Andy,
I have yet to see that API installation issue; I would probably try to
install the TDP Agent on another w2k3 x64 host to figure out whether
the issue is related to a potential corrupted host image build or to
corrupted installation files. One other option could be to get rid of
any
Sam,
I came across that particular issue in the past. If you are using the
GUI to perform your file-level NDMP restore then that's your problem!!!
If you want to have restore performance similar to that of your backup
then perform the restore via the CLI. It'll be a LOT faster. You may
create
John,
The errors you are experimenting with VSS have nothing to do with TSM
rather the host. Deleting the filespace won't do you any good. Try the
steps in this post:
http://www.mail-archive.com/adsm-l@vm.marist.edu/msg83546.html
Good luck.
BERTAUT TCHUISE
TSM/NetApp Storage Engineer
Legg Mason
Joni,
Yes, you can add the snapshotproviderfs=NONE option to your archive
schedule or you can simply add it in the dsm.opt/dsm.sys files and run
the schedule without that option. Does your customer realize that the
-snapshotproviderfs=NONE is the default option and that it does not need
to be
Gary,
The Tivoli 5.5/6.1 Information Center would be the best place to start.
From this link:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/index.jsp on the
left frame, click then expand the Storage Manager For Mail Storage
Manager for Databases links. There you will find the PDFs
Grigori,
I ran into an issue somewhat similar to yours during the TSM 6.1
install; it was resolved by simply installing both English languages
files and ensuring that the symbolic links to the languages filesets
were correct. You may have done this during your installation but I
didn't see any
Richard,
The rc 50 could be caused by numerous scenarios (TCPPort change, flakey
cables, faulty hardware). You could run a Tracert
IP/HOSTNAME_TSM_SERVER to see where there could be data
loss/connectivity issue between the client and TSM server.
As far as listing the specific TCP address, you
Zhang,
It is good practice to validate the policyset before activating it.
After updating the copygroup, run validate po DOMAIN_NAME
POLICYSET_NAME.
BERTAUT TCHUISE
TSM/NetApp Storage Administrator
Legg Mason Technology Services
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Mario,
ACN5241E The Microsoft Exchange Information Store is currently not
running.
Ensure that the Information Store service is up and running then execute the
tdpexcc query exchange and tdpexcc query tsm to check your configuration.
BERTAUT TCHUISE
TSM/NetApp Storage Administrator
Legg Mason
Exchange System Attendant
Microsoft Exchange Transport Log Search Microsoft Search (Exchange)
Mario
From: Tchuise, Bertaut btchu...@lmus.leggmason.com
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Sent: Wed, December 16, 2009 11:33:36 AM
Subject: Re: TDP for Exchange 2007 scenario
Server
Any ideas?
Mario
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To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Sent: Wed, December 16, 2009 12:14:26 PM
Subject: Re: TDP for Exchange 2007 scenario
Mario,
The specific service pertaining to the ACN5237E TDP error I
Gugu,
Running the installation in console mode rather than wizard mode will
take care of the stack trace message you are getting below.
TDP-Oracle64.ppc64.bin -i console will work
BERTAUT TCHUISE
TSM/NetApp Storage Administrator
Legg Mason Technology Services
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Mehdi,
From the client side, are there any entries in the dsmsched and dsmerror
log files from stopping and restarting the TSM Central Scheduler
service? You could update/delete then redefine the TSM Central Scheduler
from the GUI then check the dsmsched and dsmerror log files.
Another issue
Robert,
Yes, there is a workaround to backup the default Windows OS exclusion; that
involves making changes in the registry (you shall play with the registry at
your own risk). The registry location for all OS exclusions is at
Gary,
The way we backup MS clusters in our environment is very similar to
Grigori's procedure. Every node in the cluster backs up its own local
resources under its own TSM Central Scheduler; for the sake of
organization, you could create a separate node under the Cluster Manager
name to backup
Fred,
From my previous experience, changing the bufpoolsize within TSM didn't
require a reboot; I used the setopt BUFPOOLSIZE command to perform the
change.
