Re: REPAIR OCCUPANCY

2023-04-22 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
I mean, it's formally in a whitepaper from 2018, https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/repair-occupancy-repair-reporting-occupancy-storage-pool and dsmserv was updated in 2021 to allow this to run on a container pool. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IT15373 It's not normal maintenance, but

Re: How to empty a deduped FILE DEVclass stgpool

2023-04-22 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Did you try with both RECONSTRUCT=YES and RECONSTRUCT=NO ? Sometimes I have had to do that to get stubborn aggregates to move. Also, what's the reusedelay on the pool? Sometimes resetting this can help. Lastly, I had a lot of stuck data that wouldn't go away, and 8.1.17.100 seemed to allow

dsmserv 8.1.18 connection latency

2023-04-22 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Anyone else running into connection latency on 8.1.18? We were at 8.1.17.008 and 8.1.17.100, and came to 8.1.18.0 due to some rollup locking patches (vs going to 8.1.17.015). Now, we have pretty substantial hangs for client and dsmadmc connections. During our normal backup window, it gets bad

Re: Files not rebinding as expected

2022-08-03 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
For windows systems, the filespaces are not stored as C: and D:. They are stored as UNC names such as \\hostname\c$. The drawback here is that if the hostname ever got updated, you could have C: backed up two or more times. Q OCC will tell you what to expect. When you run an incremental, it

8.1.13.0 storage rules buggy

2022-07-11 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Hey, all. Just to resurrect this old thread, we ran into all of these same issues, plus more. POSSIBLY FIXED #1, My 8.1.13.100 servers do not seem to leave hung stgrule target processes around. Also, it looks like 8.1.13.012 has some additional fixes that help this. 012 patches may

Re: 5.3.2 server

2006-04-25 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Matt, I didn't see further replies to this so I thought I'd add my experience recently. I have two servers I've been chasing locks/hangs on, mostly related to REPAIR STGVOL. One server would hang up every other day. I waited for a month to get a patch, which was against 5.3.2.4; however, in

Re: Rebinding image snapshots

2006-04-25 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Incrementals and Images are not the same type of objects insite TSM. I don't see anything in the docs that indicate whether rebinding can occur for image backups. If rebinding an image snapshot is possible, it will only happen when you take a new snapshot. -Josh On 06.04.05 at 09:44 [EMAIL

Re: Tru64 BAC

2006-04-25 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Mario, Google and the IBM FTP site both have info. Here's the last release of the Tru64 client: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client/v5r1/Tru64UNIX/v517 This client is no longer under development. From what I understand, you'll still get howto/usage

Re: hidden flags to EXPIRE INV and CLEANUP EXPTABLE

2006-04-21 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Correction: In the SHOW NODE against the subkeys, the KEY is the NODE_NAME. Field 1 is still the node number and field2 is PLATFORM_NAME. Also, beware of using SHOW NODE on wrong or random pages. On 06.04.20 at 22:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:58:34 -0500 From: Josh

Re: 3584 - determining available clean cycles

2006-04-21 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
for the newer 1/2 tapes (LTO included), cleaning frequency is pretty rare, except in cases where you have genuinely dirty tapes. We have 36 drives, and they clean about once every year or two. I've forced cleaning #2 on several drives because they got I/O errors and out vault returns tapes with

Re: 3584 - determining available clean cycles

2006-04-21 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
If the library is hooked up to ethernet, you could lynx in and pull the cleaning info from there. On 06.04.20 at 18:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:38:52 -0400 From: Jim Zajkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To:

Re: Tivoli DB limit

2006-04-21 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
I've never heard of a 100million file limitation to TSM. The limits are 13.5GB for the log and 512GB for the TSM DB. It's not DB2 Lite, rather, more like a port of the 1980s version of DB2 that was part of MVS. Dave Cannon in a 2003 TSM symposium said they were considering decoupling the

Re: 3584 library

2006-04-21 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
This could cause a call-home. From the front panel, or from the web gui of the library, you should be able to have it do a library inventory. It takes about 60 seconds per frame. On 06.04.20 at 15:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:11:21 -0400 From: David E Ehresman

Re: collocation groups

2006-04-21 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Directories are owned by the nodes they belong to. So, if you're using a DIRMC pool with long retention, and you implement collocation or colloc groups, then the directories will be collocated the same as files. On 06.04.20 at 13:29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:29:04

Re: Schedule start delayed

2006-04-21 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Schedule Randomization. Q STAT and it's in the middle On 06.04.18 at 09:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:19:56 -0600 From: Andrew Raibeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Schedule start delayed

Re: CLEANUP EXPTABLE / SHOW VERIFYEXPTABLE

2006-04-07 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
PROTECTED] Reply-To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: CLEANUP EXPTABLE / SHOW VERIFYEXPTABLE What do these commands do? --- Josh-Daniel Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to tell how big the expiration table is? The reason

Re: TSM DB backup question

2006-04-07 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Plus, there's reusedelay on a storage pool, which prevents 100% expired volumes from becoming scratch for X number of days. On 06.04.07 at 11:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 11:44:20 -0500 From: Rajesh Oak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Reclamation process

