Re: Changes to Tape Management hardware in Data Center

[Gee, Norman]

I at one time had my primary backup pool go into a VTS.  Mine is a 3494-B18,
older model.   TSM likes to append to tape volumes until they are full. The
recall process to stage a virtual volume from tape back to disk cache will
take from 4 to 6 minutes and then TSM will start appending the tape and then
it is written back to tape back end.  When you start tape reclamation, it
will take 4 to 6 minutes to load each 800 MB volume that needs to be
reclaim.  Tape reclamation is a real pain,  at one time I was reclaiming 50
volume daily.  I had 1200 virtual volumes before I decided to convert it all
to native 3590 cartridges.

I backup my database to VTS, but my offsite I take a DB SNAPSHOT to a 3590
cartridge.

-Original Message-
From: Steve Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 4:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Changes to Tape Management hardware in Data Center

Shannon,

What was the reason for purchasing the VTL?  I'd surmise it is probably to
do tape consolidation on your mainframe operations.

*caveat! I have not actually used a 3494 VTL*

Past posts here have indicated that TSM is not a good fit for the VTL
because of the overhead of staging data that will only be used once and then
destaged.

I'd have to question why there is a perceived need to keep the archives in
3480 format.  I can think of no reason to when native 3590s are available,
other than a larger number of available drives.  Sure, copy them over that
way at conversion time if there is a co-existence issue with the new and old
libraries, but new ones, nah.

I understand that the VTL can be logically split into a native library and a
VTL.  I'd suggest for TSM that you use the native library. See the other
posts earlier today about how to migrate to the new media.

Regards

Steve

Steve Harris
AIX and TSM Admin - ex mainframer 1980-1997
Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia


I do have a question here about backing up the TSM database. Will it be
possible to do some kind of DB Backup to the VTS and still keep my DB
Series that is going offsite?

2.  In addition to the VTS and our current Magstar, we are
adding a 3494 -D14 and a 3494 -D12, that have a total of (6) 3590E drives.
As with the Magstar, it will use the 3590J cartridges but will they should
hold more data because of   the difference between the Magstar
3590B drives vs. the 3590E drives on the new ATL.  The following is the
how this hardware change will have an effect on our TSM backup
environment,

Re: Changes to Tape Management hardware in Data Center

[Gee, Norman]

Shannon,

I have a fairly small shop.  I currently have about 5 TB of managed data on
primary tape pool and about 250 GB nightly backups and about 70 servers.  I
moved away from the VTS long before I got to this size

When I did restores from the VTS, it took many hours.  Many of the files
being restored span multiple 3490 virtual volumes.  With the additional
staging time required, this easily double or triple the expected restore
time. This was for my primary backup pool. I always sent my archives to
native 3590 H drive K length tapes.

On my disk migrates to VTS, somehow I always ended up staging in my filling
backup pool volumes.  This is a factor on how much disk cache you have.
After you append to a volume, the VTS will write to the 3590 and invalidate
the original location.

On my reclamation, I had many tapes that appears almost empty, but had one
file that span multiple tapes.  When these tapes are reclaim, TSM will stage
in and reclaim every tape that file span.  Sometimes I thought I only had
one tape to reclaim, but that one tape brought in 5 others.  After TSM has
finished its reclamation, then the VTS will start reclaiming its native 3590
tapes.  The VTS has some of the same intelligence as TSM.  TSM reclamation
will leave lots of free space on the VTS physical tape store and then the
VTS will need to be reclaim.  I was reclaiming daily to keep up.

With 3590 H extended length cartridges holding about 60 GB native, I reclaim
once a week on cartridges half empty.  A half empty cartridge will take
about one hour to reclaim.

You mention you wanted to turn collocation on the VTS.  What happens if the
volumes TSM wants to mount for you archives is not in disk cache, then all
these volumes must be staged back in.   Depending on how many archives, this
could take some time. VTS is best for volumes that will never be appended
to. This is the same reason not to use the VTS for your DFHSM ML2 migrate.

Imagine a single retrieve of 50 virtual volumes, that could be an extra 4
hours of staging time.

A normal stage in process will take 4 to 6 minutes and the average native
tape mount is about 90 seconds.

If you have enough native drives or can get them, I would always go native.
Leave the VTS for what it was design for, stacking lots of small tape data
sets to large tapes.  TSM will monitor your tape usage, and will fill your
3590s to max capacity with little wastes.

Norman Gee



Thanks for the responses!  Here is the paragraph from IBM Redbook #
SG24-2229-03 that I based my plan for sending TSM Archives to the VTS.

Recommendations for VTS usage
Use VTS for Tivoli Storage Manager archiving: Use VTS for archiving and back
up of large
files or data bases for which you don't have a high performance requirement
during back up
and restore. VTS is ideal for Tivoli Storage Manager archive or long term
storage because
archive data is not frequently retrieved. Archives and restores for large
files should see less
impact from the staging overhead. Small files, such as individual files on
file servers, can see
performance impacts from the VTS staging. (If a volume is not in cache the
entire volume
must be staged before any restore can be done).

Norman, how much data were you talking about in your Primary pool on the
VTS?  And how many nodes were you backing up? I may have to re-think this if
reclamation is going to be a problem. I have reclamation going all day on
weekdays, to keep up with all the storage pools, and the Archcart stgpool
only takes about 4 hours a week to complete, it's our easiest one!



I at one time had my primary backup pool go into a VTS.  Mine is a 3494-B18,
older model.   TSM likes to append to tape volumes until they are full. The
recall process to stage a virtual volume from tape back to disk cache will
take from 4 to 6 minutes and then TSM will start appending the tape and then
it is written back to tape back end.  When you start tape reclamation, it
will take 4 to 6 minutes to load each 800 MB volume that needs to be
reclaim.  Tape reclamation is a real pain,  at one time I was reclaiming 50
volume daily.  I had 1200 virtual volumes before I decided to convert it all
to native 3590 cartridges.

I backup my database to VTS, but my offsite I take a DB SNAPSHOT to a 3590
cartridge.

-Original Message-
From: Steve Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 4:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Changes to Tape Management hardware in Data Center

Shannon,

What was the reason for purchasing the VTL?  I'd surmise it is probably to
do tape consolidation on your mainframe operations.

*caveat! I have not actually used a 3494 VTL*

Past posts here have indicated that TSM is not a good fit for the VTL
because of the overhead of staging data that will only be used once and then
destaged.

I'd have to question why there is a perceived need to keep the archives in
3480 format.  I can think of no reason to when native 3590s are available,
other than a larger 

TDP for Exchange file expiration

[Gee, Norman]

I have been running backups for Exchange for a while, but I notice that I
had a few tape that did not get recycle after expiration of the data.

I found that the Exchange admin changed the name of couple of the data
objects, therefore the system is keeping the last version of the previous
name of each object and not expiring them.  These are still active. How can
I get rid of this old object?  Add an exclude statement for each old object?

Re: TDP for Exchange file expiration

[Gee, Norman]

These unfortunately are in the same file space SG1. If there were in a
different filespace I would have already deleted them.

The HLL got change from \data\\Database 1\ to \data\\NODENAME SG1
Database 1\
The exchange admin also type in the NODENAME incorrectly once and I still
have an active backup for that boo boo.

-Original Message-
From: Steve Schaub [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 12:02 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TDP for Exchange file expiration

If you are talking about old exchange Storage Groups, then these map
to individual filespaces in tsm and you should be able to use the
delete filespace node filespace command to get rid of them.

-Original Message-
From: Gee, Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 2:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TDP for Exchange file expiration


I have been running backups for Exchange for a while, but I notice that
I had a few tape that did not get recycle after expiration of the data.

I found that the Exchange admin changed the name of couple of the data
objects, therefore the system is keeping the last version of the
previous name of each object and not expiring them.  These are still
active. How can I get rid of this old object?  Add an exclude statement
for each old object?

Re: Exchange TDP 5211 Storage Group Failing

[Gee, Norman]

 I am now getting the same errors.  We have tried restarting exchange and
then rebooting the Exchange server, no luck.  In the event viewer we are
getting a event id of 217.

We found this in the Microsoft knowledge base
See the issue under cause.  Can this be the problem with TDP for
Exchange


You cannot successfully perform an online backup information store databases
on your Exchange Server 2003 SP1 computer, and event ID 217 is logged
Article ID : 889528
Last Review : December 23, 2004
Revision : 1.1
SYMPTOMS
When you try to perform an online backup of the information store databases
on your Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) computer, the
backup is not successful. The following event is logged to the Application
log:Event ID: 217
Source: ESE
Type: Error
Category: Logging/Recovery
Description:
Error -4001 During backup of a database location. The database will be
unable to restore. Note The -4001 error code corresponds to a
JET_errFileIOBeyondEOF error condition.
CAUSE
Under certain circumstances, the information store backups may fail because
of a beyond end of file (EOF) condition. In Exchange Server 2003 SP1, the
Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) pre-extends the information store database
as an optimization feature. However, backup software may not be compatible
with this feature. Therefore, backups that are created may be unusable.
RESOLUTION
Hotfix information
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended
to correct the problem that is described in this article. Only apply it to
systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix may receive
additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this
problem, we recommend that you wait for the next Microsoft Exchange Server
2003 service pack that contains this hotfix.

To resolve this problem immediately, contact Microsoft Product Support
Services to obtain the hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product
Support Services phone numbers and information about support costs, visit
the following Microsoft Web site:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh; [LN];CNTACTMS
Note In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support
calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a
specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will
apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the
specific update in question.

-Original Message-
From: Del Hoobler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 3:26 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Exchange TDP 5211 Storage Group Failing

Ray,

This return code and message is coming from the Exchange Server itself.
From the Exchange message file (esebkmsg.h, in the Microsoft API):
//
// MessageId: hrErrorFromESECall
//
// MessageText:
//
//  Error returned from an ESE function call (%d).
//
#define hrErrorFromESECall   ((HRESULT)0xC7FF1004L)

This means that there was a problem within Exchange Server of some type.
Did you look in the Event Log to see if there was additional information
that might help you identify the problem was?

Other things to try would be to stop and restart all Exchange services
or even reboot the machine. We have found that Exchange sometimes gets
into
funny states that only a reboot/restart will fix.

Thanks,

Del



ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 11/11/2004
12:00:25 PM:

 I am running an AIX 5.2 TSM 5.2.3 server and have a win2003 server
 running TDP 5.2.1.1. One Storage group (the second backs up fine the
 other (first) keeps getting the following error. This is also Exchange
 2003. Has anyone ever seen this?

 11/11/2004 01:58:30 ACN5798E MS Exchange API HRESEBACKUPREADFILE()
 failed with HRESULT: 0xc7ff1004 - Error returned from an ESE function
 call (-4001).

 11/11/2004 01:58:30 Retrying failed backups...

 11/11/2004 03:39:27 Backup of storage group First Storage Group failed.

 11/11/2004 03:39:27 ACN5798E MS Exchange API HRESEBACKUPREADFILE()
 failed with HRESULT: 0xc7ff1004 - Error returned from an ESE function
 call (-4001).

Re: TSM 5.3.3 ADMIN WEB INTERFACE

[Gee, Norman]

 
I am using it on TSM 5.3.4 on z/OS R7


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Tim Brown
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:41 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: TSM 5.3.3 ADMIN WEB INTERFACE

Thanks, I am runnning on Z/OS, dont think it will work

Tim

- Original Message -
From: Kelly Lipp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: TSM 5.3.3 ADMIN WEB INTERFACE


I only did this on TSM Windows...


Kelly J. Lipp
VP Manufacturing  CTO
STORServer, Inc.
485-B Elkton Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
719-266-8777
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Orville Lantto
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 3:34 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 5.3.3 ADMIN WEB INTERFACE

I was unable to install the web interface on a new 5.4 server (AIX), but
the web interface e continued to work on upgraded 5.3 servers.

Is there a method to get the web interface to function on a new 5.4
server?


Orville L. Lantto
Glasshouse Technologies, Inc.





From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Kelly Lipp
Sent: Wed 5/23/2007 16:31
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 5.3.3 ADMIN WEB INTERFACE



ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/tivoli-storage-management/tools/windows/

The readme describes what to do.  Works up to and including TSM 5.4.0.0
per my own testing.


Kelly J. Lipp
VP Manufacturing  CTO
STORServer, Inc.
485-B Elkton Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
719-266-8777
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Tim Brown
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 3:27 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 5.3.3 ADMIN WEB INTERFACE

I have been told that the admin web interface on a 5.3.3 server can be
activated eventhough it was supposedly not available with 5.3.3

If that is true how is it done

Tim Brown
Systems Specialist - Project Leader
Central Hudson Gas  Electric
284 South Ave
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: 845-486-5643
Fax: 845-486-5921
Cell: 845-235-4255

Full library with z/OS

[Gee, Norman]

How does one handle a full library with TSM on z/OS?  I am running out
of tape slots and the MOVE MEDIA command is not available with z/OS and
the stgpool does not have the option of ovflocation. 

Any tips for someone making the leap of faith of migrating from z/OS to AIX

[Gee, Norman]

With TSM on the mainframe, I have access to console message automation
and tape media management with CA-1 or RMM.

I understand that with AIX, I will no longer have these functions
provided for me.  On z/OS the tape library is manage by other mainframe
products.  TSM on z/OS has no knowledge about the tape library on z/OS
other than the number of drives and the device types. SMS rules decides
on the tape media is correct and the system assign the tape drives. What
new TSM commands will I have to learn with AIX.  z/OS version of TSM has
no concepts of library, library checkin or /dev/rmtn, ATAPE or other
unique Unix thing.

I have it setup with full message automation, highlighted console
messages, automatic emails and automatic responses to messages.  How
would I set up something similar in AIX?  Is there a joblog for the TSM
process similar to the z/OS STC message log?

Is there a white paper for someone making a similar transition?

With z/OS a lot of things are taken for granted or are handle by other
products.