BERTAUT TCHUISE
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. Are they any
others to apply?
Thanks!
Sergio
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Sergio,
What
Sergio,
What specific error messages pertaining to TSM do you see in the
dsmerror.log file? While running vssadmin list writers, are there any
writers that show state of failure?
Thanks.
BERTAUT TCHUISE
TSM/NetApp Storage Administrator
Legg Mason Technology Services
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Erwin,
You could run q vol VOLUMENAME f=d; you could also run this SQL query,
feel free to improve the query as needed.
select volume_name, stgpool_name, pct_utilized, last_write_date from
volumes where volumes.stgpool_name in ('STORAGEPOOLNAME') and
volumes.volume_name in ('VOLUMENAME')
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] snapdiff
Andy,
A teammate successfully implemented snapdiff in our storage environment.
He used the
Ashish,
Changing the serialization parameter in your backup copygroup definition
from shrstatic or static to shrdynamic or dynamic will force TSM to
backup open files; HOWEVER, there is no guarantee that you will be able
to make use of the backed up open files in the case of restore.
You should
Grigori,
It may not be what you want but have you tried setting logging within
the Daily.bat file? I run multiple command schedules on numerous
clients; I made my life easier by having the batch file write to a log
file so I had a simplified object in the actual schedule.
My object would look
David,
You will need to update the client option in your clientoptset with
FORCE=NO to allow the client to override the value.
BERTAUT TCHUISE
TSM/NetApp Storage Administrator
Legg Mason Technology Services
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override it?
Tchuise, Bertaut btchu...@lmus.leggmason.com 10/1/2009 2:19 PM
David,
You will need to update the client option in your clientoptset with
FORCE=NO to allow the client to override the value.
BERTAUT TCHUISE
TSM/NetApp Storage Administrator
Legg Mason Technology Services
*410-580-7032
, Tchuise, Bertaut wrote:
David,
You will need to update the client option in your clientoptset with
FORCE=NO to allow the client to override the value.
BERTAUT TCHUISE
TSM/NetApp Storage Administrator
Legg Mason Technology Services
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Steve.
While performing restore into the Recovery Storage Group, you want to ensure
that you add the database for the SG and MS that you are trying to restore to
your RSG. You do those steps with the Exchange management console; after
creating the RSG, right-click on it and select Add database
Bruno,
VSS tends to be fickle at times on Windows system. I have resolved numerous VSS
issues on W2k3 but none on W2k8 so far; the issues lies within Windows not TSM.
You could try the following steps:
** Run the vssadmin list writers then check the state of your writers. If you
have any
, 2009 3:37 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VSS Error
Thank you, everything worked properly.
2009/9/29 Tchuise, Bertaut btchu...@lmus.leggmason.com
Bruno,
VSS tends to be fickle at times on Windows system. I have resolved
numerous VSS issues on W2k3 but none on W2k8 so far
When there is no active version of the file :-)
On a serious note, the TSM server will only have inactive versions of a
file once the file is deleted from the client and the next incremental
backup runs.
BERTAUT TCHUISE
TSM/NetApp Storage Administrator
Legg Mason Technology Services
Hi,
I would first check to make sure that there is no issue with VSS on that
specific box. One way is to run a manual backup of the system state (or
just use ntbackup) then check the Event Viewer for specific errors.
Another thing you could do is to enable tracing on the client then check
the
Douglas,
I extensively used the link below to configure ITM V6.2 in our QA environment;
it contains about all the information pertaining to the different components of
ITM including the TEP. On the left frame under IBM Tivoli Monitoring expand
Version 6.1 then go through Installing and
Michael,
Thanks for the Monday morning laugh about Windows :)
Yudi, if you want to install Perl on your windows box and take a bite at
Michael's script; you can install Active Perl 5.10
(http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/) then you could create and run
Perl script from that little back
Duane,
You may find worthy to take a look at LAN-Free backups configurations.
