Re: Vote for feature: Media lifecycle

When I moved over from Mainframe to midrange a very long time ago, I was used to the old mainframe TMS/CA-1 tape management software. Never understood why TSM did not implement a scratch pool as in that product to keep track of its scratch tapes, even if just to keep the usage stats. I too have

Re: What client version do you keep for long term

Hi Rick What I'd like is for a yearly refresh of the client to the latest stable level. So .0 unless there is a particular patch that we need. What actually happens is that I'm not permitted to use TSM to roll out client updates. The windows guys have their tools for that and the unix guys

Re: dsm.sys question

Rick The m4 macro processor is a standard unix offering and can do anything from simple includes and variable substitutions to lisp-like processing that will boggle your mind. An m4 macro with some include files and a makefile with a cron job to build your dsm.sys might do the job. Cheers

Re: Bottomless pit

Zoltan I had something similar. Prod node of application had a reasonable number of systemstate objects. Two nonprod nodes of same application had huge numbers of systemstate. This first came to my attention when daily expiration was taking 3 or more days instead of the usual 30 minutes. As

TSMWorks and ART product

Hi all I'm trying to recommend an automated restore testing tool like TSMWorks' ART to management. TSMWorks web site appears to have been hijacked. Lindsay Morris' Linkedin page seems to be dead. Twitter feed too. Nothing from TSMWorks by Google search since about 2009 Does anyone know what

Re: how to exclude vm's using sp for ve

Steve I think you have to specify what you want to back up in the DOMAIN.VMFULL with one of the available options before excluding anything. Then leave off the * in your backup vm command. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin/Consultant Canberra Australia -Original Message- From:

Re: Any body knows how to backup SMB share ?

Its not hard Genet. Did you search the archives first? The trick is to run the scheduler under a Windows Domain user id not the usual System id. You can either permanently map the share or, use a preschedule/postschedule command pair to map it as you need it. Cheers Steve Steven Harris

Re: backing up multiple VMs with standard scheduleing

Hi Gary We schedule manually here. We have one VBS for each of the separate backup streams and edit the domain.vmfull manually to add VMs. The problem with this approach is that it is manual, and we end up having the same large VMs running backup all day. We also have a mixture of some

Re: user maintenance

Not the scripts, the schedules need to be updated. select schedule_name from admin_schedules where chg_admin='USER_X' and active='YES' To fix just update the schedule by setting active yes again Select 'upd sched '||schedule_name||' t=a active=yes' from admin_schedules where

VM backup file names and retonly

Hi All I'd like to start using DECOM VM to manage our obsolete VM backups. Our current practice is to rename the filespace to \\VMFULL-_DECOM and let it sit for a year before deleting manually. In order to accomplish that with DECOM VM I would need first to alter the retentions from the

Re: Proxy/asnodename restore and strange Registry entries?

the target node and give the agent access? On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 7:27 PM Harris, Steven < steven.har...@btfinancialgroup.com> wrote: > Runas? > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf > Of Zoltan Forray > Se

Re: Proxy/asnodename restore and strange Registry entries?

Runas? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Tuesday, 7 August 2018 5:57 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Proxy/asnodename restore and strange Registry entries? I have another issue with the

Re: Looking for suggestions to deal with large backups not completing in 24-hours

Is there no journaling/logging service on these Isilions that could be used to maintain a list of changed files and hand-roll a dsmc-selective-with-file-list process similar to what GPFS uses? Cheers Steve -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU]

Protectier volume shortage.

Hi Guys I'm looking for some help with managing a protectier VTL. A bit of background we have two sites TSM 7.1.7.300 and a protectier gateway at each with 1 PB of storage behind it. There are two main TSM instances at each site, one for VM snaps and one for BA Client backups. Offsite

Re: Looking for suggestions to deal with large backups not completing in 24-hours

Zoltan I kind of agree with Ung Yi What is the purpose of your TSM backups? DR? Long term retention for auditability/sarbox/other regulation? It may well be that a daily or even more frequent snapshot regime might be the best way to get back that recently lost/deleted/corrupted file. Use a

Re: How to set default include/exclude rules on server but allow clients to override?

Genet Personally I would like all possible client options to be set from the server. The client option set mechanism is limited in that only one can be specified and they cannot, for example, include one set in another. At one time, I had a set of m4 macros (I'm from a unix background) that

Re: TSM Instance can't find its instance directory.

