Moving database to another storage controller
I have a small-ish TSM 8.1.2 with a single db volume. 250GB with only 99GB used. It's on a V7000 that's being returned off lease. I have another V7000 to use. Is it possible to: 1. Allocate another 250GB drive on the new V7000 2. Stop TSM and make sure DB2 instance stops 3. Copy the entire contents of the DBVOL to the new V7000 4. Change the disk volumes so that the new V7000 is the same drive letter. 5. Bring up TSM. I can move the active log and archive log easily enough but I would really like to move the DB without having to od the whole removed and restore db. I had also though about using Windows mirrored volumes. Any thoughts or suggestions? TIA, Bill
Using TDP to backup NDF files
Is there a way to backup NDF files as part of the database backup? I have a customer with a database with an NDF file the use for 'archiving'. That doesn't get included as part of the TDPSQLC BACKUP * FULL command. How can I get that included in the SQL backup of the server? Or do I need to use the BAClient for that? TIA, Bill "Enjoy life. It has an expiration date." - ??
Re: ANS1357S after upgrade to V8.1.2 Server
Not it. It stopped working once I upgrade to V8.1.2. Worked fine at Server V8.1.1 and V7.1.7. I'm looking for a document that says what client versions are support at the V8.1.2 server level. Since 8.1.2 is forcing TLS12. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Craig McAllister Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 1:28 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ANS1357S after upgrade to V8.1.2 Server Possibly this? http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21676282 On 19 Sep 2017 8:55 p.m., "Bill Boyer" <bjdbo...@comcast.net> wrote: > After upgrading my (test) TSM server to V8.1.2 my clients are now > getting ANS1357S with back-level client version. Even a V7.1.2 client. > Is there a page that lists the client versions supported by V8.1.2 > Server? We have some older OS's that are running old client versions. > Been trying to find a compatibility matrix just for serve V8.1.2. > > > > Tia, > > > > Bill Boyer > "Enjoy life. It has an expiration date." - ?? >
ANS1357S after upgrade to V8.1.2 Server
After upgrading my (test) TSM server to V8.1.2 my clients are now getting ANS1357S with back-level client version. Even a V7.1.2 client. Is there a page that lists the client versions supported by V8.1.2 Server? We have some older OS's that are running old client versions. Been trying to find a compatibility matrix just for serve V8.1.2. Tia, Bill Boyer "Enjoy life. It has an expiration date." - ??
TSM V8.1.2 upgrade and not use SSL/TLS12
I have a V6.3.5 TSM server (Linux) that I've "cloned" to another system for testing. I've upgraded it to V8.1.2 and now all my clients fail to connect with back-level client code or certification issues. The V6 server is not configured to use SSL at all. How can I get my 8.1.2 server after upgrade to not force the SSL/TLS12 communication? TIA, Bill
Replacing OC web access certificate
Is there a way to replace the self-signed certificate with one from a certificate provider so you don't get the connection error in your browser? I have a customer that wants to use their *.company.com site certificate for accessing the OC. Oh, they are V7.1.7. TIA, Bill Boyer
is TSM and iSeries/iOS still an option?
Was looking and the latest client API I could find with iOS support was V6.2. Did TSM/Spectrum Protect stop iOS support? Bill Boyer "You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day. " - ??
Download older Clients
Where can I download older TSM clients prior to V5.5? The FTP site only goes back as far as V5.5 to be able to download. They still have the ADSM clients, but I can't find anything older than V5.5. Bill
Re: HPUX Old Client
Where can I download earlier releases like 5.4? The ftp site only let's me go back to 5.5 for the TSM client. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Kamp, Bruce (Ext) Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:43 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] HPUX Old Client We use the 5.4.2.7 client on ours. Bruce Kamp Source One Technical Providing services for Novartis Backup & Recovery T +18175687331 bruce.k...@novartis.com US Fort Worth (USFW) 7001 Calmont Ave. Fort Worth, TX 76244 USA -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Boyer Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2017 7:24 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] HPUX Old Client That was the oldest client requirement page online I could find. I'll try looking at the readme's for some of the 5.4 versions. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:11 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] HPUX Old Client Out of curiosity, I went down the "rabbit hole" and even at the 5.5 client level, it lists 11i V2 so my guess would be older than 5.5 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21700848 On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 5:24 PM, Bill Boyer <bjdbo...@comcast.net> wrote: > does someone know what the lastest TSM client version for HP-UX 11i > V1? I know it's old, but this is an old system moving over from CommVault to > TSM. > > > > Bill Boyer > > "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." -?? > -- *Zoltan Forray* Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. TSM) Software & Hardware Administrator Xymon Monitor Administrator VMware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services www.ucc.vcu.edu zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html
Re: HPUX Old Client
That was the oldest client requirement page online I could find. I'll try looking at the readme's for some of the 5.4 versions. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 8:11 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] HPUX Old Client Out of curiosity, I went down the "rabbit hole" and even at the 5.5 client level, it lists 11i V2 so my guess would be older than 5.5 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21700848 On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 5:24 PM, Bill Boyer <bjdbo...@comcast.net> wrote: > does someone know what the lastest TSM client version for HP-UX 11i > V1? I know it's old, but this is an old system moving over from CommVault to > TSM. > > > > Bill Boyer > > "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." -?? > -- *Zoltan Forray* Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. TSM) Software & Hardware Administrator Xymon Monitor Administrator VMware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services www.ucc.vcu.edu zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html
HPUX Old Client
does someone know what the lastest TSM client version for HP-UX 11i V1? I know it's old, but this is an old system moving over from CommVault to TSM. Bill Boyer "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." -??
Running DB2 ALTER TABLESPACE on Windows
Trying to run the reduce max to get space back in my database per technote https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21992410. When I try to run the DB2 ALTER TABLESPACE it returns that it's an invalid command. How do I run this on Windows2012 and TSM V7.1.7? TIA, Bill
Re: TSM7.1.7 DB growing with Dedup
We'll be doing this now as it turns out. The dbvolume ran out of space and the instance is down at the moment. As this was upgraded to the 7.1.7 version from a V6. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stefan Folkerts Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 9:38 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM7.1.7 DB growing with Dedup You're welcome Bill. And yes, you need to bring down TSM for an offline reorg, they are very fast however, especially if you run them on SSD's as a target location for the reorg and you do it one table at a time so you can stop after 2 if you are running out of time for instance and do the others in another window. I've seen massive performance enhancements after an offline reorg. I would recommend using the analyze_db2_formulas.pl script, the output is very usefull and looks like this: tsminst1@hostname:~/20170420-0818> cat summary.out BEGIN SUMMARY "db2 alter tablespace BFABFIDXSPACE reduce max" will return = 28.2G to the operating system file system "db2 alter tablespace BFBFEXTIDXSPACE reduce max" will return = 31.5G to the operating system file system BF_BITFILE_EXTENTS needs to be reorganized. estimated savings Table5 GB, Index2 GB BF_QUEUED_CHUNKS needs to be reorganized. estimated savings Table1 GB, Index 163 GB Total estimated savings 171 GB END SUMMARY tsminst1@hostname:~/20170420-0818> You can see what tablespaces need a reorg and what need a reduce max. The reduce max estimates can be a bit to optimistic but still, never good indication or where your attention should be. Good luck Stefan On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Bill Boyer <bjdbo...@comcast.net> wrote: > Offline re-org? Does that mean TSM needs to be down? I'm going to be > verifying the DB2 database version/stats this morning. > > Thanks! > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf > Of Stefan Folkerts > Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 2:02 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM7.1.7 DB growing with Dedup > > Hi Bill, > > I don't know what is going on the the protect stgpool command vs > replicate node in regards to DB usage but the conversion growth...i've > been there a few times before, it happens with every conversion > because the directory containerpool stores it's metadata differently than the > filepool. > It's more efficient in the end but during the conversion you need > extra space on the database filesystems. > > You can however reclaim that space, I use offline reorgs and reduce > max commands on the tablespaces that hold the old filepool metadata. > > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21683633 > > Every conversion I have done has ended up with at least 30% less > database space used but not on it's own, they all need some help. > You can run those reorgs and reduce max commands half way during the > conversion without problems if you are running out of space. Well, at > least that has been my experience. > > If you are having issues with this I suggest you contact IBM support, > they can determine what tables to reorg and reduce max to get the > maximum amount of space (and performance) back. > > I would also check out this page : > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IT15619 > I would advise you to run those selects on the database (might take a > day to complete), we have a few cases of orphaned chunks that > according to us MIGHT to be related (IBM is investigating) to the use > of the protect stgpool command, if you have them I would also suggest > asking IBM for support. > > > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 9:03 PM, Bill Boyer <bjdbo...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > I converted a server over to directory container polls and replication. > > Their previous FILE stgpool was around 140TB of data. After defining > > everything I used the TSMOC dialogs to enable replication and then > > started running the CONVERT STGPOOL command. At the start of this I > > had 430GB of available DBSPACE. I was only running the PROTECT > > schedules. The REPLICATE schedule was marked inactive until the > > convert completed. I stopped the convert when I got down to only > > 70GB of DBspace left and around 40TB to convert. Since then the DB > > has been shrinking about 2-4GB per day. We're ordering more SSD > > drives so we can increase the DBSPACE but I may run out of space before > > then. > > > > > > > > Is the fact that all nodes are set for replication holding on to > > some DB and DIR pool space? And my target container pool seems to be > > a lot different used% even though my PR
Re: TSM7.1.7 DB growing with Dedup
Offline re-org? Does that mean TSM needs to be down? I'm going to be verifying the DB2 database version/stats this morning. Thanks! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stefan Folkerts Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 2:02 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM7.1.7 DB growing with Dedup Hi Bill, I don't know what is going on the the protect stgpool command vs replicate node in regards to DB usage but the conversion growth...i've been there a few times before, it happens with every conversion because the directory containerpool stores it's metadata differently than the filepool. It's more efficient in the end but during the conversion you need extra space on the database filesystems. You can however reclaim that space, I use offline reorgs and reduce max commands on the tablespaces that hold the old filepool metadata. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21683633 Every conversion I have done has ended up with at least 30% less database space used but not on it's own, they all need some help. You can run those reorgs and reduce max commands half way during the conversion without problems if you are running out of space. Well, at least that has been my experience. If you are having issues with this I suggest you contact IBM support, they can determine what tables to reorg and reduce max to get the maximum amount of space (and performance) back. I would also check out this page : http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IT15619 I would advise you to run those selects on the database (might take a day to complete), we have a few cases of orphaned chunks that according to us MIGHT to be related (IBM is investigating) to the use of the protect stgpool command, if you have them I would also suggest asking IBM for support. On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 9:03 PM, Bill Boyer <bjdbo...@comcast.net> wrote: > I converted a server over to directory container polls and replication. > Their previous FILE stgpool was around 140TB of data. After defining > everything I used the TSMOC dialogs to enable replication and then > started running the CONVERT STGPOOL command. At the start of this I > had 430GB of available DBSPACE. I was only running the PROTECT > schedules. The REPLICATE schedule was marked inactive until the > convert completed. I stopped the convert when I got down to only 70GB > of DBspace left and around 40TB to convert. Since then the DB has been > shrinking about 2-4GB per day. We're ordering more SSD drives so we > can increase the DBSPACE but I may run out of space before then. > > > > Is the fact that all nodes are set for replication holding on to some > DB and DIR pool space? And my target container pool seems to be a lot > different used% even though my PROTECT processes are running to > completion. > > > > I'm thinking if I remove replication from all the nodes until I'm done > with the conversion it should help? Then change each node back for > replication and start the schedule. > > > > TIA, > > Bill Boyer > > "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." -?? >
TSM7.1.7 DB growing with Dedup
I converted a server over to directory container polls and replication. Their previous FILE stgpool was around 140TB of data. After defining everything I used the TSMOC dialogs to enable replication and then started running the CONVERT STGPOOL command. At the start of this I had 430GB of available DBSPACE. I was only running the PROTECT schedules. The REPLICATE schedule was marked inactive until the convert completed. I stopped the convert when I got down to only 70GB of DBspace left and around 40TB to convert. Since then the DB has been shrinking about 2-4GB per day. We're ordering more SSD drives so we can increase the DBSPACE but I may run out of space before then. Is the fact that all nodes are set for replication holding on to some DB and DIR pool space? And my target container pool seems to be a lot different used% even though my PROTECT processes are running to completion. I'm thinking if I remove replication from all the nodes until I'm done with the conversion it should help? Then change each node back for replication and start the schedule. TIA, Bill Boyer "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." -??