2006-04-07 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
The biggest problem is that TSM doesn't sort reclaimable tapes prior to assigning them to threads. Your best efficiency is to reclaim the most empty tapes first. You could use something like this: UPD STG FOOBAR1 RECLAIM=95 RECLAIMPR=5 Wait a while UPD STG FOOBAR1 RECLAIM=90 RECLAIMPR=5 Wait a

CLEANUP EXPTABLE / SHOW VERIFYEXPTABLE

2006-04-06 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
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Re: DSM.OPT file

2006-04-06 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
If it's by hostname, then it should be vaguely round-robin, if your DNS has multiple address records. All connections for the cient would use the IP chosen by that clients' resolver libraries. You could also try using etherchannel. If set up correctly, you would simply have two NICs with the

Re: CLEANUP EXPTABLE / SHOW VERIFYEXPTABLE

2006-04-06 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
OK, I finally figured it out. It's processing by NODES.REG_TIME, then by FSID. I have 75 of 479 nodes left. I'll look in my occupancy extracts to see how much more there is. On 06.04.06 at 16:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 16:55:50 -0500 From: Josh-Daniel Davis [EMAIL

Re: ANR2997W Causing Transaction Failure

2006-03-10 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
The delay should have just been a block and not an abort. The data transger interrupted supposedly means there was an error or abort while trying to write to the storage media. I'd look in the operating system error logs, and for more context in the actlog. On 06.03.09 at 09:28 [EMAIL

Re: TsmManager hardware requirements

2006-03-10 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
TSM Manager is pretty light weight. Most of its actual load will be incurred on the TSM server as queries are made. I'd think a $250 CompUSA special would do the trick nicely. Admin Center's biggest issue is that it runs on the Integrated Service Console, which is a WebSphere implementation.

Re: Move Node Data from one Policy to another Policy

2006-03-10 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
I want to clarify. You said from one policy to another? MOVE NODEDATA moves the data between storage pools only. This will not affect your retention policy of those files. To change the policy domain: UPD NODE DOM=newdomainname If you're just looking to move the data, but not change policy:

Re: Weekly/Monthly -Backupsets running long

2006-03-10 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
I would recommend creating a second copygroup and a private storage pool for that node. You'd probably want to give it a DB snapshot of its own also. If you NEED backupsets, then you definitely need the source pool to be collocated. If you have to, it could be by group with all of your other

Re: Limits to TSM Reporting Tool?

2006-03-10 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Are they all to the same server? I find that operational reporting tends to be pretty resource intensive on the server. I've run into lock issues that required killing sessions to free up. If you have several TSM servers, you might try disabling specific reports to see if things are OK on all

Re: What table is the q drive WWN and Serial number stored in?

2006-03-10 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
These are pulled by the server during startup and stored in temporary tables that are inaccessible by SQL commands. You can get the WWN from SHOW LIBR. -Josh On 06.03.10 at 07:56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:56:52 -0800 From: T. Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: ADSM:

Re: finding compression % stats on TDP clients

2006-03-10 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
If you have access to the server, you should be able to pull Q ACT BEGINT= ENDT= BEGIND= ENDD= SEARCH= The message numbers to search on start with ANE49xxI where xx is one of these: 03/10/06 18:00:11 ANE4952I (Session: 40949, Node: DEADBEEF) Total number of objects

Re: finding compression % stats on TDP clients

2006-03-10 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Oops, I completely disregarded TDP. If you can get the admin to grant you SQL authority (ANALYST I think), you can select from SUMMARY which will show start/end times plus bytes received. Then you could divide that by the bytes sent to get your compression ratio. There's nowhere to get network

Re: TSM 5.3 web gui

2006-03-07 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
It came from the sites that have 1200 node clusters, and the sites with 16 Regatta-H and Squadrons-H systems with their multiple ESS arrays and all of the 1000 different products IBM sells. Each group of customers has a few loud proponents for 1-4 admins being able to manage an entire enterprise

Re: Q STG hangs during reclamation / dsmserv process hung

2006-03-07 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Mar 2006 22:59:02 -0600 From: Josh-Daniel Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: dsmserv process hung. Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 14:51:52 -0800 From: Larry Peifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L

Re: move nodedata

2006-03-04 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
, then import it again, making sure that the copygroup destinations pointed to a disk pool. -Josh On 06.03.03 at 23:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 23:02:02 -0600 (CST) From: Josh-Daniel Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: move

Re: move nodedata

2006-03-04 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
If you don't know the tape the most current data is on, and don't feel like pulling the list of tapes (or can't per the length of query)... You could also use MOVE NODEDATA, but it would be more than just the last version. -Josh On 06.03.03 at 16:53 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 3 Mar

Re: Backing up a MySQL database

2006-03-04 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
mysqldump sent through adsmpipe is common and free. On 06.02.28 at 09:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:38:36 +1100 From: Paul Ripke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Backing up a MySQL database

Re: Multiprocess Offsite Reclamation Pointless???