-u $ db2 catalog db tsmdb1 on /tsm/wtsmt01 Maybe that helps? Kind regards, Eric van Loon Air France/KLM Storage Engineering -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Harris, Steven Sent: woensdag 23 mei 2018 1:36 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.E

Re: TSM Instance can't find its instance directory.

on /tsm/wtsmt01 Maybe that helps? Kind regards, Eric van Loon Air France/KLM Storage Engineering -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Harris, Steven Sent: woensdag 23 mei 2018 1:36 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM Instance can't find

TSM Instance can't find its instance directory.

Hi guys I have a curly one here. TSM 7.1.1.300 on AIX 7.1 I'm preparing for a DR test. The DR process is that the TSM instance directory, database, logs and disk/file storage pools reside on an IBM V840 flash device. These are mirrored to the DR site using remote copy. The old way was to

Re: ISILON storage/FILE DEVCLASS performance issues

Zoltan I have a similar issue TSM 7.1.1.300 AIX -> Data Domain. Have dual 10Gb links, but can only get ~4000 writes/sec and 120MB/sec throughput. AIX only supports NFS3, and as others have pointed out in this forum recently, the stack does not have a good reputation. I'm finding that the

Re: Can we disable client journaling with Server CLOPT ?

Luc, There is a flag you can set that stops the database from being invalidated by a stop of the Journal service. I have usually set this because when journaling is required, an arbitrary full scan is usually not wanted. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin/Consultant Canberra Australia.

Re: dsmc retrieve syntax for a remote node?

Hi Jim \\thatnode\c$\*.* Retrieves only files in the C$ root directory with a period in the name. If you want everything under c$ I'd use ret \\thatnode\c$\* -fromnode=thatnode -subdir=y you will also have to specify a destination as without it will try to put the data back into \\thatnode

Re: NTNamedStreamRead() openNamedStream errors

Zoltan I think the problem is the colon in the file name. Windows has the capability to write multiple streams to the same file. The streams are differentiated by a colon and the the stream id. At least that’s the gist of it. See

Re: v7.1.8/8.1.2 SSL Upgrade: Rethinking servers first or clients first

Eric Really old-school... Schedule a one time admin schedule to run a script that as the last step schedules itself again some time in the future e.g def scr reset_fred upd scr reset_fred 'upd admin fred sessionsecurity=transitional' line=5 check the syntax upd scr reset_fred 'upd

Re: Command Routing Gotcha in v7.1.8

So what we need is a server option SESSIONSECFORCE TRANSITIONAL Only able to be set by editing dsmserv.opt and defaulting to NO. If its set then the automatic update to SESSIONSECURITY strict is not permitted. Update everything you need to then turn the option off. I understand why

Re: Command to only backup and clear archive logs

Hans Chr. What are you backing your DB up to? Could you use some flash disk or tiered disk storage? Create a special device class just for this situation, backup your database to it, then immediately start your normal DB backup. As soon as the normal backup is complete you can delete the

Re: Exchange backup speed

on the TSM Server. 02/18/2018 17:14:05 ACN5060E A Tivoli Storage Manager API error has occurred. 02/18/2018 17:24:30 ANS1236E (RC115) An unexpected error occurred. 02/18/2018 17:24:30 ACN5060E A Tivoli Storage Manager API error has occurred. On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 4:55 PM, Harris, Steven

Re: Exchange backup speed

Tom It is a failing of TSM/SP that a basic function is deemed "good enough" by the people who decide such things within IBM and the real-world implementation is left to users. Your problem is not uncommon and a solution should be a standard part of the marketed offering. You will need some

Re: Influencing order of VM backup.

Hi Mike and Marc Thanks for your responses. Order of presentation of VMs seems to be dependent on the order that vCenter provides them to the TSM for VE query. It is certainly not alphabetical or any other obvious ordering (to me at least) and it can change over time. One problem VM was

Influencing order of VM backup.

Hi All Thanks for the input on my recent query about 7 Year VM backups. I'll let you know when I decide something. Moving on.. TSM Server 7.1.1.300 AIX, Datamovers and Storage Agents on Redhat, writing to Protectier VTL, TSM for VE 7.1.1/2 hybrid. We can't use the VMware plugin because of

VMCTLMC space for a full backup.