TSM Server Replication
Is there a good rebood or whitepaper on TSM server replication? I have a customer that wants to set this up after upgrading to V7.1.7 for directory containers. I've done some one-way replication, but this customer wants to have it replicate both ways. They have servers in the 2nd location that the currently back up over the network to the primary and want to change them to back up to the local and replicate to the main TSM server. Can a directory storage pool be a source and target for protection? Servers in location A back up to TSM Server A and replicate to TSM Server location B and visa versa. TIA, Bill Boyer Free Tip: The F1 Key does NOT destroy your PC! - ??
TOR Reports not displaying but still run
TOR.. I know not a supported product any more. I have a client that uses it and recently he went in to change a report and they don't show up any more. When he clicks down to Operational Reports and Operational Monitors there are none listed, but the reports continue to run. Looking in the registry keys they are in there. They just will not show up on the MMC GUI plugin. But only for that one TSM server. He actually has 5 of them and the other 4 work/display just fine. Has anyone seen this behavior before and a way to resolve it? TIA, Bill Boyer "Enjoy life. It has an expiration date." - ??
Need Windows server levels for a V5.5.7 TSM server for a customer
Customer is at 5.5.7 and is planning on moving to Veeam (I'll wash my mouth out later!) in the summer. But the server hardware needs to be replaced. Anyone have the Windows server requirements for a V5.5.7 TSM server? They just want to move it for now instead of going through an upgrade conversion/migration. Bill Boyer "Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong. " - ??
Windows and symbolic links
Windows 2012R2 server TSM 7.1.2.0 client The customer has a drive with a symbolic link off to a UNC share path. When the backup runs it backs up the drive, but does not follow the symbolic link and backup the UNC share. Which is what we really want to accomplish. The FOLLOWSYMBOLIC=YES is ignored in the DSM.OPT file. I know it says *NIX only, but I was hoping. Anybody know of a way to get TSM to follow that symbolic link on the drive? Bill Boyer There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems. -??
Re: Windows and symbolic links
The share on the NAS device as well as the directory/files all have that user as read permission. And that's the userid the service is configured with. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of George Huebschman Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 12:24 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Windows and symbolic links Access Denied sounds like a permission or authentication error somewhere. George Huebschman (George H.) From: Bill Boyer bjdbo...@comcast.net To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU, Date: 08/14/2015 12:11 PM Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] Windows and symbolic links Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU The TSM Scheduler service is running under an account that has permission to the share as well as the files in the share. If I specify the share name, all I get are security access errors on every file. Using the same userid I can to a run-as on Notepad and access the files on the share for reading. But when the backup runs as the same user every file gives an access denied error. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of George Huebschman Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 10:53 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Windows and symbolic links You may have already looked at this, but it may be a Windows permission problem. If the System account is running the client, it can only backup local drives. You need an account that has authority to backup non-local drives/shares. George Huebschman (George H.) The contents of this email are the property of PNC. If it was not addressed to you, you have no legal right to read it. If you think you received it in error, please notify the sender. Do not forward or copy without permission of the sender. This message may be considered a commercial electronic message under Canadian law or this message may contain an advertisement of a product or service and thus may constitute a commercial electronic mail message under US law. You may unsubscribe at any time from receiving commercial electronic messages from PNC at http://pages.e.pnc.com/globalunsub/ PNC, 249 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222; pnc.com
Re: Windows and symbolic links
The TSM Scheduler service is running under an account that has permission to the share as well as the files in the share. If I specify the share name, all I get are security access errors on every file. Using the same userid I can to a run-as on Notepad and access the files on the share for reading. But when the backup runs as the same user every file gives an access denied error. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of George Huebschman Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 10:53 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Windows and symbolic links You may have already looked at this, but it may be a Windows permission problem. If the System account is running the client, it can only backup local drives. You need an account that has authority to backup non-local drives/shares. George Huebschman (George H.) (301) 699-4013 (301) 875-1227 (Cell) From: Thomas Denier thomas.den...@jefferson.edu To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU, Date: 08/14/2015 10:27 AM Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] Windows and symbolic links Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Boyer Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 10:08 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Windows and symbolic links Windows 2012R2 server TSM 7.1.2.0 client The customer has a drive with a symbolic link off to a UNC share path. When the backup runs it backs up the drive, but does not follow the symbolic link and backup the UNC share. Which is what we really want to accomplish. The FOLLOWSYMBOLIC=YES is ignored in the DSM.OPT file. I know it says *NIX only, but I was hoping. Anybody know of a way to get TSM to follow that symbolic link on the drive? Bill Boyer -End of Original Message- I think a statement like domain ALL-LOCAL \\server1\share1 will get the share backed up, if the account used to run backups has the necessary permissions. The client scheduler service is typically run under the system account, which typically does not have access to resources owned by other systems. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital The information contained in this transmission contains privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. CAUTION: Intended recipients should NOT use email communication for emergent or urgent health care matters. The contents of this email are the property of PNC. If it was not addressed to you, you have no legal right to read it. If you think you received it in error, please notify the sender. Do not forward or copy without permission of the sender. This message may be considered a commercial electronic message under Canadian law or this message may contain an advertisement of a product or service and thus may constitute a commercial electronic mail message under US law. You may unsubscribe at any time from receiving commercial electronic messages from PNC at http://pages.e.pnc.com/globalunsub/ PNC, 249 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222; pnc.com
Re: tsm for ve ans4174e can't find my return code
Check in vCenter on the Tasks Events tab for that VM. Might be more VMware specific information there. Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 1:47 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm for ve ans4174e can't find my return code Nope, that's all that's in the logs. Where these came from. l -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Arbogast, Warren K Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 1:21 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm for ve ans4174e can't find my return code I think you’ll find more help in the data mover’s dsmsched.log or dsmerror.log. K. On Jun 17, 2015, at 11:38 AM, Lee, Gary g...@bsu.edu wrote: Getting the following error on one vm. It is preceeded by ans4715, which indicates there is nothing to back up. ANS4174E Full VM backup of VMware Virtual Machine 'VMName' failed with RC=4379 mode=Incremental Forever - Incremental, target node name='nodename', data mover node name='movername' Found rc=115, but nothing for rc=4379. Any assistance appreciated.
VMware V6 support
Does TSM/VE support VMware V6? Primarily for the data mover. Bill Boyer You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day. - ??
Re: Installing TSM 7.1.1
You're probably right. I checked and the server has IBM Install Manager 1.6.2 already on it. The other one doesn't have any IBM Install Manager and that's the one that lists everything. I'll schedule a time with the customer to at least run through the install of the 1.7.2 version in the V7.1.1 TSM exe. Must have gotten installed when I did the TSM/OC for the V6.3.4 release. That one's the hub server. No TSM/OC on the other server. Thanks! Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert Jose Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 4:27 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Installing TSM 7.1.1 Hi Bill I think you need to update the IBM Install Manager, and after it is installed and restarted, you will be able to see the other packages. Rob Jose TSM OC UI Developer / L3 Support ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 06/10/2015 06:28:25 AM: From: Bill Boyer bjdbo...@comcast.net To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 06/10/2015 06:29 AM Subject: [ADSM-L] Installing TSM 7.1.1 Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU I have 2 servers, Windows 2008R2 currently running V6.3.4 TSM Server. On one of them when I start the V7.1.1 install the IBM Installer lists all the TSM packages to select from. On the other server it will not list those packages. Only the IBM Installer package. It's the same V7.1.1 .exe package. There's plenty of disk space. Made sure to run as administrator. Any idea why it will not list the TSM packages? Is there any log file that I can check to see why? Bill Boyer There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems. -??
Re: Installing TSM 7.1.1
That was it. Apparently when I installed the TSM/OC way-back-when it put IBM Installer 1.6.2 in. I ran the install for the 1.7.2 that came in the V7.1.1 exe and after restarting the install it now shows as being able to INSTALL the V7.1.1 server and UPGRADE the TSM/OC packages. So, THANKS! Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert Jose Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 4:27 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Installing TSM 7.1.1 Hi Bill I think you need to update the IBM Install Manager, and after it is installed and restarted, you will be able to see the other packages. Rob Jose TSM OC UI Developer / L3 Support ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 06/10/2015 06:28:25 AM: From: Bill Boyer bjdbo...@comcast.net To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 06/10/2015 06:29 AM Subject: [ADSM-L] Installing TSM 7.1.1 Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU I have 2 servers, Windows 2008R2 currently running V6.3.4 TSM Server. On one of them when I start the V7.1.1 install the IBM Installer lists all the TSM packages to select from. On the other server it will not list those packages. Only the IBM Installer package. It's the same V7.1.1 .exe package. There's plenty of disk space. Made sure to run as administrator. Any idea why it will not list the TSM packages? Is there any log file that I can check to see why? Bill Boyer There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems. -??
Installing TSM 7.1.1
I have 2 servers, Windows 2008R2 currently running V6.3.4 TSM Server. On one of them when I start the V7.1.1 install the IBM Installer lists all the TSM packages to select from. On the other server it will not list those packages. Only the IBM Installer package. It's the same V7.1.1 .exe package. There's plenty of disk space. Made sure to run as administrator. Any idea why it will not list the TSM packages? Is there any log file that I can check to see why? Bill Boyer There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems. -??
Rebuild a lost volhist for a dbrestore
TSM V6.3 on Windows The volhist file copies were all lost but the .DBS files are still around. Is there a way to know the backup Series: and Volume Seq: so I can fudge up a simple volhist with a single BACKUPFULL entry. Or doesn't that matter on a restore? Or is that information compared to what's in the .DBS file? Really could use some help on this. Bill
EKM to SKLM Migration Path
I have a customer that is still using the original Java based EKM for server up the LTO keys. The servers running the EKM software are being retired due to OS level. Is there a migration path to get my EKM keystore in to SKLM? The customer's last Passport renewal has them licensed for SKLM. Any help or suggestions is very appreciated! Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Client node replication
Been RTFM'ing trying to find out whether the source and target TSM Servers for node replication have to be the same OS or can be different? Like I have a customer with AIX as production, but would like to set up a small D/R server and use node replication but would like that to be Winders to help save on cost. I've found all kinds of versions, but not OS compatibilities in the documentation. Anyone help out? TIA, Bill Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
ETA on V7.1.1 Server?
I know it can't be official, but any guestimates? I have a customer wants TSM but on Windows2012R2 for the server and are willing to wait. But not too long. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
TSM/AC and CommandLine
TSM AC 6.3.4.300 IE 9 Seems to work fine, but when I try the command line I get the windows, type in a command and . nothing. Don't see the command being issues to the TSM server and it never comes back. You can't even click the Stop button. Any ideas?Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Re: TSM BA installer rant
Double-click on the client installer .EXE and if the install says it needs to install the VC++ libraries or any other pre-req's, cancel out f the client install. Then go to the C:\tsm_images\TSM_BA_Client\ISSetupPrerequisites directory. There are directories for each of the pre-req's. Run them manually and if a reboot is required, you can say no and reboot at your leisure. Then come back and run the setup.exe and continue the TSM client install. As for client upgrades I've found that if you make sure to stop any of the TSM client services that running (JBB, CAD,Scheduler,...) before running the install I don't get asked for a reboot. Bill Boyer “If 'something' 'somewhere' gives 'some' error, expect random guesses or no replies at all.” - ?? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Hans Christian Riksheim Sent: Friday, July 04, 2014 7:55 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM BA installer rant As many has experienced the 7.1 BA client for Windows not only requires a reboot, it will in the middle of the install reboot right into your face without any warning or prompt. On top of this it will do so despite you telling it not to. The same goes for the TDP SQL client btw. Cause is some C++ Windows things that must be installed for the GUI to work. For the BA client there is a warning in the Info Center on this. For the TDP it is not so clear, that crucial information is hidden in a technote. IBM therefore thinks they are not to blame but in practise a lot of users fall in that trap and breach their SLAs all over the place. With a GUI one has certain expectations on how it should behave and if no unprompted reboot happened in earlier versions why should it happen now? My opinion on this: 1. IBM should set as a design principle that no customer server should ever need a reboot when installing, upgrading or removing TSM software. 2. There should be no exceptions, but if there are at least make the installer prompt a warning so that the user can delay the reboot until service hours. 3. Software versions that will reboot a server without warning should be immediately removed from PA and other repositories until they are fixed. Regards, Hans Chr. Riksheim
Re: Upgrade from 5.5 to 7.1 Extractdb/insertdb seems to pause?