Reserved vol ser numbers

[Gee, Norman]

 
Are there any reserve volume serial for LTO tapes? In the mainframe
world tapes with Lnn numbers are reserved.

Re: LTO4 support?

[Gee, Norman]

 
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663uid=swg27009625

TSM 5.4.1 hopefully by end of month.
Or TSM 5.3.5.1.



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Wanda Prather
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:02 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: LTO4 support?

IBM LTO4 drives should be shipping soon.
Anybody heard when we should have TSM 5.4 support for LTO4?

Re: Any market for used tape media?

[Gee, Norman]

The servo track holds true for all 359x tapes.  3480 and 3490 can be
safely degauss and reused 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Curtis Preston
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 12:19 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Any market for used tape media?

De-gaussing is the only practical way to erase a significant quantity of
tapes, and degaussing will render a number of modern tape formats
useless forever.  One of them is LTO.  Not sure about 3x9x.  (It's
because, in addition to removing the data, degaussing also removes the
servo tracks on the tape, and the drive won't recognize the tape.)

My opinion:  It's not worth the risk.

---
W. Curtis Preston
Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Schneider, John
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 1:28 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Any market for used tape media?

Greetings,
We have thousands of 3590, 3592, and LTO tapes which are about
to be decommissioned when their tape libraries are replaced. Some of the
3592 and LTO tapes are only 1-2 years old. Is there any market for used
tape media? And if so, do any of you know of a way to sufficiently erase
them so that they can be sold without security concerns about releasing
data?


Best Regards,

John D. Schneider
Lead Systems Administrator - Storage
Sisters of Mercy Health Systems
3637 South Geyer Road
St. Louis, MO  63127
Phone: 314-364-3150
Cell: 314-486-2359
Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where can I find the downloadable TSM 5.5 documentation?

[Gee, Norman]

On the welcome screens to the documents, it says
Permissions for the use of these publications is granted subject to the
following terms and conditions.

Personal Use: You may reproduce these Publications for your personal,
non commercial use provided that all proprietary notices are preserved.
You may not distribute, display or make derivative work of these
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IBM.

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Publications solely within your enterprise provided that all proprietary
notices are preserved. You may not make derivative works of these
Publications, or reproduce, distribute or display these Publications or
any portion thereof outside your enterprise, without the express consent
of IBM.

Except as expressly granted in this permission, no other permissions,
licenses or rights are granted, either express or implied, to the
Publications or any information, data, software or other intellectual
property contained therein.

IBM reserves the right to withdraw the permissions granted herein
whenever, in its discretion, the use of the Publications is detrimental
to its interest or, as determined by IBM, the above instructions are not
being properly followed.

You may not download, export or re-export this information except in
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United States export laws and regulations.

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PUBLICATIONS ARE PROVIDED AS-IS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
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WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 





Actually, around here, no they won't.

They've refused me several times, saying that it is copyrighted
material, and therefore they cannot print/bind it.

Pretty annoying.

-Lloyd

Re: TSM on Power

[Gee, Norman]

There is a front page article in the April 2007 issue of Storage
Magazine 
that talks about the experience of LL Beans migration from mainframe TSM
to 
Linux on Power.

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/magazineFeature/0,296894,sid5_gci125
8351,00.html 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Martha McConaghy
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 11:50 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: TSM on Power

It looks like, after many years on the z/VM platform, we are finally
going to make the leap to TSM on Power (IBM Pseries) and AIX.  Does
anyone have any suggestions as to configuration and sizing of the box
and disk space?  We also like to retro-fit our 3494 ATL to connect to
the Pseries.  Anyone doing anything like that?

Martha

Re: Question on TSM environment sizes

[Gee, Norman]

 
Does one need to define all the drive paths for multipath tape drives?
Or does one only need to define one path and the OS will use the other
paths as needed?

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Strand, Neil B.
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 4:22 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Question on TSM environment sizes

1900 drive path statements?
13 Libclients x 72 Drives = 936 paths + 72 for the lib mgr



Neil Strand
Storage Engineer - Legg Mason
Baltimore, MD.
(410) 580-7491
Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic.

Re: Physically shred tape after one use? [ email retention ]

[Gee, Norman]

 
Take a look at the FATS/FATAR product from www.fdr.com. It has the
capability of reading pass EOF on 3592 tapes.


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Allen S. Rout
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 10:25 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Physically shred tape after one use? [ email retention ]

 On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 07:49:11 -0500, Richard Rhodes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:


 Are you talking about discoverable meaning the legal term
 discovery, or as in snoopable, meaning somebody gets access to
 your media because it falls off a truck or they walk out the door
 with it?

The former. :P

 We have had this conversation with our email folks here.  I have
 explained that, YES, the previous data is sitting there past the
 defined deletion period.  YES, it is possible to access it on a very
 expensive fishing expedition.

I think the problem here is that many people, coming to this question
fresh, try to set policy without understanding what we (backup admins)
mean when we say things like This is expensive, vs. This is
difficult vs. This is extremely difficult, and what-not.

When I talk about special equipment and gobs of staff time (I don't
think a stock 3592 will seek beyond logical EOT, will it?)  I seem to
get feedback that tastes of Oh, so it's possible, right?.

Yeah, if you want to pay mumblety-thousand dollars to a recovery unit,
you can get your bitstream back off the end of the tape (singular).
Put another mumblety-thousand dollars in staff time in, and you can
probably pick out email-looking stuff.  Is this part of our policy
response to discovery?  Probably not.

But when someone says to me This data must not be recoverable, even
through extraordinary measures, I shudder, and prepare to repel
boarding by the NSA.


- Allen S. Rout
- Why bother, they already know.

Re: TSM dream setup

[Gee, Norman]

I have both technology.  I was using both 3590 and 3592 in a 3494
library and have since move to a 3584 library with 3592 and LTO4.
Performance wise the LTO4 are a screamer in backup while the 3592
definitely are more rugged.  800 GB does not sound like a lot of data
per night.

IBM just announce their rack mount libraries with LTO4 drive
capabilities.

We are talking about 800 GB per tape vs. 60 GB possible with extended
length 3590-H1A models 


 -Original Message-
 From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
 Johnny Lea
 Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:38 AM
 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
 Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM dream setup


 I'm looking for some ideas for upgrading/replacing my tsm servers and
 libraries.  I backup about 800GB per night and have about 250 client
 nodes. I have a 7 year old Sun server connected to an IBM 3494 with
six
 3590 drives and a Dell 6800 with 22TB of disc connected to a LTO3
 library. I've thought about replacing the 3590 drives with 3592 but
I'm
 thinking a new LTO4 library might be better.

 If you could get what you wanted what would it be?

 Thanks,
 Johnny




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Re: z/os file system backup support

[Gee, Norman]

It is on my current serverpac order in ShopzSeries.  Go to ShopzSeries
and go to MVS: System Mgmt. and Security.
 
MVS: System Mgmt. and Security
Product  Description Version Language   
5698-A13 IBM TSM for z/OS - Server   5.05.00 English
(US)
5698-A13 IBM TSM for z/OS - B/A Clnt 5.05.00 English
(US)
5698-A13 IBM TSM for z/OS - API  5.05.00 English (US)   


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Len Boyle
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 6:22 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: z/os file system backup support

Good Morning,

We have been using an ADSM/TSM windows server to backup up several MVS
(aka z/os) open edition file systems for a number of years.
A reseller told me that IBM was no longer selling this option.

Is this no longer a supported option or do a just have an open system
guy who is confused.

Thanks len boyle

Re: Off-topic: AIX p520 question

[Gee, Norman]

One method might be to get one of those small network hub/switch, a
couple of network cables and a laptop and/or desktop.  Attach both the
p520 and the laptop/desktop to the network switch using the network
cables. Set the laptop/desktop IP address to an address within the
subnet range of what was assign to the p520. Set the laptop/desktop to
the same IP subnet mask as the p520.  Telnet in to the p520. 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Bill Boyer
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 6:39 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Off-topic: AIX p520 question

Kinda off topic.it'll be my TSM server!



Just received a new Power6 p520, connected to the serial0 console port
with
my Hyperterm and turned the box on. I see all the startup messages and
when
AIX is finally up.nothing. It does not give me a logon prompt. My AIX
guru
is away on medical. So I reloaded AIX 6.1. Went all the way through the
install and initial configuration wizard assigning an IP address to the
Ethernet port. Only probably is.they gave me the wrong subnet mask. So
now I
can't get to it over IP and the serial connection won't give me a logon
prompt.



Any ideas how I can get a logon prompt over the serial so I can fix this
mess?? I've used the serial port on other pServers and it was usually a
matter of finding the right speed for the connection. But I can watch
the
whole boot sequence and then nothing!!



I was hoping to be backing up to this TSm server by Tuesday. What's a
weekend anyway, but 2 more working days until Monday?



Any help will be appreciated. I don't' want to go through the AIX
install
again just to be able to set an IP address during the initial install
wizard.



Biill Boyer

Re: Where can I find the downloadable TSM 5.5 documentation?

[Gee, Norman]

Apparently some of the manuals are on the quick start CD that comes when
you order the media. It includes the various servers installation guides
and the clients installation and user guides. It is missing the various
Admin guides and references. 


 Subject: Re: Where can I find the downloadable TSM 5.5 documentation?

 Not sure what eclipse plugins is, but you can get online versions
from
 here

 http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/index.jsp

Re: 3592 scratch pools

[Gee, Norman]

 
TS1120 and J1A drives will have to be in different logical libraries
similar to having two different types of LTO drives in the same physical
library.  I don't believe that different logical libraries can share
scratch tapes.



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Thomas Denier
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:48 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: 3592 scratch pools

We have a 5.3.4.0 TSM server running under mainframe Linux. It will
be upgraded to 5.4.2.0 in the next few weeks. We currently have
3592J drives used for all primary tape storage pools and a few copy
pools. We have 3590 drives used for most of the copy pools. We are
preparing to order some TS1120 tape drives, which will be used for
all copy pools. All of the existing drives are in the same 3494 tape
library, and the TS1120 drives will be installed in this library.
The TS1120 drives will operate with application managed encryption.
We would like to use the higher density format available with the
TS1120. Will it be possible for the 3592J drives and the TS1120
drives to share a pool of scratch tapes?

Re: STGPOOL migration thresholds

[Gee, Norman]

I have enough disk cache to handle these large backups, but the problem
I have is
the log file filling up and not emptying fast enough to handle this
deluge of data
especially the amount of directory information coming in from Windows
file servers.

I have the log file allocated at 13 GB with 12 GB assign and the backup
threshold set
to 50 percent.  I still had several times when the log file went to over
90 percent 
and the system start delaying transactions by 30 milliseconds.  One time
the system also ran over
15 different DB backups in the space of 2 hours before the utilization
went back down.
Many of these DB backups only pick up 1 or 2 MB of data.



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Nick Laflamme
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:05 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] STGPOOL migration thresholds

What are people using for storage pool migration thresholds these days?
Do the speed and capacity of modern secondary storage make it more
practical to have a very low threshold?

In particular, I'm expecting a large number of large backups as some
WinNT file permissions get updated en masse. If I'm expecting
continual floods of data, I figure we ought to migrate large amounts
each time, but I'm wondering what I'm missing.

Collocation, mount times, and seek times are all factors, but we're
using VTLs that should reduce mount and seek times.

So, what are you using, and with what technology?

Thanks,
Nick


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Re: TSM and mod-27 devices

[Gee, Norman]

You are still limited to a maximum linear VSAM file size of about 4GB.  You
cannot define a single large dataset to used up the entire mod-27 like you
can on an AIX system.

-Original Message-
From: Sam Sheppard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM and mod-27 devices


 Top of message 
-- 07-10-03  14:25  S.SHEPPARD (SHS)TSM and mod-27 devices

Well, I'll take a stab at this.  We just converted from an old RVA to
an ESS-800 and wondered the same thing.  General agreement seemed to be
there weren't really any advantages to mod-27 unless you're running out
of addresses and there were some downsides, mainly the inability to
start more than one I/O to the device at a time without PAV. I'm not
really sure what kind of problems you might see, performancewise. Might
be OK.  There is also the size limitations on the log/db which would
prevent you from using the entire 25GB with one dataset.

There are probably other considerations, but we had no reason not to
just stick to lots of mod-3s.

I know I asked the same thing here about a month ago and didn't get
much feedback.  Anyone else tried this?

Sam Sheppard
San Diego Data Processing Corp.
(858)-581-9668
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 Top of message 
-- 07-10-03  07:46  ..NETMAIL () TSM and mod-27 devices
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:39:35 -0500
From: Glass, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM and mod-27 devices
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
_Top_of_Message_


We're running a V5 TSM Server on an MVS platform, and considering the use of
mod-27s for its DASD needs.
Are there any known issues regarding the use of mod-27 DASD devices for TSM
db, log, or backup/archive pool volumes?
Thanks, in advance.

Peter Glass
MVS Storage Management

---`

Slow USS OMVS backup

[Gee, Norman]

I have an IBM 9672-R26 with 3 LPARs defined.  On the product LPAR I have TSM
server 5.2.1 and the equivalent TSM client. All 3 LPARs have roughly the
same number of OMVS files and file sizes.  The other LPARs are for test and
development.  It takes about 10 to 15 times longer to backup the production
files as oppose to the test and development file.  For example I installed
the latest JAVA PTF, roughly 200 MB and it took about 1.5 hours to backup
the production LPARs to the server running in the same LPAR.  It took only 5
minutes to backup the test and development JAVA changes from their LPAR.  It
backups many times faster going across LPARs as opposed to backing up
itself.  Is this normal?  Is there something wrong with my configuration?
This is a backup to a disk storage pool.  The test and development LPAR were
clones of the production LPAR.  The operating system is z/OS 1.4.

