Re: dsm.sys

2015-10-23 Thread James R Owen
On 10/23/2015 3:18 PM, David Ehresman wrote: On AIX, can I put dsm.sys in a directory other than the ba install directory? If so, how do I point to it? su cd /[installdirectory] ln -s /[yourlocaldirectory]/dsm.sys ln -s /[yourlocaldirectory]/dsm.opt jim.o...@yale.edu (c#203.494.9201)

Re: tsm server failes to start in foreground!!

2014-10-22 Thread James R Owen
Login as TSM/DB2 instance owner to run db2start: [see 4th message line from failure below] ANR0151W Database manager fails to start. For more information about the failure, issue the db2start command. jim.o...@yale.edu (w#203.432.6693, c#203.494.9201, h#203.387.3030) On 10/22/2014 11:00

Re: TSM 7.1 usage of volumes for dedupe

2014-10-22 Thread James R Owen
Martha, !!Maybe your volumes are *not* really empty: retry with... Query CONtent [volname] FOLLOWLinks=Yes[especially for deduplicated content] See Help Query CONtent for details ... including default: FOLLOWLinks=No jim.o...@yale.edu (w#203.432.6693, c#203.494.9201, h#203.387.3030) On

Re: Deduplication number of chunks waiting in queue continues to rise?

2013-12-20 Thread James R Owen
Sergio and Wanda, Thanks for your posts! I opened PMR 10702,L6Q,000 a couple weeks ago for slow performance [recently completely fell off the cliff!] with our SRV3 TSM v6.3.4.200 service that *was* successfully doing client+server deduplication for 72TB BackupDedup STGpool on NetApp FC [soon to

? Best TSMv6 DB Config: 4 * 300GB or 6 * 200GB (LUN=PV=LV=FS) ?

2013-04-17 Thread James R Owen
Seeking your experienced advice or reasoned opinion: We have a TSMv5.5.7 service with very fragmented 500GB DB @ 76% utilized but only 8% reduceable. As soon as possible we will start TSMv5-v6 migration to new 1200GB DB and 200GB Log. Another TSMv6 service with 800GB DB @ ~50% utilized

Re: Replaced LTO Drive in 3584LTO Tapes not recognized by TSM database

2012-11-20 Thread James R Owen
Open a dsmadmc -console window to see what happens on your TSM service while you try to do the restore, or use Query ACTlog... to capture the results after the fact. Perhaps you need to do UPDate Volume ... ACCess=READWrite because some became UNAVailable while their LIBVolume(s) where

? TSM client for Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) ?

2012-08-01 Thread James R Owen
IBM/Tivoli, ? What TSM client for Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) ? ? When will it be available ? We have HIPPA backup requirements for new computers running Mac OS X 10.8. Thanks in advance for your prompt assistance. -- jim.o...@yale.edu (w#203.432.6693, c#203.494.9201, h#203.387.3030)

Re: Any other ideas?

2012-02-12 Thread James R Owen
Is your new library from SpectraLogic? If so, perhaps library is doing MLM pre-scan/autodiscovery of 2000 tapes. Takes a long. time to pre-scan 2000 tapes. Pre-scan process dominates library processing until it completes. You can turn that off under Config/MLM or stop it

Re: Storage pool using scratch volumes instead of empty volumes

2011-12-22 Thread James R Owen
Steve, does this command also list your empty volumes: q v stg=exosatapool stat=emp acc=reado,unav -- jim.o...@yale.edu On 12/22/2011 4:23 AM, Copper, Steve wrote: ... My question is: Why is this migration process creating scratch volumes in my filesystems when I have 666 (not made

Re: strategy for migrating to new library strategy

2011-02-09 Thread James R Owen
On 2/9/2011 9:30 AM, Richard Rhodes wrote: We will be shortly be helping with a DataDomain (DD) installation, and we are looking for how best to move the primary pool from the old tape pool to the DD. The DD will be used as a NAS device via a file type pool. 2) use migration chg DISK

? minimal workable TSMv6.2 Library Manager space allocations ?

2010-12-02 Thread James R Owen
Are you running a simple TSMv6 Library Manager (LM) service? I am trying to configure a minimal TSMv6.2 LM service and wondering, what are minimal workable TSMv6.2 DB, Log, and Archlog allocations? We're running an active TSMv5.5 LM service under AIX6.1 for some years now using 1GB each for DB

? how to change TSM V6 UID ?