What I think the problem is that the server was ordered with 7200RPM NLSAS volumes. The customer went back and bought 15K SAS drives. I'm re-doing the whole thing starting tomorrow. When the extract/insert phase was paused we could watch the disk usage on the 7.1 system going crazy. It just wasn't performing well. Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael Roesch Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 6:51 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Upgrade from 5.5 to 7.1 Extractdb/insertdb seems to pause? Hi Bill, are all DB volumes online or do you have some of them varied offline? We had this on our site, where not all DB volume copies were online when we started the upgrade. On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Bill Boyer bjdbo...@comcast.net wrote: The extractdb and insertdb phase of the upgrade seems to be paused. It's been 40 min and the # bytes read and # records inserted/extracted haven't changed. The disk is being hit hard by the db2syscs process to the database volumes. I've never seen the extract phase do this before. This is my first time for a production upgrade. The source is 30GB at 50% used. During the 3:20 the extract has been running this pause has occurred twice. First time for about 50-min and now fo the past 40-min. Is this normal now for V7.1 upgrades from V5? It's almost like it's doing the update phase during the extract/insert phase. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Re: Question about NDMP and TSM.
Try this link: https://www.ndm.net/isilon/pdf/ndmp-configuration-guide-for-ibm-tivoli-storage-manager.pdf -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Grant Street Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 4:25 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Question about NDMP and TSM. Hi First check compatibility with IBM and EMC. Ron has mentioned a solution that applies to NetApp that may not apply to EMC isilon eg. isilon does not have a vfiler concept. I found that the restrictions of NDMP did not warrant the effort to use it on something like an isilon cluster. The benefit of isilon is the size you can grow them to and the bandwidth you have to storage with multiple nodes. Using NDMP negates all of this and reduces the functionality. - you are limited to the bandwidth a single host(TSM server) and single isilon node can service. - There is no incremental only differential. There is no snapdiff type functionality that NetApps have - you can't use NDMP to back up part of it. - The time it would take to do a full backup. - The time it would take to do a restore. One other niggle is that you need a windows machine to do a graphical restore (Web/Java UI). That said if your data is small then these probably don't matter so much. Grant On 16/07/14 13:51, Gee, Norman wrote: I found out that this is true a long time ago, but it does not stop you from manually doing a move data to empty out a tape volume. It is just a very manual form of reclaim. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Harris Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 6:48 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Question about NDMP and TSM. And as a bonus, ndmp storage pools cannot be reclaimed and this means that they hold tapes until the last data has expired. TSM format storage pools can be reclaimed, and if they are file storage pools can be deduped as well. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 16 July 2014 05:38, Ron Delaware ron.delaw...@us.ibm.com wrote: Ricky, The configuration that you are referring to is what could be considered the 'Traditional' implementation of NDMP. As you have found for yourself, there are a number of restrictions on how the data can be managed though. If you configure the NDMP environment so that a Tivoli Storage Manager controls the data flow instead of the NetApp Appliance, you have more options This configuration will allow you backup up to TSM storage pools (Disk, VTL, Tape), send copies offsite, because the TSM Server controls the destination. You have the option to use a traditional TSM Client utilizing the NDMP protocol or have the TSM server perform the backup and restores using the BACKUP NODE and RESTORE NODE commands. It a table of contents storage pool (disk based only highly recommended) you can perform single file restores. you can also create virtual filespace pointers to your vfiler that will allow you to run simultaneous backups of the vfiler, that could shorten your backup and restore times. Best Regards, _ * Ronald C. Delaware* IBM Level 2 - IT Plus Certified Specialist – Expert IBM Corporation | Tivoli Software IBM Certified Solutions Advisor - Tivoli Storage IBM Certified Deployment Professional Butterfly Solutions Professional 916-458-5726 (Office 925-457-9221 (cell phone) email: *ron.delaw...@us.ibm.com* ron.delaw...@us.ibm.com *Storage Services Offerings* http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/services/consulting/offers-sto rage-optimization.html From:Schneider, Jim jschnei...@ussco.com To:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Date:07/15/2014 12:19 PM Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] Question about NDMP and TSM. Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu -- Ricky, The Isilon uses the OneFS file system and TSM views it as one huge file system. If backing up to disk, TSM will attempt to preallocate enough space to back up the entire allocated space on the Isilon. Defining Virtual File systems will not help because directory quota information is not passed to TSM, and TSM only sees the total allocated space. We were able to back up the Isilon to disk when we started on a test system with little data on it, around 25 GB. When we attempted to implement the same backups on a second, well-populated Isilon we ran into the space allocation problem. When backing up to tape, TSM assumes you have unlimited storage available and is able to run VFS backups. We use Virtual File Space Mapping (VFS) and back up to tape. Refer to EMC SR#4646, TSM PMR 23808,122,000. Jim Schneider United Stationers -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On
Upgrade from 5.5 to 7.1 Extractdb/insertdb seems to pause?
The extractdb and insertdb phase of the upgrade seems to be paused. It's been 40 min and the # bytes read and # records inserted/extracted haven't changed. The disk is being hit hard by the db2syscs process to the database volumes. I've never seen the extract phase do this before. This is my first time for a production upgrade. The source is 30GB at 50% used. During the 3:20 the extract has been running this pause has occurred twice. First time for about 50-min and now fo the past 40-min. Is this normal now for V7.1 upgrades from V5? It's almost like it's doing the update phase during the extract/insert phase. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
SQL Server stalled/stuck I/O during backups
Using the legacy backup method because the customer has a requirement to restore to other SQL servers. Refreshing test/dev from production backups. Has anyone seen errors in SQL about stalled and stuck I/O? SQL2005, Windows 2003. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
TSM V5 to V7.1 upgrade - any gotchas?
Planning on a migration of TSM V5 - V7.1 on Windows for a client. Been seeing talk of people happy being on V7.1 and other posts about migration issues. There any gotchas I should watch out for? I'm going to do some testing in my VMware env., but I won't have a copy of the customers DB to really practice with. Or any other opinions on whether I should just go with V6.3.4 and wait for the first maintenance fix on V7.1. Bill Boyer Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Re: V5-V6 conversion failed on INSERTDB with File system full
The first go around failed after about 5-hours with DB2 space shortage. The V5 has a 260GB DB so I created 4x100GB TSM db file systems. When I got the failure messages about file system full 2 of them were 100% and the other 2 were at 87%. So we create a 5th and had 500GB of database space. Then it ran for 12.5 hours and failed with some record conversion error. Opened a PMR and we got hit with APAR IC97407. Any volumes that are EMPTY or have a %Utilized of 0 need to be deleted in the V5 server before you start. Or upgrade to 6.3.4.300. Customer's not comfortable running it on a patch level, so right now we're preparing for the 3rd attempt and making sure any EMPTY volumes are deleted and any volumes with PCT_UTILIZED=0 and no content are removed. This includes all the DISK volumes for the storage pools. Interesting you can have a volume with PCT_UTILIZED=0 and it still have content (Q CONTENT returns files). Apparently the rounding routing to compute the used % doesn't round beyond the 0.0. Migrating off the DIRMC storage pool had that volume showng %Utilized=0, but there are 100,000's of file in it. As long as it has content, the volume is OK. I'm really surprised at how fast this migration/conversion went last time. Only 2:10 hrs for the extractdb phase. And they have 260GB at 90%. As far as the AIX to Linux, seems to be just fine. Ask me tomorrow how this 3rd attempt goes. Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 3:42 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] V5-V6 conversion failed on INSERTDB with File system full Well, at base level 6.3.0 it was verboten, so that's probably what the tech is referring to: Restriction: You cannot upgrade your server to run on an operating system that is different from the operating system it currently runs on. For example, you cannot upgrade a server running on an AIX system to a server running on a Linux system. But in 6.3.4 the upgrade guide lists Chap 12 as a specific case where you can go from 5.5 on AIX to 6.3.4 on Linux. I haven't dug into it to see how the Chap 12 procedure is different from the standard ones. Let us know how it comes out - inquiring minds want to know! Part 2. Migrating Tivoli Storage Manager V5 servers on AIX, HP-UX, or Solaris systems to V6.3.4 on Linux A Tivoli Storage Manager V5 server that runs on an AIX, HP-UX, or Solaris operating system can be migrated to V6.3.4 or later on a Linux x86_64 operating system. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Boyer Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 5:59 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] V5-V6 conversion failed on INSERTDB with File system full Added another 1TB file system to the database on the V6 server. Still failed, but for a different reason. Turns out I should have been at 6.3.4.300. The 6.3.4.0 insertdb code has a problem with volumes that are EMPTY, volumes with 0% utilization and Q CONTENT shows nothing. APAR IC97407: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC97407 I couldn't believe I needed 500GB for the conversion. Now that it's done, my (5) db filespaces are showing 3 at 36% and 2 at 74%. Why they aren't more even distributed...? Now the customer needs to decide if they want to upgrade to 6.3.4.300 and do the upgrade again, or attempt the 'local fix' of making sure to delete all empty and 0% used volumes. DISK, FILE or tape. And if I miss one...another 12-hours down the drain. Interesting... after I opened the PMR on the 2nd failure, the tech who called back said he was pretty sure I couldn't do this from AIX to Linux. Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Langdale Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 2:43 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] V5-V6 conversion failed on INSERTDB with File system full Bill, what was the outcome? On 1 April 2014 23:22, Bill Boyer bjdbo...@comcast.net wrote: V5.5.7.0 on AIX converting over the network to V6.3.4.0 on Linux RedHat. The V5 DB is 260GB at 90%. The TSM DB is defined on 4x100GB file systems /tsmdb01 - /tsmdb04. Active log is 32GB and archive log file system is 200GB. The extractdb phase seems to complete successfully: ANR0409I Session 1 ended for server $UPGRADETARGET$ (Linux/x86_64). ANR1382I EXTRACTDB: Process 1, database extract, has completed. ANR1383I EXTRACTDB: Found 119 database objects. ANR1384I EXTRACTDB: Processed 75 database objects. ANR1385I EXTRACTDB: Skipped 44 empty database objects. ANR1386I EXTRACTDB: Failed to process 0 database objects. ANR1387I EXTRACTDB: Processed 1,178,563,762 database records. ANR1388I EXTRACTDB: Read 47,215,261 database pages. ANR1389I EXTRACTDB: Wrote 128,524,753,412 bytes. ANR1390I EXTRACTDB: Elapsed time was 2:16:21. ANR1391I EXTRACTDB: Throughput was 53936.19 megabytes
Assigning management class to VM backups
I have a bunch of VM's that need to be handled differently than most of the others being backed up. I created a mgmt. class for it and in the script file used to run the dsmc backup vm -optfile=, I specified the -VMMC=. But they did not get assigned to that class. I have different opt files for the VM backups specifying the DOMAIN.VMFULL= of the ones I want to process. I tried putting the VMMC in the opt file and still the don't get assigned correctly. Is there an INCLUDE or something I also need to specific? I have a lot of VM's that only need a once a week full backup, so I have them spread out across each day. Each day has its own opt file with the DOMAIN.VMFULL speicying the VM's for that day. I then have a .CMD file to run the DSMC BACKUP VM command with -OPTFILE= for that day of week. I just can't seem to get the VM's to be assigned to other than the default management class. I don't want to have to create a whole new policy domain and set of nodes for this. Any help is appreciated as always. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Re: V5-V6 conversion failed on INSERTDB with File system full
