Dear all,
I have looked through the adsm.org archives. The answers I got from the
archives are not consistent.
I would vary much appreciate an answer to the question: Does TSM use all DB
volumes for I/O (like round-robin) or does it fill a volume and then goes
to the next one?
What about LOG
Hot Diggety! Kilchenmann Timo was rumored to have written:
I would vary much appreciate an answer to the question: Does TSM use all DB
volumes for I/O (like round-robin) or does it fill a volume and then goes
to the next one?
I do not know for sure, because I don't know of a TSM way to report
Hello guys,
First of all, I would like to thank all the pepole who work in this group becaus the
email that i get every day are like a rsource for me.
I am in the proccess of implementting the DRM. I have a small issue to check in the
offsite tapes
after i run this command:
MOVE DRMEDIA *
I had something what sounds the same. TSM db on raid 5 (not anymore). Extend
started, server seems to hang. Went home and came back next morning. All
went well.
-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Karla Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Verzonden: woensdag 2 oktober 2002 1:00
Aan: [EMAIL
Or
/* */
/* Query TSM to make a daily summary*/
/* */
set sqldatetimeformat i
set sqldisplaymode w
set sqlmathmode r
commit
select count(*) as Count, -
case -
when sum(bytes) 1073741824
All schedules that run over midnight are counted twice:
So your results are not correct.
Regards Stefan Holzwarth
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Von: Karel Bos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 2002 12:52
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Betreff: Re: Calculating amount of data
If you use the Tivoli web site, it is changing.
Here is some info. I received Monday.
just passing it along,
later,
Dwight
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What client level was Barney ? (and what level is Fred ?)
If Barney was higher than the code on Fred then yes, natrually Fred can't
see anything for Barney (from Barney)...
Also ADSM isn't rated for AIX 4.3.3... (have to get in the standard IBM
answer there ;-) )
I would try going into the
Hi *SM-ers!
Maybe you already noticed it, but IBM made the 4.2.3 clients available for
download.
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
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Hi
We currently using ADSM 3.1.20.90 on AIX 4.3.3
If I understand FRED is your ADSM server and Barney is your client.
If you have authentication set on, you must use the option of set
access.
Once you have done this you can change the NODENAME in your dsm.sys file
to
Barney on the FRED server
Sure, and the table is not that accurate. Keep in mind, its for free.
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Van: Stefan Holzwarth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Verzonden: woensdag 2 oktober 2002 13:09
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: AW: Calculating amount of data being backed up every 24
hours.
All
Your right, it took about 40 minutes, never had it take so long. Thanks
for the response.
Karla Ross
IBM Global Services
314-232-9964
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Karel Bos [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 10/02/2002 05:31:27 AM
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Hi Muthyam ,
1.For db2 backups you don't need any special configuration for sys opt files but you
must define
DSMI_DIR , DSMI_CONFIG and DSMI_LOG parametes
in db2 environment profile.For example like this.
DSMI_DIR=/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin
We are having a similar problem with our server (v4.2.2.12, on OS/390
v2.10).
Here is my problem:
The reclaim runs, and ends, but the tapes are not being updated as empty.
If I run an audit of the tape volume, it will then go to empty, and be
deleted during our next MOVEDRMEDIA command. Here
Michael,
Why has your tape got a status of filling ?
That would be a reason why it would not return to scratch
Are all your problem tapes like that?
Michael Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/02/2002 01:34:26 PM
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Yes..
I now have approximately 200 tapes in this status, and so far the only fix
is to audit each volume.
IBM/Tivoli is looking into how they are getting in this state. I am
waiting on some trace parms from them.
Michael Moore
VF Services Inc.
121 Smith Street
Greensboro, NC 27420-1488
Basically it uses DB and LOG volumes by filling up the first
then moving to the next one. Of course as things progress,
some of the first volumes can be less than 100% full, this
is more so on DB Volumes. The LOG is a sequentially
written device.