2010-10-29 Thread James R Owen
I want to change/rename the user that owns a TSM v6 service. Is there an easy way to do that, or do we need to (unre)install? -- jim.o...@yale.edu (w#203.432.6693, c#203.494.9201, h#203.387.3030)

? linux TSM 6.2 using 10GE iSCSI ... to backup HPC ?

2010-05-05 Thread James R Owen
?Are you: doing TSM backups to iSCSI disk/tape? w/10GE? w/TSM6.? Scanning ADSM-L archives, actual TSM experience w/iSCSI seems scarce! Recently, Gary Bowers recommends DirectIO No in dsmserv.opt w/ iSCSI, and in 2007 Ben Bullock had iSCSI poor performance (w/o that setting?) Most other iSCSI

LM TSM v5.5.4.2 upgrade fixes tape mount failures w/ v5.5.4 or v5.5.4.1

2010-04-13 Thread James R Owen
If your LibMgr TSM v5.5.4 / v5.5.4.1 is busy, you probably have APAR IC65967 causing many unnecessary tape mount failures w/ ANR9730W errors @ LM TSM and ANR1401W errors @ LC TSM. After being plagued for the last month with these failures [failing GENerate BackupSets and other long running

Re: date check in a select [using days(...) function]

2010-02-11 Thread James R Owen
I use this variant: [?equivalent to M.Green's?] select node_name, reg_time from nodes- where days(current_timestamp)-days(reg_time)30 -- jim.o...@yale.edu (w#203.432.6693, c#203.494.9201, h#203.387.3030) Michael Green wrote: Try this: select node_name, reg_time from nodes where

Re: SQL Query ...associated w/ management class

2010-01-29 Thread James R Owen
Lindsay Morris wrote: Right, we did some magic on the dsmc client... But I see this question here repeatedly: how can I list all of my backup files? And the answer is always Don't do that, or tread carefully like Richard just said. ... So why are people wanting to do this? Hey, you lurkers who

?anyone using TSM to backup Panasus PanFS?

2010-01-26 Thread James R Owen
Yale uses Panasus PanFS, a massive parallel storage system, to store research data generated from HPC clusters. In considering feasibility to backup PanFS using TSM, we are concerned about whether TSM is appropriate to backup and restore: 1. very large volumes, 2. deep subdirectory

? Best practices for TSM to backup MS DPM server ?

2009-06-22 Thread James R Owen
Our Windows Systems group prefers to use MS DPM for Exchange and Sharepoint backup and recovery. If your site is doing the same, we would like to talk with you about Best Practices for TSM backup of MS DPM and what you have learned. Please reply to... -- jim.o...@yale.edu (w#203.432.6693,

Re: volumes in a collocation group?

2009-03-15 Thread James R Owen
I believe Paul meant to say: Nodes not assigned to a specific collocation group are treated as if *each* is in *its* own private collocation group (i.e., collocation by node.) -- jim.o...@yale.edu Paul Zarnowski wrote: Nodes not assigned to a specific collocation group are treated as if they

pmr48580,L6Q: incorrect Est.Capacity for tape STGpool and Volumes when Volume status=EMPty

2009-01-07 Thread James R Owen
TSM Support, We have a new BackupL3R STGpool w/ 10 new LTO3 volumes explicitly defined. Despite having Est.Capacity=400G defined for the LTO3R DEVclass, the empty (available) STGpool and Volumes incorrectly show Est.Capacity=0.0 M Volumes with STATus=PENDing similarly incorrectly show

?how to force NDMP LAN-free backups to fill one tape before writing on another?

2008-11-13 Thread James R Owen
I am trying to force NDMP LAN-free backups to keep the same tape mounted and serially reuse it when a NetApp filer needs to write multiple backups. We have just implemented our first NDMP LAN-free backups w/ TSM v5.5.1.1, w/ a single NetApp filer backing up 16 VirtualFS from nightly snapshots,

select...where...like '$1%' is *invalid* w/ TSM v5.5.1

2008-07-13 Thread James R Owen
After TSM v5.5.1 upgrade, the following command syntax is invalid: select...where...like '$1%' This syntax was accepted in TSM scripts through TSM v5.5.0.3, but our local scripts are broken after the upgrade. Maybe I'm just too tired; is there a more appropriate technique to concatenate

Re: select...where...like '$1%' is *invalid* w/ TSM v5.5.1 [workaround]

2008-07-13 Thread James R Owen
, James R Owen wrote: After TSM v5.5.1 upgrade, the following command syntax is invalid: select...where...like '$1%' This syntax was accepted in TSM scripts through TSM v5.5.0.3, but our local scripts are broken after the upgrade. Maybe I'm just too tired; is there a more appropriate

Re: when will 5.5.1 client be released? [mid July?]

