On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:29:27PM -0500, fred johanson wrote:
We've discussed it, but they're not yet NDMP compliant, so that approach is
on hold. The current possibility is to flashcopy MIRAPOINT to a LINUX
system and then pcik that up with TSM. Still all highly theoretical.
At 12:30 PM
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 03:12:46PM -0400, Paul Zarnowski wrote:
Our testing with the TSM 5.3.3 MacOS client has shown that it also
fails to work on Intel Macs. I am wondering what others are doing to
backup their Intel Macs while they wait for TSM to support them? We
have a lot of Mac users
don't care, I'm just dumping bits'.
Has anyone tried this? Is there anything out there that might work, or
am I totally wasting my time?
How to we backup raw images from a SAN or NAS using TSM without NDMP?
thanks in advance!
Bob Booth
UIUC
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:15:54PM -0800, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote:
I had a very disturbing conversation with someone in where I was told TSM
licensing could increase 10 fold. Is IBM hurting for money? Has anyone else
heard this nonsense? I could easily see us moving to something else if that
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:35:59AM -0500, Lepre, James wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I need to bring back some offsite tapes for a restore. How do I
check them into the library, and then force Tivoli to use them. I have
a tape that broke and now I need to bring back the offsite copy, but I
am
It forces a write of used log buffer pool pages to the database. I don't
know if it even still does what it says it is doing in newer versions of
TSM. I'm trying to remember, but I think it was used to free up recovery log
space. With bigger disks being used for recovery logs, it probably isn't
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:03:02PM +0100, Volker Maibaum wrote:
Hello,
I have a problem with our 3494 tape library since a couple of days. When
our offsite volumes are returned onsite and put into the library they
are assigned the category number 002F and not FF00 (as I would excpect).
002F
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 07:19:19AM -0800, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote:
I've set up TSM 5.3 in a test environment with an external dat drive.
Unfortunately since I've only worked with automated libraries I don't know
the process for checking in a scratch tape to use with TSM. I also haven't
been
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 05:27:10PM -0800, Gerald wrote:
I have a drive that from AIX lists as available. In TSM when i try to
define a path to the drive I get an ANR8420E DEFINE PATH: An I/O
error occured while accessing drive DRIVE1. and a ANS8001I Return
code 15.. Then below is what
We are trying to run TDP for Oracle on Solaris 64bit Version 5.2.0, with
TSM client level 5.3.0.
When issuing any tdp command, we get the following error:
ANS0220E (RC400) An invalid option was found during option parsing.
I can't see anything in the documentation, bugs, or readmes about a
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 08:54:20AM -0400, Richard Rhodes wrote:
Do you have the HA1 high availability option on your 3494 or 3584 library?
If you have HA1, do you think it was worth the money?
How often has your robot failed?
We have a couple 3494 libraries with the HA1 option. In 3-4 years
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:34:16PM -0400, Thomas Denier wrote:
I know some of you are thinking that I should have been able to
use the drives in a manual mode, and so did I at the time. But try as I
might, I couldn't get them to define in and change my STGPOOL
configurations to use the
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:07:14PM -0600, Ben Bullock wrote:
Well, the problem with that suggestion is that the front panel
on the library was not working. The PC would not even boot up with the
arctic card problem, so there was no way to change any of the library
settings.
No, this is
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:45:41PM -0500, David Nguyen wrote:
I need to install TSM 5.2 server/client on Sun Fire 240 running solaris 9 but
I don't have any installation document. Can someone point me to a website
that I can get TSM document for installation?
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 07:15:39PM +0200, Stef Coene wrote:
On Thursday 29 September 2005 17:23, Wheelock, Michael D wrote:
Hi,
Every time I halt and restart my tsm server, the rootvg disk becomes
extraordinarily busy. I have moved all of the database, and logs to
another location.
I realize there isn't a TSM Solaris x86 client, and probably won't be in
the future (?), however I've heard that the Linux client will work. Has
anyone been able to setup/use the Linux client for Solaris 10 x86? If so,
what are the details in getting it working? I have a bunch of clients
If the drives are all experiencing hardware problems, I had an instance like
this that was driving me nuts..