This is most easily observered when a new
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
GUILLAUMONT Etienne
I hope you will excuse me to be so direct but I think that you last answer
is stupid,
Actually, I won't excuse you, and there's no need to be insulting.
did you ever look at the price of a single drive
There is a known problem opened with IBM on this... We were told to upgrade
to tsm 4.2.2.4 or higher...this seemed to clean up most but not all these
problems... If you q content on the tape it is empty, yet if you try to do
reclamation or delete it you are informed that there is still data on
Does anyone have a select statement to draw a correlation between which
cleints go to which disk pools?
Joseph Dawes
I/T Infrasctructure - Unix Technical Support
Chubb Son, a Division of Federal Insurance Company
15 MountainView Road
Warren,New Jersey 07059
Office:908.903.3890
Hi All
I wonder who can help me with this. Does the database become very
fragmented over time? If so, is there any way of telling how much? Also, is
the only fix for this to do a dump and reload of the database?
If the answer to the final question is yes, how easy are dump/reloads?
We recently
Hello Mark,
One-drive libraries are pretty much worthless
False
With our add-on SOS-MB (sorry only french) we use this technology.
and it works fine (SOS-MB is promoted in France by IBM/Tivoli)
We guarantee a day - 1 recovery of the backup server (the worst case) and without
the DRM of TSM
If
The only small things I would need to be able to use TSM with a single
drive library is to have the ability of having a next storage pool on a
copy pool, I must be possible to do as it is already done on a backup
storage pool. And the ability of using a disk reclaim storage pool for
offsite copy
If a tape is EMPTY, but the access is OFFSITE, TSM won't delete the tape
until the access if change to READWRITE, or the MOVE DRMEDIA to bring the
tape back onsite. Until then, the tape will remain EMPTY and won't go
scratch.
Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor
My experience is the database volumes fill sequentially, no load balancing.
This is why I recommend striping on the database to improve backup
performance. But, that can be suicide if your bufferpool is not large
enough to get 98.5%+ hits. So, there are tradeoffs. Keep in mind I have
ESS
Yes, you CAN DO off site reclaimation with one drive. The way it should be
set up is in the tsm books (online version) or one of the redbooks. I set it
ones up, and it work. Slowly but it work. The compagny I work for has divert
libraries with 6 to 10 drives (and still growing), but some of the
Hi,
using the new move nodedata command I moved a number of files from one
sequential stgpool to another. The source stgpool is backed up to a copy
storagepool, the target stgpool is not. Using q occupancy I can see that the
moved files are still on the copy storagepool. Are they going to be
If you install windows server on your pc it will install documentation for
both client and server. It is a nice documentation with cross links and
search engine.
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From: Tani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 6:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Karel Bos
Yes, you CAN DO off site reclaimation with one drive. The way it should be
set up is in the tsm books (online version) or one of the redbooks. I set
it
ones up, and it work. Slowly but it work. The compagny I work
Hello all
Dose anyone know how to backup a MSDE database??? Can you use TDP for SQL
??? Any help would be great.
Thanks
Greg
Greg Heinz - Infrastructure Analyst
EDS, Goodrich - Sensor Systems Account
14300 Judicial Rd.
Burnsville, MN 55306
Ph: (952) 892-4636
Fax:(952) 892-4700
Hi,
Can any body tell me where can i get a STANDARD tdpo.opt file
for Release 2 Version 2 for Sun solaris.
Thanks,
Prabhat K Ghosh
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Last week we moved the TSM server from an IBM H70 running AIX 4.3.3 and TSM
4.2.2.4 to an IBM 6H1 running AIX 5.1.0.2 then upgraded to TSM 5.1.1.6. My
database is about 51 gigs in size.
Tivoli support told me to run cleanup backupgroup to cleanup orphaned
records when I ran into problems with
We have an NSM still running TSM 4.1.3. In it we have an LTO cartridge in the library
that is marked in the libvols and volhist tables as being part of a backupset. The
backupset has been deleted - actually, it expired - at some point in the past, but I
cannot reclaim the cartridge for the
Greg,
I found this page
http://www.lyris.com/lm_help/6.0/Backing_Up_MSDE.html
which talks about copying two files out while the SQL server service manager
is offline.