2008-07-08 Thread James R Owen
We are currently running an efix dsmserv v5.5.0.3 + testfix for IC56999. IBM level 2 support told us that v5.5.1 will be delayed about 2 weeks in order to include the fix for IC56999. That's very good decision: IC56999 was a severe performance problem for a busy UNIX TSM service! Backup

Re: Backing up NT4

2008-06-19 Thread James R Owen
WinNT4 BAclient v5.1.6.0 works OK w/ AIX 5.3 TSMservice v5.5.0.3. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (203.432.6693) Evans, Bill wrote: Yep, this is what we are planning on trying. I'll update if not successful. Thank you, Bill Evans Research Computing Support FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER

3494 tape libraries and 3590 drives available to take from New Haven, CT, USA

2008-06-10 Thread James R Owen
In case someone might be interested to take and reuse... Yale University recently decommissioned 4 * IBM 3494 tape libraries and will recycle them for scrap metal before June 30th, unless some other institution would like to take and reuse them. The libraries and 3590 drives were maintained by

Re: Upgrading TSM on an AIX server running multiple TSM instances

2008-01-23 Thread James R Owen
Orville, Can you clarify exactly what is the problem with multiple TSM service instances running from a shared dsmserv binary? AFAIK, IBM/Tivoli does not suggest to copy and run a separate executable for each TSM instance. We have not seen any problems sharing the same executable among

Re: Fw: DISASTER: How to do a LOT of restores?

2008-01-22 Thread James R Owen
Roger, You certainly want to get a best guess list of likely priority#1 restores. If your tapes really are mostly uncollocated, you will probably experience lots of tape volume contention when you attempt to use MAXPRocess 1 or to run multiple simultaneous restore, move nodedata, or export node

Re: Fw: DISASTER: How to do a LOT of restores? [like Steve H said, but...]

2008-01-22 Thread James R Owen
is not copied in the active data pool! Maria Ilieva --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James R Owen Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 9:32

Re: TSM v5.5 feedback: [TSM 5.5 works well for our busy LibMgr TSM on AIX 5.3]

2008-01-16 Thread James R Owen
Look *out*! There might be *D A N G E R* ahead [or maybe not;*] [there's a smiley for you, Mark S:-), and SomeMoreS @ the bottom] After consolidating tape library management at a new TSM service [moved from two production TSM backup services a few days before Charlotte announced IBM's RedPaper

Re: ANR8833E - Does 5.4.3 = 5.5 ? [No, TSM 5.5 is better!]

2008-01-15 Thread James R Owen
Zoltan, Look again at that APAR doc: IBM - IC54107: TSM ANR8833E DURING CHECKIN LIBVOL FOR SOME VOLUMES http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC54107 My reading is that APAR IC54107 affects only TSM 5.3 and 5.4. If correct, that is why it is not listed as an APAR fixed in TSM 5.5.

Re: Improvement and cahges for TSM Server 5.4.X

2007-05-01 Thread James R Owen
Curtis, If you had read the context more carefully, you would see that Richard's skimpy comment referred *not* to the TSM 5.4 enhancements but rather to IBM/Tivoli's documentation of those enhancements: Is there any documentation on that ?? I found the lipstick on a pig analogy

Re: 10 Gbit ethernet [backups to remote data centers]

2007-04-26 Thread James R Owen
Keith, I can't speak about 10Gb, but we use fibre-extended 1Gb ethernets between our A B data centers. TSM clients @ A backup over the 1Gb network to a TSM service @ B. Their backups are stored on disks and tapes @ B. Similarly TSM clients @ B backup to a TSM service @ A. Works well for us.

Re: LAN-free: does that have any meaning on the server??

