Karel
In my previous role I had a couple of TPC (now known as "Spectrum Control")
database servers running DB2 under windows with exactly this problem.
They ran for years without issue then started being unable to find dsm.opt 10
or so days after a reboot.
Never did get to the bottom of why,
Hi Guys and Gals
Powershell is the goto scripting language for windows these days, buyt if you
have ever tried to script dsmadmc with it you find it is fraught with trouble.
Just passing the right parameters in is difficult, getting output that
powershell can use also requires jumping through
Hi Eric
There are also the STRIP and TRIM sql functions - same function for these but
slightly different syntax.
SELECT strip(cast(float(used_space_mb)*100/total_space_mb AS DECIMAL(4,2)))
FROM log
However, when I tested this on a number less than 1, the implicit cast of the
number to a
Thanks Frank
I appreciate the input.
Steve
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Steve,
Del
I can't speak for anyone else, but I can't go to 8.1 because of the vCenter 6
dependency.
Regards
Steve
Steven Harris
TSM Admin/Consultant
Canberra Australia
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Hi all
My customer is running a TSM for VE backup solution involving Linux x86_64 as
the vBS with storage agent installed, writing direct to Protectier VTL.
Throughput to the VTL is needs improvement both at a whole of VTL level and at
the individual tape session level, to handle the workload.
Further to my last post.
TSM server 7.1 on AIX, 7.1 TSM for VE on Linux X86_64 with storage agent,
currently backing up to Protectier VTL.
My customer needs a significant capacity expansion in reasonably short order.
Disk is cheap, Protectier is out of the picture for non-technical reasons.
My spin is don’t use any new server feature for 2 years unless you really
cannot do without it.
New features imply new bugs. Most TSM shops do not have a true test
environment, and even if they do a lot of these problems only appear when you
have a lot of data.
Example: the dedup corruption
Tom
It's true that DBAs are the 600 pound gorillas in the room and often get what
they want out of fear and management ignorance. A lot of it is simple need for
control over their own destiny as they see it and that is understandable.
Once you have tuned the DB backups as much as you can
Bo
The problem with small files is that the TSM database entry may well be larger
than the file you are storing. If your files are less than about 3000 bytes
that will be the case.
What is happening is that the file system is being used as a database. A
complex file path becomes the key
Hi Robert
My suggestion is that overwrite=yes won't make much difference.
You still have to mount the tape to write the label, so an extra read and
rewind is nothing. Personally I always let it default to overwrite=no unless I
know I need overwrite=yes. Less chance of accidents that way -
Hi All
I have a bit of a conundrum.
I have an Oracle SL8500 library with 6x IBM LTO-6 drives installed. The drives
are dual connected. These are being used by multiple AIX 7.1 TSM 7.1 servers in
a library sharing arrangement.
AIX shows these drives as using the generic LTO driver, rather
Ricky
I have something similar at my current gig.
Database and landing storage pools are on V840 flash and migrate to Protectier
VTL. The V840 data is remote copied and the VTL uses its own replication
mechanism. Recovery is to bring up the instance on hot AIX LPARs using the
replicated
Hi Robert
Yes, the capacity is worked out in the Device class entry. You'd need to show
us that.
Cheers
Steve
Steven Harris
TSM Admin/Consultant
Canberra Australia
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;tape" drives?
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HI all
At my current gig, we are running a TSM VE e
Thanks for that Del.
I realize you can't pre-announce anything here, but a Power-linux LE vBS server
to handle TDP for VE would be awesome and avoid many of the architectural
limitations of Intel boxes. In my case that would imply TS3500 driver support
and Lan free as well.
Can we assume
Hi All
I've got a bit of a show-stopper here that I could use some help with.