Re: Adding new DB RecLog volumes whilst TSM server is running ( on OS390)

[Gee, Norman]

Did you know that this job will still work with the dddef for //OPT
commented out or left out.
I discover this when I decided I did not want to shutdown my TSM server

-Original Message-
From: Paul Van De Vijver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 4:30 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Adding new DB  RecLog volumes whilst TSM server is running (on
OS390)


Hi,

TSM Server (Version 5.1.8.0) running on OS390 2.10 (in the near future
Z/OS)

Up to now I always halted the TSM Server to define  format  additional
volumes
See example JCL below :

//ALLOCAT  EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
//SYSPRINT  DD  SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN DD  *
DEFINE CLUSTER(NAME(ADSM.DB06) LINEAR MB(2341) VOL(ADSM21))
/*

//ADSMFMT  EXEC PGM=DSMFMT,DYNAMNBR=300,COND=(0,NE,ALLOCAT),
// PARM='/ADSM.DB06'
//OPT   DD  DSN=ADSM.ANRSERV.OPTIONS,DISP=SHR
//DSMAMENG  DD  DSN=TIVSM.V5R1M0.SANRMSG(ANRMENU),DISP=SHR
//SYSPRINT  DD  SYSOUT=*
//SYSTERM   DD  SYSOUT=*
//*

Because the TSM Server options file (//OPT) is in exclusive use by the TSM
started task
I have to stop the TSM Server before being able to execute the format job.

Up to now there was no real problem with halting the server for a few
minutes to do this, but it is becoming
more and more difficult (even impossible) to find a moment where I can
stop the server (due to API-clients
which are accessing the server randomly) without causing archive/restore
problems.

I think this problem should be solved by simply using another options file
name (which is a copy from the original one)
for the format job (and TSM Server keeps running in the meantime).

Can I do this ? Or do I forget something and MUST I stop the TSM Server ?

Thanks for any info.

Best regards,

Paul Van de Vijver
Honda Europe NV
Belgium


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Re: Adding new DB RecLog volumes whilst TSM server is running ( on OS390)

[Gee, Norman]

If you change it to disp=shr, then the TSM started task can't update the
option file on the fly.

 -Original Message-
 From: Slag, Jerry B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 7:37 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: Adding new DB  RecLog volumes whilst TSM server
 is running ( on OS390)


 Change the dd def to disp=shr in the TSM procedure - don't
 let tsm have
 exclusive control.

 -Original Message-
 From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Behalf Of
 Gee, Norman
 Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 12:06 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: Adding new DB  RecLog volumes whilst TSM server
 is running
 ( on OS390)


 Did you know that this job will still work with the dddef for //OPT
 commented out or left out.
 I discover this when I decided I did not want to shutdown my
 TSM server

 -Original Message-
 From: Paul Van De Vijver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 4:30 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Adding new DB  RecLog volumes whilst TSM server is
 running (on
 OS390)


 Hi,

 TSM Server (Version 5.1.8.0) running on OS390 2.10 (in the near future
 Z/OS)

 Up to now I always halted the TSM Server to define  format
 additional
 volumes
 See example JCL below :

 //ALLOCAT  EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
 //SYSPRINT  DD  SYSOUT=*
 //SYSIN DD  *
 DEFINE CLUSTER(NAME(ADSM.DB06) LINEAR MB(2341)
 VOL(ADSM21))
 /*

 //ADSMFMT  EXEC PGM=DSMFMT,DYNAMNBR=300,COND=(0,NE,ALLOCAT),
 // PARM='/ADSM.DB06'
 //OPT   DD  DSN=ADSM.ANRSERV.OPTIONS,DISP=SHR
 //DSMAMENG  DD  DSN=TIVSM.V5R1M0.SANRMSG(ANRMENU),DISP=SHR
 //SYSPRINT  DD  SYSOUT=*
 //SYSTERM   DD  SYSOUT=*
 //*

 Because the TSM Server options file (//OPT) is in exclusive
 use by the TSM
 started task
 I have to stop the TSM Server before being able to execute
 the format job.

 Up to now there was no real problem with halting the server for a few
 minutes to do this, but it is becoming
 more and more difficult (even impossible) to find a moment where I can
 stop the server (due to API-clients
 which are accessing the server randomly) without causing
 archive/restore
 problems.

 I think this problem should be solved by simply using another
 options file
 name (which is a copy from the original one)
 for the format job (and TSM Server keeps running in the meantime).

 Can I do this ? Or do I forget something and MUST I stop the
 TSM Server ?

 Thanks for any info.

 Best regards,

 Paul Van de Vijver
 Honda Europe NV
 Belgium


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Re: Adding new DB RecLog volumes whilst TSM server is running ( on OS390)

[Gee, Norman]

All of this is true, but the dsmfmt program will work without the //OPT
dddef.  It is not needed to format any of the volumes, DB, recovery or disk
cache volumes.  It works without specifying //OPT, so why confuse the matter
with multiple option files.

 -Original Message-
 From: Brian L. Nick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 10:12 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: Adding new DB  RecLog volumes whilst TSM server
 is running ( on OS390)


 Crude but simple way to do this. Stop the TSM server and
 create a copy of
 your .opt file .opt2 or .opt.batch and run the format job against the
 copied file. Just need to keep the copy option file up to date.

  - Brian


 Brian L. Nick
 Systems Technician - Enterprise Storage Solutions
 The Phoenix Companies Inc.
 100 Bright Meadow Blvd
 Enfield CT. 06082-1900

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 If you change it to disp=shr, then the TSM started task can't
 update the
 option file on the fly.

  -Original Message-
  From: Slag, Jerry B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 7:37 AM
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: Re: Adding new DB  RecLog volumes whilst TSM server
  is running ( on OS390)
 
 
  Change the dd def to disp=shr in the TSM procedure - don't
  let tsm have
  exclusive control.
 
  -Original Message-
  From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Behalf Of
  Gee, Norman
  Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 12:06 AM
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: Re: Adding new DB  RecLog volumes whilst TSM server
  is running
  ( on OS390)
 
 
  Did you know that this job will still work with the dddef for //OPT
  commented out or left out.
  I discover this when I decided I did not want to shutdown my
  TSM server
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Paul Van De Vijver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 4:30 AM
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: Adding new DB  RecLog volumes whilst TSM server is
  running (on
  OS390)
 
 
  Hi,
 
  TSM Server (Version 5.1.8.0) running on OS390 2.10 (in the
 near future
  Z/OS)
 
  Up to now I always halted the TSM Server to define  format
  additional
  volumes
  See example JCL below :
 
  //ALLOCAT  EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
  //SYSPRINT  DD  SYSOUT=*
  //SYSIN DD  *
  DEFINE CLUSTER(NAME(ADSM.DB06) LINEAR MB(2341)
  VOL(ADSM21))
  /*
 
  //ADSMFMT  EXEC PGM=DSMFMT,DYNAMNBR=300,COND=(0,NE,ALLOCAT),
  // PARM='/ADSM.DB06'
  //OPT   DD  DSN=ADSM.ANRSERV.OPTIONS,DISP=SHR
  //DSMAMENG  DD  DSN=TIVSM.V5R1M0.SANRMSG(ANRMENU),DISP=SHR
  //SYSPRINT  DD  SYSOUT=*
  //SYSTERM   DD  SYSOUT=*
  //*
 
  Because the TSM Server options file (//OPT) is in exclusive
  use by the TSM
  started task
  I have to stop the TSM Server before being able to execute
  the format job.
 
  Up to now there was no real problem with halting the server
 for a few
  minutes to do this, but it is becoming
  more and more difficult (even impossible) to find a moment
 where I can
  stop the server (due to API-clients
  which are accessing the server randomly) without causing
  archive/restore
  problems.
 
  I think this problem should be solved by simply using another
  options file
  name (which is a copy from the original one)
  for the format job (and TSM Server keeps running in the meantime).
 
  Can I do this ? Or do I forget something and MUST I stop the
  TSM Server ?
 
  Thanks for any info.
 
  Best regards,
 
  Paul Van de Vijver
  Honda Europe NV
  Belgium
 
 
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Re: Virtual Tape Library

[Gee, Norman]

I tried using the IBM 3494-B18 VTS with TSM on the zSeries (z/OS) and
decided it was not a good fit.  TSM recalls partially fill tapes to finish
filling it.  The recall time was about 4 minutes.  Reclaim processing took
forever to bring in reclaimable volumes. Restores took forever with double
recalls of volumes. I am much happier using native 3590 drives.

-Original Message-
From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Anyone tried using one with TSM?

I am mainly interested in a Windows environment, but other experiences would
be very intersting?

Vendor?   Size?   Price?   Ease of Setup?   Ease of Use?   Operational
considerations?  Opinions?

TIA ... Jack

Re: SQL Licensing

[Gee, Norman]

Neither, number of processor cores on system. 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Gill, Geoffrey L.
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 9:55 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: SQL Licensing

What do the SQL licenses fall under these days and how are they
licensed, by
node or by instance?



Thanks,



Geoff Gill

TSM Administrator

PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator

SAIC M/S-G1b

(858)826-4062

Email:  mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 3494 Media Type

[Gee, Norman]

We had similar problem every so often. Our 3494 is over 14 years old and
many of the upper middle cartridge slots sags a little, especially
column C.  The laser sometimes has a hard time reading the barcodes of
those slots. 



How does the 3494 determine which 'media type', e.g. 3590 J or K, a cart
is? Our 3494 is starting to eject tapes as they are inserted complaining
about unknown media type. These are tapes that have been in use for a
number of years and are being reinserted into the 3494 after coming back
from the offsite vault. Most of the time they are being correctly
recognized simply by reinserting them into the library another time. Our
non-IBM CE doesn't have a clue.

David

Re: TDP oddity with an extra registered client?

[Gee, Norman]

 Check the file space names for node W3USPHX, does any of them belong to
SQL TDP. If so, delete the file space. 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Dan Foster
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 2:03 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: TDP oddity with an extra registered client?

Hot Diggety! Stef Coene was rumored to have written:
  tsm: SERVERq lic
  [...]
   Number of TDP for MS SQL Server in use: 3
  [...]
 
  But I only have two TDP 5.2 clients.
 
  How can I determine a list of all 3 registered TDP clients?
 select LICENSE_NAME, NODE_NAME from LICENSE_DETAILS


tsm select LICENSE_NAME, NODE_NAME from LICENSE_DETAILS
MSSQLVN01-DB
MSSQLVN02-DB
MSSQLW3USPHX1
[...]

VN01 and VN02 is correct.

W3USPHX1 was the mistake.

So I need to delete MSSQL license registration for W3USPHX1 only, but
leave the MGSYSLAN license registration alone.

Is there a way to do that without having to delete W3USPHX1 entirely
then recreate and re-backup its TSM data?

-Dan

Re: AW: TDP for Exchange - Management Class

[Gee, Norman]

Actually you will need a fourth node to provide scheduling. The TDP for
mail cannot be schedule, only the backup archive client could be
schedule.  You would schedule the BAC to issue a command to start the
TDP.  Actually I update my exchange nodes once a week to a different
domain to force it to use a different storage pool, but the retention is
the same for both policy domain. This is to force the creation of an
offsite copy of the exchange data once a week.  This is adequate for my
office, so your mileage may vary.  We also only have weekly Iron
Mountain pickups.

-Original Message-
Hi ,

Became  a little bit confusing . So What the purpose of many
management class per node utility If can't use for this purpose describe
?

DomainNodename MgmInclude
Schedule   Opt File

Domain_Exchange   Exchange EXCH_daily INCLUDE *\...\full
EXCH_daily   Sched_Exch_daily dsm.opt (Default)
Domain_Exchange   Exchange EXCH_monthly   INCLUDE *\...\full
EXCH_monthly Sched_Exch_montlydsm_monthly.opt
Domain_Exchange   Exchange EXCH_yearlyINCLUDE *\...\full
EXCH_yearly  Sched_Exch_yearlydsm_yearly.opt 

If I understand correctly with this configuration every backup the files
will be rebinding to the MGM in action !!

And the only way to achieve it , is to create also 3 different nodenames
. Correct

So wasteful 

Regards Robert Ouzen

Re: Magic number errors

[Gee, Norman]

It is not always hardware. Search ibmlink 



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Pau, Vipin
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 7:08 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Magic number errors

 
Hi All,

No doubt some of you have seen these before.

What in your opinion is the cause of these?

Is it always the h/w?

Regards
Vipin

Re: admin interface / Integrated Solutions Console

[Gee, Norman]

Go to
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/tools/

And you will find the unsupported web interface to 5.3 TSM 

And you should also install the ISC and Admin Center.  Both of these
came on separate CDs.

ISC LK4T-0343
Admin Center LK4T-0356



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Lawrence Clark
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 7:57 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: admin interface / Integrated Solutions Console

admin interface..

went to access it under 5.3.2 and got message:

ANR4747W The web administrative interface is no longer supported. Begin
using the Integrated Solutions Console instead.

Is that installed on aIX when the server is installed and how do you
access it?

Re: admin interface / Integrated Solutions Console

[Gee, Norman]

Passport advantage list them as

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V5.3.2 Administration Center, UNIX and Linux,
Multilingual(C88DPML)
 
IBM Integrated Solutions Console V6.0.1 AIX for use with Tivoli Storage
Manager Administration Center, Multilingual(C86PNML)  


Or you can find ISC and admin center at
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance
/admincenter/v5r3/LATEST/



After install you use

http://yourserver:8421/ibm/console

-Original Message-
Go to
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/tools/

And you will find the unsupported web interface to 5.3 TSM

And you should also install the ISC and Admin Center.  Both of these
came on separate CDs.

ISC LK4T-0343
Admin Center LK4T-0356



-

admin interface..

went to access it under 5.3.2 and got message:

ANR4747W The web administrative interface is no longer supported.
Begin
using the Integrated Solutions Console instead.

Is that installed on aIX when the server is installed and how do you
access it?

Admin Center with z/OS server

[Gee, Norman]

Is the Admin Center aware if your TSM server is z/OS? I finally
installed and started Admin Center but my server is now starting to
contain messages about unknown commands and unknown SQL table names.