2007-02-13 Thread James R Owen
Allen, Good news: Your I/O is LAN-free because your 3292 drives are FC connected. Bad news: For LAN-free backups, the TSM StgAgent drives the tape I/O. For tape-tape reclamation the TSM Server drives the tape I/O. All of the I/O is going through and driven by the host server subject to its bus

?'s about Backup of Cyrus email, LTO3 vs 3592 tapes, and using Copy tapes

2007-01-03 Thread James R Owen
Happy New Year to All! @Yale, we will do several conversions soon/later during 2007: email: from U.Washington IMAP servers to Cyrus IMAP servers. tapes: from 3494 w/ 3590 drives to 3584 w/ LTO2-3 and/or 3592's. TSM:from server 5.2.3 to 5.3.4, and then to 5.4?

? Should we set Resourceutilization 10 if appropriate ?

2006-06-05 Thread James R Owen
Andy, et al. [Is anyone out there using RESOURCEUTILZATION n w/ n 10 ??] Andy Raibeck's presentation @ Oxford's 2001 TSM Symposium http://tsm-symposium.oucs.ox.ac.uk/2001/papers/ Raibeck.APeekUnderTheHood.PDF includes this table showing what will result from setting:

Re: Still huge problems with Mac OSX client 5.2.3.12

2005-12-02 Thread James R Owen
Farren, Is there some reason that you can't upgrade to the latest Mac TSM client: 5.3.2.? All/most of our OSX backup complaints were fixed with Mac TSM client 5.3.2.0. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (203.432.6693) Farren Minns wrote: Many thanks Richard I have opened a PMR with IBM anyway and sent

Re: Still huge problems with Mac OSX client 5.2.3.12

2005-12-02 Thread James R Owen
would work on a 5.1 server (though I could be wrong). Farren |-+---| | James R Owen | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Sent

?? What character escapes wildcards % and _ for SELECTing literal % or _ ??

2005-06-22 Thread James R Owen
[Hey: If you're really in a hurry, skip to the next page, and see (@), but you might miss some fun(ny, perhaps even useful?) stuff!] I just accidentally discovered [!much to my surprise!] that... The underscore _ character is the SQL SELECT standard wildcard to match any single character in

Re: Tape Stuck in Remote Status, but no longer used by library sharer; what to do?

2005-05-21 Thread James R Owen
, 2005, at 5:47 PM, James R Owen wrote: Andy, et al. I have no solution, but found your email thread as I'm looking to solve exactly the same problem. It's a tough nut to crack! We have 6 tapes in a shared 3584 w/ exactly that problematic status: The Library Mgr TSM's VolHistory shows tape

Re: Tape Stuck in Remote Status, but no longer used by library sharer; what to do?

2005-05-20 Thread James R Owen
Andy, et al. I have no solution, but found your email thread as I'm looking to solve exactly the same problem. It's a tough nut to crack! We have 6 tapes in a shared 3584 w/ exactly that problematic status: The Library Mgr TSM's VolHistory shows tape as PRIVATE,REMOTE owned by other TSM, but the

? TSM STGpools on Nexsan ATABeast or EqualLogic PS200 or similar ?

2005-04-26 Thread James R Owen
Hi all, Are you using a Nexsan ATABeast or EqualLogic PS200 or similar box of disks for TSM STGpool space?? If so, we would like to talk with you about your experiences. We are now considering moving 40TB of TSM backups from 3590E tapes to sequential files on one/more of these boxes (or perhaps

? replace aging 3590 tapes/drives w/ LTO ?

2005-02-21 Thread James R Owen
We're looking for experienced advice considering whether to a)upgrade our 3590 E1A drives to H1A drives and reuse our aging 3590 tapes for net gain of 50% more tape space b)discard 3494 and 3590 technology and replace w/ LTO-2 or LTO-3 drives and media,

? how to protect LTO media shipped offsite to Iron Mountain ?

2005-02-21 Thread James R Owen
How do you protect LTO media shipped offsite to Iron Mountain? We currently ship all backupsets offsite to Iron Mountain on 3590 J cartridges w/ no noticeable problems; we just pack as many tapes as will fit tightly into one of Iron Mountain's metal shipping cases. We've been told that LTO

? appropriate Throughput Thresholds w/ 10-100Mb TSM clients?

2004-09-30 Thread James R Owen
Recently, the AIX 5.1 host for our busiest TSM 5.2.3.0 service, has been running at 100% CPU for most of the night, some mornings and even into some afternoons. We have discovered a few of our clients (using inappropriate network settings, typically Auto-Dectect instead of matching the network

?Linux TSM service to backup 100 clients to disk-tape?