2006-03-04 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
I've run into the same issue alot. It's just a TSM limitation. TSM is not smart enough to reorder any queue based on tape availability. IE, if proc 1 is using tape 1, and proc 2 needs data from tapes 1-5, TSM won't do 2-5 while waiting for access to 1. It'll simply go into media wait. happens

Re: What is the FLUSH command?

2006-03-04 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
It's still there. Here's what I wrote up about it in 2001: FLUSH This causes a database buffer writers to flush, which would be used to test for buffer-writer starvation. Use this command when SHOW BUFVARS has a dpDirty (dirty pages) value in the thousands. Then check log utilization to see

Example of why SHOW commands are unsupported

2006-03-04 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Today, I was reminded why to be careful with SHOW commands during production workloads and thought I'd share (and archive across the Internet at large) by posting here: 03/04/06 10:44:46 ANR4391I Expiration processing node NODE, filespace /oracle, fsId 141, domain STANDARD, and management

Re: dsmserv process hung.

2006-03-03 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
This happens when 2 threads start to back up the system object, and the second one starts sending data before the first one is able to create the group leader, which is the anchor for management and expiration of the entire system object as a single entity even though it's made of multiple

Re: ADSM.ORG login/confirmation problems

2006-02-15 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Mark, Thanks. Yes, I was hoping that maybe the ADSM.ORG folks would notice. Eventually, one of the messages showed up post-dated, so I can go from there. -Josh On 06.02.15 at 09:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:31:44 -0600 From: Mark Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ADSM.ORG login/confirmation problems

2006-02-14 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
domains. On yahoo, nothing shows up to inbox or bulk. To home server, nothing hits the exim4 logs. Sorry to bother and thanks for your time. -Josh-Daniel Davis

Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Automating server scripts

2006-02-14 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
copypool maxpr=4 wait=yes SERIAL -Josh-Daniel Davis On 06.02.14 at 09:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:05:42 -0500 From: Timothy Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: AW: [ADSM-L] Automating server

Re: Backupset question

2006-02-14 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Other options include: *use WAIT=YES and it should dump the relevant actlog messages to your admin session, including which tapes were mounted *specify VOLumes=m1,m2, etc On 06.02.15 at 07:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:26:42 +1100 From:

Re: Tape Question 3592 and 3590 drives

2006-02-14 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Have you seen this? -- Problem Procedure to add a new 3592 tape drive on 3494 library Solution This can be necessary when 3590E drives are correctly defined on AIX and TSM as well, however new 3592 tape drives are to be added to the 3494 library. These are configured in the

Re: windows backup issue ... (pst)

2006-02-14 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
If you're also backing up with TDPMSEXC then shouldn't you be excluding these files? -josh On 06.02.13 at 15:56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:56:16 +0100 From: goc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:

Re: Expire Inventory

2006-02-14 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Depends entirely on your server. There's no chart based on the overall load incurred; however, the extra I/O is all actlog. If your DB performance has room to spare, then it shouldn't be a problem. You could always turn it on for a day and compare your expiration performance the next day with:

Re: mksysb tapes on fibre-attached 3590

2004-03-24 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Dwight, You can't stack mksysb's on a tape, but you can stack Sysbacks. The first tape file on a bootable tape is in 512 byte blocks and is the actual boot program. This is basically the kernel and a backup file used to populate the ramfs as defined by the proto files. On a mksysb, the second,

Re: IBM3584 Tape Drives won't write to Media

2004-03-24 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Rajesh, 3A/00 means media not present. Is this a new library? Has it ever worked? If not, there may be a drive cabling or definition problem such that the tape is being loaded into one drive, but TSM is trying to read from a different drive Is the tape you're trying label in the slot that TSM

Re: GIGE connectivity via TSM

2004-03-24 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Joe, TCP/IP is always routed based on the IP addresses used. If you want your traffic to go over the gigabit card: If it's on a machine that will be a server for transaction X, then specify to your client the host name or IP address of the gigabit card. If it's on a machine that will be a

Re: Advantages / Disadvantage running in 64-bit mode

2004-03-22 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
AIX 5.2 can be run in 32 and 64-bit mode. 64-bit kernel mode should have better performance on bulk I/O, larger memory model, etc. This is definitely worth if if you are using ultra 160 or 320 adapters, or 64-bit Fibre channel (6228 and 6239) cards. I would think that for an M80, any LPAR

Re: TDPO for Oracle

2004-03-22 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
Dale, Did you check the basics of, as oracle, or your tdpo user: # env | grep DSM Make sure the DSMI variables point to the right locations, then verify those files are readable by your user. If after verifying this, you might want to let us know what version of oracle, tdpo and tsmc you

Re: mksysb tapes on fibre-attached 3590

2004-03-22 Thread Josh-Daniel Davis
I don't know if you can boot fibre tape. If not, this would most likely be a firmware limitation. If any system would allow it, the p650 would. The boot media, whether it be mksysb-CD, NIM or SCSI tape, will need to have Atape and the fibre drivers in it. Make sure you're at current firmware