ANR2939E The reference 'DRIVES' is an unknown SQL table name.
ANR2000E Unknown command - QUERY DR 

Is there a place in Admin Center to tell is the server is z/OS? 

Re: TSM Client Pricing for Intel Dual Core Processors

[Gee, Norman]

Take a look at this announcement letter 
http://www-306.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/3/897/ENUS206-063/ENUS206-063.PDF



IBM*s licensing policy is summarized below:

Number of

licenses

Cores required

Hard- n-Way per per

ware refer- ²1-way² ²1-way²

vendor Server family Chip family ence server(1) server(1)

--  -- --  -

Intel Multiple Single Core Chip 1 1

or server Dual Core Chip 2 1

AMD families(3)

3 Intel and AMD servers include, but are not limited to, the IBM xSeries* , 
Dell PowerEdge, HP ProLiant, and SunFire x64

servers.

All other servers will require a license for each processor core, unless IBM 
announces a separate licensing exception

for that particular technology.






I have been told by our sales rep that it is only per physical chip, not
per core. But I'm not sure if that is IBM's official word or not.



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Bob Martoncik
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 10:21 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: TSM Client Pricing for Intel Dual Core Processors

Does anyone know the pricing for TSM client license in a dual core
environment?

Bob Martoncik
Lucas County Information Services
419-213-4633

Re: Best Practices JigSaw Puzzle

[Gee, Norman]

These disk drives sounds like SATA drives.  I don't believe it is wise to place 
database and recovery logs on these drives. 


Behalf Of Bernaldo de Quiros, Iban 1
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 2:37 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Best Practices  JigSaw Puzzle

Hi all,

Did anyone has a best practice, blueprint, or white paper to partition 
database, recovery log, and storage pools over big/large disks volumes ¿?

for example 14 disks drives with 400 GB each one...

Thanks in Advance,

Regards,

Ibán Bernaldo de Quirós Márquez 
Technical Specialist 
cell: + 34 659 01 91 12 
Sun Microsystems Iberia

Re: Log prune on non-standard log names?

[Gee, Norman]

This has happen to us every so often that the sched log does not get
prune.  Usually if I restart the Schedule process in the control panel
services panel, the log file will trim it self correctly.



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
David McClelland
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 2:53 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Log prune on non-standard log names?

Hi Matthew,

Is your customer's TSM client scheduled using the TSM Central Scheduler
(I guess so if it's growing to over 100MBs) for backup operations? This
kind of log pruning only happens during a TSM scheduled backup operation
Hi All,

One of my customers recently came to me to say that they had a 100MB log
file from TSM sitting in their file system, which confused me since the
setting clearly stated in the options file (Win2K) says

SCHEDLOGRETENTION  7
schedlognamedsmsched_1yr.log

IE 7 browser with web interface

[Gee, Norman]

 

Has anyone tested the unsupported web interface with IE 7 browser?  I
had some problems with the targeted windows. Clicks on list items shows
up in the wrong window.

Re: TDP for Oracle reliability

[Gee, Norman]

RMAN is the oracle tool for backups.  Did they know that if you
implement Oracle RAC, the only way to backup is RMAN.  Are you using RAW
file space?  Some Oracle DBA claims that Oracle runs faster on RAW file
spaces instead of UNIX file spaces.

The physical dump requires Oracle to be down the entire time on the
backup and cannot be done on a RAW file system. One of my system is
running into a 14 hour time require for a full backup and the
recommendation is RMAN to allow for a hot backup.  The Oracle DBA is
complaining about the time require.



Hi all, quick Q regarding TDP for Oracle
our dba insists that having a physical dump of the db is the most
secure way to backup our database ...
and should be used with whatever tool we're deploying ..
I don't know much about oracle so I'm quite puzzled at this request,
is this how everyone backs up their database ?


Tim.

Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?

[Gee, Norman]

I am a little behind in reading my mail.  But we have an early ship
model of the 3494 (SN 10010) and the robot shaft and all the bearings
finally gave out. We had this library since the summer of 1993.  Over a
5 day period, IBM replace the shaft, x cable, y cable,1 gripper,
accessor power supply and all the bearings on the bottom of the robot.
We experience about 4 days of scatter outages.  It may be time to
consider the H1A options.  We had every tape specialist in town going
thru our shop during those days.  The shaft on the early robots was made
of machine piece of stainless steel.  The replacement was some black
Teflon cover metal shaft.


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
David Bronder
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:19 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth
it?

Like Wanda and Bob, we've had our 3494 for coming up on 7 years now.
In that time, though, we've never had a robot failure, nor have we had
to run in manual mode.

We have the dual-gripper option, though, and that's saved us several
times when we've had gripper failures.  For example, the time the
gripper was flinging tapes around inside the library.  The bad gripper
had to be manually disabled since the LM thought it was fine.  But the
second gripper kept us in automated mode.

Another reason for the HA1 option, though, is performance.  If you have
a really large 3494 (pushing 16 frames), dual robots apparently can be
a big boost to mount service times.  Or so says the IBM tape Top Gun
who was here over the weekend helping us expand our 3494.  Fortunately,
our library isn't that big (and I don't expect it to ever get that big).

=Dave

Prather, Wanda wrote:

 Ditto.
 Our 3494 is 7 years old now.
 Same experience with failures (1-2 a year).
 Same experience waiting for the plane to arrive with parts!
 We also just put it in manual mode and tough it out until the repairs
 are done.

Re: VTS or san disk storage

[Gee, Norman]

I would not consider using IBM VTS as a possible solution.  The VTS
internally also runs ADSM.  If the tape volumes you want is not on
cache, the VTS has to retrieve it from tape, place it on disk cache
prior to sending it to the servers.  This takes time. My VTS emulates
IBM 3490E cartridge tapes. These tapes has a native capacity of 800MB or
2.4GB compress.  This is not a lot of data these days.


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Dearman, Richard
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 8:34 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: VTS or san disk storage

We currently use several TB of san based disk storage for our daily
backups which gets migrated during the day to multiple tape libraries.
The san disk administration has become a nightmare and I was thinking of
replacing it with a VTS from IBM or other disk library such as one from
EMC.   Do you guys have experiences with disk library based systems and
have any pro or con comments on them and whether or not you have had
good or bad experiences with them.

 

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Re: SOX compliance question - Is TSM password history maintained?

[Gee, Norman]

 
I don't believe so.  I change my password after it expire.  I then was
able to change it back to the original password.  This was for a admin
account.


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Neil Sharp
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 4:32 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: SOX compliance question - Is TSM password history maintained?

Hello TSM'ers

I wonder whether anybody can help out with this question. I am being
asked
by one of my customers as to whether TSM keeps a history of previous
passwords. This is so a previously used password can not be re-used for
a
certain period of time.

I've looked in all the usual TSM reference areas and can not find the
answer. Can anybody help answer this?

Thanks in advance.

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Re: How do you change the device class of a storage pool?

[Gee, Norman]

How about creating a new primary pool and copy pool set.  When nearly
all of the data has expire out of the original set, move the remaining
data from the old primary pool to the new primary pool and backup to the
new copy pool.  Let the expiration reduce amount of data to copy.

If you define a separate device class for each pool, how would you
control if multiple storage pool request more tape drives than is
available?

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Mark D. Rodriguez
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 2:12 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: How do you change the device class of a storage pool?

Hi,

My question:

Does anybody have a better way to do this?  I am missing something in my
process above that might make things simpler?  This is definitely a time
when I wish I could just poke something into the TSM DB!

Thank You in advance for any help you can offer.

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TSM 5.3 Pubs

[Gee, Norman]

Is there a way to copy the TSM 5.3 publication CD to an internal web
server have it accessible by internal clients?  I don't want to copy the
CD and pass it around.  This would be an internal IIS server.

Re: TSM 5.3 Pubs

[Gee, Norman]

From the pub CD

About the help system

The IBM WebSphere Help System is a viewer for displaying product or
application information developed as Eclipse documentation plug-ins. The
system provides a graphical user interface for browsing and searching
online documentation. The help system includes open source software
developed by the Eclipse Project (www.eclipse.org
http://www.eclipse.org/ ) and only works with information that has
been packaged as an Eclipse documentation plug-in.

The help system uses a web server that is included with the system. The
web server uses a random port to avoid port conflicts among
applications.

Product or application developers can create their own documentation
plug-ins for viewing by their users. To learn about creating and
packaging documentation plug-ins, see the Eclipse Project
www.eclipse.org http://www.eclipse.org/ .

I have an internal web server that I want to add the contents of this CD
to.   The documentation talks about copying the contents to your hard
drive or a file share and then starting a .BAT file to start a web
server on your own PC.  I want to add the contents of the CD to an
establish in house web server.

From Julius Martinez

Hi Norman - you should be able to just copy the contents of the CD to a
local system and use the IC_start.bat file to start the Web server.
There's a file named installing_and_managing.html on the publications
CD that provides more details.


Is there a way to copy the TSM 5.3 publication CD to an internal web
server have it accessible by internal clients?  I don't want to copy the
CD and pass it around.  This would be an internal IIS server.

Re: ISC -Admin Center

[Gee, Norman]

 
Now that I have updated my TSM for z/OS to 5.3.1 and using admin center
on an AIX box.  I am getting error messages on TSM about unknown
commands 'Q DR'?  There is also a setup in admin center about tape
libraries, this does not work in z/OS?  Is this correct?

Re: REMOVAL OF TDP BACKUPS

[Gee, Norman]

Here is the lazy man's method.  Rename the current node in TSM to
something else.  Create a new node for TDP notes.  When you have enough
backups to cover your retention period under your new notes node, delete
the old notes file spaces and node.



From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Andrew Young
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 9:04 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: REMOVAL OF TDP BACKUPS



Dear All, 

I have an old 4.1 TSM Server that is backing up Notes TDP
databases and logs. 
There are currently about 15 weeks worth of backups on this
server, as we have moved the 
Notes backups to a new server TDP is no longer telling TSM when
the backups can be removed. 
This means I have to keep the full 15 weeks on the old server
until a new 15 week copy has been created 
on the new server, by looking at the node I can only see the DB
and log backups. Can any tell we if there 
is a way of expiring the TDP information from the 4.1 TSM server
as the backups build up on the new TSM server. 


Many Thanks,

Andrew Young
Mid-Range Team,
System Software,
Operations  Services,

Miller Street Tel:  0161 903 5079
Skelmersdale  Tel:  01695 53509
Mobile   Tel:  07725065957

e-mail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ISC Admin Center time outs

[Gee, Norman]

Is there a way to change the timeouts in the web gui to Admin Center.
The 5.2 web gui will allow you to stay on for  hours without
reauthorization. ISC keeps on asking me for my userid and password if I
stay idle for 30 minutes.

Re: TSM Client for z/OS

[Gee, Norman]

The MVS FMID is HDN5532 for the client and HDN5533 for the API.  This
will only backup your HFS and ZFS that are mounted to Unix Services.
This will not backup any MVS datasets.

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Sergio Fuentes
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 8:54 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: TSM Client for z/OS

We currently have an AIX 5 ML6, TSM 5.2.6 server backing up most of our
clients.

We also have an IBM z/OS mainframe, V1R4 which has been independently
backing itself up using (i believe) dfshsm straight to some ancient
3490E drives.  We're running into problems fast with this backup
scenario, and this is the first time i've caught wind of this.

So, my question is that I see that TSM documentation for Unix clients
5.2.2 has this page:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/TSMC/GC32-0789-04/en_US/HTML/ans
531.htm#oece

Therefore, I conclude that IBM does have a z/OS binary out there that
can connect to our AIX TSM server.  Can anybody verify this, please?
Our mainframe people are checking on this now, but I have a feeling I'd
get a quicker answer from this list.

Is there a specific avenue that we have to navigate through in order to
license this client?

Is there any other strategy to backup our z/OS server without having to
buy expensive hardware just to back it up?  According to our reseller,
we'd have to expand our 3584 library with 3590 drives just to backup the
mainframe.  But we'd really like to just add more LTO-based drives, and
the easiest way to do that would be with mainframe connectivity to our
existing TSM server.  Is there any reason why we can't or shouldn't go
this route?

Thanks for your help

Sergio

Re: TSM Client for z/OS

[Gee, Norman]

As everyone has says, the z/OS TSM client will only backup the Unix
Services or OMVS part of z/OS.  3592-J1A drives are cheaper than
3590-H1A drives and a whole lot faster.  A few of these drives on a
3592-J70 controller can consume a FICON express 2 channel.  If you have
FICON available, consider the 3592 drives.  You will get 300 GB
cartridges vs. 60 GB cartridges. It time to make some investment on your
z/OS system.  Storagetek (AKA Sun) also make tape drives compatible with
mainframes.


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Len Boyle
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:52 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: TSM Client for z/OS

Hello Sergio

The z/os binary can work with your aix server, but only backs up hfs
files on z/os. 
IBM, really a 3rd party reseller as IBM does not like to sell things
anymore,  told us to use the 3584 with the mainframe, one would have to
buy a 3494 like control box, switches, at least one new frame with 3592
tape drives. Which is more expensive that the lto-3's. The real $$$'s
are in the new control box, switches etc. The mainframe controller uses
an 3584 virtual library.

len 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Sergio Fuentes
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:54 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM Client for z/OS

We currently have an AIX 5 ML6, TSM 5.2.6 server backing up most of our
clients.

We also have an IBM z/OS mainframe, V1R4 which has been independently
backing itself up using (i believe) dfshsm straight to some ancient
3490E drives.  We're running into problems fast with this backup
scenario, and this is the first time i've caught wind of this.

So, my question is that I see that TSM documentation for Unix clients
5.2.2 has this page:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/TSMC/GC32-0789-04/en_US/HTML/ans
531.htm#oece

Therefore, I conclude that IBM does have a z/OS binary out there that
can connect to our AIX TSM server.  Can anybody verify this, please?
Our mainframe people are checking on this now, but I have a feeling I'd
get a quicker answer from this list.

