To the best of my knowledge, the STK L180 does not support ACSLS. It is pure
SCSI based library control. However, what you probably could would be to use
Tivoli's native library sharing functionality, introduce a SCSI multiplexer
(since the TSM server would need visibility to each of the drives in
Can anybody tell me where I can locate a copy of the TSM 3.7 Technical Ref
Redbook.
I assume it is a seperate entity to the Admin Guide and Admin Reference.
Thanks
Farren Minns
John Wiley Sons Ltd
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The successful backups do NOT say all files were sent during backup; following
thoughts may help you discover the true reason for the missing files:
- C$ on WinNT (esp. Win2K) has lots of system-protected files that get skipped; they
are rolled into the system state blob, so could be all is
Sorry to say, you might have had a version with a big HOLE in it; both FILE and DISK
storage pool volumes must be local devices to Win2K... using 4.2.1.0. This may be a
problem with my 4.2.1 system -- as I recall, SANergy is designed to help this type
situation using SAN-based disk pools; it
Hi Farren!
Is this the manual you are looking for?
http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/9445fa5b416f6e32852569ae006bb65
f/ede73841f6c641108525676a00536b23?OpenDocument
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
-Original Message-
From: Farren Minns [mailto:[EMAIL
Can anybody tell me where I can locate a copy of the TSM 3.7 Technical
Ref Redbook.
I assume it is a seperate entity to the Admin Guide and Admin Reference.
Farren - Yes... All redbooks are separate from the main manuals.
The redbooks are at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com .
There, you would
Anyone know if there is a pSeries Nation? in addition to the iSeries
Nation?
Rob Berendt
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From: Peter Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
As for reliability. That turns out to be a very mixed bag.
...snip...
For instance,
we have a site with a large fiber channel and LTO
configuration. No end to
the problems so far and they are very serious problems. Is
Is it only true with Win2k ? I tried it on AIX and everything went right.
My level is 5.1.5 and not 4.2.1
Etienne GUILLAUMONT
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One of my Windows NT Servers failed it's backup last night. Looking in
the error log here is the message displayed. Have any of you guys ever
seen this error message?
02/19/2003 01:28:42 NpPeek: No data
Laura Booth
Carilion Health Systems
Geoff,
I know of a company that once lay off IBM hardware and software
and went with another company.
The first month or so everything seem to be fine. Then the
hardware started to have some problems and then everyday there
was a problem with the hardware. The hardware tech practically
lived in
Laura,
I got the same message.
I do not know if the message is related with the journal
service or not.
When we stop the journal service on the server, the message
went away.
Sias
Get your own 800 number
Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more
Hi Andy!
You can find the 3.1.08 client at:
ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/adsm/fixes/v3r1/hp10/
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
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From: Andy Carlson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 15:29
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One of my Windows NT Servers failed it's backup last night. Looking in
the error log here is the message displayed. Have any of you guys ever
seen this error message?
02/19/2003 01:28:42 NpPeek: No data
Larua - That was explored at the end of last week.
To seek prior expositions on
Jezz, what a needle head. I completely forgot it was under adsm, not
tivoli. Thanks for the info.
Andy Carlson|\ _,,,---,,_
Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_
BJC Health Care|,4- )
AIX and SP brings a live tech support person quickly. The few timesI
called for TSM, it was always a long reply time.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/19/03 10:00AM
I was not going to post to this message, but I found it SO surprising
that I
could not let it go by.
snip
If yur hold time with IBM is more
The problem I was having with v5.1.6.1 can be traced to a monitoring
package we were trying out. It's a problem that manifests itself
on heavily loaded servers with a ton of scheduled sessions. Working
with the vendor to do further problem determination.
Now, as for v5.1.6.2, I've put it on my
Hello everyone,
I ve got a question: My backups display error messages that TSM can t process files or
directories which include blanks (for example files in the IExplore Favourites). The
files or directories are represented as the letter y+two dots.
The problem is related on Novell NetWare
Todd,
From talking to a TSM Level 2 consultant, only the first 3 numbers of a release
have to match between the server and the storage agent. If all your storage
agents are at 4.2.1.7, upgrading the server to 4.2.1.9 should be ok.