Added another 1TB file system to the database on the V6 server. Still failed, but for a different reason. Turns out I should have been at 6.3.4.300. The 6.3.4.0 insertdb code has a problem with volumes that are EMPTY, volumes with 0% utilization and Q CONTENT shows nothing. APAR IC97407: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC97407 I couldn't believe I needed 500GB for the conversion. Now that it's done, my (5) db filespaces are showing 3 at 36% and 2 at 74%. Why they aren't more even distributed...? Now the customer needs to decide if they want to upgrade to 6.3.4.300 and do the upgrade again, or attempt the 'local fix' of making sure to delete all empty and 0% used volumes. DISK, FILE or tape. And if I miss one...another 12-hours down the drain. Interesting... after I opened the PMR on the 2nd failure, the tech who called back said he was pretty sure I couldn't do this from AIX to Linux. Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Langdale Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 2:43 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] V5-V6 conversion failed on INSERTDB with File system full Bill, what was the outcome? On 1 April 2014 23:22, Bill Boyer bjdbo...@comcast.net wrote: V5.5.7.0 on AIX converting over the network to V6.3.4.0 on Linux RedHat. The V5 DB is 260GB at 90%. The TSM DB is defined on 4x100GB file systems /tsmdb01 - /tsmdb04. Active log is 32GB and archive log file system is 200GB. The extractdb phase seems to complete successfully: ANR0409I Session 1 ended for server $UPGRADETARGET$ (Linux/x86_64). ANR1382I EXTRACTDB: Process 1, database extract, has completed. ANR1383I EXTRACTDB: Found 119 database objects. ANR1384I EXTRACTDB: Processed 75 database objects. ANR1385I EXTRACTDB: Skipped 44 empty database objects. ANR1386I EXTRACTDB: Failed to process 0 database objects. ANR1387I EXTRACTDB: Processed 1,178,563,762 database records. ANR1388I EXTRACTDB: Read 47,215,261 database pages. ANR1389I EXTRACTDB: Wrote 128,524,753,412 bytes. ANR1390I EXTRACTDB: Elapsed time was 2:16:21. ANR1391I EXTRACTDB: Throughput was 53936.19 megabytes per hour. After the ExtractDB phase completes in the InsertDB log: ANR1379I INSERTDB: Read 123,388,191,411 bytes and inserted 1,126,658,997 database entries in 2:10:00 (54310.15 megabytes per hour). ANR1526I INSERTDB: Building indices and checking table integrity. ANR0409I Session 2 ended for server $UPGRADESOURCE$ (AIX-RS/6000). ANR1527I INSERTDB: Checked 69 of 75 database objects in 0:04:03. The file system is full. ANR0171I tbcli.c(10847): Error detected on 27:2, database in evaluation mode. ANR0131E tbcli.c(10847): Server DB space exhausted. ANR0162W Supplemental database diagnostic information: -1: :-968 ([IBM][CLI Driver][DB2/LINUXX8664] SQL0968C The file system is full. ). And a bunch more Transaction hash table.. Lock hash table contents (slots=3002): Note: Enabling trace class TMTIMER will provide additional timing info on the following locks *** no locks found *** ANR1527I INSERTDB: Checked 70 of 75 database objects in 0:14:03. ANR1527I INSERTDB: Checked 70 of 75 database objects in 0:24:03. ANR1527I INSERTDB: Checked 70 of 75 database objects in 0:34:03. ANR1527I INSERTDB: Checked 70 of 75 database objects in 0:44:03. ANR1527I INSERTDB: Checked 70 of 75 database objects in 1:04:03. ANR1527I INSERTDB: Checked 70 of 75 database objects in 1:24:03. And then nothing. It just quits. But it appears to have run several hours after the extract/insert phase had completed. The Linux file systems shows /tsmdb01 at 48%, /tsmdb02 at 100%, /tsmdb03 at 100% and /tsmdb04 at 43%. 2 of the 4 file systems were at 100%, but I should have still had 100GB of database space left. I have since added another /tsmdb05 at 100GB and restarted the process. The other file systems: /home had 4.7GB of free space. /tmp 6.4GB, /var 4.4GB. Any ideas? I've got about 2-3 more hours to see if adding the 100GB of database space will resolve the problem. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
V5-V6 conversion failed on INSERTDB with File system full
V5.5.7.0 on AIX converting over the network to V6.3.4.0 on Linux RedHat. The V5 DB is 260GB at 90%. The TSM DB is defined on 4x100GB file systems /tsmdb01 - /tsmdb04. Active log is 32GB and archive log file system is 200GB. The extractdb phase seems to complete successfully: ANR0409I Session 1 ended for server $UPGRADETARGET$ (Linux/x86_64). ANR1382I EXTRACTDB: Process 1, database extract, has completed. ANR1383I EXTRACTDB: Found 119 database objects. ANR1384I EXTRACTDB: Processed 75 database objects. ANR1385I EXTRACTDB: Skipped 44 empty database objects. ANR1386I EXTRACTDB: Failed to process 0 database objects. ANR1387I EXTRACTDB: Processed 1,178,563,762 database records. ANR1388I EXTRACTDB: Read 47,215,261 database pages. ANR1389I EXTRACTDB: Wrote 128,524,753,412 bytes. ANR1390I EXTRACTDB: Elapsed time was 2:16:21. ANR1391I EXTRACTDB: Throughput was 53936.19 megabytes per hour. After the ExtractDB phase completes in the InsertDB log: ANR1379I INSERTDB: Read 123,388,191,411 bytes and inserted 1,126,658,997 database entries in 2:10:00 (54310.15 megabytes per hour). ANR1526I INSERTDB: Building indices and checking table integrity. ANR0409I Session 2 ended for server $UPGRADESOURCE$ (AIX-RS/6000). ANR1527I INSERTDB: Checked 69 of 75 database objects in 0:04:03. The file system is full. ANR0171I tbcli.c(10847): Error detected on 27:2, database in evaluation mode. ANR0131E tbcli.c(10847): Server DB space exhausted. ANR0162W Supplemental database diagnostic information: -1: :-968 ([IBM][CLI Driver][DB2/LINUXX8664] SQL0968C The file system is full. ). And a bunch more Transaction hash table.. Lock hash table contents (slots=3002): Note: Enabling trace class TMTIMER will provide additional timing info on the following locks *** no locks found *** ANR1527I INSERTDB: Checked 70 of 75 database objects in 0:14:03. ANR1527I INSERTDB: Checked 70 of 75 database objects in 0:24:03. ANR1527I INSERTDB: Checked 70 of 75 database objects in 0:34:03. ANR1527I INSERTDB: Checked 70 of 75 database objects in 0:44:03. ANR1527I INSERTDB: Checked 70 of 75 database objects in 1:04:03. ANR1527I INSERTDB: Checked 70 of 75 database objects in 1:24:03. And then nothing. It just quits. But it appears to have run several hours after the extract/insert phase had completed. The Linux file systems shows /tsmdb01 at 48%, /tsmdb02 at 100%, /tsmdb03 at 100% and /tsmdb04 at 43%. 2 of the 4 file systems were at 100%, but I should have still had 100GB of database space left. I have since added another /tsmdb05 at 100GB and restarted the process. The other file systems: /home had 4.7GB of free space. /tmp 6.4GB, /var 4.4GB. Any ideas? I've got about 2-3 more hours to see if adding the 100GB of database space will resolve the problem. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
V5 to V6 upgrade using media
Anyone done a migration using tape media in a library? I have a customer on AIX using ab IBM 3584 library with LTO5 drives. This library is fibre attached and also zoned to the new Linux V6 server. I would like to use the media method and not the network with this hardware. Is that possible? Anyone done it? Gotcha's? How does the extractdb know what is a scratch tape in the library inventory? Bill Boyer You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day. - ??
Export/Import compatibility between server versions
What is the compatibility for being able to EXPORT from one TSM server and IMPORT on another? I have a customer with (2) TSM servers on the other side of the world from each other. They plan on wanting to EXPORT from one and IMPORT and restore on the other. How far apart can the 2 TSM server be and still allowing to swap export tapes/data. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Export tape list
I have a customer that was given a stack of tapes that are apparently EXPORT volumes and that's as much as they know. I ran an IMPORT on one of the tapes and got all the information and then failed on an incomplete volume list since I only gave it 1 tape on the IMPORT command. How can I determine the order of the tapes for the import? Or doesn't it matter as long as I specify all of them on the IMPORT command? Or am I just plain SOL? Bill Boyer You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day. - ??
Re: Informal Poll: General question about use of policysets
Only come across a need once in 16-years of working with *SM. This customer wanted to do periodic full backups. So I had a policy set with set to the default MODE=MODIFIED and another set to MODE=ABSOLUTE. They would activate the full policy set when they wanted to do the complete refresh. And then re-active the incremental policy set. I explained all the downsides to this, but the manager said he had experience with TSM and wanted the full so that all the data for the servers would be somewhat collocated again on the tapes without having to do collocation. That was the only time or reason I saw for multiple policy sets in a domain. Bill Everyday is a Holiday. Every Formation a Parade. Every Meal a feast.. And. Every Village has their idiot.. - ? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 4:22 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Informal Poll: General question about use of policysets The TSM books show that you can have multiple policysets per domain. I don't mean just the active vs inactive, but you can have multiple policysets like NORMAL, OFFHOUR, WEEKEND, within one domain, and switch them back and forth. I've never done that, or had a reason to. Seems inordinately confusing to me. All my customers just have one policyset per domain, with the active and inactive copy. The inactive is the one you update, then you validate it and activate it. Can I get some feedback on what other people do? Do you have just one unique policyset per domain? Or what is your use case for having multiples? Thank you!!! Wanda **Please note new office phone: Wanda Prather | Senior Technical Specialist | wanda.prat...@icfi.com | www.icfi.comhttp://www.icfi.com | 410-868-4872 (m) ICF International | 7125 Thomas Edison Dr., Suite 100, Columbia, Md |443-718-4900 (o)
TSM/VE and SRM Replication
Has anyone using TSM/VE backups as well as VMware SRM for replication had any conflicts with snapshots between the 2 products? We've had several instances where VM's have issued an alert about Virtual Machine consolidation needed. And just last night we had one of our file server VM's have snapshots with invalid parents and the VM was totally unresponsive. These events seem to occur when the TSM/VE backup completes and the snapshot is deleted. We are at VMware 5.5. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Massive Restore
Windows 2012 server with TSM V6.4.1 client installed. TSM Server is V6.3.3 The server is for archived stuff. It is rather large. 10TB of data and probably close to millions of objects. They have it backed up from a while ago and recently some files/directories were deleted. So now they want to do a restore with REPLACE=NO to get those files back. A backup hasn't been done so the deleted files weren't expired. The one top level directory they want to run this against has more than 7.5 million objects. Is this going to be too much for the client to handle on a single restore request? The next level down in that directory has dozens of sub directories and to do the restores at that level would be a real pain. Any opinions? Any special options you think I should consider using? I know the initial file determination will take a long time. The admin doesn't really care how long it runs.. they just want to recovery as much as they can. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
TDPOracle version for oracle R12 on AIX
What version of the TDPO agent do I need to support Oracle 12 on AIX? Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Windows HSM Recall Dialog syntax
This is an old system and the customer wants all the archive data copied/moved to a new server. Figured the easiest way is to use the HSM GUI recall dialog. What is the syntax in the drive and path boxes to allow me to filter what I want? Tried multiple variations but it always returns nothing. There are so many files migrated that the V5.5 client (I know..old) terminates if I ask for everything. I would like to do it one directory at a time from the volume. Any help is appreciated. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
TSM/VE multiple restores on the data mover
Windows 2008 R2 and TSM client V6.4.0.10. TSM Server V6.3.4 I start up a restore of a VM, but if I try to start DSM.EXE or DSMC.EXE again using a different datamover nodename, it pauses and the first restore gets terminated. The error says I/O error on the hot-add'd disk. Any idea how to run multiple restores on the same data mover server? Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
How to stop reboot installing TSM client and the Microsoft Visual C 10 redistributables
I was doing upgrades to servers using the 6.3 and 6.4 clients ( mixture of Windows 2003 and 2008). I did maybe 3-dozen and I had 2 of them to a reboot during the Microsoft redistributable package. Didn't even ask me! How rude! J On one of the servers I managed to stop the reboot because there was a notepad asking to save the file. The other just kinda went away and the customer was not happy. Is there a way to do the install and NOT have it automagically reboot during that Microsoft install? Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
LTO-5, TS3310 and dual-port
Anyone have a link to how to configure the dual fibre ports on an LTO5 drive in a TS3310 tape library? Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
When will there be support for Exchange 2013?