Is there a specific avenue that we have to navigate through in order to
license this client?

Is there any other strategy to backup our z/OS server without having to
buy expensive hardware just to back it up?  According to our reseller,
we'd have to expand our 3584 library with 3590 drives just to backup the
mainframe.  But we'd really like to just add more LTO-based drives, and
the easiest way to do that would be with mainframe connectivity to our
existing TSM server.  Is there any reason why we can't or shouldn't go
this route?

Thanks for your help

Sergio

Re: ADSM-L TSM Z/OS Server

[Gee, Norman]

Your drives in the library are SMS manage, the standalone drives are not
SMS manage.  You can have a device class that point to a different
esoteric for the standalone drives.  I also have 3592 drives in the
library.  They are define as 3590-1 in IOCDS.  SMS is the only one that
know the difference. 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Sam Sheppard
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:26 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: ADSM-L TSM Z/OS Server

 Top of message 
-- 01-19-06  11:22  S.SHEPPARD (SHS)ADSM-L] TSM Z/OS Server

I believe you need a separate z/OS unitname for drives that are not in
the 3494.  Your z/OS operating system needs to know the difference to
be able to force the allocation to the standalone 3590s.  There may also
need to be a modification to your SMS DATACLASS routine.

Sam Sheppard
San Diego Data Processing Corp.
(858)-581-9668
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-- 01-19-06  10:58  ..NETMAIL () [ADSM-L] TSM Z/OS Server
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:00:43 -0500
From: Tim Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ADSM-L] TSM Z/OS Server - Unable to allocate Copy Storage Pool
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
_Top_of_Message_


Origianlly had 2 3590-1 tape drives in 3494 tape subsystem, all was fine
We added 2 stanadalone 3590 tape drives . The origianal and new drives
are both UNIT=3590-1

Both my primary storage and copy storage pools use a DEVCLASS with =
UNIT=3590-1

When I copy a primary storage pool to a copy storage pool I get a Z/OS =
message IKJ56241I

ANR0984I Process 12 for BACKUP STORAGE POOL started in the BACKGROUND at
=

13:03:36.
=

ANR2110I BACKUP STGPOOL started as process 12.
=

ANR1210I Backup of primary storage pool NETWARE_TAPE to copy storage
=

pool
=

NETWARE_COPY started as process 12.
=

TSM:TIVOLIV51
=

ANR1228I Removable volume A00310 is required for storage pool backup.
=

ANR5216I 3590 A00310 is expected to be mounted (R/O).
=

IKJ56241I DATA SET NETWAREC.BFS.V3421 NOT ALLOCATED+
=

IKJ56241I NO UNIT AVAILABLE
=

IEC501A M 0911,A00310,SL,COMP,ADSM,ADSM,NETWARE.BFS
=


Since both the tape subsystem and standalone 3590s are both 3590-1
how can I force TSM to use the tape subsystem tape units



Tim Brown
Systems Specialist
Central Hudson Gas  Electric
284 South Ave
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: 845-486-5643
Fax: 845-486-5921

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Upcoming Feb 3 worm attack on Microsoft Windows systems

[Gee, Norman]

Is anyone considering special archives for all their windows servers
because of this worm or is someone here is over reacting?

 
Antivirus vendors are warning of a rapidly spreading worm that is
carrying a potentially destructive set of instructions. The Nyxem worm
-- also nicknamed the Kama Sutra worm -- is programmed to overwrite all
of the files on computers it infects on Feb. 3, said Mikko Hypponen,
chief research officer at F-Secure Corp. 

F-Secure researchers found the worm truncates files to 20 bytes and
causes an error message when one is opened, he said. 

Re: EXCHANGE COPY backups and MGMT classes?

[Gee, Norman]

You could use 2 different exchange nodes attach to 2 different policy
domains. 

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Prather, Wanda
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 2:41 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] EXCHANGE COPY backups and MGMT classes?

Need help from an EXCHANGE GURU.
 
I have a site that wants to send EXCHANGE TDP backups to 2 different
tape pools, with different retention periods.
One will be kept onsite, the other will go offsite as a long-term
archive copy (this is a temp solution until some doc management software
is implemented).
 
Is that what the EXCHANGE COPY type DB is for?  Is that an out of band
snapshot type backup?  And can I use the include/exclude statements to
direct just the COPY type backups to a different management class?
 
Thanks for any insight!
 
Wanda 
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Re: schedlogretention.

[Gee, Norman]

Have your restarted the scheduler?  The scheduler only reads the dsm.sys
file on startup. 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Mark Stapleton
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 12:49 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: schedlogretention.

ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 02/01/2006
01:44:00 PM:
 TSM client 5.3.1.1
 OS linux RH 3.0
 TSM server 5.3.1.2

 On all three of my archive only Linux servers the schedlogretention
and
 errorlogretention parameters in the dsm.sys are not being used. The
 contents in the logs date back to 10-12-05. The dsm.sys has not been
 changed since 9-12-2005.
 An archive process is scheduled to run every 12 hours.

 errorlogretention 7 d
 schedlogretention 7 d
 errorlogname /another_directory/dsmerror.log
 schedlogname /another_directory/dsmsched.log

 Has anybody seen this before ?

Curiousity: have you tried adding it to the relevant client option set
on
the server? I for one would be interested as to whether that did the job
better.

Another curiousity: does log retention work on archives only? I always
see
the trimming going on at the end of a scheduled backup. You might try a
single scheduled backup on one box to see if that trims the logs.

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Re: Inclexcl for root file system

[Gee, Norman]

Lookup the domain statement for the client options 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Thomas Denier
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 1:42 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Inclexcl for root file system

From: L'Huillier, Denis (GTI) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I'm trying to include the root / file system and exclude
everything
else not previously matched in my inclexcl file.

Example...
File systems:
/
/data
/data1
/data2
/dump
/junk

Inclexcl:

Exclude /.../* -- Here I want to exclude everything not
explicitly
stated below which would include /junk and any future file system.
Include /--Here I want the root file system and all
subdirectories that are mounted on root.
Include /data/.../* CLASS3
Exclude /data/.../*.out
Include /data1/.../* CLASS2
Include /data2/.../* CLASS1

The Include / line will not get all files and subdirectories that
are
part of the root file system. If I use Include /.../* then it
negates
the Exclude /.../* above it.

I really don't recommend making exclusion the rule and inclusion the
exception. If the system file population changes and you forget a
necessary update to the include/exclude file you may fail to backup
data that should be backed up. If inclusion is the rule and exclusion
the exception, a similar mistake might cause you to backup unneeded
data. The latter is normally considered the less serious risk.

If you must go ahead with this approach, I would suggest using the
'domain' option to limit backup coverage to the four file systems
containing the data you care about. You could then have three
excludes like 'exclude /data/.../*' and more specific includes as
in your original plan.

Re: BACKUP STGPOOL or MOVE DATA Error

[Gee, Norman]

I was first told to put in ionocopy off in my server options file to
resolve one problem and then latter I was told to remove this option as
it cause other problems.  When I query ionocopy option it now shows on.
Your statement is if it is enable then remove it from your option file.
Is 'ON' enable or disable, sorry the query shows on or off and not
enable or disable. 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
L'Huillier, Denis (GTI)
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 7:52 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: BACKUP STGPOOL or MOVE DATA Error

Contact support.  I had a similar situation.  Here's the synopsis:

The data is corrupt but may be recoverable via a PTF.  New storage pools
defined with 5.3 will verify the data before moving to a different pool.
If the data is corrupt it will not move the data so recovery efforts can
be initiated.

There is a known problem which you may be experiencing and is
recoverable.

All your disk pools should have the verifyData=True option setting
which can only be viewed via show sspool.
If verifyData=False then upd stg x VERIFYDATA=YES should be
issued.   This option will give you the error below instead of moving
corrupt data to another pool.

Issue q opt ionocopy from the server.  If this is enable remove it
immediately from your server options file.

Re: Offsite library via fiber

[Gee, Norman]

 The tornados may not be 3 km wide, but it can travel 3 km and hit both
buildings VBG  I get a lotto ticket if that happens.

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Andy Huebner
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 1:33 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Offsite library via fiber

We are building that setup.  We will have the first part of the offsite
library in place for testing around April.  We will only be 3KM away,
but there are not many 3k wide tornados...

Andy Huebner

Re: TDP for Databases Licensing

[Gee, Norman]

The total number of CPUs that the Oracle servers is using. 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Richard Mochnaczewski
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 8:13 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: TDP for Databases Licensing

Hi Everybody,

Regarding licensing for TDP for Databases ( for Oracle , for instance ).
Are the licenses I require to purchase based on the number of CPUs the
client has or by client i.e server has 4 CPUs I need to buy 4 licenses
or just one license for the client ?

Rich

Re: Where is tivoli-data-protection for Oracle on Linux

[Gee, Norman]

Only the patches for the TDPs are on the ftp site.  The original
installable software is only available on the passport advantage site if
you are license for the product. 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Justin Case
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 7:15 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Where is tivoli-data-protection for Oracle on Linux

Where is tivoli-data-protection for Oracle on Linux ? it does not appear
to
be on the download site ?

ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintena
nce/tivoli-data-protection/

Thanks

Justin

Re: Throttle a Windows client?

[Gee, Norman]

Not exactly the same but the resourceutilization options will limit the
number of threads created at backup time 



I imagine this topic would have been covered, but can't find anything on
it.

I don't think you can do it within TSM (correct me if I'm wrong) but
does
anyone know how to limit
the bandwidth that is used by the tsm client on windows?
I.E. Never use more than 20% of the network connection, never exceed
5
mb/s etc.

Regards,
Shawn

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Re: LTO Tape Life

[Gee, Norman]

The TS3500 internal web server provides some information about the
cartridges.  Not sure what they really means.
It does tell you the number of read and write errors for both LTO and
3592 cartridges from the cartridge memory.

Go to your TS3500 library internal web server
Expand +Cartridges
Select Data Cartridges
Select Download mount history(.csv)

This will pull up a spreadsheet with the last 100 mounts for the
library.

Information include are 

Mount History   
Mount   Life
Tape Alert  Mounts
WRetries
Media   Media   Media
Date and Time   VolSer  Frame   Drive   LogLib  EAddr   _1-64   Count
Count



   Mount   

WPerms  RRetriesRPerms  Rating 
 Write
Media   Media   Media   Drive   Media   Ports   Port0   Port1   Rsvd
Perf
Count   Count   Count   _1-255  _1-255  _1-255  _1-255  _1-255  _1-255
Util%




  
   Read   Capacity
  Crypto  
ERPsBurst   Buffer  PerfERPsBurst   Buffer  Total   Writes
Control Status  Rekey
Impct%  Util%   Util%   Util%   Impct%  Util%   Util%   Util%   Util%
Util%   

Re: Please tell me about your LTO3 / LTO4 performance

[Gee, Norman]

Single migrate process of compress data from DS-4200 to LTO4 ~ 300 GB
per hour. 4 Gb fabric, No ISL. 


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Kauffman, Tom
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 9:07 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Please tell me about your LTO3 / LTO4 performance

Two items, then.

Alternate pathing may help. Also, what is the available bandwidth of the
ISL to the edge switches? For your system, it should be at least 6 Gb; 8
would be marginally better (three paired ports at 2 Gb/port, or two
paired ports at 4 Gb/port).

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Thach, Kevin G
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:52 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Please tell me about your LTO3 / LTO4 performance

I am set up very similar to you.  My TSM LPAR HBAS connect to a director
class switch which has an ISL to each of the edge switches that the tape
drives themselves connect to (odd drives on one and even on the other
like yourself.)

Therefore, I have 64 rmt devices at the AIX level for my LTO3 drives, as
each tape HBA sees each of the 14 drives.  I am not using the alternate
pathing.

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Kauffman, Tom
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:42 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Please tell me about your LTO3 / LTO4 performance

How are your tape drives attached to your TSM HBAs? Presumably by SAN
switch, so how do you have the drives zoned? Ideally, every drive should
be visible on every fiber and alternate path support should be enabled
(chdev -l rmtx -a alt_pathing=yes) (do NOT do for the SMC if you do not
have path failover; may not work for LTO3 if you do not have path
failover).

I have 10 LTO4 and 6 LTO2 drives, and 10 fibers to tape from my TSM
LPAR; two SAN switches, with the even-numbered drives in one and the
odd-numbered drives in the other. The result is 80 rmt (tape) devices
for the LPAR.

I know I'm network limited - so I only get a maximum of 110 MB/sec per
drive/network interface in my nightly SAP backups. (dedicated Gb
networks, one per concurrent backup session - Gigabit Ethernet NICs are
cheap!) My off-site copy processes run at LTO2 drive speed (the 'twos
are only used for offsite tapes).

This is for 4 concurrent sessions over two network interfaces:
BKI1215I: Average transmission rate was 762.364 GB/h (216.850 MB/sec).
BKI1227I: Average compression factor was 1.000.
BKI0020I: End of program at: Mon Jun 30 20:55:08 EDT 2008 .
BKI0021I: Elapsed time: 01 h 52 min 00 sec .
BKI0024I: Return code is: 0.

So I averaged 108 MB/sec over the NIC, and 54 MB/sec to the drive.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Thach, Kevin G
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 10:41 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Please tell me about your LTO3 / LTO4 performance

Hi all-



For quite some time now, I have been trying to track down an elusive
bottleneck in my TSM environment relating to disk-to-tape performance.
This is a long read, but I would be very greatful for any suggestions.
Hopefully some of you folks much smarter than me out there will be able
to point me in the right direction.



If any other LTO3 or LTO4 users out there could give me some examples of
their real-world performance along with a little detail on their config,
that would be most helpful as well!



My current environment consists of:



* TSM server = p570 LPAR w/4  1.9GHz processors and 8GB RAM, (6)
2Gb HBAS (2 for disk and 4 for tape traffic), and a 10Gb Ethernet
adapter.