On unload, one failing drive was not putting the leader back into the tape all
the way, but leaving it hang a bit. The tape was ejected enough for the robot
to go put it away. The drive
Yes, they can. You use the 3590 drive to remove the FMR formatting from
the tape, using the CE options. I reuse them all the time.
bob
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:39:14AM -0600, Kevin Miller wrote:
Hello TSM'ers,
I've slowly accumulated a small collection of IBM 3590 FMR cartridges
during
you may have to set up a 'restrict' statement for NTP, depending on what
version you are using.
restrict default ignore
restrict 127.0.0.1
server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
restrict xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Add the restrict statements, and restart. use xntpdc to check how you
are doing; peers, sysinfo, monlist
somebody may have deleted the userid associated with the subsystem. When the
subsystem was stopped, the userid was finally released.
Check the subsystem definition with:
lssrc -S -s Clstrmgr
and verify that the userid associated with the subsystem is valid.
Hope this helps.
bob
On Thu, Jan
I have had many problems with caching turned on for storage pools. It seems
that the backup attempts to calculate the amount of space needed to store
the object, but if the object is compressed, and compression is turned on,
the size of the object can actually expand, making it too big to be
From the server:
q restore
to cancel:
cancel restore number
You can also set the duration of the restart period from the server with the
setopt command.
hope this helps.
bob
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:39:10PM -0500, Lawrence Clark wrote:
ANS1330S This node has a pending restartable restore
I usually put the startup in /etc/rc.local, but you can put it in /etc/inittab
(not respawn), or /etc/rc.tcpip.
As root, to restart the sched process and detach it:
# sh -c /bin/dsmc sched /dev/null 21
If placing in an rc file, remember to background it '', probably the inittab
as well.
hope
A 'locate' error refers to a tape hardware error, in which a SCSI fast LOCATE
command fails. This is usually due to a corrupt tape table of contents
(however that is defined by the tape drive manufacturer). Appendix 'D' of
the 'Messages' guide is indicated below.
The 3580 LTO hardware guide
Have you or the CE checked your firmware levels. There is a new version
of FW that came out a week or so ago. Make sure you check your drive sled
FW as well. If it is down rev you have to update the FW for the whole
box. It is not that painful a process from the we interface.
We are not
Server: AIX TSM 5.1.7
Client: Windows version 5.01, TSM client 5.2.1
I am having a very strange problem with a remote Windows box. It is set up
for a schedule, and when the schedule time comes around, the TSM server
attempts continuously to contact the client, but the client never responds.
I
This is exactly what I was thinking. The IP address is filled in on the
query node output, but I think the scheduler has an internal one? I looked
quickly at some of the database tables, but I could not find exactly where
the IP address the scheduler uses is kept..
thanks for the input.
bob
Take a look at the server activity log, for more detail on the error.
bob
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:36:55PM -0500, Lawrence Clark wrote:
dsmc arch /my/directory/*
archives nothing and generates error. Anyone seen this?
Total number of objects inspected:1
Total number of objects
Do you get an error message back from your 'cancel restore -1' or
'cancel restore all' commands?
bob
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 11:25:22AM +0100, Przemys?aw Maciuszko wrote:
Hi.
I've got a problem with one of tapes - I try to move data out of this tape -
I get an error saying that there is
I have been doing rawlv AIX mirroring for disk storage pools since ADSM was
delivered for AIX. I have *never* had a problem, and when properly laid out,
get outstanding performance as well.
bob
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 01:26:47PM -0600, Roger Deschner wrote:
The ITSM Administrators Guide is
Just for the record, Mirapoint and TSM are NOT compatible. After talking to
the engineers at both companies, we doubt that the direction that IBM is
going with NDMP would *ever* work with Mirapoint or other boxes like
Mirapoint.
There are only a few real alternatives, we tried the good and the
I too, have read the manual, and talked to TSM folk, about RAW vs. filesystem
usage. I must say, that because of ease, I have always used raw LV's and
never had a problem, and get very good performance.
If you are talking about AIX, OS mirroring takes place at the LV level, so
it is a piece of
You need to go to the back of the Reference Guide and look at how to add log
space to the server. There is a procedure for recovering the server due to
overcommited log space.
I don't know the answer for the shadow device, but it really isn't the problem
here I believe.
Once the log is extended
Wrong 'tsm'. tsm is the module in AIX (SYSV) that is the login broker (it
does getty, and login).
The messages below indicate that something is getting a 'password: ' prompt
but not typing anything or hitting enter before a timeout value.
