Anyone else doing replica backups of exchange datastores? Need some help please.

2014-10-31 Thread Dury, John C.
I have been trying to get this to work for days now and I don't seem to be making any progress. I have tried all kinds of options in both the dsm.opt and tdpexc.cfg files and I get various messages. The documentation in the TDP for Exchange manual on doing replica backups is not very detailed

Re: Anyone else doing replica backups of exchange datastores? Need some help please.

2014-10-31 Thread Dury, John C.
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU wrote on 10/31/2014 08:40:00 AM: From: Dury, John C. JDury AT DUQLIGHT DOT COM To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU Date: 10/31/2014 08:42 AM Subject: Anyone else doing replica backups of exchange datastores? Need some help please. Sent

Re: file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device

2014-05-05 Thread Dury, John C.
-Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Dury, John C. Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 3:46 PM To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device We are more

Tivoli Admin Center frustrations

2014-05-03 Thread Dury, John C.
I apologize in advance but I'm just getting more frustrated. I've installed both the windows and linux version of TSM Admin Center 6.3.4.300 and both seemed to install correctly with no errors. After correctly logging in, I can't add a TSM server under the Manage Server option. I've tried 4

Re: server takes long time to connect to via admin or backup client

2014-04-01 Thread Dury, John C.
Hello, On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 09:00:10AM -0400, Dury, John C. wrote: This is a weird one and I have opened a pmr with IBM but I thought I would check with you all and see if anyone had any ideas what is going on. I have a TSM 6.3.4.300 server running on RHEL5 with all the latest

server takes long time to connect to via admin or backup client

2014-03-31 Thread Dury, John C.
This is a weird one and I have opened a pmr with IBM but I thought I would check with you all and see if anyone had any ideas what is going on. I have a TSM 6.3.4.300 server running on RHEL5 with all the latest maintenance installed, and when I try to connect to it via an admin session, either

Re: file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device

2014-02-14 Thread Dury, John C.
] On Behalf Of Dury, John C. Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 2:11 PM To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device We have two Dell NDMP storage devices and a TSM server at both sites. We'd like to be able to root file level (image

file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device

2014-02-13 Thread Dury, John C.
We have two Dell NDMP storage devices and a TSM server at both sites. We'd like to be able to root file level (image backups don't help much) backups (and restores if necessary) of the entire NDMP device to the local TSM server. Can someone point me in the right direction or tell me how they

ANR1817W when exporting node to another server

2013-09-11 Thread Dury, John C.
We have 2 6.3.4.0 TSM servers, one AIX and one linux. We want to move all of the data from the AIX server to the linux server and then eventually retire the AIX server. I understand I can also do this with replication, but because the lijnux server will eventually be replicating to a second

Re: ANR1817W when exporting node to another server

2013-09-11 Thread Dury, John C.
node toserver=LINUXSERVER filedata=all replacedefs=no mergefilespaces=no export node toserver=LINUXSERVER filedata=all domain=standard - Didn't notice the actual EXPORT command/options you used? On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Dury, John C. JDury AT duqlight DOT com wrote: We have 2 6.3.4.0 TSM

Re: ANR1817W when exporting node to another server

2013-09-11 Thread Dury, John C.
I found the problem. There was a leftover replicated node from previous testing, with the same name. Replicated nodes don't show up when doing a q node so I wasn't seeing it on the new server. Thanks for the fresh eyes. From: Dury, John C. Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 2:02 PM To: 'ADSM-L

Re: ANR1817W when exporting node to another server

2013-09-11 Thread Dury, John C.
That is exactly what I am trying to do. John - What happens if you specify a specific node name that hasn't been exported - yet? On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Dury, John C. JDury AT duqlight DOT com wrote: I have tried several combinations of the following and they all fail

expire inventory seems to be hanging and not processing all nodes

2013-08-09 Thread Dury, John C.
I have an AIX server with TSM 6.3.4.0. Expiration is set to run at 2am and seems to get so far and then hangs. But what's odd is that is also seems to only process some of the nodes but not all. For example, I have it running now and it seems to be stuck: 1 Expiration Processed

Re: expire inventory seems to be hanging and not processing all nodes

2013-08-09 Thread Dury, John C.
running for a few hours and is still hung at 462 out of 595 nodes and the number of objects hasn't changed. From: Dury, John C. Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 12:03 PM To: ADSM-L (ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU) Subject: expire inventory seems to be hanging and not processing all nodes I have an AIX

I could scream!

2013-06-18 Thread Dury, John C.
Way back when we had 1 TSM server at v5.x, we asked IBM several times if there was a way to migrate a TSM server to a different platform (AIX -- Linux) and they said no. So we came up with a strategy to install a 2nd TSM server (Linux) at our alternate site and then have all local clients

suggestions on setting up a Dell MD3260 as primary storage pool

2013-03-03 Thread Dury, John C.
We are changing our backup system and plan on using a Dell MD3260 as a primary disk storage device. It will house all backups from the local site as well as replicated data from the remote site. It will function as a primary stgpool only. The tape library that is also attached will eventually

move nodes from one server to a different server via export

2012-10-04 Thread Dury, John C.
Please ignore my previous post about trying to def a target server to source server and it failing. It looks like it works even though I still can't ping the target server from the source server. The replication works correctly though. A brief description of our environment. We have 2

Re: define server for replication

2012-10-04 Thread Dury, John C.
: remove replnode NODENAME from both servers (source and target) Before you can remove the node Regards Robert -- Date:Wed, 3 Oct 2012 17:34:22 -0400 From:Dury, John C. JDury AT DUQLIGHT DOT COM Subject: define server for replication We have 2 datacenters

