Just a note to tell those few who know me that I'll be unsubscribing shortly
(and to those who don't, apologies for wasting bandwidth).
I expect to be doing more TSM work sometime next year so I may be back, but
in the meantime... well, I know where the archives are if I need them.
So long, and
Sam Schrage asks:
What is the feasibility of making a copy of my offsite tapes
via the AIX command
'tcopy', or other utility, rather than using TSM--another
storage pool, doing
the backup, etc.--and take this 'off-site' set of tapes to a
diaster recovery
test?
Any suggestions?
Are you
With raw you also have the risk that someone unfamiliar with the box will
come along and think it's spare disk, and use it to grow a filesystem.
That's the main reason I don't use raw disk.
-Original Message-
From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 16,
Mike Anderson wrote:
I have a group that wants the following information for their
backups: Client name, the start time of the backup,
end time of the backup, and any files that
missed. I tried to
show them the schedule log, but this was not
clean enough for
Is there a reference somewhere for the lbtest utility? I've looked in the
obvious places (Tivoli doco, Richard's quick facts) and can't find any
detailed info.
The ACSLS query commands seem fairly self-explanatory, but what I'm
wondering is whether the other commands are relevant, and if so how
Hi all,
Quick question - is it safe to run audit library if I'm sharing the
library with another app (Netbackup), and it's a StorageTek ACSLS-controlled
library WITHOUT user access control enabled?
I need to do this because I know a tape has been physically removed without
being checked out. I
Lesley - You don't specify, but I would assume that your
system boot initiation files invoke the TSM server,
Yes. The startup script claimed it didn't come up.
which would account for the prior
instance. Though that initial instance was either delayed or
non-functional
(you could not
Richard Sims wrote:
Yes, indeed. In Unix parlance, sh is the Default Shell, or
Standard Shell - a rather non-specific reference to whatever
actual shell the operating system developers deign to employ
as their standard. In early AIX, it used to be
Bourne shell. These days, in AIX and
Maybe because copypool tapes are reclaimed under a single
process. Where as
primary pool volumes are reclaimed 1 volume at a time. Each
its own process.
No, that's not it - my copypool reclaim processes just don't show up at all.
--
Lesley Walker
Unix Engineering, EDS New Zealand
[EMAIL
Gerhard Wolkerstorfer wrote:
Do you know, what the value in the Field BYTES means ?
When the activity is BACKUP, is the value in the field BYTES
the amount of
BYTES
TRANSFERRED or BYTES BACKUPED ?
William Boyer wrote:
I'm assuming it's the amount of data transferred.
And I say:
I don't
Wolfgang Herkenrath wrote:
My TSM-Server is Version 3.7.3.0 on OS390 R10.
Here a extract from Administrators Guide:
The scripts can be processed directly on the server console,
the web interface, or included in an
administrative command schedule.
I tried the following command from MVS:
Geoff Gill wrote:
I need to change the IP address on my ADSM server this
weekend. I want to
know if there are any pitfalls I should look out for. It's
not just an IP
change on the same network, I'll be changing the IP, NETMASK
and Default
Gateway.
Your clients need to know how to contact
Then again I
could be forced to change the name in the future so what the
hell..
If you do have to change the server name, perhaps you could use a CNAME,
also known as a DNS alias.
For instance my test server is called nzwnstsm10002.ems.itf.nz.eds.com
(how's that for a mouthful!) there
Lindsay Morris wrote:
How long does it usually take for the reclamation process to
actually stop,
and release the tape drive(s) so the restore can use them?
I've typically
seen this be 40 minutes or more, but I'm not sure why, or if
something
could be done to speed it up.
I think it
Running 3.7.4 on solaris.
I had three backupsets.
One was deleted before it expired, the other two were allowed to expire.
Now I have three tapes that I can't use.
This was posted back in Feb...
-Original Message-
From: France, Don G (Pace)
Subject: Re: I cant delete a backupset . .
Joel Cooper wrote:
[much snippage]
Does anyone have any ideas? Is this because my server has the option to be
contacted on TCPPort 1500? I don't want to use the Windows scheduler to
handle this, but I have to cover these servers.
The server can only listen on one port - if you define it more
I'm scratching my head trying to figure out why this is happening:
I have a reclaim running, no other processes, no client sessions.
Collocation is off.
The reclaim is moving data from volume A to volume B,
there is another volume C in the same stgpool with FILLING status,
and volume D is
For Solaris clients the upgrade method is to uninstall the current version
(which leaves the relevant config files intact) then install the new
version.
I don't know for sure if the NT client is the same, but it seems likely.