This would not only alleviate the load on your bandwidth but also
decrease the backup duration.
That may or may not work for you but wouldn't hurt to look into it.
Good luck.
BERTAUT TCHUISE
TSM/NetApp Storage
Tiago,
To schedule backups of the SQL databases, you will need to do the
followings
* In TSM define 2 COMMAND schedules; one to perform the DIFF or INCR
TDP backup (daily will work) and the other to perform the FULL backup
(weekly will work). Here is an example of how your FULL schedule will
look
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Tiago,
To schedule backups of the SQL databases, you will need to do the
followings
* In TSM define 2 COMMAND
Hello Larsa,
I haven't installed the TOR on Window 2008 yet; you may want to check that the
account you are using to generate the TOR reports did not expired or got
locked. Restart the TSM Rept Service (Hey this is Windows, what do you expect?)
then give it another shot.
If all that doesn't
Hey Joni,
The testflag disablenqr has now been replaced with disable nqr
no/yes. The testflag disablenqr does nothing (see link below).
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21319732
BERTAUT TCHUISE
Storage Support Administrator
Legg Mason Technology Services
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Matthew,
I never came across this error message during NDMP backups. What do your
q node NETAPPFILER_NAME_DEFINED_IN_TSM type=nas f=d and q datamover
NETAPPFILER_NAME_DEFINED_IN_TSM type=nas f=d look like?
Rather than using the web GUI, have you tried using the command line
using a TSM account
, Tchuise, Bertaut
btchu...@lmus.leggmason.com wrote:
Matthew,
I never came across this error message during NDMP backups. What do
your q node NETAPPFILER_NAME_DEFINED_IN_TSM type=nas f=d and q
datamover NETAPPFILER_NAME_DEFINED_IN_TSM type=nas f=d look like?
Rather than using the web GUI
Grigori,
Regarding the points you made below:
It is impossible to use MOVE DATA, because it is working with volume
level and each DISK volume contains data of many nodes
You won't be able to move data if you are trying to move data from any
primary storage storage pool to a secondary storage
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Ramiro,
You can make use of the migration process to move the data from a
storage pool that's getting full to another. You can use the ISC for
that and set the High and Low migration threshold for the data movement.
If you have access to the administrative client (dsmadmc), you can logon
to the
Ramiro,
I sent the previous post prior to your answer below. The move data
operation will work as well; I would rather work with the migration
operation. You mentioned that pool1 didn't appear to be migrating;
granted that you have enough tape drives available, you could increase
the migration
: [ADSM-L] Move data(file space)
Thank you. One more thing; if the storage pool 1 says that is only 50%
full, what should I set the low and high migration threshold?
From: Tchuise, Bertaut btchu...@lmus.leggmason.com
To:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date: 8/5/2009 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Move data(file
Stefan,
I am afraid you can't generate a new TOC out of the previously backed up
NDMP data. You may want to implement copypool for your NDMP TOC storage
pool as well as data so that you can restore it with the restore stg
TOC_STORAGE_POOL command.
BERTAUT TCHUISE
Storage Support Administrator
Lori,
You could be having connectivity issues with your drives. On this post,
you stated 2 drives went offline, on the most recent, there were 3
drives offline. First, check for any defective cabling on the tape
drives. If the first step doesn't lead any conclusive results, you can
make use of
Hello Matthew,
Have you tried using the forcesync=yes parameter with the upd server
command?
Thanks.
BERTAUT TCHUISE
Storage Support Administrator
Legg Mason Technology Services
*410-580-7032
btchu...@leggmason.com
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, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Tchuise, Bertaut
btchu...@lmus.leggmason.com wrote:
Hello Matthew,
Have you tried using the forcesync=yes parameter with the upd server
command?
Thanks.
