randomization is set to 25%
node connects at 230 AM
schedules will start between 230 and 330 AM.
Could this be it?
Etienne Brodeur
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The below schedule was scheduled for 1 PM. The client scheduler is
polling and at 1:05 PM it updated, and said the schedule would start in 33
minutes. What causes a schedule to execute a time later than scheduled? I
am aware of staggered starts for scheduled events, but this is the
Q VOL shows information on tapes assigned to storage pools. Since scratch
tapes are not assigned (yet) to any storage pools they do not show in the
output of Q VOL.
-Original Message-
From: Taha, Hana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 1:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
George,
Did a backup run between the time that the filesystem was removed
and the new file system created? I believe that when /inbound/site was
removed the data was lost. If a backup was run TSM would mark the data as
inactive. Now when your are try to restore to the new filesystem
Hello,
Possibly I am imaging this whole thing. However, I believe it is
possible to backup the AIX operating system directly to a tape in the
Library, not through TSM necessarily.
What AIX device would I choose to backup to?
rmt0 IBM Magstar MP 3570 Library Tape Drive
Have you looked at export node filedata=active? Using export has met my
needs where backupsets have not.
Thanks,
Jon Martin
-Original Message-
From: Gerald Wichmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 2:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: copy pools
The only thing I have seen similar is when a NFS filespace is unmounted one
night, and then remounted the next night. This will cause the filespace to
expire the first night and then completely backup the next.
Thanks,
Jon Martin
-Original Message-
From: Jon Adams [mailto:[EMAIL
Peter,
I think I remember seeing where someone scheduled a job on the
server to do this. The job would loop checking to see if a certain event
had completed. Once the observed event is complete, the server job can
perform the backup. Searching adsm.org might find more information.
Hello All,
Database: Oracle7 ( Soon to be *)
TSM Server: AIX 4.3.3 ML9
TSM: v3.7.2
Our Oracle database backups to TSM are currently managed by
SQL-Backtrack. The databases are Oracle7 but will be migrated to Oracle8 in
the near future. We are interested in using RMAN to manage the
In Petur's defense, I think he is trying to say he could not find anywhere
that specifically said data in a Seq. Access Storage Pool, that goes
offsite will be encrypted. I can't see where he says he read a document
that says it is not encrypted.
Jon
-Original Message-
From: Jack
Hello,
We are running TSM v3.7.2 on AIX 4.3.3 ML-09. We periodically have
scheduled backup failures with some of our Sun Solaris nodes. Consistently
the entry in dsmerror.log is as follows.
03/21/02 20:14:06 cuPing: Out of sequence verb: verb: 61
Etienne,
Here is something similar that I do on my AIX Server. It could
probably be written differently (better) but it serves the purpose. It
checks if any of three different messages are in the log and if so mails
that information to me.
Thanks,
Jon Martin
If you have packaged IBM solution NSM it comes with a script named isitup.
The script does advanced checking to see if the server is up.
Otherwise, here is something simple for Unix ksh.
#
dsmadmc -id=xxx -pass=xxx 'quit'
# Whether the server is up or down it will return you to the
Good Morning,
When attempting to retrieve archive data through the GUI, a
list/description of each available archive is shown. . Is there a way
through dsmadmc to list the dates/descriptions of archives for each node?
Thank You,
Jon Martin
Karel,
Silly question perhaps. The start time for the schedule shows
16:32. I do not know your location but has that time of day come yet?
Thanks,
Jon Martin
-Original Message-
From: Karel Bos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:55 AM
To: [EMAIL
Hello,
I am on TSM v3.7.2
I am using the following export data. EXPORT NODE domains=solaris
filedata=backupactive devclass=3570 scratch=yes
usedvolumelist=/tmp/solexport.out
My question is on checking the volumes in to restore this data at a later
date. Would I use checkin libvolume
Good Morning All,
I have a tape volume that was used to export a node. I would like
to check that volume back in as scratch. I'm having trouble finding the
answer.
Here is an excerpt from the actlog showing what I have tried.
ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: CHECKIN
.
Once this has been done the tape can be checked back in as ascratch tape.
HIH
Steve Copper
-Original Message-
From: Martin, Jon R. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 08 March 2002 14:54
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: return export volume to scratch
This email and any files transmitted
Agreed, but I we have seen this same problem before. Someone offers a neat
tool, and we have to wade through a few hundred Yes, me too messages.
Unfortunately getting this to stop would be like making the ocean stand
still.
While we are on the subject there are other things I don't like; such
Henk,
This past summer we added 4 AS/400s to our TSM environment. We
are running TSM v 3.7.2 on AIX v4.3.3. Our Library is a SCSI connected
3575. There are redbooks out there with great information on setting up
your management class, and tips for setting up BRMS on the AS/400. We
I suppose working at Merrill Lynch explains the bankers hours
;)
-Original Message-
From: Wholey, Joseph (TGA\MLOL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 9:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: my timesheet
joseph_wholey_030102.xls
Regards,
Joe Wholey
TGA
Justin,
Since a backupset is generated from what is on the TSM server, I would think
the exclude list would play a role.
Thanks,
Jon Martin
-Original Message-
From: Justin Bleistein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
All,
Is it possible to have two storage pool's backup to the same copy
storage pool? I don't see anything in the manuals saying yes or no.
We currently have a 'TAPEPOOL' which is backed up to a 'COPYPOOL' .
Then the 'COPYPOOL' tapes are sent offsite. The original intention of
Bill,
There are several posts on www.adsm.org about shared memory. I
believe one of the requirements to use shared memory is that you must be
running you session as root to use it.