Re: define server for replication

2012-10-04 Thread Dury, John C.
server uses servername and serverpa to validate where as ping uses admin name and pass to validate session. Make sure the admin and pass on server where you issue the ping also is avail on the server you ping to. Kind regards, Karel - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: Dury, John C. JDury

define server for replication

2012-10-03 Thread Dury, John C.
We have 2 datacenters and plan on having a tsm server at each site. Every client will backup all o the nodes at that site to the tsm server at that site and then replicate their data to the server at the other site. Both servers are running tsm 6.3.2. One is aix and one is linux. The linux

Re: TSM Server Upgrade from 5.5.5.2 to 6.3.2

2012-08-20 Thread Dury, John C.
. Please post if this works, I am sure others would be interested. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Dury, John C. Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 11:06 AM To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU Subject: [ADSM-L

TSM Server Upgrade from 5.5.5.2 to 6.3.2

2012-08-17 Thread Dury, John C.
I am planning on upgrading our TSM server from v5.5.5.2 to v6.3.2 this weekend. I have checked and all of the prerequisites are in place and I think I am ready. My only question is, we currently have the v5 database in several directories that have several .DSM files in them but also have lots

backup tape stgpool to tape stgpool pins recovery log

2012-07-25 Thread Dury, John C.
I have 2 sl500 tape libraries attached via dark fiber (which doesn't appear to be getting anywhere close to the speeds it should but that's another issue) to an AIX TSM 5.5 server. One is copy storage pool and the other a primary. I backup the primary to the copy storage pool daily. This

Migrating from AIX to Linux (again)

2011-11-16 Thread Dury, John C.
Our current environment looks like this: We have a production TSM server that all of our clients backup to throughout the day. This server has 2 SL500 tape libraries attached via fiber. One is local and the other at a remote site which is connected by dark fiber. The backup data is sent to the

Re: nightmares with a STK SL500 tape library,

2011-04-07 Thread Dury, John C.
I'll try to answer your questions but there were a lot! The drives in both libraries are IBM LTO4 drives. Both libraries currently have different version library code although the faulty library has been upgraded several times to different versions as they were available, and the problem still

nightmares with a STK SL500 tape library

2011-04-05 Thread Dury, John C.
We purchased an STK SL500 tape library with 4 LTO4 drives in it a few years ago and we have had nothing but problems with it, almost from the beginning. It is fully loaded with LTO4 cartridges (about 160) and seems to randomly just crash and take all of the drives offline to TSM. We also have a

backup storage pool slow - find offending file

2010-11-03 Thread Dury, John C.
We back all of our nightly data up to an SL 500 LTO4 tape library and then during the day, that cloud of data is also copied to another SL500 LTO4 tape library at a remote location. The backup storage pool is taking a significantly long time to run and appears to be running for a long time

DISREGARD: backup storage pool slow - find offending file

2010-11-03 Thread Dury, John C.
Ignore this. I got lucky and querying the contents of the volumes in use shows only 1 file. I was expecting it to be much larger since these are LTO4 drives and can hold lots of data. From: Dury, John C. Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 4:37 PM To: ADSM-L (ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU) Subject

backup storage pool seems to run forever

2010-09-03 Thread Dury, John C.
We have an AIX server running TSM server v5.5.4.0 that is attached to two tape libraries, one remote and one local. The tape libraries are both STK SL500 libraries with 4 LTO4 drives in each. The remote library is configured as a copy storage pool. Several times through the day, we run backup

problems with STK SL500 library and drives constantly going offline

2010-08-20 Thread Dury, John C.
We have an STK SL500 tape library with 4 LTO4 drives in it and it seems to randomly take all of the drives offline. STK/Sun has replaced the robot and controller card (more than once) and nothing seems to help. This has been going on for several months now and I'm at a loss to figure out what

Disk Storage pool filling faster than it is emptying. ideas?

2010-02-24 Thread Dury, John C.
We have a 3 TB disk storage pool that until recently, has been filling up partially during backups, and then emptying as the data is migrated to tape. The storage pool is now at 84% and climbing. I have 4 LTO4 Ultrium drives that can't seem to migrate the data fast enough at all. Watching nmon,

Re: Our TSM system is a mess. Suggestions? Ideas?

2010-02-15 Thread Dury, John C.
First, I want to thank all of you for your replies. I definitely got some good ideas and have some things to look at. I'm going to make some changes to where the DB and rec log are stored. Right now, they are in the same RAID 1 Group with 2 133g drives. I created a new lun of 6 133g drives

Our TSM system is a mess. Suggestions? Ideas?

2010-02-14 Thread Dury, John C.
We have about 500 nodes and have a backup windows from 5pm until 7am. I have our backup schedule setup so that about 30 nodes do incremental per hour with a few exceptions. We have a 3T disk storage pool and 4 LTO4 drives in our tape library. Our dbbackuptrigger is set at logfull 30% and

VSS and system state failures on windows 2003 clients

2010-02-11 Thread Dury, John C.
I've been fighting this for several weeks now and I'm getting very frustrated. I have several windows 2003 clients that consistently get the errors listed below. I've done some research and installed the following patches as per recommendations from several others and nothing seems to fix the

Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux

2009-10-22 Thread Dury, John C.
We are currently running TSM server v5530 under AIX. The AIX server has a mixture of different speed (266mhz and 133mhz, both 64bit) PCI-X slots. With 4 4g HBAs. Our system is connected to a Clariion CX3-80 where the TSM DB and Recovery Log and Disk Storage pools live. The disk parts of TSM