Hi Guys There is a really good explanation of VMCTLMC Sizing for incremental VM backups at http://adsm.se/?p=546 I run a monthly full for compliance reasons on all the Prod Vms, and am trying to understand the implications for VMCTLMC Sizing. So far I suppose its 8000 megablocks as well

Re: Need guidance on how to protect stgpool to cloud

Hello Luc. I'm not sure that Glacier is a good fit for most TSM data. TSM has a lot of churn. Data expires and then you are left with a choice of reclamation or storing excess data. Glacier retrieval is slow, so you would have to mark volumes as offsite to allow reclamation from the primary

Re: Looking for a solution for DFS backups - a.k.a. how do you do it

I feel for you Zoltan My users are demanding, but at least the corporate management structure means I have some measure of control over their demands. There is a TSM client REST API that came out at 7.1.3. This can be used to run backups and restores although the API guide explicitly states

Re: Select question

Guys all of those are far more complex than they need be select node_name, lastacc_time from nodes where lastacc_time>(current timestamp - 90 days) Cheers Steve TSM Admin/Consultant Canberra Australia -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On

Re: TSM 8.1.1 on Linux crash

Remco Can you please explain what the fall-out is? I'm using TSM 7.1.0 on AIX and have issues with LTO6 drives emulating LTOs. Sometimes I just power cycle the drive and that clears the problem, but that does not always work. Whilst I don't have any linux servers or storage agents in that

Re: Using TDP to backup NDF files

Bill There is an option in TDP to back up a file group. I've never understood what it is for. Looking online for information about NDF files, that same term, "file group", popped up. So, I'd start there are see if that fits your use case. Cheers Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin/Consultant

Re: Backup of file attributes Windows

I haven’t used it for some years now, but the old Domino client used to store two entries for each client, one for the data and one for the permissions. It would probably go against the TSM (Hate the new name!) philosophy to store any client data in the database, but this case might be a

Re: Monthly backups of VMs

--Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Harris, Steven Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 4:51 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Monthly backups of VMs HI All Environment is TSM 7.1.1 server on AIX. 7.1.1 Storage agents on Linux,

Monthly backups of VMs

HI All Environment is TSM 7.1.1 server on AIX. 7.1.1 Storage agents on Linux, 7.1.1 BA clients, 7.1.1 VE clients, VMWare 5.5. The VMware backups are via the SAN to a Protectier VTL. My Client is an international financial organization so we have lots or regulatory requirements including

Re: Huge differences in file count after exporting node to a different server

Hi Zoltan Are the old server numbers from export time or current time? If current time you may have had some 5 million small files expire in the interim. Cheers Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin/Consultant Canberra, Australia -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: TSM for VE - VMCLI

Steve. -Original Message- From: Storer, Raymond [mailto:stor...@nibco.com] Sent: Thursday, 19 October 2017 4:19 AM To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> Cc: Harris, Steven <steven.har...@btfinancialgroup.com> Subject: RE: TSM for VE - VMCLI Steven, Sorry, I

Invoking backup from powercli

Hello again. TSM Server 7.1.1 AIX, TSM VE 7.1.1 linux X64 I have an application that needs to co-ordinate the taking of their TSM for VE backups with their housekeeping. It's a large distributed postgres database and they want to shut down the database on all members of the cluster and

TSM for VE - VMCLI

Hi Guys TSM Server 7.1.1 AIX, TSM VE 7.1.1 linux X64 This shop has issues with us using the vSphere plugin as it requires too many permissions. We cannot move to later VE clients with expanded facilities because of a dependency on vCenter 5.5 So far, we have been managing by editing the

Re: Automatic password change gets lost between server and client

Hi all This is a big issue for me. We run linux datamovers to back up our VMWare vms. Passexp is set to zero, but, for some reason every so often the password tries to change. It does this in the middle of a VE Schedule and all subsequent backups for that schedule fail with a security error

Re: LTO7 tape capacity

Hi Robert Yes, the capacity is worked out in the Device class entry. You'd need to show us that. Cheers Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin/Consultant Canberra Australia -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of rou...@univ.haifa.ac.il

Re: Question adding new scratch at library

Hi Robert My suggestion is that overwrite=yes won't make much difference. You still have to mount the tape to write the label, so an extra read and rewind is nothing. Personally I always let it default to overwrite=no unless I know I need overwrite=yes. Less chance of accidents that way -

AIX Atape driver on IBM drives in Oracle Library

Hi All I have a bit of a conundrum. I have an Oracle SL8500 library with 6x IBM LTO-6 drives installed. The drives are dual connected. These are being used by multiple AIX 7.1 TSM 7.1 servers in a library sharing arrangement. AIX shows these drives as using the generic LTO driver, rather

Re: tdp for databases support for sqlserver 2016

Gary I am just starting to use this. 8.1 is good. Do not use the earlier version, I think its 7.1.6, even if your SQL server is compatible, as there is a bug that causes the backup to be taken and then fail during post processing clean up. Cheers Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin/Consultant