2004-03-31 Thread James R Owen
Hi Linux TSM Sys.Admins! None of you responded to my previous query, so I'm trying again. We are considering to use RedHat EL 3.0 on IA32/64 platform (rather than AIX on p-series) to host an additional I/O intensive TSM service (to split our current service and handle half of future growth.) We

?Can Linux or (Win?) replace AIX for I/O intensive TSM service?

2004-03-25 Thread James R Owen
?Can Linux (or Win?) replace AIX for hosting an I/O intensive TSM service? After scanning the past year's ADSM-L postings including Linux in the subject I have the impression that a few people are playing with Linux hosting a TSM service, but real I/O intensive TSM services are still mainly

Re: Expiration of SQL BackTrack Filespaces

2004-01-21 Thread James R Owen
Rob, Like David said, etc... During SQL-BT setup, you should have created a MC for SQL-BT backups w/ Backup CopyGroup w/ VerExists=1 VerDeleted=0 RetExtra=0 RetOnly=0. SQL-BT incorporates datime values in its TSM backup filenames so that each backup filename is unique; if you setup SQL-BT to keep

Error 2 deleting row from table Expiring.Objects [was Re: Auditdb timing]

2003-05-27 Thread James R Owen
Gretchen, et al. We have been working with IBM level 2 support on this same problem. We discovered it while trying to delete a SYSTEM OBJECT filespace, but the problem first appears during the SYSTEM OBJECT backups. We currently have 3 errors recurring nightly: tsm: ITSq act begind=-1 se=.c(

can a mgmtclass be specified for SYSTEM OBJECT sysfiles?

2003-03-14 Thread James R Owen
Andy, Is it possible to specify a mgmtclass for SYSTEM OBJECT sysfiles? We have tested and successfully implemented exclude.systemobject sysfiles for 350 Win2K/XP clients [no active/inactive sysfile backups remain for these clients], but we have an additional 650 Win2k/XP clients that are

?Can LTO replace 3590E tape for busy TSM backup/restore service?

2003-01-30 Thread James R Owen
??? Do you have experience w/ or plans for replacing 3590E with LTO tapes for a busy enterprise TSM backup service? Is LTO performance OK ??? We expect to double business for one of our TSM services over next 4 years. Last year, for space and cost savings, future enhancements,

Re: TSM 4.2.1.30 scheduler dies intermittently....

2002-04-10 Thread James R Owen
My coworker says there's a known problem with Norton AV 7.5 and TSM 4.2 that can cause the TSM scheduler to stop; could that be your problem? Check w/ Tivoli Support. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (203.432.6693) Andrew Raibeck wrote: You should contact IBM support if you are having this kind of

Re: HELP - Solaris backup problem!

2001-07-30 Thread James R Owen
Dwight, You thought correctly: specify domain in dsm.opt, not in dsm.sys! But, the default domain is all_local fs, so normally one doesn't need to specify domain... anyway! Perhaps your automatic backups are not being run by a priviledged user or you have some client schedule(s) that include a

TSM vs AIX mirroring vs SSA RAID w/ FastWriteCache

2001-03-26 Thread James R Owen
Andy, Would you please update us again on the issue of mirroring vs RAID for TSM log and database volumes. Looking back in the ADSM-L logs, I believe your most recent recommendation (June, 1998) was to continue using TSM mirroring w/ Sequential Writes to protect against "partial page writes"

Re: Cleaning Carts (Recyclable?)

2001-03-23 Thread James R Owen
Do you remember the "continuous" cloth toweling that once was dispensed "one area per pull" for wiping hands, etc. in the public toilet lavatory facilities of American bus, train, and gas stations? (Yeah, I'm over 50...) Who knows? Suppose the janitor doesn't have a clean roll, so he recycles

Re: backup of /tmp on AIX 4.3.2, TSM client 4.1.1

2001-01-12 Thread James R Owen
Try: dsmc incremental -subdir=yes /tmp/sumpin/ That works w/ AIX 4.3.2 ADSM client v3.1.0.7! Is the TSM client v4.1.x "Broken, As Designed"? Richard Sims wrote: We have a situation where we need to backup /tmp/sumpin and can't get this overridden no matter what we do with include statements