Anyone know? Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
TSM/VE and Changed Block Tracking
Does TSM/VE 6.4 provide the ability to re-configure the VM to enable CBT? Otherwise each VM will need to be modified manually since CBT is not enabled by default when you create a VM. I was searching around in the VMware communities and came across a document showing how to do that with the vSphere API Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Re: TDP Exchange 2010 scheduled backups fail rc=1819
Just on a whim today I had one of the other admins logon to the server and remove the TSM services, re-add them and change the logon-as for the TSM Scheduler service. And now it's working. The first time I logged on as the user that the backup was going to logon as and added the services. Don't know what the Windows difference was in adding the services by another user from the one configured for backups. But now it's working. That was the only thing I could think of that was different from my other TDP Exchange setups on our servers. I did the TSM install/configuration as my userid (domain admin) and configured the service with the special userid with the appropriate Exchange rights. Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 7:17 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP Exchange 2010 scheduled backups fail rc=1819 Hi Bill, If you aren't making any progress, you should open a PMR. If the support team gets a trace, they can tell you what is failing. If you know how and you want to do a little experimenting yourself, you can turn on tracing for the DP/Exchange client and the DSMAGENT. Thanks, Del ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 01/15/2013 04:12:26 PM: From: Bill Boyer bjdbo...@comcast.net To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu, Date: 01/15/2013 06:53 PM Subject: Re: TDP Exchange 2010 scheduled backups fail rc=1819 Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu The TSM Scheduler service is running under the domain userid in the organization Management group. If I logon as that userid I can run the backups. But running them as a scheduled task fails. That's what's strangesame userid... works logged on...fails as service.
TDP Exchange 2010 scheduled backups fail rc=1819
Windows 2008 R2 server running Exchange 2010. Installed the agent and my Exchange admin gave me a userid with the permissions. Running the backup while logged in as the user works fine, but when I run it as a scheduled backup I get RC=1819. The TSM Scheduler service is configured to run as the same domain userid I used to successfully backup while logged on. Never seen this one before. Scheduler fails with the same userid that works if I logon locally. My Windows guy is stumped, too. Any ideas? Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Re: ANR8386W Slot 16 of library TSMLIBR is inaccessible.
I've seen this in libraries that are able to be partitioned... like a TS3310 library. By default you always get the system partition and when you add tapes to the I/O door the library will scan the slots and then put up a prompt on the front panel asking which logical library you want the tapes to be assigned to. If you don't reply, they hang around in limbo and you get this error trying to checkin. You can turn off the insert notification prompt if you only have 1 logical library. Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 5:11 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] ANR8386W Slot 16 of library TSMLIBR is inaccessible. If this is indeed a hardware error , is there a way to bypass a particular slot in the library Thanks, Tim Brown Supervisor Computer Operations Central Hudson Gas Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: tbr...@cenhud.commailto:tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com Phone: 845-486-5643 Fax: 845-486-5921 Cell: 845-235-4255 This message contains confidential information and is only for the intended recipient. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this note and deleting all copies and attachments.
Re: TDP Exchange 2010 scheduled backups fail rc=1819
The TSM Scheduler service is running under the domain userid in the organization Management group. If I logon as that userid I can run the backups. But running them as a scheduled task fails. That's what's strangesame userid... works logged on...fails as service. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick Adamson Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:40 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP Exchange 2010 scheduled backups fail rc=1819 Also, remember that the account used for the scheduler has to be a member of the Exchange Security Group Organization Management, which in our case is a security group in our root domain. ~Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Clark, Margaret Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:03 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP Exchange 2010 scheduled backups fail rc=1819 We saw RC=1819 when the scheduler was started using the local system account, and the local system account did not have access to the Exchange system. - Margaret -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Boyer Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 5:10 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TDP Exchange 2010 scheduled backups fail rc=1819 Windows 2008 R2 server running Exchange 2010. Installed the agent and my Exchange admin gave me a userid with the permissions. Running the backup while logged in as the user works fine, but when I run it as a scheduled backup I get RC=1819. The TSM Scheduler service is configured to run as the same domain userid I used to successfully backup while logged on. Never seen this one before. Scheduler fails with the same userid that works if I logon locally. My Windows guy is stumped, too. Any ideas? Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Moving a TSM V6 database
With V5 I was able to move TSM from one computer to another if the database/log files were on attached storage (SAN) as long as I mounted them to the same path that is in the DSMSERV.DSK file. Now with TSM V6 and DB2, if all by db/log/archlog/. files are on attachned SAN LUN's, is it possible to install TSM on a new server, recreate the instance pointing to the same db/log/archlog paths and then re-attach the LUN's? Will the instance come up? Trying to do this without having to allocate additional space (short supply!) and doing a restore. What happened here is that somehow most of the / root directory on the Linux TSM server got deleted, as well as the home/tsminst1 directory. The DB/LOG/ARCHLOG are all on attached Netapp LUN's and weren't affected. I was hoping that I could just reinstall TSM, recreate the instance pointing to the same locations and then map the storage.. Would the instance (and DB2) come up? This way they customer wouldn't have to restore from the last DBBackup and potentially lose data. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Re: Who is performing Client Based Encryption and Compression
You could start by getting a list of nodes that are set to either COMPRESSION=CLIENT or YES and those with DEDUPLICATION=CLIENTORSERVER. The default is SERVERONLY. Those would be good candidates to start with. You can't do client-side dedup without setting the node attribute. Bill When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is NOT your friend! - USMC -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ehresman,David E. Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 9:53 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Who is performing Client Based Encryption and Compression I think q actlog begindate=today-ndays msgno=4968 is more efficient. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 5:18 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Who is performing Client Based Encryption and Compression For compression: q actlog begindate=today-ndays search=ane4968 Non-zero values mean the client is compressing. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Harris, Chad Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 5:04 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Who is performing Client Based Encryption and Compression Fellow TSM Admins, We are in the process of bringing VTLs into our TSM Environment. In order to take full advantage of deduplication features on the VTL we need to go after the clients that are performing client based encryption and compression. With that in mind, does anyone know an easy way to tell which clients are using these features? Thanks, Chad Harris
Restore VM problems at D/R
I'm able to restore some, but most of them. especially from the same datacenter fail with a very specific error message: A specified parameter was not correct Windows 2008 R2 server with the TSM 6.3 client loaded trying to restore VM's at a hot site. I just batch tried 39 different VM's and they all failed with this error. VMware vStorage API error. TSM Function visdkWaitForTask TSM File vmvisdk.cpp (3785) API return code 60 API error message A specified parameter was not correct And vCenter doesn't tell me any more than that, either!! Anyone seen this error or figured out a way to guess what vCenter doesn't like Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Re: Restore VM problems at D/R
Nope. It was backed up with 6.3 and attempting to restore with 6.3. even went so far as try the latest 6.3.0.16 patch. Plus the error isn't that specific. The error returned by the VADP api is A specified parameter is not correct. It would be nice if it actually said WHAT parameter was incorrect. Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Amos TSM Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 1:54 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Restore VM problems at D/R It look like that: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC79885 Amos -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Boyer Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:31 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Restore VM problems at D/R I'm able to restore some, but most of them. especially from the same datacenter fail with a very specific error message: A specified parameter was not correct Windows 2008 R2 server with the TSM 6.3 client loaded trying to restore VM's at a hot site. I just batch tried 39 different VM's and they all failed with this error. VMware vStorage API error. TSM Function visdkWaitForTask TSM File vmvisdk.cpp (3785) API return code 60 API error message A specified parameter was not correct And vCenter doesn't tell me any more than that, either!! Anyone seen this error or figured out a way to guess what vCenter doesn't like Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Re: SV: New message ANR1626I
It must be something special for the CONSOLE receiver. Ran your command: tsm: DSS_WIN_PROD01Disable event Console ANR1626 ANR1844I DISABLE EVENTS command processed. And even the response from that in the -CONSOLE session was ANR1626I. ANR1626I The previous message (message number 407) was repeated 1 times. ANR1626I The previous message (message number 2017) was repeated 1 times. ANR1626I The previous message (message number 2017) was repeated 1 times. ANR1626I The previous message (message number 1844) was repeated 1 times. ANR1626I The previous message (message number 2017) was repeated 1 times. ANR1626I The previous message (message number 2017) was repeated 1 times. ANR1626I The previous message (message number 407) was repeated 1 times. ANR1626I The previous message (message number 2017) was repeated 1 times. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Christian Svensson Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 6:11 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] SV: New message ANR1626I Hi Bill, You can run Disable Event to disable that message. Type help Disable event for more info. But to just disable that event from the Console you can then run Disable event Console ANR1626 Best Regards Christian Svensson Cell: +46-70-325 1577 E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se Experts on Backup and Recovery www.cristie.se -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Bill Boyer [mailto:bjdbo...@comcast.net] Skickat: den 2 augusti 2012 21:19 Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Ämne: New message ANR1626I Just upgraded my TSM server instance from V6.2.3.0 to V6.3.1.0 and now when I run the DSMADMC -CONSOLE mode all I get are ANR1626I messages...not any real messages! Everything that comes across are just more of the same ANR1626I The previous message (message number 2017) was repeated 1 times. ANR1626I The previous message (message number 944) was repeated 1 times. ANR1626I The previous message (message number 2017) was repeated 1 times. Is there a way to shut this feature off or give it another threshold? I'm not finding anything in the documentation. Mostly just the description of the message ID. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Re: New message ANR1626I
The thing is since upgrading my TSM server to 6.3.1.0 the -CONSOLE is ONLY showing me the ANR1626I messages. Nothing else. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Alex Paschal Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 12:21 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] New message ANR1626I Hi, Bill. I used to keep a file of message regular expressions I didn't want to see. Then I would: dsmadmc -console -id=me -pa=secret | grep -uivf file You could even alias it you don't have to type it all the time. alias startconsole='/usr/bin/dsmadmc -console -id=me -pa=secret | grep -uivf file' file would be something like: anr0422w issued command: query ane4005e You could add: ANR1226I.*was repeated [1-5] times or simply ANR[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]I to cut out all ANRI messages. The end result is the console messages with various messages grepped out - things like client session start/end, successful mounted, successful dismounted, whatever I didn't want to see in realtime. This same trick might help you out. Note: The issued command: query was a cute one. It allowed me to see what the other admins were doing when they did defines/updates, but protected me from seeing all their queries. I found it very handy. On 8/2/2012 12:19 PM, Bill Boyer wrote: Just upgraded my TSM server instance from V6.2.3.0 to V6.3.1.0 and now when I run the DSMADMC -CONSOLE mode all I get are ANR1626I messages...not any real messages! Everything that comes across are just more of the same ANR1626I The previous message (message number 2017) was repeated 1 times. ANR1626I The previous message (message number 944) was repeated 1 times. ANR1626I The previous message (message number 2017) was repeated 1 times. Is there a way to shut this feature off or give it another threshold? I'm not finding anything in the documentation. Mostly just the description of the message ID. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
New message ANR1626I
Just upgraded my TSM server instance from V6.2.3.0 to V6.3.1.0 and now when I run the DSMADMC -CONSOLE mode all I get are ANR1626I messages...not any real messages! Everything that comes across are just more of the same ANR1626I The previous message (message number 2017) was repeated 1 times. ANR1626I The previous message (message number 944) was repeated 1 times. ANR1626I The previous message (message number 2017) was repeated 1 times. Is there a way to shut this feature off or give it another threshold? I'm not finding anything in the documentation. Mostly just the description of the message ID. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
SQL Server 2012 support
Is there a version of the TDP SQL Server that supports MS SQL Server 2012? I have some users putting up a Sharepoint 2010 Farm using SQL 2012 for the database. And while I'm on the subject, does the latest TDP Sharepoint/DocAve support SQL 2012 in the Farm? It's a SharePoint 2010 Farm. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
TSM monitor/reporting and moving the database
Environment is Windows 2008R2 and TSM Monitoring and Reporting V6.3.1 installed. Default is the WAREHOUS database is on the install C: drive and according to the doc this db can grow to 400+ GB per monitored server for a year. I would like to move the database to its own drive so I don't require the large boot drive. I found technote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21418908 which gives steps to move/migrate the database. The first step mentions 3 files that are installed and if not, you can't do the move/migration. Those files are: KHDENV_MIG khdmig.jar migratewarehouse.bat And are in the C:\IBM\itm\TMAITM6 directory.or should be. My installation doesn't have these files. Without them you can't do the migrate. Any idea how I can get these installed? Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Re: TDP schedule with CAD
The TDP's are all run as an ACTION=COMMAND schedule to run the agent program. Like SQLFULL.CMD or EXCFULL.CMD that come as the .SMP files you customize. I normally use the same CAD for all scheduling for a node. That way I don't need to worry about the incremental backup running at the same time the TDP is trying to run Also makes the client configuration simpler. Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Sami Ahomaa Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 10:21 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP schedule with CAD Hi, Rather use different CAD or *dsmc shced -options' for TDP. Sami When command line fails, try Google. 2012/6/16 Mehdi Salehi ezzo...@gmail.com: Hi, I have configured TSM client scheduler with CAD and server can successfully prompt the client to backup files and directories. Can the existing CAD be used to control the TDP SQL schedule as well? Regards, Mehdi
Re: Backup data access issue w/recovered DR server
By default, the target of the DDR replication is read-only. You can either mark all you volumes in TSM read-only or you could create a snapshot of the target and use that for TSM. You can always break the replication in a true D/R. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Schneider, Jim Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 3:18 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backup data access issue w/recovered DR server Rick, I have had the same problem reading from replicated Data domain file devices on my DR server. Update the file volumes to read-only. I run a macro to do this, takes 10-25 minutes. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Adamson Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 2:02 PM To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Subject: [ADSM-L] Backup data access issue w/recovered DR server Before logging a call I thought I would see if anyone else has seen this issue? System details: TSM Server 5.5..5.2, two replicating Data Domain DD880's. Backup data and TSM DB's are replicated from production data center to DR site. Cold stand-by TSM servers are recovered using replicated DB backups. Issue: During disaster recovery restore testing client files fail to restore due to a mount failed/access denied issue on the virtual volume (file device). ANRD Thread44 issued message from: ANR8501E System return code 6 received opening volume \\192.168.135.4\BACKUP\TSM\F4\000186DD.BFS with file name \\192.168.135.4\BACKUP\TSM\F4\000186dd.bfs ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume \\192.168.135.4\BACKUP\TSM\F4\000186DD.BFS - mount failed. ANRD_1663301079 (pspvrfio.c:285) Thread44: Open error on file \\192.168.135.4\BACKUP\TSM\F4\000186dd.bfs with LastError(5): Access is denied. I have noticed that it only appears to be an issue with accessing volumes that are in a state of filling. The restore mounts other full and DB volumes with no problems. The TSM servers in production and DR use a local admin account (windows) to run the TSM Server service, and the account is duplicated on the DD880's with admin rights. Thanks ~Rick Jacksonville,FL. ** Information contained in this e-mail message and in any attachments thereto is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this message, delete any copies held on your systems, notify the sender immediately, and refrain from using or disclosing all or any part of its content to any other person.