Eliza Lau
Virginia Tech Computing Center
For you folks that
Hi,
I'm only new to TSM and on a bit of a steep learning curve.
We have a scheduled job each Friday to reclaim our copy pool tapes (update
stg backup_copy_pool reclaim=75), the process starts and the output volume
is mounted OK however the server wait for the input (60K+ seconds). I've
pasted
With the infor you've included, I would sya you should do a
q request. It is probably requesting a volume that is out of the library.
I would sya a restore could be using that volume, but that would show
up in q mount.
Other possibility is there is a problem with that atpe and it won't
mount.
try backing them up separately with double quotes around them.
--Justin Richard Bleistein
Torsten Strecke
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Dwight,
Thanks for the pointers...
I did a q vol 476afxl1 f=d and access=Read/Write, the tape is in the
library and there are no requests outstanding and Mount Limit = Drives :-(
My head is starting to hurt !!
Stephen
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Unable to start the remote agent.
Running XP Professional
central scheduler installed and started successfully
CAD installed and started successfully
Remoteagent installed but gives the below error when I try to start it.
Could not start the TSM AGENT services on local computer
Error 0x:
OK, all the info I have received has been of great help and indeed the
Technical Reference guide is very informative.
But what I still don't understand is this. I'm running expiration on the db
at the moment and the cache hit it average at 98.5%. Not 99%, but not too
bad. But the rest of the
In looking at the output of the q mount I see the ~waiting~ and
remembered...
often if a tape encounters errors upon being mounted, recovery work will be
performed on the tape automatically (triggered by the drive) and it will
show ~waiting on mount~ until the drive gets through with it (or at
You're not supposed to manually start this. Just start the CAD. The first
time you try the Web GUI, the CAD will automatically start the remote
agent for you.
Regards,
Andy
Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew
Actually, I have an L180 managed by ACSLS. We're not currently sharing it,
but we have in the past. We did drive sharing, so we used the Gresham EDT
software. We had drives - FC SAN - multiple TSM servers - EDT - ACSLS
- L180.
Alex Paschal
Freightliner, LLC
(503) 745-6850 phone/vmail
I was not going to post to this message, but I found it SO surprising that I
could not let it go by.
snip
If yur hold time with IBM is more than 5 minutes the operators
are busy. If its more than minutes to get to the tech, then all
the techs are busy. There are times that I have waited 15+
Have you checked access right for user under which TSM server is running to
shared directory?
I have got this error message when TSM server had not proper access rights
to shared directory. Take care especialy if you are using NT domain users.
If I remember correctly (It is quite a long time since
Hmm. That's interesting, because I've seen several of the TSM server patch
readme's specifically stating that the storage agent must be the same patch
level. For example, the AIX 5.1.5.1 and 5.1.5.2 readme's say, patch level
5.1.5.1 (and 2) also effects Storage Agent for AIX. If you use it, you
Andy,
Thanks, what would cause a connection refused.
I'm defined on server w/ proper passwords etc...
here's what I supply on http://xxx.xx.xxx.xxx:1581/
of course the x's are a real ip address.
Any ideas?
Maybe a firewall
Regards, Joe
-Original Message-
From: Andrew
I agree. The developers do their best and then some. All the ones I have
talked with are really committed to making this the best product they can.
They take a lot of pride and interest in the product, which you can tell
because they are not REQUIRED to participate in this list; they do it
I agree.. besides that's what off-site copy pools are for!
Mark
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:22:35AM -0600, Stapleton, Mark wrote:
Why would you want to do this? Disk (particularly local
disk) is cheap
these days. The lag resultant from Windows drive mappings or
(shudder!) NFS mounts will greatly
Well, a recent TDP/R3 PMR went like this --
original call, initial problem report, and PMR assignment -- 10 minutes (no
on-hold time, two minutes walking the phone menus).
Level-1 callback, 2.5 hours later. Detailed description of the problem and
the issues.
Forty-plus hours later, talk to the
Did u try migrating clients to 5.1 and check weather expiration problems
would go away?
-Original Message-
From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Stop Bagging TSM Developers.
I agree. The developers
Adding a bit of my own experience to Kelley's:
Even though we are all using TSM, we use the hardware differently.
At one time we had two DLT libraries, with libraries and drives provided by
the same vendor.