Previously, SQL backups have been mostly handled by dump to disk and backup
with BA Client. Database sizes have grown over time and now we cannot get
through the whole dump/backup cycle in a reasonable window, so we
Hi Stephan
Set vmatriskinterval
Syntax
>>---Set VMATRISKINTERVAL--node_name--fsid-->
>--TYPE--=--+-DEFAULT--+--++---><
+-BYPASSED-+ '-Interval--=--value-'
'-CUSTOM---'
Type is custom and interval is in *Hours*
Gary
I am just starting to use this. 8.1 is good. Do not use the earlier version,
I think its 7.1.6, even if your SQL server is compatible, as there is a bug
that causes the backup to be taken and then fail during post processing clean
up.
Cheers
Steve
Steven Harris
TSM Admin/Consultant
> That would mean you have to have a copypool locally to protect the
> data in the same way.
> This would be an important point for me, if you are running the
> directory containerpool the impact on housekeeping might be limited
> but I find the impact of a large copypool with ded
HI all
At my current gig, we are running a TSM VE environment. Server is AIX, storage
agents and vBS on physical linux X86_64. Disk is on V840 flash, back end is
protectier VTL. TSM Server 7.1.1, Storage agent 7.1.1, TSM For VE 7.1.1 can't
go higher because of an old Vcenter version.
Hi all
This is a big issue for me.
We run linux datamovers to back up our VMWare vms. Passexp is set to zero,
but, for some reason every so often the password tries to change. It does this
in the middle of a VE Schedule and all subsequent backups for that schedule
fail with a security error
Hi Guys
TSM Server 7.1.1 AIX, TSM VE 7.1.1 linux X64
This shop has issues with us using the vSphere plugin as it requires too many
permissions. We cannot move to later VE clients with expanded facilities
because of a dependency on vCenter 5.5
So far, we have been managing by editing the
Hello again.
TSM Server 7.1.1 AIX, TSM VE 7.1.1 linux X64
I have an application that needs to co-ordinate the taking of their TSM for VE
backups with their housekeeping. It's a large distributed postgres database
and they want to shut down the database on all members of the cluster and
I haven’t used it for some years now, but the old Domino client used to store
two entries for each client, one for the data and one for the permissions. It
would probably go against the TSM (Hate the new name!) philosophy to store any
client data in the database, but this case might be a
Bill
There is an option in TDP to back up a file group. I've never understood what
it is for. Looking online for information about NDF files, that same term,
"file group", popped up. So, I'd start there are see if that fits your use case.
Cheers
Steve
Steven Harris
TSM Admin/Consultant
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HI All
Environment is
TSM 7.1.1 server on AIX. 7.1.1 Storage agents on Linux,
HI All
Environment is
TSM 7.1.1 server on AIX. 7.1.1 Storage agents on Linux, 7.1.1 BA clients,
7.1.1 VE clients, VMWare 5.5. The VMware backups are via the SAN to a
Protectier VTL.
My Client is an international financial organization so we have lots or
regulatory requirements including
Hi Zoltan
Are the old server numbers from export time or current time? If current time
you may have had some 5 million small files expire in the interim.
Cheers
Steve
Steven Harris
TSM Admin/Consultant
Canberra, Australia
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Luc,
There is a flag you can set that stops the database from being invalidated by a
stop of the Journal service.
I have usually set this because when journaling is required, an arbitrary full
scan is usually not wanted.
Regards
Steve
Steven Harris
TSM Admin/Consultant
Canberra Australia.
Zoltan
I have a similar issue TSM 7.1.1.300 AIX -> Data Domain. Have dual 10Gb links,
but can only get ~4000 writes/sec and 120MB/sec throughput. AIX only supports
NFS3, and as others have pointed out in this forum recently, the stack does not
have a good reputation.
I'm finding that the
Hi guys
I have a curly one here. TSM 7.1.1.300 on AIX 7.1
I'm preparing for a DR test.
The DR process is that the TSM instance directory, database, logs and disk/file
storage pools reside on an IBM V840 flash device. These are mirrored to the DR
site using remote copy. The old way was to
-u
$ db2 catalog db tsmdb1 on /tsm/wtsmt01
Maybe that helps?