Copy the ListManager.mdf and ListManager_log.ldf files to your backup
location and back them up with the standard B/A client?
select sum(bytes) from summary
William Wells
AIX Systems Administrator
Atos Origin
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Cell# +1-817-233-9479
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From: David E Ehresman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 10:38 AM
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Dear all,
From a previous threat I learned, that TSM fills a DB volume an than goes
to the next one. Same is true for the LOG volumes - no load balancing
like on STG Volumes via client sessions.
In this case (DB LOG) I plan to use AIX LVM to stripe the logical volumes
over the available
Hello all
Dose anyone know how to backup a MSDE database??? Can you use TDP for SQL
??? Any help would be great.
Thanks
Greg
Hi,
Sorry.
An error in my last post !
It's not :
4 - You clear the disk storage pool and delete the same in the database
but of course :
4 - You clear the copy storage pool and delete the same in the database in other
words the knowledge that TSM has about the offsite tapes.
Sorry again
When can we expect a finalization of the 4.2.2.?? PTF's..not
patches, which are up to 4.2.2.13 !
I have outstanding issues on my current, now unsupported V4.1 server (for
which I have posted messages here and received absolutely no responses)
and I can no longer call IBM/Tivoli about
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Werner Kliewer
We have an NSM still running TSM 4.1.3. In it we have an LTO
cartridge in the library that is marked in the libvols and
volhist tables as being part of a backupset. The backupset has
been deleted - actually,
All-
I have a dought to be cleared .Please help!
What I understand is that nfs File system can not be backed up by default
and the same was seen in mails that dsm.sys or .opt need to be updated
accordingly.
Recently I converted AIX Server on NAS i.e NFS.I did clone the server first
and
I am looking for help using TSM 4.2.1.20 with Norton Anti-Virus Corporate Edition
v7.6. I have
recieving Event Viewer Error Messages:
ID 4099
ANS4987E Error processing server name: the object is in use by
another process.
This in turn reports a Failed Backup. Can anyone tell me what to do
I have to agree with Mark in this case.
Unless there is some critical functionality that TSM has that nothing else
does, using TSM with a single drive library is kind of a
square-peg/round-hole solution. There are better solutions for environments
of this scale, specifically solutions that
Placing TSM DB volumes over multiple physical volumes can improve
performances because the DB is read-oriented, the LVM will spread the load
over the various volumes. if the number of volumes is too high, though,
your performance will be hit by the overhead on the Logical Volume Manager.
the
What does you dsmerror.log file say. It could have nothing to do with
Norton and simply be unable to back up files that NT normally has a hold of.
You may need to insert some exclude statements into your .opt file to remedy
this issue.
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From: Schwartz, Paul E.
Joseph,
Each client can back up files to multiple disk pools depending on which
management classes/copygroups it's binding files to in the include/exclude
list. So to do this, you would have to select against your backups and
mgmtclass tables or your contents and volumes tables, both of which
The error in the dsmsched.log is as follows:
ANS4987E Error processing '\\oltfs020\e$ ': the object is in use by another process
Now we are not seeing this when Norton is turned off. Any ideas?
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From: Mertens, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October
I've got a pretty simple question:
some of my tapes are automatically turning to READ ONLY state. That's cool
I assume the server detects a read/write error, then sets the tape to READ
ONLY.
1) is there any scenareo where a tape is still good, yet the server sets
it to READ ONLY?
2) where is
1. Not that I know of. However you can do it manually with the
Update Volume Command.
2. One way I do is to use the actlog:
q actlog begind=-1 search=i/o
This will show any I/O errors in last day. You can search
on other specific message numbers of other patterns/words.
David Longo
[EMAIL
Hot Diggety! Alexander Lazarevich was rumored to have written:
1) is there any scenareo where a tape is still good, yet the server sets
it to READ ONLY?
Yes, there is. It can happen if you have a drive whose element ID mapping
to rmt device name has gotten out of sync with each other. More
Hello,
If you do a q volume nn f=d (nn=volume name) this will tell you
the Number of Write Errors: and Number of Read Errors: amoung with other
good information.