BERTAUT TCHUISE
Storage Support Administrator
Legg Mason Technology Services
*410-580-7032
btchu
Hi Mehdi,
It is recommended to specify the sequence while ordering labels so you
don't have tapes with the same labels. While labeling in or checkin
in pre-labeled tapes in the library, you will need to know the label
sequence or at least the range. Past that, TSM will manage the tapes
based on
Grigori,
Regarding the point made below:
1) migration is totally controlled by TSM Server and depends on number of
nodes and number of migration processes. I am afraid to overlap migration
activity and backup/restore operations.
I don't know how big your disk pool is but you should be able to
Michael,
You could try explicitly specifying the databases to backup on your sql
server by listing them in your tdpfull and/or tdpincr/tdpdiff command
files: tdpsqlc backup DB1,DB2,DB3 FULL /tsmoptfile=***.opt
/logfile=*.log; that way the test databases won't be included.
Another option is to
Michael,
You are correct about the shortcomings of specifying what to backup and what to
exclude. The syntax for your exclude statements below is correct; can you send
short extracts from the TDP logs for the errors you are getting?
BERTAUT TCHUISE
Storage Support Administrator
Legg Mason
Michael,
Thanks for the extracts, I didn't see any error pertaining to the TEST
databases specifically but as you saw it from the logs, you are getting
failures because you have a few databases offline.
Step 2 in this link explains that despite excluding databases, TDP will
generate errors -
Grigori,
Your process below works; I would have done the same as Christian
Svensson that is migrating all the data off of the Disk storage pool to
the next storage pool (what hierarchy do you have in your environment:
Disk - VTL - Tape or Disk - Tape?? ). Depending on the number of
tape drives
Joni,
The link below contain comprehensive information pertaining to Bare
Machine Recovery for TSM V5.5. The link provides steps to recover the
System state in regular clients, domain controllers and much more.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=swg21164812
I hope it helps.
Steve,
The only times app registry keys get deleted are:
1* when the application is being uninstalled
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to delete the reg key or that same someone uses the reg delete path to
the nodename/pwd key in the command prompt.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 7:46 PM
Grigori,
We currently have TSM 5.5 fix pack 2 under AIX so I couldn't tell from
experience which specific issues, if any, there are with 5.5.3 under
AIX. However, in my opinion, the maintenance patches within the same TSM
server version shouldn't cause any issue vs. going from 5.5 to 6.1 for
Mario,
As many have already noted, the reclamation will take care of your issue
and is probably the fastest way; you can also make use of move data
with reconstruct=yes on a volume basis.
BERTAUT TCHUISE
Storage Support Administrator
Legg Mason Technology Services
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To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:42 AM
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP Exchange Error
Yudi,
After the legacy and VSS full backups, the exchange server deletes the
logs; the logs won't be deleted if the storage groups
Yudi,
After the legacy and VSS full backups, the exchange server deletes the
logs; the logs won't be deleted if the storage groups are not mounted.
Similarly during the legacy incremental backups, the exchange server
deletes the transactional logs after they are being backed up.
Using the command
Vince,
You can make use of dsmadmc within the c:\program
files\tivoli\tsm\baclient directory in windows or
/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin directory in AIX to run administrative
commands from the client. The following 2 references will help you learn
more about TSM.
Chapter 10 of the first link
Gill,
We have an IBM TS7520 with 10 virtual tapes libraries and 10 drives at
the primary site; we also have an IBM TS7510 with 8 virtual tape
libraries and 10 drives at the secondary site. We don't have any
contention whatsoever with the VTL drives during the backups and TSM
administrative
Matthew,
When you restart the TSM Central Scheduler for the TDP client, do you
still have the same issue? It is possible that the TUES_INCR schedule
was disassociated from the QBCWSWIEPOO1-EXC client; it is possible that
the schedule was renamed, check the schedule associations for the
specific
Zoltan,
You don't need to delete and redefine all connections to the drive being
replaced. All you need to do before a drive change is to make sure that
the drive is not used and that you take the path to the drive offline.