The Quick Start manual or the README for the new version should
Shekhar Dhotre wrote:
I have experienced this before , upgrade deletes all drive
info , and if you
try to reconfigure it , using smit tivoli ..you can`t you have to
1) delete drives from ODM use odmdelete .. (#rmdev -dl
rmtx --does not work)
and Geoff Gill wrote:
I upgraded from 3.1 to 4.1
Lesley Walker wrote:
I have two FC64-1063 cards in an E4500, connecting to an EMC array. I
installed the driver supplied by EMC (fcaw259).
Sorry, forgot to mention, I have also installed patches as specified by EMC
(back in November):
106541-12, 107458-10, 106924-06
Suad wrote:
loosely translated:
We, the undersigned abhor the use of Afghani coffee beans in our
expresso machines...
Half a point!
In case anyone REALLY wants to know, it's about the Taliban's mistreatment
of women, and somebody wants to petition the United Nations to take action.
From: James Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
I thought it meant you could send an electric shock to the user at that
machine Maybe I'll open a design change request to add that
functionality. ;)
Are you by any chance related to the BOFH?
Andy Raibeck:
Either way, I'm pretty sure that DISTINCT is supposed to
account for distinct rows in their entirety, and not just certain columns.
I'll have to look into this.
That's what I thought too. My guess would be something to do with the SQL
interface not being direct to the database
eorge Lesho
Storage/System Admin
AFC Enterprises
drvconfig?
"Walker, Lesley R" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 02/28/2001 09:24:50 PM
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC)
Fax to:
Subject:
Just out of curiosity, since I've only casually been following
this thread, was there a specific reason for the "group by"
clause?
I think what is desired is simplly an "order by" clause, e.g.
Well, I'm really confused now.
I came up with my own version of the query:
select distinct
)
environment and TSM4.1 (OS/390) environment. We will soon be implementing
some fiber drives also to a new TSM (AIX) server. Whenever you use the STK
libraries, you are forced to use the ACSLS software also. We do have a tape
SAN implemented.
Brenda
-Original Message-
From: Walker, Lesley R
d if the port
goes bad you cannot switch ports without a reboot). This config files is
\kernel\drv\qla2200.conf. When you reboot/reconfigure the st.conf should
scan for targets that can now be found because the HBA is defining them.
-Original Message-
From: Walker, Lesley R [mailto:[EMAIL
Sorry if this is an FAQ, I've spent a bit of time looking but haven't found
a definitive answer.
Is this possible:
TSM 3.7.x on Solaris
connected to
SAN switch (don't know what model, but assume it's a supported one)
connected to
StorageTek PowderHorn (9840 drives, ACSLS controlled)
From
Etienne Brachel wrote:
Thanks for your suggestion but for 40 clients using collocation on
filespaces will (as we use a diskpool) give us a lot of migration problems
having only 4 drives available.
You would need to create a separate storage pool hierarchy for that node.
Or do you have similar
For your current restore, I think you are pretty much stuck with the 266
mounts.
To make your life easier in the future, you could update the stgpool to
collocate=filespace, then it will try to keep separate tapes for each
filesystem.
The change would only apply to new volumes in that storage
Viliam Varga wrote:
TSM device driver (lb) cannot identify library contrloler on tape library
SUN StorEdge L20 (2 drives, 20 tapes). TSM tape device driver (mt) works
fine on both DLT 7000 drives. Veritas NetBackup BusinesServer 3.3 software
installed on the same machine uses library robot
Richard Sims wrote:
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"?
It doesn't work on the AIX TSM 3.7.2.0 client.
Doing 'dsmc show inclexcl' yields:
Excl All /tmp/.../*
despite there
Thanks for the replies everyone.
Oddly enough I hadn't thought of the possibility of the other app stomping
on TSM, that's what comes of being too busy I guess.
I think the other app is Netbackup, does anyone know how it might behave in
this context?
--
Lesley Walker
Distributed Systems
There are two possible client scheduling modes, polling and prompted. Your
client is in "prompted" mode.
The server can be set to allow "polling", "prompted", or "any". Do a "q
stat and look for this line:
Scheduling Modes: Any
If it is set to polling, that will be why your client has
Does anyone have experience of using an ACSLS-controlled STK library and
sharing it with other applications?
Our customer is very concerned about the possibility of Application A being
able to read/overwrite tapes belonging to Application B, and the question
has been asked:
Most (all?) tape
Yes, right from the beginning when I first plugged it in and turned it on,
it showed up in the results of the probe-scsi-all.
-Original Message-
From: Shekhar Dhotre [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 3:15 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:
Hi all,
I need help to get my tape library going.