Dave Pearson
IS PRoduction Support Analyst
System and Network Service
Snohomish County PUD # 1
425.347.4420
Number of Write
I played with this at one time, with 6 36GB SSA disks. I found the
smallest stripe size (4K) worked the best. I cut 50% of my DB backup
time going from 128K to 4k stripe size. I saw little or no observable
difference for my client backups, but that machine has other resource
issues that may
In a manual tape drive arrangement, if TSM calls for a tape and you don't
mount it within the timeout period, TSM will mark it read only.
Regards,
Orin
Orin Rehorst
Port of Houston Authority
(Largest U.S. port in foreign tonnage)
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Phone: (713)670-2443
Fax:
Server AIX 4.3.3
TSM 4.1.4.5
Client Win 2k SP2
TSM Client 5.1.1.5
When I try to start the scheduler service I get the following errors in the
dsmerror.log
10/02/2002 14:15:56 ReadPswdFromRegistry(): getRegValue(): Win32 RC=2 .
10/02/2002 14:15:56 ReadPswdFromRegistry(): getRegValue(): Win32
Actually, ours get marked unavailable.
Nancy Reeves
Technical Support, Wichita State University
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 316-978-3860
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Orin Rehorst wrote:
In a manual tape drive arrangement, if TSM calls for a tape and you don't
mount it within the timeout period, TSM will mark
Bruce,
I just went through this. You have to have two separate schedulers on the
box. One for the non-clustered data and one for the clustered drives. I went
through the same thing trying to figure out what was wrong with authority.
There isn't anything. Once you set up two schedulers as I
when the server is running some expirations, it runs as a process and i
can see that process:
70 Expiration
Examined 83933 objects, deleting 1024 backup objects, 0 archive objects, 0
DB backup volumes, 0 recovery plan files; 6 errors encountered.
where is the log for the errors encountered so i
It's in the server's actlog. q actlog for the time expiration
was running and you will most likely see the errors.
Essentially any error on the server is logged in the actlog,
which is stored in the DB.
David Longo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/02/02 05:38PM
when the server is running some
OK, I ran cleanup backupgroups for a week and it returned 1.5M pages to my
database. However, that was not continuous time. I would run it for
several hours and cancel it as needed to prevent conflicts with other stuff.
My experience was it literally shuts down backup stg and database backups.
Clients are connected to policy domains which contain management classes
that have copygroups that specify a storage primary pool. There is now way
to perform a select to definitively find out what you want. The BACKUPS
table has the management classes of the backups for a node. But, it can be
The only way to reorganize the database is an UNLOADDB, LOADFORMAT, LOADDB.
Nothing else accomplishes this. If your database has had lots of filespace
deletions the tree can get severly unbalanced and negatively affect
performance.
Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
My recommendations is for people to get to 4.2.2.12 or higher for those of
us on 4.2 and get the backupgroups cleaned up before attempting a 5.1.1.6
migration. This probably includes running an auditdb before starting the
ugprade as well.
Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
4.2.3 is very near release, probably less than a week. The client was
released last night.
Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180
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From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 12:07 PM
To: [EMAIL
There is no direct relationship between a copy storage pool and a primary
storage pool. When you move data from one primary pool to another the copy
storage pool is managed just as before, the expiration criteria of the
primary objects. Remember TSM manages the objects not tapes. I recently
This is probably a Norton configuration issue.
Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180
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From: Schwartz, Paul E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 12:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM on NT 4.0 w/Norton
I am
Paul:
What is the exact syntax for auditdb? I've seen you mention it twice
now. I'm on 4.1.3 server (migrating to 5.1.1.6 tomorrow!) and don't
see this mentioned anywhere. This is part of 4.2 and later?
johnn
My recommendations is for people to get to 4.2.2.12 or higher for those of
us on 4.2
Stripe size is very hardware dependent.
Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180
-Original Message-
From: Kilchenmann Timo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 11:25 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: What stripe size to use for TSM DB,
Im my experience, it is better NOT to stripe the TSM database.
Fragmentation is a way of life for the ITSM Database. This insures that
I/O seek locations will be randomly spread across the entire database.
If you stripe, you increase the number of heads that must move for each
I/O operation. This
It is in the activity log. I run the following select daily to kick out
what to consider.
/* This select scans the activity log for the last 23 hours and 55 minutes
*/
select substr(cast(date_time as char(26)),1,16) as date time, message as
Message
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