Re: Operations Center at risk setting jumps from 30 to 60 days

Hi Stephan Set vmatriskinterval Syntax >>---Set VMATRISKINTERVAL--node_name--fsid--> >--TYPE--=--+-DEFAULT--+--++--->< +-BYPASSED-+ '-Interval--=--value-' '-CUSTOM---' Type is custom and interval is in *Hours*

TDP for SQL and UAC

Hi All I've got a bit of a show-stopper here that I could use some help with. Previously, SQL backups have been mostly handled by dump to disk and backup with BA Client. Database sizes have grown over time and now we cannot get through the whole dump/backup cycle in a reasonable window, so we

Re: Linux on Power Support - Available now

Thanks for that Del. I realize you can't pre-announce anything here, but a Power-linux LE vBS server to handle TDP for VE would be awesome and avoid many of the architectural limitations of Intel boxes. In my case that would imply TS3500 driver support and Lan free as well. Can we assume

Re: Tape mounts and VE backups.

;tape" drives? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Harris, Steven Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2017 9:38 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Tape mounts and VE backups. HI all At my current gig, we are running a TSM VE e

Tape mounts and VE backups.

HI all At my current gig, we are running a TSM VE environment. Server is AIX, storage agents and vBS on physical linux X86_64. Disk is on V840 flash, back end is protectier VTL. TSM Server 7.1.1, Storage agent 7.1.1, TSM For VE 7.1.1 can't go higher because of an old Vcenter version.

Power failures

> That would mean you have to have a copypool locally to protect the > data in the same way. > This would be an important point for me, if you are running the > directory containerpool the impact on housekeeping might be limited > but I find the impact of a large copypool with ded

Re: DR Rebuild please chime in.

Ricky I have something similar at my current gig. Database and landing storage pools are on V840 flash and migrate to Protectier VTL. The V840 data is remote copied and the VTL uses its own replication mechanism. Recovery is to bring up the instance on hot AIX LPARs using the replicated

Re: Best Practices/Best Performance SP/TSM B/A Client Settings ?

Tom It's true that DBAs are the 600 pound gorillas in the room and often get what they want out of fear and management ignorance. A lot of it is simple need for control over their own destiny as they see it and that is understandable. Once you have tuned the DB backups as much as you can

Re: How to backup Billions of files ??

Bo The problem with small files is that the TSM database entry may well be larger than the file you are storing. If your files are less than about 3000 bytes that will be the case. What is happening is that the file system is being used as a database. A complex file path becomes the key

Re: Shared file systems other than GPFS

Thanks Frank I appreciate the input. Steve -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Frank Kraemer Sent: Thursday, 23 February 2017 10:55 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Shared file systems other than GPFS Steve,

Shared file systems other than GPFS

Further to my last post. TSM server 7.1 on AIX, 7.1 TSM for VE on Linux X86_64 with storage agent, currently backing up to Protectier VTL. My customer needs a significant capacity expansion in reasonably short order. Disk is cheap, Protectier is out of the picture for non-technical reasons.

Protectier Tuning/ Linux tape Tuning

Hi all My customer is running a TSM for VE backup solution involving Linux x86_64 as the vBS with storage agent installed, writing direct to Protectier VTL. Throughput to the VTL is needs improvement both at a whole of VTL level and at the individual tape session level, to handle the workload.

Re: DOMAIN.vmfull on multiple lines in dsm.opt

Del I can't speak for anyone else, but I can't go to 8.1 because of the vCenter 6 dependency. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin/Consultant Canberra Australia -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Wednesday,

Re: 7.1.7.1

My spin is don’t use any new server feature for 2 years unless you really cannot do without it. New features imply new bugs. Most TSM shops do not have a true test environment, and even if they do a lot of these problems only appear when you have a lot of data. Example: the dedup corruption

RFE for powershell interface to dsmc and dsmadmc

Hi Guys and Gals Powershell is the goto scripting language for windows these days, buyt if you have ever tried to script dsmadmc with it you find it is fraught with trouble. Just passing the right parameters in is difficult, getting output that powershell can use also requires jumping through

Re: DB2 back-up issues on Windows

Karel In my previous role I had a couple of TPC (now known as "Spectrum Control") database servers running DB2 under windows with exactly this problem. They ran for years without issue then started being unable to find dsm.opt 10 or so days after a reboot. Never did get to the bottom of why,

Re: How to prevent leading spaces in SQL output

Hi Eric There are also the STRIP and TRIM sql functions - same function for these but slightly different syntax. SELECT strip(cast(float(used_space_mb)*100/total_space_mb AS DECIMAL(4,2))) FROM log However, when I tested this on a number less than 1, the implicit cast of the number to a