You are not looking at a TSM (ADSM, WDSF...) problem
A good resource for aix questions is the following listserv:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
There is an archive of the list here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=aix-lr=1w=2
There is a FAQ here:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aix-faq
Another resource is:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and you can sign up www.userblue.org
I am told the only 'client CPU' issues are on pricing of the TDP licenses.
That is what I had to gather to renew my TSM license just a week ago.
bob
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:08:29AM -0500, Ryan, Phil wrote:
I heard that it is only processors on the tsm server not clients
-Original
Could any of you supply your drive firmware level, so we can all compare
notes?
thanks,
bob
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:57:47PM +0200, Tom?? Hrouda Ing. wrote:
We have it on both IBM and Imation tapes (we had first 20 tapes in initial
order with library from IBM and 20 Imation tapes bought 1/2
As directed from the ref guide, I changed my objects to 'C:\Research Folder\*'
Now the schedlog shows every file on the machine backing up, so I am back to
where I started.
Do I need a 'virtual mount point' on this windows box, for it to only back up
this one folder?
Any other clues?
thanks,
Guess I don't know enough about Windows objects to figure out what is going
on here. I hope there is some help out there.
I am trying to back up only one folder (and files within) on a Win 2K box.
TSM Client level is 5.1.5
Server level is 4.2.4
Windows OS level is 5.01
The folder I want to
You were in the right place.
D01F.26E is the latest on the site. Unfortunately, the documentation is
not up to date. I have also heard of newer code for the 3590, but it is
not on any ftp site. You may have to ask your CE to get an FMR tape for you.
bob
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:52:41AM
At one point in time, the documentation actually explained that D01F was the
newer track for 3590 MC. I don't know why it reverted back to the old
index.html page. I'll look around for where that document went. Maybe
someone from IBM can get the index updated. ;-)
bob
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at
to have to change my TSM setup
at all, since the Legato implementation is brand new, and *better* be temporary.
;-) (sorry, I seem to have something in my eyes that are making them twitch).
Any tips and techniques out there?
Thanks in advance!
Bob Booth
UIUC/CITES
the Legato implementation is brand new, and *better* be
temporary.
;-) (sorry, I seem to have something in my eyes that are making them
twitch).
Any tips and techniques out there?
Thanks in advance!
Bob Booth
UIUC/CITES
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client
Pick your flavor.
bob
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:56:53PM -0500, Wholey, Joseph (TGAMLOL) wrote:
Can anyone tell me where on the IBM web site I can download the tsm backup archive
client? w/out having to log in as a
checkin libv libname search=yes checkl=yes/no status=scratch
bob
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:30:52PM -0600, Tommy Templeton wrote:
Hi *SM'ers
Is there a way to check in multiple new volumes (with barcodes) to a 3494 library as
scratch?
Tommy Templeton
Senior System Administrator
DFA-MMRS
It looks like your server is running out of memory. Some of the threads
are crashing, and message reading threads can't get started, therefore you
are seeing the Message number errors.
I had simular problems with this on AIX, when we were doing server to server
communications. Restores
I do it every day. I think you need to have the 'devt=3590' option for
the 3494.
checkin libv libname volname status=scratch devt=3590 checkl=no
or
checkin libv libname search=yes status=scratch devt=3590 checkl=no
bob
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 04:01:21PM -0600, Tommy Templeton wrote:
Does
The good news is our email appliance vendor is willing to work with TSM either
with NDMP V3 or develop a native client, the bad news is, they can't aren't
getting much response from IBM/Tivoli PartnerWorld if any.
While we wait for this company to try and hack their code in the dark, with
no
Did you allow the library to inventory? Your library may have been set to not do an
inventory audit after the doors are closed, which means any volumes you touched, would
be in
unknown locations.
bob
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:37:59PM +0100, Emil S. Hansen wrote:
Hello TSMers.
After a
You will probably have to mark the tape that has the bad 'file' on it as
'destroyed', or restore that volume using the offsite tape(s), then do the
restore.. Depending on the number of offsite tapes it may take to rebuild the
bad volume, you might be better off just updating the bad tape to
Use caution with Jumbo Frames, some switches/routers do not support them (yet).
bob
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 02:38:58PM -0600, PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) wrote:
Enable Jumbo Frames on your adapter.Smitty devicescommunications
Check for MTU size at your switch level and on Network Interface.
I have had this problems numerous times with several levels of TSM. Once it
was because TSM had a reclaim process for that volume pending (somewhere), that
could not get canceled. I was at 4.1.X at that time, and a restart of TSM
fixed it. I just had the problem when I upgraded to 4.2.3, and a
Need much more information, just to get started...