It's a StorageTek L20, connected to a server which is TSM 3.7.2 on Solaris
7.
I've connected up the cables and done a boot -r (to get the OS to recognise
the new devices, which it appears to).
But when I try to define the library, the admin
It's a StorageTek L20, connected to a server which is TSM 3.7.2 on Solaris
7.
Sorry, that's TSM 3.7.3 (was getting confused with clients)
I've connected up the cables and done a boot -r (to get the OS to
recognise
the new devices, which it appears to).
But when I try to define the library,
Can't speak for the admin gui because I've never seen it (starting out on
3.7, never seen any earlier versions), but web admin isn't totally useless.
There's one thing in particular that's vastly easier with web admin than
with the command line: writing and updating scripts.
But so far, I prefer
Hi friends,
Has anyone experience a write tape error after a number of percent doing a
backup particularly schedule backup, then it will continue on another
scratch tape until completes.
How can i move the data on the write error tape to a new scratch tape (to
avoid any problems with the
I am also interested in answers to this, as it is something I will
eventually have to address too.
Obviously you cannot restore without installing the OS to run the client,
and having the right filesystem layout to restore into.
This means that there are two basic options:
1. install the OS to
Due to circumstances that I won't bore you all with, I am going to have to
implement a small TSM server with a DLT auto-changer that has only one tape
drive. This is to a be temporary situation but I want it to be sustainable
"just in case".
The total amount of data to be backed up is easily
Howard Heitner wrote:
Currently, we are running TSM 3.7 on MVS. Since we are phasing out
this platform, I am looking to move TSM to either SUN (Solaris)
or IBM (AIX). We have good expertise on Solaris and very little on
AIX. Also, we are using an IBM 3494 Tape Library with 3590-B1As.
My
Hmm... I could have come up with a translation at least as good as that one,
and I don't even know any German. :-)
-Original Message-
From: Alex Paschal [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 1:49 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Speaking of
TSERVERdef cliento inclexcl exclude /kernel/genunix
ANR2056E DEFINE CLIENTOPT: Invalid option name - EXCLUDE. Retry using
the full optionname.
ANS8001I Return code 3.
"Walker, Lesley R" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/09/2000 06:16:26 AM
While we're on this topic, can someone give an example o
Ron Pavan wrote:
example in my env:
all server side option sets for "excludes" are set with override = no
all server side option sets for "includes" are set with override = yes
[etc]
While we're on this topic, can someone give an example of the syntax (3.7.3
on Solaris) to specify an
Cathy Bowman wrote:
Specifically, what are some of the problems with 3.7 besides those just
mentioned? We've decided against going to 4.1 because its so new, but
hearing this...
I've found two things so far (Solaris platform)
1. Missing startup/shutdown scripts for dsmserv
2.
I suppose it's like asking "how long is a piece of string", but, here's the
question:
I'm writing a Solaris startup/shutdown script that will do a halt and then
wait in a loop for the dsmserv process to go away. This obviously needs a
timeout in case the halt doesn't work. Currently, I only
Richard Sims [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
[various answers]
Hi Richard, thanks for taking the time to answer, and thanks for the sample
shutdown script, I'm sure I can do something similar for my server.
It's a pity the startup/shutdown processes are so lacking in the product
itself,
Prather, Wanda [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
[Prather, Wanda] I agree with you that in an EMC Symmetrix, the
liklihood of physical failure is very very small. I've personally never
had
to restore a TSM DB due to software corruption (and I'm not particularly
gentle with mine), but
TSM 3.7.3 on Solaris 7, new implementation.
command: backup db devclass=seqdisk
Until my organisation gets its act together to give me access to the ACSLS
server (it's a long story), I have no tape storage available. But I have a
nice large chunk of EMC Symmetrix array to play in.
So I have
Bill Colwell [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
We got 9840's very early and 3590 emulation wasn't available.
At the time we were running adsm 3.1 tsm 3.7 didn't exist, so
there was no performance difference. You should choose 3590
emulation if there are no strong reasons for doing 3490
Bill Colwell [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
TAPEIOBUFS came in with 3.7. All my storage pools are
on stk 9840s but they are emulating 3490's. I have tapeiobufs set
to 9 anyway; after the storage pools were in use, we
got some 9840's in 3590 mode. I hoped that I could do the dbb
to the
I'm working on a new implementation, with no prior experience of TSM or ADSM
(but I've done a training course!).
Version: TSM 3.7.3
Platform: Sun E450
Library: StorageTek PowderHorn 3910
Deadline: yesterday (isn't it always?)
To get the Powderhorn to do anything, I need to get the TSM server
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