Re: Schedule Question
I just have an admin schedule that runs after the last hourly log job and before the dif/full backup job that updates the log backup schedule to a STARTDATE/STARTTIME= to however many hours the diff/full backup runs. Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert Ouzen Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 1:29 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Schedule Question Hi to all, Im trying to create a schedule in TSM that will run in a specific window, e.g: Im running backup of SSQL Log every hour, but when the Differential/Full Backup is running, the Log files are Missed, My question is can I run schedule from 08:00 untill 21:00 ? Far as I tested, I cant unless I will create 13 schedules, because the duration cant be more than the period, If I could define a schedule the will run from 08:00 period 13 hours every hour it will be great. Amos
TSM and ExaGrid
Anyone out there using TSM with ExaGrid disk backup appliances? I have a customer looking at them. Looking for any user experiences, if you're willing to share them. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Re: More tsm encryption questions
Depends on your goal for encryption. If you need it for encrypting during transport ( or maybe use SSL ), encrypted data at rest on your storage, data is encrypted on the tapes going offsite,... Yeah the key is in the TSM DB, but your need to restore/rebuild TSM to be able to get it. Just dumping out the tape isn't going to get you any eye-readable material. Don't know if the auditors or lawyers would accept it, but it's better than nothing. I've referred to it in the past as the cheap managers' encryption scheme. If you really need to lock it down, then hardware encryption is the way to go with an external key manager, but that co$t$, is vender specific as you need TKLM if you use IBM hardware and you can't mix it if you go to a recovery site. So it depends on what you're trying to accomplish and the budget you have. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Langdale Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 5:10 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] More tsm encryption questions Well, there you go. you're spot on there Bill! I'm struggling to see what use generate is, What't the point of encrypting the data when the key is handed out whenever a restore is performed? That must be why I've only ever used encryptkey save in the past. On 22 March 2012 19:57, Bill Boyer bjdbo...@comcast.net wrote: With the ENCRYPTKEY GENERATE specified the client creates the key at the beginning of the backup and that key is kept with the data stream stored on the TSM server. When you restore this the key in the data stream is used. I believe they also refer to this as transparent encryption. The include.encrypt will only effect future backups, not any backups already encrypted and stored on the TSM server. Bill Boyer There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. - ?? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Langdale Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 2:21 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] More tsm encryption questions They restored because the client had an encryption key, delete that, or possibly the encryptiontype line and you will be prompted for it. As for testing to see if they ARE encrypted, i think the client may say with a q backup (but not sure). The test I used was to try a restore after I had removed the key file. One aside, if you are using tape technology that compresses, the compression will do down the drain. Steven On 22 March 2012 18:01, Lee, Gary g...@bsu.edu wrote: Ok. Think I have encryption working. Tried the following experiment. 1. Added these lines to dsm.opt encryptiontype aes128 encryptkey generate include.encrypt c:\Documents and Settings\glee.BSU\My Documents\crypt\...\* 2. did an incremental backup to pick up the crypt folder just created and filled. 3. deleted all files starting with phon 4. restored files starting with phon back to crypt folder, . Went well. 5. commented all encryption related lines out of dsm.opt. 6. removed phone* from crypt folder again. 7. restored phone* back to crypt folder. I thought that with encryption lines removed from dsm.opt, either the encrypted files wouldn't restore, or would be restored as garbage. Not so. Restored perfectly. What have I missed? Also, is there a way to verify that the specified files are truly encrypted? Thanks again for the assistance. Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University phone: 765-285-1310
Re: More tsm encryption questions
With the ENCRYPTKEY GENERATE specified the client creates the key at the beginning of the backup and that key is kept with the data stream stored on the TSM server. When you restore this the key in the data stream is used. I believe they also refer to this as transparent encryption. The include.encrypt will only effect future backups, not any backups already encrypted and stored on the TSM server. Bill Boyer There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that don't. - ?? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Langdale Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 2:21 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] More tsm encryption questions They restored because the client had an encryption key, delete that, or possibly the encryptiontype line and you will be prompted for it. As for testing to see if they ARE encrypted, i think the client may say with a q backup (but not sure). The test I used was to try a restore after I had removed the key file. One aside, if you are using tape technology that compresses, the compression will do down the drain. Steven On 22 March 2012 18:01, Lee, Gary g...@bsu.edu wrote: Ok. Think I have encryption working. Tried the following experiment. 1. Added these lines to dsm.opt encryptiontype aes128 encryptkey generate include.encrypt c:\Documents and Settings\glee.BSU\My Documents\crypt\...\* 2. did an incremental backup to pick up the crypt folder just created and filled. 3. deleted all files starting with phon 4. restored files starting with phon back to crypt folder, . Went well. 5. commented all encryption related lines out of dsm.opt. 6. removed phone* from crypt folder again. 7. restored phone* back to crypt folder. I thought that with encryption lines removed from dsm.opt, either the encrypted files wouldn't restore, or would be restored as garbage. Not so. Restored perfectly. What have I missed? Also, is there a way to verify that the specified files are truly encrypted? Thanks again for the assistance. Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University phone: 765-285-1310
Exchange backups slow to start sending data
Exchange 2007. The server crashed a couple weeks ago and is now rebuilt and restored. But since then when the full backups of the databases runs, we see the ACN3500 full backup is starting, but then it's a long wait before you see any data. The session on the TSm server show IdleWait. For example just this morning a full backup of a 33GB database took almost 2-hours. And it isn't the actual data transmission. Backup of the next database is now in IdleWait for 51-minutes with no data transferred TSM server is 5.5 on Linux. Can anybody give us an idea of where/what is causing this excessive wait time? Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Windsows 2008 failover cluster, SQL Server and TSM
Windows 2008 R2 failover cluster with SQL as a resource. All the cluster disks are owned by the SQL resource. I need to install a client scheduler for the cluster backups. The documentation for doing that is assuming you will just be doing backups of the cluster drives and adding the generic resource you add the cluster drives so it all fails over together. I need to make it so that the generic service is part of the SQL resource and gets failed over with that. Anyone out there done this type of configuration? I have the generic service installed and the TDP SQL backups run fine, but last night the SQL resource failed over and my service didn't. Have failed SQL backups this morning. If I try to add a generic service to the SQL resource, it doesn't appear to give me the option to replicate registry keys. Any help would be appreciated. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Re: Using Datadomain for replication
That's fine, but it will fail even though you point the host entry to the DR box. This is CIFS and the \\hostname\backup has to match the one of the DDR you're pointing to. By default on the DDR the hostname is the CIFS NBT name used. You can change the CIFS NBT name to something different (CIFS SET nb-hostname nb-hostname) ...like the original servername in the devclass without changing the hostname in the DDR. But that could lead to confusion. Plus the target of the DDR replication is read-only. You'll have to break the replication or make sure you don't write to those volumes. I was hoping to use a drive letter mapping for my DDR, but the question is how to do this for a service that runs at startup. I have my TSM Server1 service set to run-as a local user that is also defined on the DDR so authentication just passes on through. But how to map a drive automatically when the service starts or the server starts Then I could just do a snapshot of the target DDR ( as long as it's not container replication) map my drive to the read/write snapshot and proceed on. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 10:35 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Using Datadomain for replication We are currently building that setup. We use a hosts entry to point to the DD. The untested plan is to use a hosts entry to point the DR TSM to the replicated copy and avoid re-pointing the devclass. Our connectivity is UNC across a private network. We are a month or two from the DR testing. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Boyer Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 9:14 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Using Datadomain for replication Anyone out there using a DDR as the primary FILE devclass, having it replicate to a 2nd DDR in a recovery site and having to do a TSM recovery using the 2nd DDR? Are you using the UNC path name for the DEVCLASS or a drive mapping? This is strictly Winders and CIFS, not NFS. What I'm coming up against is at the 2nd site after restoring the DB all my volumes still point to the primary DDR UNC name. I can change the DEVCLASS, but that doesn't seem to effect the existing volumes, only new volumes. So unless I also rename the 2nd DDR to the name of the primary DDR, all my volumes are basically unavailable. Just wondering how anyone else using DDR replication for TSM. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ?? This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.