Identical hardware, manufacturer, media, and microcode, same level of TSM
running each.
For various (i.e. vendor related) reasons, we are still running HP-UX 10
on a couple of boxes. None of the client version that are still
available will run on HP-UX 10. Does anyone have 3.1.7 or higher laying
around? Or is there a client archive site that I could look at? Thanks
for any info
Currently I am searching for a solution to save data for at least a 5 year
retention period. This solution must be capable or retaining TBytes of data
using TSM(which is my current backup solution) or ANY other backup solution
that can handle the job. Any input about other solutions, such as
Hello,
AIX 5.1, TSM 4.2.2.8 en 3494 ATL with 700 volumes (used about 620 volumes),
and about 300 nodes. Three months ago we turned collocation off because we
have about 200 client-nodes with less then 3 GB's data stored, and every
node was using min. 1 tape, so we had a lot of tapes with low
Hello *SM'ers!
Is there a problem/bug in the libPiSNAP.so and/or libPiIMG.so?
We don't use the default installation-path, but DSM_DIR, DSMI_DIR etc are
set to the right paths.
dsmc generated these entries in dsmerror.log:
02/19/2003 20:18:45 dlopen() of /local/tsm/bin/plugins/libPiSNAP.so
Hot Diggety! Tom Tann{s was rumored to have written:
Hello *SM'ers!
Is there a problem/bug in the libPiSNAP.so and/or libPiIMG.so?
We don't use the default installation-path, but DSM_DIR, DSMI_DIR etc are
set to the right paths.
dsmc generated these entries in dsmerror.log:
Hello,
AIX 5.1, TSM 4.2.2.8 (soon upgrading to 5.1)
I'm wondering if someone have good experiences with multiple restore
sessions. We have 4 drives in our library. When there are no other processes
and a client is starting a restore and files are spread over several tapes,
will there be up to 4
I've always been told that the password is NOT sent in plain text, it's
encrypted.
(but I've never had a sniffer to check it myself).
-Original Message-
From: Eliza Lau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 10:36 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: password
You can do it this way from the server end -
Select node_name,filespace_name, hl_name,ll_name,state, date(backup_date)
from backups where node_name='' and state='ACTIVE_VERSION'
I prefer running it in comma-delimited mode:
Dsmadmc -id=x -password=yy -commadelimited
The password is indeed encrypted.
Regards,
Andy
Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (change eye to i to reply)
The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
DO you have copy pool tapes available?
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From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 3:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tape Recovery
I have some tapes that seem to be having some problems. I am getting tape
errors pulled on
Look at the MAXSCRATCH value for the storage pool. You don't need another
350 tapes.
You can use MAXSCRATCH to strike a balance between having a zillion tapes or
no collocation at all.
The simplest explanation: If you set maxscratch to 100, TSM will put each
client on its own tape until it hits
From: brian welsh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
AIX 5.1, TSM 4.2.2.8 en 3494 ATL with 700 volumes (used about
620 volumes),
and about 300 nodes. Three months ago we turned collocation
off because we
have about 200 client-nodes with less then 3 GB's data
stored, and every
node was using min. 1
Hello Todd
we have the same problem and open a requestby ibm. the reason for the
requirement in time is that the server and sta
are talking over database-records (segments) (like db-io over TCP/IP) !
In time we have 16 W2K STA and 8 STA at HP and that is not the end ...
Helge van de Kraan
From: Khanduja, Opkar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Currently I am searching for a solution to save data for at
least a 5 year retention period. This solution must be
capable or retaining TBytes of data using TSM(which is my
current backup solution) or ANY other backup solution that
can
Hi TSM Guru's,
I am currently running TSM 4.2 on AIX. Am planning to upgrade 5.1
Which version of TSM is best suited to run on SAN having 3583 libraries
and a Shark.
What are all the modules required in TSM to have LAN Free Server Free
backups.
Are there any stumbling blocks that should be
Brian,
We use a split approach.
I have a 3583 fully populated with 72 LTO volumes holding the data from
our 15 largest servers on collocated tapes.
I have a 3575 fully populated with 180 3570 volumes holding the data from
the remaining 120 smaller clients on non-collocated tapes.
I have a FILE
...Should the cache hit rate consistently be above 98%? ...