Once IBM replaces the drive (using the same S/N as the replaced drive),
Hey Bill,
The reason you can't query exchange is because the Microsoft Exchange
Information Store service is not running. That service needs to be
started for TDP for Exchange to run; start that service and everything
will be smth.
BERTAUT TCHUISE
Storage Support Administrator
Legg Mason
Andy,
Regarding the point made below about writing 100GB exchange files on
smaller VTL volumes, you are probably aware of this but you could make
use of the maximum size threshold parameter on the VTL storage pool. Any
data whose size matches or exceeds the threshold will be sent straight
to the
Andy,
John D. and Mario raised good points. As for our VTL environment, we
have a blend of IBM TS7520/7510 (3955 3954 Machine Types). We make use
of expandable virtual volumes with an initial size of 5G and a max
size of 60G and it works well in my opinion.
With Compression enabled, we get more
Hello Bill,
Granted that have the appropriate trust relationships configured between
the domains, appropriate firewall rules and efficient performance
tuning, you can backup clients residing in a domain different to that of
your TSM server. In our Storage environment, we backup numerous clients
Hi Pavel,
The following SQL command provides an output similar to q ev * * f=d
and output it to a file; you can incorporate it into a script if needed.
I ran the query against the EVENTS table.
select distinct events.node_name as Node, events.domain_name as
Domain Name, events.scheduled_start
Hello Rainer, what troubleshooting steps have you performed already? Did
you take a look at the dsmsched.log, dsmerror.log files? Are the backups
following the initial backups initiated? Do the backups run for more
than 24 hours or just hang during processing? Have you recently done
some patching
Matthew,
The VIEWER id may have simply be hard coded into some script contacting
the TSM server every 10mn. As Richard promptly noted, check any Crontab
jobs running on the box and terminate the one script using the VIEWER id
or simply change that VIEWER id with an existent admin id on the TSM
This information was provided under the help migrate stgpool command on
the TSM server.
tsm: AIXPROD114help migrate
3.35 MIGRATE STGPOOL (Migrate storage pool to next storage pool)
Use this command to migrate files from one storage pool to the next
storage pool in the storage hierarchy.
This
Michael,
I imply that by active data pool, you are implying primary storage
pool; if that is the case then deleting a primary storage pool volume
with discardd=yes will not only remove data on the primary storage pool
volume but also any copies of the data on the copy pools.
BERTAUT TCHUISE
Mario,
As a side note with the installation of the latest TSM 6.1 Admin Center, after
installing the ISC make sure to REBOOT the server prior to installing the Admin
Center. You will run into issues if you don't perform the reboot.
Good luck.
BERTAUT TCHUISE
Storage Support Administrator
Legg
Eric,
TSM does backup running VMs; for TSM versions prior to 5.5, you had to
backup each individual VM just like you would backup physical servers
(this meant getting a TSM license for each and every VM instance). TSM
V5.5 goes a step further and makes use of the VM Consolidated backup
(VCB) to
, but, TSM/IBM does not care how many
servers are virtualized on it.
Thanks,
Bill Evans
Research Computing Support
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Ken,
There are some issues in the way current the TSM servers handles the
NDMP backups but in my opinion, they are making great progress with the
upcoming TSM server V6.1 release.
The Error beginning NDMP backup - illegal arguements.Check that the
filespace/path '/vol/xyz/-' exists. error
Gary,
Sorry to hear that you are having issues with ISC.
If ISC is installed on a server within your intranet then I wouldn't
worry as much about the certificate warning; accept it and move on.
I would recommend you clicking over the Getting Started section right
under Tivoli Storage Manager on
Hello,
TSM Client 5.5 is not supported on W2K. Please refer to the link below
to see list of supported OS for versions 5.4 5.5
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To:
Hello,
TSM Client 5.5 is not supported on W2K. Please refer to the link below
to see list of supported OS for versions 5.4 5.5.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21243309
My recommendations:
** use TSM Client 5.3 (no longer under support by IBM) to perform the
backup of the
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