Kind regards,
Eric van Loon
Air France/KLM Storage Engineering
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on /tsm/wtsmt01
Maybe that helps?
Kind regards,
Eric van Loon
Air France/KLM Storage Engineering
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Subject: TSM Instance can't find
Genet
Personally I would like all possible client options to be set from the server.
The client option set mechanism is limited in that only one can be specified
and they cannot, for example, include one set in another.
At one time, I had a set of m4 macros (I'm from a unix background) that
Steve.
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Subject: RE: TSM for VE - VMCLI
Steven,
Sorry, I
Remco
Can you please explain what the fall-out is?
I'm using TSM 7.1.0 on AIX and have issues with LTO6 drives emulating LTOs.
Sometimes I just power cycle the drive and that clears the problem, but that
does not always work.
Whilst I don't have any linux servers or storage agents in that
Guys all of those are far more complex than they need be
select node_name, lastacc_time from nodes where lastacc_time>(current timestamp
- 90 days)
Cheers
Steve
TSM Admin/Consultant
Canberra Australia
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I feel for you Zoltan
My users are demanding, but at least the corporate management structure means I
have some measure of control over their demands.
There is a TSM client REST API that came out at 7.1.3. This can be used to run
backups and restores although the API guide explicitly states
Hello Luc.
I'm not sure that Glacier is a good fit for most TSM data.
TSM has a lot of churn. Data expires and then you are left with a choice of
reclamation or storing excess data. Glacier retrieval is slow, so you would
have to mark volumes as offsite to allow reclamation from the primary
Hi All
Thanks for the input on my recent query about 7 Year VM backups. I'll let you
know when I decide something.
Moving on..
TSM Server 7.1.1.300 AIX, Datamovers and Storage Agents on Redhat, writing to
Protectier VTL, TSM for VE 7.1.1/2 hybrid.
We can't use the VMware plugin because of
Hi Guys
There is a really good explanation of VMCTLMC Sizing for incremental VM backups
at http://adsm.se/?p=546
I run a monthly full for compliance reasons on all the Prod Vms, and am trying
to understand the implications for VMCTLMC Sizing. So far I suppose its 8000
megablocks as well
Hi Mike and Marc
Thanks for your responses.
Order of presentation of VMs seems to be dependent on the order that vCenter
provides them to the TSM for VE query. It is certainly not alphabetical or any
other obvious ordering (to me at least) and it can change over time. One
problem VM was
Hans Chr.
What are you backing your DB up to? Could you use some flash disk or tiered
disk storage? Create a special device class just for this situation, backup
your database to it, then immediately start your normal DB backup. As soon as
the normal backup is complete you can delete the
Tom
It is a failing of TSM/SP that a basic function is deemed "good enough" by the
people who decide such things within IBM and the real-world implementation is
left to users. Your problem is not uncommon and a solution should be a standard
part of the marketed offering.
You will need some
on
the TSM Server.
02/18/2018 17:14:05 ACN5060E A Tivoli Storage Manager API error has occurred.
02/18/2018 17:24:30 ANS1236E (RC115) An unexpected error occurred.
02/18/2018 17:24:30 ACN5060E A Tivoli Storage Manager API error has occurred.
On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 4:55 PM, Harris, Steven
So what we need is a server option
SESSIONSECFORCE TRANSITIONAL
Only able to be set by editing dsmserv.opt and defaulting to NO. If its set
then the automatic update to SESSIONSECURITY strict is not permitted.
Update everything you need to then turn the option off.
I understand why
Runas?
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Proxy/asnodename restore and strange Registry entries?
I have another issue with the
the target node and give the agent access?
On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 7:27 PM Harris, Steven <
steven.har...@btfinancialgroup.com> wrote:
> Runas?
>
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> Of Zoltan Forray
> Se
Is there no journaling/logging service on these Isilions that could be used to
maintain a list of changed files and hand-roll a dsmc-selective-with-file-list
process similar to what GPFS uses?