In a single word: No. The 99%+ is the fairy tale objective.
You'll find numerous postings in the List archives advising of
the real world behavior of caches which, as you've seen with
Backups, cause the number to drop, as one should
That did it! Thank you for your help!
Philip
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Philip,
Attention for the parameter OPTIONS
The configuration
I'm trying to get a directory backed up, not archived, with a management
class that isn't the primary managment class for the node. I wanted to
use an action schedule, that would call a script with 'dsmc i /directory'
and a mangement class option. But, that doesn't seem to be possible with
the
To clarify my earlier response on this:
The (encrypted) password is not actually sent between client and server,
except when the password is being changed. During authentication, the
client sends the server a message that is encrypted using the password as
the key. The server knows what the
I used two at once with good luck. At the time I only had 2 drives.
Restoring from NT TSM 4.1.3 to a single Novell server running two instances
of the Novell TSM client doing the restores of different file systems.
-Original Message-
From: brian welsh [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
It doesn't matter how you use it. Forcing TSM to work its I/O at network
speeds when it is designed to work at bus speeds will show badly. You'll
be disappointed.
Mark - I wonder if that traditional distinction will prevail in the near
future. Network evolution has been accelerating,
hi,
in our practice application,i have a question for tivoli storage manamger.the version
of tsm software that we used is 5.1.0.0,in order to protect tsm server database,we use
the tsm administrator command backup db type=full devc=ltodevclass to perform
database full backup,the backup database
With TSM 4.1.5 and restoring Archive objects we have had good success, the only thing
is tape contention was a bit of a factor as we were just restoring archived dbf file
from the same file system. Little different than the TSM 5.1 multi-stream backup /
restore.
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Hi Brian,
as I understand it, multiple restores streams of the same filesystem (on AIX, say) is
dubious. And I doubt it would happen.
I have one very large filesystem , and I have done a couple of neat things to improve
restores, and I've had to do it a couple of times.
The filesystem is
I did a q vol 476afxl1 f=d and access=Read/Write, the tape is in the
library and there are no requests outstanding and Mount Limit = Drives :-(
I'm chuckling a bit to myself, thinking of the old joke of how you discern
a software person: That person will indefinitely look at command display
Hi Guys!
In following this thread, I thought I'd check out customer experience
with a stock TSM server they have.
q db f=d showed the DB hit rate at 85%
q opt showed the bufpoolsize at 2350
This was with auto tuning.
After disabling auto-bufpool tuning, I increased the
bufpoolsize to
FYI, the 'y+2dots' (y-umlaut) is usually the windows font
character 0xFF.
This probably doesn't help, but usually indicates bad
programming (unterminated strings for example) rather
than actual filenames.
If TSM is reporting y-umlauts instead of filenames, consider
upgrading to the next patch
Consider an include exclude list naming that directory
and the appropriate management class.
If this is a once-off, just edit/create the include-exclude
list and fix it up later.
If you plan to do this regularly, consider multiple sets of
client configs
You need to specify the INCLUDE option to bind the directory to the
desired management class:
include /directory/* newmg
will bind all files in /directory only (not its subdirectories) to
management class newmg.
include /directory/.../* newmg
will bind all files in /directory and its
Not Quite! This used to be true before 4.2.2.0, not any longer. They must
match right down to the patch level. I was bitten by 4.2.2.12 and 4.2.2.13.
However, TSM Development is promising to make this issue go away.
Hopefully, in V5.2. You will have to upgrade all at once then, probably,
but
Andy,
please do not assume its personal to you - you just brought the bad news,
not created them.
Actually those web folks (not we) ought to submit in this case a long list
of requests for doc-updates. Each book contains the hard to redirect
address. I would bet some other books have already been
Quoting DFrance [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The successful backups do NOT say all files were sent during backup;
following thoughts may help you discover the true reason for the missing
files:
- C$ on WinNT (esp. Win2K) has lots of system-protected files that get
skipped; they are rolled into the
From: Stephen Comiskey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
We have a scheduled job each Friday to reclaim our copy pool
tapes (update stg backup_copy_pool reclaim=75), the process
starts and the output volume is mounted OK however the server
wait for the input (60K+ seconds). I've pasted some
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