Using Datadomain for replication
Anyone out there using a DDR as the primary FILE devclass, having it replicate to a 2nd DDR in a recovery site and having to do a TSM recovery using the 2nd DDR? Are you using the UNC path name for the DEVCLASS or a drive mapping? This is strictly Winders and CIFS, not NFS. What I'm coming up against is at the 2nd site after restoring the DB all my volumes still point to the primary DDR UNC name. I can change the DEVCLASS, but that doesn't seem to effect the existing volumes, only new volumes. So unless I also rename the 2nd DDR to the name of the primary DDR, all my volumes are basically unavailable. Just wondering how anyone else using DDR replication for TSM. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Re: Issue wit IBM Library
One thing I've found with the TS3310's is that unless you turn off the insert notification/prompt, when you put tapes in the I/O door the library will prompt you for which library to reserve the tapes for. The default is 'SYSTEM', and unless you respond to the prompt on the front panel of the library, the I/O slots remained unassigned and a checkin will produce an error about the slot being inaccessible. If you only have a single logical library configured you can go in through the front panel and turn the prompt off. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 8:33 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Issue wit IBM Library Have you checked the status and configuration of the TS3310 I/O Station using the library's Web User Interface? There may be a physical issue with it. In TSM interaction with the library, element addresses should be as described in http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21219973. Richard Sims
Windows2003 BMR error
During the restore of the system state I get a failure with the following in the DSMERROR.LOG. Google searches don't find any hits. Any help will be appreciated. 11/09/2011 10:39:56 ANS5250E An unexpected error was encountered. TSM function name : vssRequestor::prepareForRestore TSM function : QueryInterface(IID_IVssBackupComponentsEx) returned unknown error 4346(dec) 0x10fa TSM return code : 4346 TSM file : vssreq.cpp (6924) 11/09/2011 10:39:56 ANS5250E An unexpected error was encountered. TSM function name : vssPreRestore TSM function : prepareForRestore() returned '4346' TSM return code : 4346 TSM file : vssrest.cpp () 11/09/2011 10:39:58 ANS1951E Restore using Microsoft volume shadow copy failed. Windows 2003 32-bit TSM Client 5.5.4.0 and then tried again with 6.1.3.0 TSM Server 5.5.4.0 Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
Unable to load library libTdpDOM.so
Fresh RHEL 5 install 64-bit Linux86. TSM client 6.1.3.0 and API TDP Domino 5.5.2.0 Installed successfully. Ran the dominstall as outlined and made the changes to the .bash_profile. Logged in as the domino user and when i run domdsmc I just keep getting the (title) error message and no further. Tried uninstall and reinstall with same results. Checked APAR IC59484 and I'm not receiving the indicated error messages. [root@dem ~]# su - dominodemo [dominodemo@dem ~]$ domdsmc Unable to load library libTdpDOM.so [dominodemo@dem ~]$ Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Bill Boyer There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems. -??
Backing up EMC SourceOne
Anyone out there backing up a multiple server SourceOne configuration? This is the replacement product for MailXtender. There is a script to run preschedule to set SourceOne up for backup. And then you also have to backup the other servers in the SourceOne configuration while this is 'Paused'. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Bill Boyer Free Tip: The F1 Key does NOT destroy your PC! - ??
Windows scripting for snapshots
I have a customer that has a server with a very large (10TB) volume allocated on an XIV system. They want to backup this volume to TSM. He would like to create a snapshot of the volume in the XIV and mount that on the TSM server and then do an IMAGE backup directly to tape. But they want a way to script this. We can figure out the XCLI commands to create and map the snapshot, but the Winders command to get it mounted and a drive letter assigned is proving to be an issue. Has anyone done anything similar to automate Windows disk manager in this fashion? Believe we would use DISKPART? Bill Boyer Everyday is a Holiday. Every Formation a Parade. Every Meal a feast.. And. Every Village has their idiot.. - ?
Re: Nodes with different drive list under One Scheduler.
Just do these steps and you won't have to do anything from month to month to get full backups: 1. put all these nodes in their own policy domain 2. copy the policy set in that domain to a new name. copy po standard standard standard-full 3. for each management class in the standard-full policy set, change the backup copygroup to MODE=ABSOLUTE upd co standard standard-full mgmtclass t=b mode=absolute 4. On the day you want to run the full backup, schedule and administrative schedule that runs: def sched schedule-full t=a cmd='act po standard standard-full' You will now get a full ( MODE=ABSOLUTE ) backup for all those nodes the next time the schedule runs. No having to specify OBJ= on separate schedules for each node. Just let it run the normal nightly ACT=INCREMENTAL schedules. The MODE=ABSOLUTE will take care of the rest 5. Create another admin schedule for the following day to set it back to the normal MODE=MODIFIED def sched reset-mode t=a cmd='Act po standard standard' blah-blah-blah Then from month to month there will be no changes on your part to get fulls. For all the nodes you put in this policy domain, you'll get full backups. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lakshminarayanan, Rajesh Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 5:36 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Nodes with different drive list under One Scheduler. Hi Richard, I tried following options; Scenario 1: Policy Domain Name: WORKFLOW Schedule Name: TEST_FULL_BKP Description: Action: Selective Options: -subdir=yes Objects: * Priority: 5 Result: only files under c$\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient\ directory got backed up. DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL was specified in the dsm.opt client node. Scenario 2: Policy Domain Name: WORKFLOW Schedule Name: TEST_FULL_BKP Description: Incremental Backup Of WorkFlow Servers Action: Selective Options: -subdir=yes Objects: Result: I am getting error message saying ANS1079E No file specification entered. Am I missing out anything. Regards, Rajesh Lakshminarayanan -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 7:01 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Nodes with different drive list under One Scheduler. On Jul 12, 2011, at 2:04 AM, Lakshminarayanan, Rajesh wrote: Hi Richard, Thnx for your suggestion... Domain option is specified in my client dsm.opt file. But still my schedule ends with failure message(RC-12) Should I need to remove the drive name specified in the object parameter in the scheduler when the domain option is specified in the dsm.opt file Yes; the Objects list will cause the DOMain statement specs to be disregarded, much like performing 'dsmc incremental a: b: c:'. The point of the DOMain option is to allow each client to have a drives list which is specific to its environment, given that computer disk complements can vary so much. And: In your backups, be certain that you really want a Selective backup rather than Incremental, to avoid bloating your TSM server storage pools. Richard Sims
Re: Nodes with different drive list under One Scheduler.
If you have need to do a FULL backup occasionally, then you could: 1. Put those 10 nodes in a separate domain 2. In that domain you have 2 policy sets: 1 that is your normal daily incremental backup, and the 2nd one is a copy of the first but changing the MODE=ABSOLUTE in all the backup copygroups. 3. Use your DOMain client option on each node to specify the drives you want if they are different than ALL-LOCAL 4. Set up a schedule that activates your FULL MODE=ABSOLUTE policy set when you want the FULL backups to run. And another to re-activate the standard MODE=MODIFIED incremental policy set. Just don't forget that if you're doing retention by versions, that this full is going to be another version whether the file has changed or not. You could end up with a lot of your backup files having the active and the most recent inactive version being the same copy of the file. Bill Boyer -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lakshminarayanan, Rajesh Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 6:41 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Nodes with different drive list under One Scheduler. Hi Guys, I have a scenario where I need to schedule a full backup for 10 client nodes(windows server) under one schedule in the TSM server. All the client nodes have different drive list in it. If I group them under once scheduler with drive list specified in the object parameter of the scheduler, I get backup failure messages from the client nodes as all the drives specified in the scheduler is not available in the client node.I don;t want to schedule 10 separate schedulers for each client node in the TSM server.I have constrains to run the backup on the same day and time. Can you some one help me with a work around with this.. Scenario's example: Client Node 1 has C: D : drives Client Node 2 has C: D : F: drives Client Node 3 has C: D : E: drives Client Node 4 has C: D : S: drives : : : : Client node 10 has C: F:S: drives Scheduler details Policy Domain Name: Domain Schedule Name: GRP1_FULL Description: Schedule To Backup windows Servers Action: Selective Options: -subdir=yes -domain=All-local Objects: c: d: e: f: g:h:J; Regards, Rajesh
Management class assigned to Domino backups
Is there a way to list the management class a particular Domino mailbox backup is assigned? I need to verify that specific mailbox backups are assigned to a different management class than DEFAULT which has a longer retention policy. For remediation. The GUI for restore doesn't list that as a column. TIA, Bill
Re: Management class assigned to Domino backups
I was hoping to not have to query the BACKUPS table. Even using a key column it runs slow at best. I could always try connecting at the Domino nodename with the client an -VIRTUALNODE=, then doing a QUERY BACKUP. That works with Oracle RMAN and SQLServer nodes. Haven't tried it on a Domino node, yet. Always a first time... You remember the last TSMUG meeting I was discussing a client that was implementing the Cybernetics VTL dedupe unit? Well, they're still trying to implement it! No Schmidt. It still doesn't work worth a darn with TSM. They are actually trying to write new firmware code to try and get around some of the limitations they've found using TSM. Wish I could make it next week to the TSMUG meeting. Sounds like some interesting topics. We have a coworker out and he's got some big shoes to be filled. Had a major heart attack last weekend. Only a couple years older than me! Yikes!!! Bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 2:51 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Management class assigned to Domino backups select hl_name, ll_name, class_name from backups where node_name='DOMINO-CLIENT-NAME-ALLCAPS' You'll get better performance if you can also specify ... and filespace_name='blah' but I don't' know how those are named for Domino -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Boyer Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 2:43 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Management class assigned to Domino backups Is there a way to list the management class a particular Domino mailbox backup is assigned? I need to verify that specific mailbox backups are assigned to a different management class than DEFAULT which has a longer retention policy. For remediation. The GUI for restore doesn't list that as a column. TIA, Bill
Backing up Lotus Connections
Anyone out there backing up a Lotus Connections server or servers? It appears to be made up of a bunch of different products, each requiring their own backup method.Websphere.and what looks like an Apache HTTP server.DB2.. And lots of straight file system backups. And it all seems to have to be done all at the same time to keep things in sync. The Lotus connections manuals when you search on BACKUP only comes up in a section for doing a backup before an upgrade. Any help in figuring this out is very much appreciated! Bill Boyer
ANR8939E on new TSM server
Windows 2008R2 and an Adaptec 29320LPE SCSI adapter connected to TS3310 and LTO3 drives. ANR8337I LTO volume 646AFAL3 mounted in drive LTO1 (mt1.0.0.5). ANR8939E The adapter for tape drive LTO1 (mt1.0.0.5) cannot handle the block size needed to use the volume. ANR8468I LTO volume 646AFAL3 dismounted from drive LTO1 (mt1.0.0.5) in library TS3310. ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 646AFAL3 - mount failed. This replaced an older TSM server and right now any tapes that were created on the old system give the ANR8939E message and won't mount. The ANR8939E message refers to setting the MAXNUMSGLIST parameter for the HBA.I have SCSI! I did find an entry on the ADSL-L archive from March 2009 saying that the LPE card wouldn't work with TSM as it doesn't support the 256K buffer used by TSM. New tapes created from beginning of tape work just fine on this new system. Although it seems that the performance just isn't there considering LTO3 drives. (http://adsm.org/forum/showthread.php?17292-Restore-of-TSM-database-to-DR-se rver-failing/page2) Anyone using this adapter with TSM? This is one of those PCI-e cards. I'm getting information on replacing the riser in my 3550 M2 server and going back to the PCI-x 29320ALP adapter. That one I'm pretty confident with. The ANR8939E says to set the MAXNUMSGLIST to 0x41.and that's what is currently set in the registry for this LPE adapter. Tried the latest Adaptec driver 7.0.0.12 and reverted back to the default Windows driver that gets installed with Windows 2008. Same thing. I have a PMR open with IBM Tivoli support, but they just want to close it out as a hardware issue. I'm not getting any error/warning messages in the eventlog for Windows or anything. Just the ANR8939E and can't get at my data! Any help is greatly appreciated! Bill Boyer
Re: ANR8939E on new TSM server
No, you're right..Never Mind. I found a post on a Symantec BackupExec forum that talked about performance and that adapter at the latest driver release. Their resolution was to back off to the previous driver version. I had loaded the latest listed for Windows 2008 R2 which was 7.0.0.12. I downloaded and installed the 7.0.0.8 version which was listed as for Windows 2008 x64...not specifically R2. That release of the driver is working fine now with the tapes created on my other TSM server system. I'm going to update my PMR with the driver information. Interesting the 7.0.0.12 driver is dated 2/2010. So it's a year old. Not like it's a brand new release of the driver. Figured someone would have hit on this error before now. The 7.0.0.8 version that works is 6-2008. Almost 3-years old. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 1:58 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: ANR8939E on new TSM server Never mind. You said Windows. Bill Boyer bjdbo...@verizon.net 4/4/2011 1:18 PM Windows 2008R2 and an Adaptec 29320LPE SCSI adapter connected to TS3310 and LTO3 drives. ANR8337I LTO volume 646AFAL3 mounted in drive LTO1 (mt1.0.0.5). ANR8939E The adapter for tape drive LTO1 (mt1.0.0.5) cannot handle the block size needed to use the volume. ANR8468I LTO volume 646AFAL3 dismounted from drive LTO1 (mt1.0.0.5) in library TS3310. ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 646AFAL3 - mount failed. This replaced an older TSM server and right now any tapes that were created on the old system give the ANR8939E message and won't mount. The ANR8939E message refers to setting the MAXNUMSGLIST parameter for the HBA.I have SCSI! I did find an entry on the ADSL-L archive from March 2009 saying that the LPE card wouldn't work with TSM as it doesn't support the 256K buffer used by TSM. New tapes created from beginning of tape work just fine on this new system. Although it seems that the performance just isn't there considering LTO3 drives. (http://adsm.org/forum/showthread.php?17292-Restore-of-TSM-database-to-DR-se rver-failing/page2) Anyone using this adapter with TSM? This is one of those PCI-e cards. I'm getting information on replacing the riser in my 3550 M2 server and going back to the PCI-x 29320ALP adapter. That one I'm pretty confident with. The ANR8939E says to set the MAXNUMSGLIST to 0x41.and that's what is currently set in the registry for this LPE adapter. Tried the latest Adaptec driver 7.0.0.12 and reverted back to the default Windows driver that gets installed with Windows 2008. Same thing. I have a PMR open with IBM Tivoli support, but they just want to close it out as a hardware issue. I'm not getting any error/warning messages in the eventlog for Windows or anything. Just the ANR8939E and can't get at my data! Any help is greatly appreciated! Bill Boyer