You say TSM 4.2, but what level? 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.2.?
What kind of server machine do you have? How much memory? How is your
database/log set up? Does this machine serve other functions?
How many clients are you backing up? Are they backing
If the tapes are suspect, you can do an 'audit volume' on them, to verify
the data is good. If the audit comes back clean, do a 'move data' on the
failing tape(s), then remove the media from service. If the tape hardware is
at fault or suspected, repair the hardware, then check the tapes with an
There really is no MIB, except the standard informational, lists contact,
location, and phone number. The MIB information can be found under
Commands - SNMP options on the management console.
The 3494 only supports SNMP traps (messaging), which means it will send a trap
to any host you specify
After looking at the product on the web, it looks mostly geared to the DR of
HP, Microsoft and Sun systems. No Mac support, no AIX support.. Looks like
a typical HP product. (bloatware, but that is my opinion).
bob
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:42:54PM -0400, Etienne Brodeur wrote:
Does anyone
Actually, there are only 'levels' of traps you can define on the console. The
rest is up to the 3494. You can set a level that will spam a trap whenever the
I/O door is opened, to only emergency traps. It is a very simple configuration
that works great for us, as long as you have a trap
Del volh type=dbb todate=xxx
bob
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:01:41PM -0400, Peppers, Holly wrote:
Hello All!!!
I have a issue/question that I'm hoping someone out there knows the answer
to...
We just discoverd that our volhistory file is maintaining copies of
full/incr db backups since
Zlatko, chill.
Mario, glad your problem is resolved.
bob
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 01:41:01PM -0700, Mario Behring wrote:
Zlatko,
I already did. Thank you.
The update to 4.3.3 ML10 will most likely need a reboot. At the end of the
update_all dialog, it will tell you that 'changes will not take effect until
a system reboot'.
I am running 4.2.2 with 4.3.3 ML10 with no problems. I would assume that
4.2.2.13 *should* run ok with it. I am planning
Well, we are in the same boat, however, Mirapoint does not support TSM either,
no matter what they have told you. Depending on how you want to do backups,
you will not be able to restore individual mailboxes until both support
NDMP V4, which is not planned for quite some time.
I hope you have
Hard to tell whats going on. Is this a fresh install of TSM? What version?
What platform is it?
Do a 'q stat' and check to see what your activity log retention period is..
It is possible to set the ACTLOGRETENTION to 0, thereby turning it off.
hope this helps,
bob
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at
I have used both on AIX, and really have never seen a difference either way.
I use LVM raw volumes for both, since I find them easier to deal with. TSM
mirrors the database/log volumes, and AIX mirrors the storage pool volumes.
TSM V5 can utilize AIO for JFS under with AIX, and this is a
What patch level of 5.1 are you running?
I have hesitated going to 5.1 after hearing some of the stories on this list
about 3494 problems, and resource manager timeouts.
thanks,
Bob Booth
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:23:56AM -0400, William Rosette wrote:
We went from 4.1 to 5.1 and enjoyed
I asked the same question several weeks ago. I have not yet called
ITSM support on the issue, however, I was able to hack the install script
and Solaris 9 seems to work with no problems (so far).
I will let the list know what support tells me about client support for
Solaris 9.
Good Luck.
bob
You may be able to do this with an SNMP trap from the 3494 to an SNMP monitor
station. The 3494 will send interventions to SNMP traphosts, and you can
do whatever you want with them.. email, page, etc.
bob
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:48:44PM -0400, David E Ehresman wrote:
When the 3494 I/O
What signal is killproc() sending to the server main thread? The server will
shutdown gracefully if it gets a SIG 15. See if you send a SIG 15 and the
lock file goes away.
Just a try.
bob
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 03:31:26PM -0400, Scott, Brian wrote:
Hey gang,
Does anyone have a sample
wrote:
Bob Booth - UIUC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone heard when an ITSM client will be available for Solaris 9?
We tried to install the latest patch level, and it failed.
Do you mean the install failed? The Solaris install package, as built
by IBM/Tivoli, will reject a Solaris 9
Workstation Data Save Facility
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 09:21:29AM -0400, William Rosette wrote:
Thank you Roger for the info. I'm curious about what WDSF stood for?
no.. This is a communication setting. It tells the client not to buffer
small transactions, but to send them to the server right away.
bob
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 12:26:01PM -0400, Claudio Cofre Caro wrote:
One question...