* TSM 5.4.1.2 on AIX 5.3 TL6

* 3584 w/14 LTO3 drives at primary site

* 3584 w/12 LTO1 drives at DR/hotsite (copypool volumes are
written directly to this library via SAN routing)

* DB (80GB -- 4GB DBVOL size) residing on IBM DS8300 behind IBM
SVC

* Log (11GB - single LOGVOL) residing on IBM DS8300 behind IBM
SVC

* Primary Storage pool in question (2.5TB -- 20GB volume size),
DISK device class, residing on IBMDS8300 behind IBM SVC



I currently back up about 4.5TB / night, of which ~2TB is written
directly to my primary LTO3 tape pool with a simultaneous write to my
copypool across town.  So, each morning I'm left with about 2.5TB of
data to copy and migrate from my disk pool(s) to copypool and onsite
tape respectively.



My backup stg performance to LTO1 tape (copypool) is about what I would
expect.  I run 5 threads for this process (5 mount points used), and I
consistently average 20-25MB/sec/drive.  Fair enough.  I don't know of
anyone getting a whole lot more than that out of an LTO1 drive.



After that is complete, I then migrate that data to my LTO3 tape here
onsite.  That performance is pretty lousy compared to what I would
expect to get out of LTO3.  I run  6 migration threads (6 mount points
used), and 

Re: There are not enough scratch volumes available

[Gee, Norman]

You can change the definition of the storage pool and allow it to use
more scratch volumes 

-Original Message-
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David Lopes
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 3:50 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: There are not enough scratch volumes available

The information about the volumes its:

Can you help me to say me witch one I can change?

  09:07:28.00
 193ACAL4 BACKUPFULL   2008-09-02
  09:00:18.00


 What I have have to do to solve this problem?

 Thanks for your help

 David


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Re: CBRM - Centera and my TSM server.

[Gee, Norman]

For the Celerra, the NDMP manuals is at powerlink.emc.com, requires
powerlink account

Under support, technical documentation and Advisories,
Hardware/platforms Documentation, Celerra network server,
installation/configuration  scroll down for NDMP 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Ochs, Duane
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 9:19 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: CBRM - Centera and my TSM server.

Can someone give me a clue ?
 
I've been tasked to back up our Centera... I have no working knowledge
of CBRM and have not been through any previous exercises to define NDMP
operations on TSM.
 
What I have:
 
TSM server EE 5.4.3 on AIX. CBRM version 2.2. T950 library with 10 LTO4
drives.
I have the host defined, I have a STG defined for TOC and I have a
separate domain defined for just this process.
 
I inititated the nas backup and it appeared the data was being sent to
the TSM server around 175 gb of data. 
The STG had no data, No tapes were mounted but my recovery log grew
throughout the process. 
 
I'm working with a vendor that has some experiencing setting this up and
appears to be lost down the wrong track.
I was able to locate some documentation on this and it appears that I
have to define a separate library for this processing.
 
Can anyone give me some background on how this is supposed to work ? And
possibly what I am missing.
 
Thanks,
Duane

Re: CBRM - Centera and my TSM server.

[Gee, Norman]

There are 2 webcast which may be helpful

Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup Considerations with Nseries
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2077context=SSGSG7dc=DA41
0dc=DA450dc=DA430dc=DA440dc=D600dc=D700dc=DB510dc=DB520dc=D800d
c=D900dc=DA900dc=DA800dc=DB540dc=DB400dc=DB560dc=DB530dc=DA600dc
=DB550dc=D100dc=DA420dc=DA460dc=DB300dc=DA470dc=DA480dc=DB100dc=
DA4A10dc=DA4A20dc=DA700dc=DA4A30dc=DA400dc=DA100dc=DA500dc=D200d
c=DB700dc=DB600q1=tste_webcastuid=swg27010813loc=en_UScs=UTF-8lang
=all

Tivoli Storage Manager: Overview, setup, and usage of NDMP operations
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2077context=SSGSG7dc=DA41
0dc=DA450dc=DA430dc=DA440dc=D600dc=D700dc=DB510dc=DB520dc=D800d
c=D900dc=DA900dc=DA800dc=DB540dc=DB400dc=DB560dc=DB530dc=DA600dc
=DB550dc=D100dc=DA420dc=DA460dc=DB300dc=DA470dc=DA480dc=DB100dc=
DA4A10dc=DA4A20dc=DA700dc=DA4A30dc=DA400dc=DA100dc=DA500dc=D200d
c=DB700dc=DB600q1=tste_webcastuid=swg27010609loc=en_UScs=UTF-8lang
=all 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Ochs, Duane
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 9:19 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: CBRM - Centera and my TSM server.

Can someone give me a clue ?
 
I've been tasked to back up our Centera... I have no working knowledge
of CBRM and have not been through any previous exercises to define NDMP
operations on TSM.
 
What I have:
 
TSM server EE 5.4.3 on AIX. CBRM version 2.2. T950 library with 10 LTO4
drives.
I have the host defined, I have a STG defined for TOC and I have a
separate domain defined for just this process.
 
I inititated the nas backup and it appeared the data was being sent to
the TSM server around 175 gb of data. 
The STG had no data, No tapes were mounted but my recovery log grew
throughout the process. 
 
I'm working with a vendor that has some experiencing setting this up and
appears to be lost down the wrong track.
I was able to locate some documentation on this and it appears that I
have to define a separate library for this processing.
 
Can anyone give me some background on how this is supposed to work ? And
possibly what I am missing.
 
Thanks,
Duane

Re: ?how to force NDMP LAN-free backups to fill one tape before writing on another?

[Gee, Norman]

Did you backup each filespace sequentially or all at once?

I.E.

serial
backup node nas /fs1 mode=full wait=yes
backup node nas /fs2 mode=full wait=yes
backup node nas /fs3 mode=full wait=yes
backup node nas /fs4 mode=full wait=yes 
backup node nas /fs5 mode=full wait=yes
backup node nas /fs6 mode=full wait=yes
backup node nas /fs7 mode=full wait=yes
backup node nas /fs8 mode=full wait=yes 
backup node nas /fs9 mode=full wait=yes
backup node nas /fs10 mode=full wait=yes
backup node nas /fs11 mode=full wait=yes
backup node nas /fs12 mode=full wait=yes 
backup node nas /fs13 mode=full wait=yes
backup node nas /fs14 mode=full wait=yes
backup node nas /fs15 mode=full wait=yes
backup node nas /fs16 mode=full wait=yes 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
James R Owen
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 5:48 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: ?how to force NDMP LAN-free backups to fill one tape before
writing on another?

I am trying to force NDMP LAN-free backups to keep the same tape mounted
and serially reuse it when a NetApp filer needs to write multiple
backups.

We have just implemented our first NDMP LAN-free backups w/ TSM
v5.5.1.1,
w/ a single NetApp filer backing up 16 VirtualFS from nightly snapshots,
e.g.,
DEFine VIRTUALFSmapping netapp-01 /x.snap /vol/volx /.snapshot/nightly.0

I was disappointed to find that DEVType=NAS requires MOUNTRetention=0:
e.g.,
DEFine DEVclass LTO3N LIBRary=bec3584 DEVType=NAS ESTCAPacity=800G -
 MOUNTRetention=0 MOUNTWait=5
[that forces a tape dismount after each NDMP backup, right?]

We use LTO1 scratch tapes in our 3584 library so I defined 10 * LTO3
volumes into our new BackupL3N STGpool:

DEFine STGpool BackupL3N LTO3N POoltype=PRimary DATAFOrmat=NETAPPDump -
 COLlocate=Group [=default setting] MAXSCRatch=0

The filer wrote NDMP backups on all 10 tapes, so I did MOVE DATA's to
collocate all of the backups back onto a single tape and tried:

UPDate STGpool BackupL3N COLlocate=Node

Same results:  NDMP backups on all 10 tapes again!

Help?  [or is that just how NDMP backups work?]
--
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Re: Quality alternative to VMware's Virtual Consolidated Backup?

[Gee, Norman]

Different schedules types (macro and incremental) with different pre and
post commands. 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Thorneycroft, Doug
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 8:29 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Quality alternative to VMware's Virtual Consolidated
Backup?

If you don't want to use the consolidate backup, you can install
a client on each virtual machine, and treat is the same way you
treat a real physical client.

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Bell, Charles (Chip)
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 8:15 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Quality alternative to VMware's Virtual Consolidated Backup?


Anyone know of an alternative method of backing up VMs, with the ability
to
run file-level or full VM backups? A product, scripting, anything?

 

God bless you!!! 

Chip Bell 
Network Engineer I
IBM Tivoli Certified Deployment Professional (ITSM)
Baptist Health System 
Birmingham, AL 



 




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Re: Where is the missing 38GB?

[Gee, Norman]

The dreaded DSMSERV DUMPDB and DSMSERV LOADDB  (not recommended)

DSMSERV LOADDB (Reload the database)

Use this command to reload a Tivoli Storage Manager database in optimal
order.

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 9:44 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Where is the missing 38GB?

12/2/2008 12:41:46 PM ANR0984I Process 1 for ESTIMATE DBREORG started in
the BACKGROUND at 12:41:46 PM.
12/2/2008 12:41:46 PM ANR1782W ESTIMATE DBREORG process 1 started -
server
performance may be degraded while this process is running.
12/2/2008 12:41:46 PM ANR0405I Session 78 ended for administrator
ZFORRAY
(WinNT).
12/2/2008 12:41:53 PM ANR1784I A database reorganization would reduce
the
database utilization by an estimated 0 MB.
12/2/2008 12:41:53 PM ANR0987I Process 1 for ESTIMATE DBREORG running in
the BACKGROUND processed 1344 items with a completion state of SUCCESS
at
12:41:54 PM.
12/2/2008 12:41:53 PM ANR0381I Buffer pool statistics were successfully
reset.

On 02/12, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote:
 I have a test TSM server (5.5.1) which is producing some strange DB
 statistics.

 **
 *** --- Q DB F=D
 **


Available Space (MB): 56,336
  Assigned Capacity (MB): 53,264
  Maximum Extension (MB): 3,072
  Maximum Reduction (MB): 14,360
   Page Size (bytes): 4,096
  Total Usable Pages: 13,635,584
  Used Pages: 15,676
Pct Util: 0.1
   Max. Pct Util: 0.1
Physical Volumes: 6
   Buffer Pool Pages: 131,072
   Total Buffer Requests: 249
  Cache Hit Pct.: 100.00
 Cache Wait Pct.: 0.00
 Backup in Progress?: No
  Type of Backup In Progress:
Incrementals Since Last Full: 4
  Changed Since Last Backup (MB): 211.15
  Percentage Changed: 344.82
  Last Complete Backup Date/Time: 08/20/2008 09:49:38
  Estimate of Recoverable Space (MB):
 Last Estimate of Recoverable Space (MB):


 With an assigned capacity of 52GB yet only 0.1% utilized (52MB?), it
says
 I can only reduce the DB by 13GB 

 So, where is the remaining 38GB of DB usage ?

 There are 5-Disk STG volumes (empty/0% utilized), 2-Nodes with NO
 filespaces, defined.  Q STG shows:

...
 I did a DSMSERV AUDITDB FIX=YES  and the only thing it complained
(and
 fixed) about was old schedules for non-existing nodes.  Also did an
 EXPIRE INVENTORY.

The DB is probably fragmented. Try:

 ESTIMATE DBREORGSTATS
 Q DBVOL F=D

Re: NAS NDMP backups using a copy pool

[Gee, Norman]

My NAS backup scripts looks like
serial
backup node NAS /fs1 mode=full wait=yes
.
backup node NAS /fsx mode=full wait=yes
backup stgpool nasprimary nascopy   

The NAS unit backups over the SAN and creates the copies over the SAN.
The NAS unit creates the copy and not TSM

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Joni Moyer
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 8:51 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: NAS NDMP backups using a copy pool

Hello everyone,

I recently upgraded a TSM AIX 5.3 server to 5.5.1.1 and would like to
begin utilizing the copy pools for our offsite backups.  I've been
searching in the 5.5 manuals for good documentation on how to set this
up
and then fold it into our DRM plan, but I'm not finding much.  Does
anyone
know how to do this?  Thanks in advance!


Joni Moyer
Highmark
Storage Systems, Storage Mngt Analyst III
Phone Number: (717)302-9966
Fax: (717) 302-9826
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Centera or better yet NAS restore help

[Gee, Norman]

If you use a windows base client and sign in to the TSM server using a
privilege account.
You will see in the GUI for restore the expansion tab for nodes.
You will see the NAS nodes and then the windows nodes. 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Ochs, Duane
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 9:05 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Centera or better yet NAS restore help

Good day all,
The on going saga of Centera backups and now restore attempts using TSM.
 
I have performed a number of backups of our Centera. 1 full and three
Differentials using the following command.
BACKUP NODE test_cbrm c:\centera mode=differential toc=yes w=y
 
I am unable to see any of the backups from the client's TSM client. Can
anyone point me in the right direction ?