Can't uninstall TSM client after OS upgrade
Had a server Windows 2000 with the 5.3 client loaded. The OS was upgraded to Windows 2003 SP2 and now I want to upgrade the client to a supported release for the OS. Control panel add/remove programs and click uninstall of the client and I get an error dialog that the the operating system is not adequate for running ibm tivoli storage manager client. Can't even uninstall the thing! My Google searches haven't picked up anything that matches. Anyone else seen these errors and know of a way around 'em? WINVER.EXE shows I'm at Release 5.2 SP2 (Windows 2003) TIA Bill Boyer
EXPORT TOSERVER
What are the TSM server version restrictions when doing an EXPORT NODE to another server? I have a client that wants to install a TSM 6.2 server and export some data from their existing 5.3 TSM server. I've been searching and must not have the right combination on keywords, but I'm not finding any requirements or restrictions on this. It would be difficult if we had to use media for this and they only want a few nodes from their existing server. And really don't want to have to put any more effort in to the old box.like upgrades. Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... It's about learning how to dance in the rain. - ?? Bill Boyer
Exchange 2007 Restore Problem
OK. I have a customer that upgraded to Exchange2010 from Exchange2007 and the new backups are running just fine. I started those backups to a separate storage pool from the 2007 data. Now they need some restores from the 2007 backups, but the original Exchange2007 server doesn't exist any more. As part of the upgrade to 2010 they had to uninstall 2007 on that server and then they shut it down and reloaded it for another file server. So..we rebuilt the Exchange 2007 server in an isolated VMware environment, defined the storage groups and databases exactly the way they were originally. Got the information from TSM. I can do the restore and the logs show as applying successfully, but then everything starts to fail. This is being done to the RSG. The first error in the event log is ID: 9638 Function 'EcGetRecoveryDbGuid' failed with error 0x8004010f. I get absolutely no hits doing a Google search on that function. That's followed by another ID: 9638: Function 'ErrESECBRestoreComplete' failed with error 0xc7fe1f42. Then an ID:904 from ESE BACKUP Information Store (1800) Callback function call ErrESECBRestoreComplete ended with error 0xC7FE1F42 Database not found. I'm getting no where doing google searches. I've done a restore without checking the recovery box and the log files and a RESTORE.ENV are in the TEMPLOGS directory. That works just fine. I can then run the ESEUTIL /CC and see that the log files apply just fine, but then failures above. Any help on this would be appreciated? Is there any link out there on doing a complete Exchange 2007 rebuild? What do I need to minimally do to be able to restore. Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... It's about learning how to dance in the rain. - ?? Bill Boyer
Exchange 2010 Backup error: WinRM
Any help would be appreciated as I can't get the backups to run and out Exchange guy is out. Backups worked yesterday and today are failing with a very cryptic message: C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchangetdpexcc backup * full /backupdestination=tsm /backupmethod=vss IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail: Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server Version 6, Release 1, Level 2.01 (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2010. All rights reserved. Updating mailbox history on TSM Server... Mailbox history has been updated successfully. Querying Exchange Server to gather component information, please wait... ACN5350E An unknown Exchange API error has occurred. Nothing is in the Event log, TDPEXC.LOG about what the api error is. Doing a QUERY EXCHANGE gives a little more information, but still nothing in any event log to indicate what exactly the problem is C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchangetdpexcc query exchange IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail: Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server Version 6, Release 1, Level 2.01 (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2010. All rights reserved. Querying Exchange Server to gather component information, please wait... Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message : The WinRM client cannot process the request. It cannot determine the content type of the H TTP response from the destination computer. The content type is absent or invali d. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic. Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... It's about learning how to dance in the rain. - ?? Bill Boyer
Re: Exchange 2010 Backup error: WinRM
C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchangetdpexcc query tsm IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail: Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server Version 6, Release 1, Level 2.01 (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2010. All rights reserved. Tivoli Storage Manager Server Connection Information Nodename ... EXC_DSS-EXCMB-L2 NetWork Host Name of Server 172.31.14.52 TSM API Version Version 6, Release 2, Level 1.0 Server Name CUSTOMER Server Type Windows Server Version . Version 5, Release 5, Level 3.0 Compression Mode ... Client Determined Domain Name TEKNIPLEX Active Policy Set .. STANDARD Default Management Class ... STANDARD C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchangetdpexcc query tdp IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail: Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server Version 6, Release 1, Level 2.01 (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2010. All rights reserved. Data Protection for Exchange Preferences BACKUPDESTination... TSM BACKUPMETHod VSS DATEformat . 1 LANGuage ... ENU LOCALDSMAgentnode... DSS-EXCMB-L2 LOGFile tdpexc.log LOGPrune ... 30 MOUNTWait .. Yes NUMberformat ... 1 REMOTEDSMAgentnode.. TEMPDBRestorepath... TEMPLOGRestorepath.. TIMEformat . 1 C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchangetdpexcc query exchange IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail: Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server Version 6, Release 1, Level 2.01 (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2010. All rights reserved. Querying Exchange Server to gather component information, please wait... Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message : The WinRM client cannot process the request. It cannot determine the content type of the H TTP response from the destination computer. The content type is absent or invali d. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic. C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchange -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Meunier, Yann Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 10:48 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Exchange 2010 Backup error: WinRM Hi Bill, Can you send the results of these request : tdpexcc q tsm tdpexcc q tdp tpdexcc q exchange Thanks. -Message d'origine- De : ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] De la part de Bill Boyer Envoyé : vendredi 17 décembre 2010 15:50 À : ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Objet : [ADSM-L] Exchange 2010 Backup error: WinRM Any help would be appreciated as I can't get the backups to run and out Exchange guy is out. Backups worked yesterday and today are failing with a very cryptic message: C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchangetdpexcc backup * full /backupdestination=tsm /backupmethod=vss IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail: Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server Version 6, Release 1, Level 2.01 (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2010. All rights reserved. Updating mailbox history on TSM Server... Mailbox history has been updated successfully. Querying Exchange Server to gather component information, please wait... ACN5350E An unknown Exchange API error has occurred. Nothing is in the Event log, TDPEXC.LOG about what the api error is. Doing a QUERY EXCHANGE gives a little more information, but still nothing in any event log to indicate what exactly the problem is C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\TDPExchangetdpexcc query exchange IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail: Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server Version 6, Release 1, Level 2.01 (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2010. All rights reserved. Querying Exchange Server to gather component information, please wait... Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message : The WinRM client cannot process the request. It cannot determine the content type of the H TTP response from the destination computer. The content type is absent or invali d. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic. Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... It's about learning how to dance in the rain. - ?? Bill Boyer Afin de préserver l'environnement, merci de n'imprimer ce courriel qu'en cas de nécessité. Please consider the environment before printing this mail.
Lotus Connections 2.5 Backups
Anyone using TSM to backup a Lotus Connections 2.5 server? I'm starting to do some RTxM'ing and it looks like one of those mix of products product with each requiring it's own backup piece. Just curious if anyone else is doing it. TIA Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... It's about learning how to dance in the rain. - ?? Bill Boyer
Re: Restore TSM server to Win 2008
Ran in to this on a brand new 6.1.2 install and it doesn't have to do with the GUID on the restore. When the TSM server gets the session request for the $$_TSMDBMGR_$$ it checks to make sure that the request is coming from the same computer running the TSM server. It checks the IP address( both V4 and V6) and the GUID of the session requestor against the GUID of the running TSM system. If they don't match...you get this error. I spent 3-days with support running traces to track this down. I've done multiple restores of TSM V6 systems for disaster recovery testing and for moving to other systems without having to disable this for the DB restore. Bill Boyer -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Christian Svensson Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 1:46 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: SV: Restore TSM server to Win 2008 Hi, Here is a link where you disable the GUID Check... http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC68005 Best Regards Christian Svensson Cell: +46-70-325 1577 E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se Skype: cristie.christian.svensson Supported Platform for CPU2TSM:: http://www.cristie.se/cpu2tsm-supported-platforms Från: Gibin [tsm-fo...@backupcentral.com] Skickat: den 31 oktober 2010 11:02 Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Ämne: Restore TSM server to Win 2008 Christian , could you guide me as to how to disable the TSM GUID check while restoring the TSM DB. Or is there any documentation available for this .. [Wink] Would like to try this out soon .. +-- |This was sent by gibi...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- =
Re: Netware backup error
TSM reports the Netware version as 5.60...so Netware 6.0? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 1:25 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Netware backup error On Oct 27, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Bill Boyer wrote: This is an old Netware box but it's starting to give off this error during the backup. The backup of the SYS: drive is successful, but this error is causing the backup job to fail. Anyone have an idea of why the TSA name would be blank? 10/26/2010 02:46:05 ANS1872E Unable to connect to NetWare target service ''. How old? http://www.adsm.org/lists/html/ADSM-L/2000-01/msg00789.html addressed that error condition many years ago.
Re: Tsm archiving or HSM
Just one comment...there are actually 2 copies of the migrated file's data. 1 is the backup copy and the other is the migrated copy. You can configure HSM to make sure there is a backup copy of the file before migration. But since you're going on last referenced date, then probably that file was backed up when it was created or last updated. The most recent versions of HSM and the B/A client have more knowledge of each other than pre 5.5 versions. The B/A client will recognize the stub file and not back that the most recent backup copy of the file. When you restore that file from the B/A client possibly due to someone deleting the stub file, or a crash, you have the option of restoring the file data or just the stub. Just make sure that when you configure the policy for the HSM on the TSM server you change the archive retention to NOLIMIT and activate it! Believe me it's messy when TSM starts expiring the migrated archive data when there are still stub files on the filesystems. Been there...done that...and lots of teeth marks in my arse! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 9:22 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Tsm archiving or HSM There is nothing built in to TSM that does archiving based on last reference date. You can certainly write your own scripts to select the files and archive based on that. There are larger difference between archiving and HSM. Archives: -the same file can be archived multiple times on different dates -an archive file may be left in the directory, or removed from the directory after archive -to retrieve an archived file, you must deliberately open the TSM client and select the file for retrieve HSM: -There is only 1 copy of an HSM-migrated file, the migrated copy. -HSM leaves a stub file in the directory when it migrates the file out to TSM storage. Any attempt by the user to reference that file triggers an automatic recall (which has implications for your TSM hardware setup). -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 5:14 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Tsm archiving or HSM Does the archiving function allow archiving files based on last reference date or is that what TSM HSM is for ? Thanks Tim Brown Systems Specialist - Project Leader Central Hudson Gas Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com Phone: 845-486-5643 Fax: 845-486-5921 Cell: 845-235-4255
Assign management class to Hyper-V VM image backups
Is there a way to assign the Hyper-V BACKUP VM backups to a different management class? Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... It's about learning how to dance in the rain. - ?? Bill Boyer
Cybernetics VTL units
Anyone out there using any of the Cybernetics iSAN VTL D2D2T units? It's not on the TSM supported list under VTL's, but the vender says that's OK since the models of libraries and drives they emulate are supported. I have a client that is interested in 2 of these for primary and a recovery site with replication and was curious if anyone was using any of these models out there. TIA Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... It's about learning how to dance in the rain. - ?? Bill Boyer