Cheers
Steve
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Zoltan
I kind of agree with Ung Yi
What is the purpose of your TSM backups? DR? Long term retention for
auditability/sarbox/other regulation?
It may well be that a daily or even more frequent snapshot regime might be the
best way to get back that recently lost/deleted/corrupted file.
Use a
Hi Guys
I'm looking for some help with managing a protectier VTL.
A bit of background we have two sites TSM 7.1.7.300 and a protectier gateway
at each with 1 PB of storage behind it.
There are two main TSM instances at each site, one for VM snaps and one for BA
Client backups. Offsite
Eric
Really old-school...
Schedule a one time admin schedule to run a script that as the last step
schedules itself again some time in the future
e.g
def scr reset_fred
upd scr reset_fred 'upd admin fred sessionsecurity=transitional' line=5
check the syntax
upd scr reset_fred 'upd
Hi Jim
\\thatnode\c$\*.*
Retrieves only files in the C$ root directory with a period in the name.
If you want everything under c$ I'd use
ret \\thatnode\c$\* -fromnode=thatnode -subdir=y
you will also have to specify a destination as without it will try to put the
data back into \\thatnode
Zoltan
I think the problem is the colon in the file name.
Windows has the capability to write multiple streams to the same file. The
streams are differentiated by a colon and the the stream id.
At least that’s the gist of it. See
Hi All
I'd like to start using DECOM VM to manage our obsolete VM backups. Our
current practice is to rename the filespace to
\\VMFULL-_DECOM and let it sit for
a year before deleting manually.
In order to accomplish that with DECOM VM I would need first to alter the
retentions from the
Not the scripts, the schedules need to be updated.
select schedule_name from admin_schedules where chg_admin='USER_X' and
active='YES'
To fix just update the schedule by setting active yes again
Select 'upd sched '||schedule_name||' t=a active=yes' from admin_schedules
where
Hi Gary
We schedule manually here.
We have one VBS for each of the separate backup streams and edit the
domain.vmfull manually to add VMs. The problem with this approach is that it
is manual, and we end up having the same large VMs running backup all day. We
also have a mixture of some
When I moved over from Mainframe to midrange a very long time ago, I was used
to the old mainframe TMS/CA-1 tape management software.
Never understood why TSM did not implement a scratch pool as in that product to
keep track of its scratch tapes, even if just to keep the usage stats.
I too have
Zoltan
I had something similar. Prod node of application had a reasonable number of
systemstate objects. Two nonprod nodes of same application had huge numbers of
systemstate. This first came to my attention when daily expiration was taking
3 or more days instead of the usual 30 minutes.
As
Hi all
I'm trying to recommend an automated restore testing tool like TSMWorks' ART to
management.
TSMWorks web site appears to have been hijacked.
Lindsay Morris' Linkedin page seems to be dead. Twitter feed too.
Nothing from TSMWorks by Google search since about 2009
Does anyone know what
Rick
The m4 macro processor is a standard unix offering and can do anything from
simple includes and variable substitutions to lisp-like processing that will
boggle your mind. An m4 macro with some include files and a makefile with a
cron job to build your dsm.sys might do the job.
Cheers
Hi Rick
What I'd like is for a yearly refresh of the client to the latest stable level.
So .0 unless there is a particular patch that we need.
What actually happens is that I'm not permitted to use TSM to roll out client
updates. The windows guys have their tools for that and the unix guys
Its not hard Genet.
Did you search the archives first?
The trick is to run the scheduler under a Windows Domain user id not the usual
System id. You can either permanently map the share or, use a
preschedule/postschedule command pair to map it as you need it.
Cheers
Steve
Steven Harris
Steve
I think you have to specify what you want to back up in the DOMAIN.VMFULL with
one of the available options before excluding anything.
Then leave off the * in your backup vm command.
Regards
Steve
Steven Harris
TSM Admin/Consultant
Canberra Australia
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