Here is a copy of the opt file:
 
NASNODENAME test_cbrm
PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE
TCPSERVERADDRESS local_tsm1
COMPRESSION YES
COMPRESSALWAYS NO
MEMORYEFFICIENTBACKUP YES
LARGECOMMBUFFERS YES
TAPEPROMPT NO
TCPBUFFSIZE 64
TCPNODELAY YES
TCPWINDOWSIZE 512
TXNBYTELIMIT 2097152
schedlogretention 7 d
errorlogretention 7 d

 
NASNode is define as:
 

tsm: QTWATSM1q node test* type=nas f=d
 
 Node Name: TEST_CBRM
  Platform: Windows NT
   Client OS Level: 5 (EMC)
Client Version:
Policy Domain Name: CBRM_DOMAIN
 Last Access Date/Time: 12/04/08   11:42:42
Days Since Last Access: 1
Password Set Date/Time: 11/05/08   12:20:19
   Days Since Password Set: 29
 Invalid Sign-on Count: 0
   Locked?: No
   Contact:
   Compression:
   Archive Delete Allowed?: Yes
Backup Delete Allowed?: No
Registration Date/Time: 11/05/08   12:20:19
 Registering Administrator: ADMIN
Last Communication Method Used: NDMP
   Bytes Received Last Session:
   Bytes Sent Last Session:
  Duration of Last Session:
   Pct. Idle Wait Last Session:
  Pct. Comm. Wait Last Session:
  Pct. Media Wait Last Session:
 Optionset:
   URL:
 Node Type: NAS
Password Expiration Period:
 Keep Mount Point?: No
  Maximum Mount Points Allowed: 1
Auto Filespace Rename : No
 Validate Protocol: No
   TCP/IP Name: TEST
TCP/IP Address: XX.XX.XX.XX
Globally Unique ID:
1b.7d.b2.e1.c2.14.11.dd.8f.e4.00.19.b9.cf.3c.88
 Transaction Group Max: 0
   Data Write Path: ANY
Data Read Path: ANY
Session Initiation: ClientOrServer
High-level Address:
 Low-level Address:
Collocation Group Name:
  Proxynode Target:
   Proxynode Agent:
   Node Groups:
 Email Address:
 
created a host and admin and granted auth to the system for access to
the nasnode.
 

tsm: QTWATSM1q node test f=d
 
 Node Name: test
  Platform: WinNT
   Client OS Level: 5.02
Client Version: Version 5, Release 5, Level 1.1
Policy Domain Name: STANDARD
 Last Access Date/Time: 12/04/08   11:46:16
Days Since Last Access: 1
Password Set Date/Time: 12/04/08   10:04:46
   Days Since Password Set: 1
 Invalid Sign-on Count: 0
   Locked?: No
   Contact:
   Compression: Client
   Archive Delete Allowed?: Yes
Backup Delete Allowed?: No
Registration Date/Time: 12/04/08   10:04:46
 Registering Administrator: ADMIN
Last Communication Method Used:
   Bytes Received Last Session: 0
   Bytes Sent Last Session: 0
  Duration of Last Session: 0.00
   Pct. Idle Wait Last Session: 0.00
  Pct. Comm. Wait Last Session: 0.00
  Pct. Media Wait Last Session: 0.00
 Optionset:
   URL:
 Node Type: Client
Password Expiration Period:
 Keep Mount Point?: No
  Maximum Mount Points Allowed: 1
Auto Filespace Rename : No
 Validate Protocol: No
   TCP/IP Name: TEST
TCP/IP Address: xx.xx.xx.xx
Globally Unique ID:
1b.7d.b2.e1.c2.14.11.dd.8f.e4.00.19.b9.cf.3c.88
 Transaction Group Max: 0
   Data Write Path: ANY
Data Read Path: ANY
Session Initiation: ClientOrServer
High-level Address:
 Low-level Address:
Collocation Group Name:
  Proxynode Target:
   Proxynode Agent:
   Node Groups:
 Email Address:
 
Admin defined as:

tsm: QTWATSM1q admin TEST f=d
 
Administrator Name: TEST
 Last Access Date/Time: 12/04/08   10:45:05
Days Since Last Access: 1
Password Set Date/Time: 12/04/08   10:04:46
   Days 

Re: 5.4 -- 6.0 (server)

[Gee, Norman]

I guess with the rumor conversion to DB2, it would no longer be feasible
to place the database on JBOD mirror by TSM.  The recommendation may be
RAID 5 or 6 storage with fibre channel disks and not SATA disks. Am I
close?

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Richard Rhodes
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 9:39 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: 5.4 -- 6.0 (server)

What I'm interested in on the upgrade to DB2 is the disk requirements.

Will it . . .
  - upgrade in place right over top of the existing TSM db?  Using same
files or Raw volumes?
  - require a all new disk (leaves old TSM db alone while it creates new
DB2 db)?
  - Use/recommend raw vs filesystems ( we currently use raw logical
volumes)?

Lots of stuff to look forward to!

Rick








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They told us the same, but that if you had 5.4, the upgrade process
would
magically take it to 5.5 and thence to 6.1 under the covers.


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 Recently (3 weeks ago) we had a meeting with IBM folks about TSM
issues.
 In talking about the coming v6.1 they said that TSM v5.5 would be
rquired
 for the upgrade to v6.1.  Take it with a large grain of salt, but
that's
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 Hi Goc?,

 well, 6.0 will never exist, IBM starts counting at 1, so it'll be 6.1
:)

 Ss for the path, currently the beta-manual says that 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5
 will be supported as a starting-point for an upgrade to 6.1, but IBM
 might change their mind. There is a note that the upgrade tools have
 the same system requirements as 5.5, so if your os is unsupported for
 5.5, so will the upgrade tool be

 (anything I say is subject to change until the product has been
 released, I'm not an IBM employee, so I don't speak on their behalf).

 On 19 dec 2008, at 17:09, goc wrote:

  will it be possible ?
 
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Re: 5.4 -- 6.0 (server)

[Gee, Norman]

What is your opinion of placing the DB2 database on a DS8300 or any
other high end SAN? (RAID 5 only, all 15K drives) parity write overhead.
Is it possible to access both a DS-4200 and a DS-8300 from the same pair
of FC cards?  Different multipath drivers. 

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Remco Post
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 3:26 AM
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On 21 dec 2008, at 08:56, Gee, Norman wrote:

 I guess with the rumor conversion to DB2, it would no longer be
 feasible
 to place the database on JBOD mirror by TSM.  The recommendation may
 be
 RAID 5 or 6 storage with fibre channel disks and not SATA disks. Am I
 close?

Well, even with current TSM levels I would only use 15kRPM disks in
RAID1. DB2 has no software mirroring, but your OS might very well do
the job for you, I know that Linux and AIX can, and I think recent
windows levels can do the same. RAID5 or RAID6 are great technologies,
but I don't believe that they mix very well with high performance
databases, not for TSM = 5.5, and not for DB2 either.

SATA disks are only useful in very small TSM environments (up to a few
gig database), and well, that wont change much with DB2.

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Re: Scratch volumes - TAPE - DB

[Gee, Norman]

 
Delete Volhistory Todate=Today-n Type=DBBackup

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Ramiro Ruiz
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 10:15 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Scratch volumes - TAPE - DB

Hello,

We setup TSM 5.5.1 a few monts ago, but I fear that I have made an error
in the configuration... hopefully somebody can let me know that there is
an easy fix!

In the TSM maintenance plan script, I selected a TAPE device class. Now
when I view our volumes, in the tape library, there are dozens of
volumes that are now marked Private, showing the Last Use as Dbbackup.

After doing some research, it would seem that you can only have 1
database backup per volume. I have since moved the database backups to a
different device class (on a disk), but I don't seem to be able to
reclaim any of these wasted private volumes back into scratch. 

Is there an easy or safe way to do this? I have tried an expire
inventory command, then tried an update libvolume command. These
volumes do not show up as being reclaimable when I run a query. Would
checkin / checkout of the tape produce the same results? 

Thank you in advance for your help
 
 
__  
Ramiro Ruiz, Network Specialist
Information Services
Schulich School of Medicine  Dentistry
The University of Western Ontario
ramiro.r...@schulich.uwo.ca
Phone 519.520.0760

Re: 2 Windows 2003 clients with huge # of files consistently failing

[Gee, Norman]

I also have 2 problem child's like these.  I turn on journaling, but the
journaling ran out of memory (virtual).  My only other option was to
turn on memory efficient disk cache method to get thru the memory issue
with journaling.

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John C Dury
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:27 AM
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Subject: 2 Windows 2003 clients with huge # of files consistently
failing

I have two separate Windows 2003 boxes both running running  v5.5.1.10
client that are both failing their incrementals every night. Both of
these
boxes have hundreds of thousand of files all spread into multiple
directories. In fact, each day, a new directory is created and then
multiple subdirectories are created under it and thousand of files in
each
of those subdirectories. The reason I say this is because I don't think
it
is a candidate for multiple virtual nodes because of the new directories
that are created every day.

I do have journaling turned on although it doesn't seem to help with the
large number of files either as when I run an incremental manually,it
takes
forever and never seems to finish.

I thought about doing image backups of the drive where the thousands of
files live but when I tried it, it backed up about 14g and then just
hung
and never continued. I had to cancel it after waiting for an hour or so.


What is my best strategy for dealing with these two boxes that are
generating thousands of new files in new directories every day? The huge
number of objects in the TSM DB are starting to cause quite a few
problems
with daily processing also as expiration is running longer and longer
since
I think it is choking on the number of objects.

And to make it even weirder, they both fail incrementals at night and
the
only error I can find is:

ANR0481W Session 16603 for node SERVERNAME (WinNT) terminated
 - client did not respond within 9000 seconds. (SESSION:
 16603)

I'm starting to think that TSM is just not the backup solution for
either
of these boxes.

Re: OS/390 or z/OS as Tivoli Clients

[Gee, Norman]

This client only backs up the Unix Subsystem and not the traditional MVS
datasets. You will not be able to get to the DB2 datasets.  Regular MVS
backup tools does not allow individual file restore from the Unix
Subsystem.  I have TSM for z/OS, both client and server. The TDP for
database (Oracle, SQL) does not have a z/OS version.

-Original Message-
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Richard Sims
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 4:12 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: OS/390 or z/OS as Tivoli Clients

The client that there is is part of z/OS USS.
See Technote 1052224 and the Unix client manual.

Richard Sims

Re: TSM v6 - article up on SearchStorage

[Gee, Norman]

 
It is official, announcement letter 209-004

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 products deliver next generation unified
recovery management capabilities to help protect today's enterprise data
center
IBM United States Software Announcement 209-004
February 10, 2009 

Re: TSM v6 -announcement

[Gee, Norman]

I have read announcement letter 209-004 multiple times and was looking
at the server documentation that was available and there were no mention
of TSM version 6 for z/OS server.  There were documentation for z/OS BA
client and API.  Is this a subtle hint that TSM version 6 for z/OS
server is not available or is it being drop?  Is it being delay?

Re: How to define Library2

[Gee, Norman]

 


NDMP support.  You have 2 choices for NDMP, Lan-free or TCP;/IP.

You need to read carefully to understand the differences.  Obviously,
Lan-free keeps the traffic off your LAN.  But there are consequences.
You
get special NDMP tapes this way, and you can't copy them- you have to
vault your primary tapes if you want them to go offsite - are you
prepared


You can backup your primary pool LAN free NDMP volumes to copypools.

I accidently damage one volume of my primary pool and was able to
restore it from my copypool.
I only vault copypool NDMP backups.



for that?  If you do your NDMP backup via the LAN, the data goes into
the
regular TSM pool hierarchy, and you can create copy pools with the data.
And do individual file restores by creating the TOC.

You need to figure out what your requirements are first, then figure out
the
architcture.  I'm no NDMP expert, but I think you need to ask more
questions
from people here who have NDMP expertise before you go further...

VMware VCB and non windows OS

[Gee, Norman]

How does one backs up a non Windows OS in a VMware environment?  The TSM
client (5.5.1) in the VCB explicitly states that the BACKUP VM command
will only backup a Window OS.  Would one install the appropriate TSM
client inside the VM and schedule the VM directly?  Any other options?

Re: VMware VCB and non windows OS

[Gee, Norman]

I was looking at Linux and Solaris x86.  Both of these OS have TSM clients 
available, but apparently cannot be backup by using the VCB.  I figure I can 
backup the VMDK image file, but not the individual files in the zfs.  I was 
trying to find out what other options would I have and whether these options 
will change with version 6.1. 

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of 
Christian Svensson
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 8:46 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: SV: VMware VCB and non windows OS

Hi Norman,
What OS does the guest OS running? OS/2, FreeBSD, BeOS, EyeOS?
If you are running Solaris, Linux, Netware, Open Enterprise Server or any other 
OS you maybe can find a TSM Client and install it locally in the guest OS.

If you run a OS that TSM don't support, why not install TSM on the VMware ESX 
Host machine and run the Perl scripts that can make a snapshot or freeze the VM 
an you can then backup the VMDK files without any issue. When you freeze it, 
you just tell it to write to another directory during your backup so the VMDK 
file and other files is not in use when you run the TSM BA Client.

Best Regards
Christian Svensson

Cell: +46-70-325 1577
E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se
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Ämne: VMware VCB and non windows OS

How does one backs up a non Windows OS in a VMware environment?  The TSM
client (5.5.1) in the VCB explicitly states that the BACKUP VM command
will only backup a Window OS.  Would one install the appropriate TSM
client inside the VM and schedule the VM directly?  Any other options?

VCB backups

[Gee, Norman]

After an update of the ESX server software, my VCB files backups has
started failing.  My VMware administrator want me to changed the VCB
mount command from -a ipaddr:server to -a name:server.  This command is
automatically issue from the TSM client and I don't see how I can change
it.
 
Is there other ways of files backup in a VMware environment?
I can change the image backups, since I execute my own scripts.

Re: TSM TDP Oracle - Expiration Opinions

[Gee, Norman]

You will have to let RMAN do its job.  Every RMAN backup piece and sets
have unique file names and will never place a prior backup into an
inactive status.

How would you expire a RMAN backup since every backup piece is still
active? Short of mass delete on filespace. 

-Original Message-
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Hart, Charles A
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 9:30 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: TSM TDP Oracle - Expiration Opinions

We currently have your Oracle TDP Clients setup as a Separate node in
separate a separate domain down to the storage pool hierarchy.  That
said we are having challenges with DBA's and their RMAN delete scripts
for various reasons.  According to the TDP for DB manual its recommended
to have the RMAN catalog maintain retention which I would agree with but
we are little success, and end up filling up virtual tape subsystems,
orphaning data etc. 

The enough now is to have TSM maintain the RMAN retention and the DBA's
would just clean their RMAN catalog with a crosscheck  and delete
process.   