If i use in my tsm server TCPNODELAY = YES
then this means that
If you mean 'after a schedule completes', then yes, look into a postschedule
command.
bob
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:19:28PM -0400, Brian Dade wrote:
I'm running TSM v4.2.1.10 on AIX v4.3.3. I'd like to send e-mail to the
computer operators so they know when they can log on to continue their
Does anyone know off the top of their heads if there is a way to have
the default permissions on the dsmsched and dsmerror logs to something other
than 666 on UNIX? This does not seem to be a umask issue, we have tried that.
thanks,
bob
mtlib -l libname -q S
should give you the stats that you want for the total library.
bob
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 12:03:10PM -0400, Alfred G Welch wrote:
TSMers,
I have a 3494 library and need to compile information on
number of mounts the library has done. It doesn't have
Check the volume out first, without doing a label check. Insert the volume
and do the label libv. I would do further checking if I were you though. I
think relabling a volume this way will destroy your data, as it may zero
out the index. You don't want to re-initialize the volume, just put on
After reading the documentation for the 5.1 clients, I don't believe that
your server level (4.1.X) is supported. As far as I could tell, only 4.2 and
above could be used with the 5.1 clients.
We were seeing the problems with the 4.2.2 clients under UNIX (mainly Linux),
and moved to the 5.1
What is your client type and level, and what is your server level?
I am having this issue with the 5.1 client with various UNIX platforms, and
it does not look like the file is getting backed up.
bob
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:06:36PM +0200, brian welsh wrote:
Hello,
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On Thu, 16 May 2002, Bob Booth - UIUC wrote:
Does anyone know why or where the TSM
Shutdown and reboot both send a kill -15 to processes. TSM listens to this
kill signal and shuts itself down. If you have tape activity going, it is
best to stop as much of it as you can, since some threads won't shut down
completely until I/O is completed.
bob
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at
Does anyone know why or where the TSM 4.2.2 clients for some platforms are
now missing from the IBM ftp server? 422 and LATEST are no longer out there
for AIX, Solaris .. Among others..
Whats up?
thanks,
bob
with some of the
4.2.2. stuff?
David Longo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/16/02 03:59PM
I went out there earlier today myself and found what you found too. I'm
curious too.
Dave Pearson
-Original Message-
From: Bob Booth - UIUC [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:37
I have been seeing many of these messages when backing up a Linux RH 7.2
client to our AIX 4.2.2 server:
ANE4018E (Session: 1254, Node: .x..xxx) Error
processing '/home/gale/CommuniGate/Accounts/ahous.macnt/-
I have had a strange problem that has been following two our our Solaris
boxes. They are both running 5.8 and I had one of the boxes upgrade to
TSM 4.2.2. We fire up the scheduler, and it runs normally, once, then it
stops responding. Netstat shows that the scheduler is listening on 1501, but
We have just upgrade our AIX TSM server to 4.2.1.13. Some of our users have
upgraded the clients (AIX and Solaris) to 4.2.1.X (whatever is LATEST).
A strange thing is happening, for clients using the scheduler, that have
a pre and post schedule command defined. When the scheduler fires off, it
I had a user come to me today with an error message. On a Solaris 5.8 system
running 4.2.1 client code, they get a
ANS1074I *** User Abort ***
After the backup is completed (after the statistics line).
I looked at the patches, and in 4.2.1.15 I found references to in APARS
resolved from 4.1.2
Thanks to all, especially Del Hoobler, who helped with my last MS SQL TDP
problems. Everything seems to be working as designed..
I am having a problem with the license though. At random times, the number
of licensed MSSQL clients needs to be increased. It claims now that 4 are
in use, but
Thanks for all who helped with the TDP question I had. I stole the manual from
the Windows adminstrator, figured out what I was supposed to do, then returned
the manual after repeatidly beating him over the head with it..
again, thanks.
This list has always been my greatest resource!
BTW:
I am hoping someone can give some insight into problems I am having getting
the MS SQL TDP V2 to run on a Windows 2K box.
The main problem I am having is with the scheduler. The box runs both
normal backups, and TDP backups via a scheduler service. The TDP options
file lists a separate port
Has anyone heard of an update as to when Tivoli will be supporting MAC OSX?
I can't find anything on the web site...
Thanks,
Bob Booth
UIUC
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