What do you?  Do you let RMAN maintain Retention or TSM maintain
pitfalls of either?


Best Regards, 

Charles Hart

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Re: Object size query

[Gee, Norman]

Not really an answer, set max file size of primary pool to 1GB and force
it to a next large file pool.  Check what files ends up in the large
file pool. 

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Richard Sims
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:43 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Object size query

You can produce an allied report by scanning your dsmaccnt.log to
report on large adds (Archive or Backup operations) over a long period
of time, by dividing quantity of data sent to the TSM server by the
number of objects, allowing you to identify nodes and users (but not
filespaces) involved in biggies.  This alone may be sufficient for
your needs; or you might use it to perform a more limited Select on
formidable tables.

Richard Sims

Re: best backup method for millions of small files?

[Gee, Norman]

What options are there when journaling runs out of memory on a 32 bit
Windows server?  I have about 10 million files on one server that the
journal engine runs out of memory. With memory efficient disk cache
method and resource utilization 5, its runs out of memory,  resource
utilization of 4 runs too long. 

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Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:16 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: best backup method for millions of small files?

You have a disk array copy of the data, is that located close or far?
Have you considered a disk array snap shot also?
If you perform a journaled file system backup and an image backup then
you should be able to restore the image and then update the image with
the file system restore.  This might take a long time, I have never
tried it.
What failure are you trying to protect against?  In our case we use the
disk arrays to protect against a data center loss and a corrupt file
system and a TSM file system backup to protect against the loss of a
file.  Our big ones are in the 10 million file range.  Using a 64bit
Windows server we can backup the file system in about 6 - 8 hours
without journaling.  We suspect we could get the time down to around 4
hours if the TSM server was not busy backing up 500 other nodes.

To me the important thing is to figure out what you are protecting
against with each thing you do.  Also be sure and ask what the Recovery
Point Objective (RPO) is.  If it is less than 24 hours then array based
solutions may be the best choice.  Over 24 hours then TSM may be the
best choice.

Andy Huebner

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Mehdi Salehi
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 9:39 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] best backup method for millions of small files?

Hi,
None the two methods that you mean in the user's guide are suitable for
my
case. Image+normal incremental that you emphasized in your post means
getting full image backups for example every week. For the incremental
part,
one file-based full backup is needed which is a nightmare for 20
millions.
OK, if I accept the initial incremental backup time (that might take for
days), what happens in restoration?

Naturally, last image backup should be restored first and it will take A
minutes. Provided that image backups are weekly, the progressive
incremental
backups of the week is about 6*20MB=120MB. Now imagine 120MB of 15-20K
files
are to be restored in filesystem with an incredibly big file address
table
and system should create an inode-like entry for each. If this step
takes B
minutes, the total restoration time would be A+B. (A+B/A) ratio is
important
and I will try to measure and share it with the group.

Steven, your solution is excellent for ordinary filesystems with a
limited
number of files. But I think for millions of files, only backup/restore
method that do not care how many files exist in the volume are feasible.
Somehing like pure image backup (like Acronis image incremental backup)
or
the method that FastBack exploites.

Your points are welcomed.

Regards,
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What ever happen to the doc CD (DVD)?

[Gee, Norman]

Its been a while since TSM provided the customers with a document CD and
now with 6.1, there is still no document CD.  Actually all of the TSM
6.1 media came on DVD instead, but I like to have a complete copy of all
of the documents locally.
 
Any chance of IBM bringing the document CD back?

Re: backup DB2 for z/OS on TSM for AIX?

[Gee, Norman]

Yes it does, TSM on z/OS will backup all of these.  I am not sure about
LAN-free data movement.  z/OS will only support ESCON or FICON attach
tape drives and not Fibre channel tape drives.  3590 and
3592/TS1120/TS1130 requires tape controllers. LTO of any flavor are not
supported by z/OS.

TSM on z/OS version 6.1 is not available, the highest level is 5.5.

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Mehdi Salehi
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 1:32 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: backup DB2 for z/OS on TSM for AIX?

Thanks Francisco,
Can TSM server for z/OS backup open system's data? If yes, does it
support
TDP for Oracle (oracle is on Unix), TDP for MS SQL and LAN-free data
movement?

Regards,
Mehdi Salehi

NDMP expiration weirdness

[Gee, Norman]

 
I have notice that whenever I run expiration on a server with NDMP
backups on it, that the NDMP data does not get deleted the first pass
thru.  If I start expiration again immediately after the first
expiration finish, it will expire my NDMP backups.

Any one else experiencing the same weirdness or is it just me?

Re: Changing media type on a primary pool

[Gee, Norman]

Create new T10k primary pool,
Set migration to new T10k primary pool
change reclaim on 9940 pool to reclaimed to T10k pool as the reclaim
pool
After a while move data from pool to pool.
 

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Fiske, Daniel
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 8:33 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Changing media type on a primary pool

At present I have 9940 tape as my primary tape pool and T10k as my copy
tape pool. I want to convert (or change) the primary tape pool to T10k.
Does anyone know the easiest way to do this?

Thanks
 Dan Fiske

Windows GUI client with virtual node option

[Gee, Norman]

With my 5.5 client I can type in 
dsm -virtualnode=anothernode
and log in with an administrator account and do what ever I want

With the 6.1 client when I type in
dsm -virtualnode=anothernode
and log in with an administrator account to do something, it wants to
log in again with the administrator account that has the same name as
the virtual node.  Did something change with 6.1?

6.1 ordering issues

[Gee, Norman]

I am license for TSM server on z/OS.  Since there is no 6.1 server
available, I can't see how to order just the 6.1 client piece on
shopzseries and not get charge again.

Re: 6.1 ordering issues

[Gee, Norman]

There is a z/OS 6.1 client, but it is a different product number then
the combine TSM server/client combo.

We are paying for S  S for TSM server/client combo Tivoli Storage Mgr
for z/OS SS5698-S47, but this product is not available with the 6.1
client.

 

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Len Boyle
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 6:59 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: 6.1 ordering issues

Normally for TSM clients you license to run the client but not a
specific version. So one would not thing that you would be charged
again. In the past one was able to connect a z/os client to a non-z/os
server. 

The more interesting question is there a 6.1 z/os client. If not will
there be one. 

len

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Gee, Norman
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 7:12 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] 6.1 ordering issues

I am license for TSM server on z/OS.  Since there is no 6.1 server
available, I can't see how to order just the 6.1 client piece on
shopzseries and not get charge again.

Re: NDMP backup of non-qtree data

[Gee, Norman]

I don't have knowledge of Netapp NDMP, but I have EMC NDMP and I created
virtual file systems. I have a VFS  name which points to a real file
system on the EMC.

I have one large partition and I created 8 virtual file system from it.
I backup each VFS one at a time. 

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Mueller, Ken
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:06 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: NDMP backup of non-qtree data

We have an IBM N-Series 6040 (a thinly veiled NetApp 3140) that amoung
other things contains several large volumes (2TB, 35 million files).
These volumes have qtrees defined for the larger top-level directories.
There are numerous other small top-level directories that are not in
qtrees.
 
We are running TSM 5.5.2.0 and using the Filer-TSM-Library method of
NDMP backup (storing the backups in TSM native storage pools).
 
It is not practical to backup the entire volume in one shot, but backing
up the individual qtrees via BACKUP NODE is manageable.  The problem
that I have is how to specify backing up the non-qtree portion of the
volume.  The NetApp commands use a trailing dash after the volume name
to indicate non-qtree data (ie:  /vol/xyz/-  ) however BACKUP NODE
complains of an invalid parameter when I use that convention.  I tried
setting up a virtualfsmapping with the trailing dash and it is accepted
for the mapping, however the subsequent BACKUP NODE process fails after
it starts with an ANRD catchall: Error beginning NDMP backup -
illegal arguements.Check that the filespace/path '/vol/xyz/-' exists.
 
Anybody backing up these filers at the qtree level?  How do you handle
the non-qtree data?  
 
We're new to the whole NDMP world - seems a few steps back from what TSM
can do natively.  Any sage advice is welcome!
 
-Ken Mueller

Re: Replacing tape drives (or there has to be a better way)

[Gee, Norman]

When IBM replace my drives on maintenance (3592-J1A and LTO4), they
unloaded the VPD from the old drive and downloaded the VPD to the new
drive.  They also place a sticky label indicating the original serial
number.  IBM also has to keep their records correct for field
maintenance.  Our maintenance contracts specifies the SN of all the
drives and what a nightmare it would be if the drives SN changes every
time IBM replaces one.  We just can't change the contracts every time a
SN changes on a drive. 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 8:31 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Replacing tape drives (or there has to be a better way)

I need thoughts/suggestions/help on how to deal with SAN attached tape
drive replacements when a library is shared amongst 5-servers.

We just has a drive replaced, therefore giving us a new serial number
(3494ATL - TS1130).  All servers that use these drives/libraries are
RedHat Linux and use very current lin_tape drivers.

Currently, the method we use is to bounce each server so the system
rescans the SAN and gets the new serial number.

In the past, just stopping the TSM server and then restarting the
lin_tape
driver would often be enough. Now with the latest lin_tape drivers, I
don't see the lin_taped daemon running any more.

Yes, I have tried updating the paths on the library manager server and
telling it to autodetect but that didn't help.

There has to be a better way!  If you have a similar configuration, how
do
you handle this scenario?

Re: TSM gui

[Gee, Norman]

The admin gui is the ISC/Admin Center.
Many of us preferred the CLI using dsmadmc

There are other commercial products available to manage TSM. 

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Tchuise, Bertaut
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 10:32 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: TSM gui

Vince,

You can make use of dsmadmc within the c:\program
files\tivoli\tsm\baclient directory in windows or
/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin directory in AIX to run administrative
commands from the client. The following 2 references will help you learn
more about TSM.

Chapter 10 of the first link specifically goes over the administrative
client.

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg245416.pdf

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247447.pdf

BERTAUT TCHUISE
Storage Support Administrator
Legg Mason Technology Services
*410-580-7032
btchu...@leggmason.com

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
D'Antonio III, Vincent E (N-Aerotek)
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 1:03 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM gui

Hello all,

I am very new to TSM, I know the dsmj gui, but is there one to do admin
stuff?



Thanks

Vince





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Re: Used 3494 / 3590 equip

[Gee, Norman]

What would 3490-C2A worth.  Less than nothing?  They are probably worth
less than the annual maintenance cost.  

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Allen S. Rout
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 10:51 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Used 3494 / 3590 equip

 On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:51:24 -0400, Druckenmiller, David
druc...@mail.amc.edu said:


 Just wondering if anyone knows what the market might be for a
 3-frame 3494 with 8 3590-H1A drives.  Also, is there market for
 about 1800 used 3590E cartridges?  We just finished migrating off
 and my boss just wants to trash the whole thing.  I'd be curious to
 know just how much money they're throwing away.


When we did this exercise some years ago it was concluded that the
market value of the 3590 drives was less than half the expense of
banding them for maintenance.

3590 equipment is of negative value in the general market, and those
folks who are still using it are aware of this, so difficult to trick
into paying real money.

If you're lucky, you'll find someone who's willing to pay for the
shipping, if you give them away.


- Allen S. Rout
- Still has 10G 3590 tapes in his library, but they belong to someone
else.

Re: end of support tsm 5.5 on z/os ?

[Gee, Norman]

But there are no other options for us mainframe bigot as TSM 6.x server
does not exist on z/OS. 

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Andrew Raibeck
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 1:37 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: end of support tsm 5.5 on z/os ?

Starting with version 5.4, TSM uses a 5 +3 life cycle, which means
that
it will remain in general support for (a minimum of) 5 years. After
that,
you can, at your option, purchase a maintenance extension for another 3
years. Thus since TSM 5.5 GA'd in December of 2007, you can count on it
being supported via regular maintenance through at least December 2012.
As
Dwight pointed out, you can consult the IBM product life cycle page for
more detailed information, but no official EOS date has been announced
for
5.5 yet.

Versions 5.3 and earlier has a 3 + 2 life cycle.

Best regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development
Level 3 Team Lead
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Internet e-mail: stor...@us.ibm.com

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page:
http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageMan
ager.html


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The command line is your friend.
Good enough is the enemy of excellence.

ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 2009-09-10
15:48:31:

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 end of support tsm 5.5 on z/os ?

 Tim Brown

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Windows server 2008 UAC

[Gee, Norman]

Does having UAC enable affect the schedule?  I have several Windows 2008
servers and most of them have UAC turn off and the scheduler works, but
the only server with UAC on, I can't get it to run a schedule.  Is there
something else that can be wrong?

VMFULL delete

[Gee, Norman]

Is there a way to delete a VMFULL backup? For example, a VM full image
is taken and some time later, the VM is deleted from the VMware complex.
This last backup will never be mark inactive.  Is there a way to later
delete this backup?  It is part of the VMFULL filespace.

Re: DataDomain VTL

[Gee, Norman]

There are certain data that should not be compress again by the client.
Files that are already compress.  Any backups that are done by the
various TDP components.

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Hart, Charles A
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 6:14 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: DataDomain VTL

Any compressed/ encrypted data will not de-dupe well or if at all.
(Compressed / Encrypted Data have unique signatures every time)
In regards to client side compression, that feature tends to be of value
on a small remote site or if you have a 10Mb lan.  You can force the
client compression off from the Server side using client option sets.  

Regards, 

Charles 

-Original Message-
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Nick Laflamme
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 7:19 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] DataDomain VTL

On Jan 12, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Kelly Lipp wrote:

 We have a customer that insisted on buying one of these for his TSM
environment. Promised 20:1 dedup.  He saw about five to one.  He was in
our Level 2 class telling the story.  At the end he said he wouldn't buy
it again.  I made him repeat that part of the story...

DataDomain's Best Practices guide for TSM tells customers not to let
nodes compress data. I have to wonder how much compressing the data or
not alters the dedup ratio. I'm not at all sure that we're going enforce
a no compression policy for our clients. 

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