Thanks,
Jon Martin
-Original Message-
From: Bill Wheeler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
All,
I think Kelly brings up a good point that, most of us don't get to
practice disaster recovery very often. I know that there are plenty of
courses for TSM installation, configuration, and administration. Does
anyone know of available training with a strict focus on disaster
James,
You can cheat if you like..
Send the vault information to your local corporate e-mail account.
Then if using Outlook you can set up an auto-forward rule.
Otherwise.. my sendmail knowledge is limited and rusty but...
The email they receive is probably coming from
Sean,
What error is message is generated when you try to do this? What commands
are you issuing? Can you show an output of q vol or q drmedia ?
All of these things would be very helpful in trying to assist you.
Thanks,
Jon M
-Original Message-
From: Ramnarayan, Sean A [EDS]
Hello, this should be an easy one...
The TSM Server has schedmode set to any. What can I run from the server to
see what mode a client is using? I have been selecting from various tables
but have not had any luck in finding the answer.
Thanks,
Jon
the parameter is set in the dsm.sys file
(Unix) or the dsm.opt file (Windows).
If you do not see the schedmode parameter in the
file then the default is being used.
I believe the default is polling.
Sias Dealy
--- Martin, Jon R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, this should be an easy one
I haven't been following this thread closely but if it works fine connected
to the SP2 Node serial port but not the serial port of the H50 I would
compare serial port configurations between the SP2 and the H50. (
handshake; baud; login; initial program to run, etc...)
Thanks,
Jon Martin
Good Afternoon,
I am trying to identify the best solution for achieving long term
storage requirements. However each option has pros and cons. Would anyone
like to share their long-term storage solution and why they chose that way.
My storage requirement is 7 years.
Here are
-Original Message-
From: Martin, Jon R. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 12:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Long-Term Storage
Good Afternoon,
I am trying to identify the best solution for achieving long term
storage requirements. However each option
I think the wide range of answers as to what this output means is a good
indication that IBM would do well to develop a more concise tool for
reviewing resource utilization. As for my opinion I would start with
'vmtune' and then look at 'iostat'. Good Luck
Thanks,
Jon Martin
-Original
Along thos same lines maybe if there are three file systems with the
following naming conventions
/work
/work/data
/work/data/martine
Would TSM back up each of these filesystems separately thus giving you three
different file names?
Thanks,
Jon Martin
-Original Message-
From: Vo An
Miles,
One small improvement might be to decrease the tape delay reuse
period. It might give you a few extra scratch tapes.
-Original Message-
From: Miles Purdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 9:47 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help! I need more
Hello,
To support a disaster recovery initiative it is intended that all
corporate servers are backed up to TSM. The administrator of our firewall
resists this mainly for the fact that the client data is sent in clear text
over the network.
As the TSM administrator it has
In the Admin Reference for v3.7 it says...
the allocated file size is always a multiple of 4MB plus an additional 1MB
ofr overhead).
Don't know how much that will help answer your question.
Thanks,
Jon
-Original Message-
From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
If you have access to a Unix Shell and are familiar with it, it should not
be hard to write a script to do the following.
1. Execute Restore
2. Read the return code.
3. Exit is the return code is good
4. Start the restore again if it is bad
-Original Message-
From: Robert Fijan
Zoltan,
I would suggest the problem is nothing but the amount of files that
need to be processed. I have one client with 3 million + files set that
file system to do incrbydate instead of incremental. The results were
definitely worth it. The only loophole I can see with this solution
Other than editing the output with shell commands ( grep, cut, head,
tail, etc... ) does anyone have a recommendation for getting output from TSM
without administrative information about the server also being returned?
I thought I had once seen an dsmadmc option to restrict the output of
Clemens,
It is possible to extend the log without starting the server. Check out the
dsmserv extend log and dsmfmt commands. There are several good
solutions posted in the archives. www.adsm.org
Jon
-Original Message-
From: Block, Clemens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday,
Because of capacity we are having a hard time maintaining scratch tapes in
our library. I thought of the following and would appreciate any feedback
on it's pros and cons.
Much like a copypool tape is kept offsite until it's Delay period for
reuse has expired I was considering checking my
Read the manual That is a very interesting concept. :)
Thanks for the pointer Richard.
-Original Message-
From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 1:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TAPEPOOL Pending Volumes
Because of capacity we are
We do incremental on weekdays and full on weekends for our Oracle databases.
I do find that both types of backup take about the same amount of time.
As far as I know we never looked into backup of just redo during the week
but I think we will now.
-Original Message-
From: Davidson, Becky
What is the file structure that you are backing up? Are there a LARGE amount
of small files the client needs to process? What is the copy serialization
set at for your copy groups. If you are backing up active files and the
copy serialization is set to make multiple attempts on an active file,
Hello,
Currently our backup strategy for the TSM Servers is as follows on a
daily basis.
1. Backup 'diskpool' to 'copypool'
2. Backup 'tapepool' to 'copypool'
3. Full back up of DB
From what I understand this is the most bullet proof method.
However we are at edge of our tape
Francisco,
I have been administering TSM for three months now. The previous
administrator is my manager so I have had someone on hand to answer my
questions. I feel I have a learned a lot with the sink or swim method and
subscribing to this mail list has helped also. I first learned
Zoltan,
Interesting subject I was just talking about this possibility the other day.
My question refers to part 1. When you say the node is not a TSM-client I
am assuming that they have the TSM client installed they are just not
registered with the server as a node? Otherwise how would they
David,
I experienced a similar situation. I excluded the object in
general. For the occasions when I wanted to back that object up I used
include as an option to my backup command and specified the area in
question.
Thanks,
Jon Martin
-Original Message-
From: David Ruiz
We use the following schedule to do a daily full backup of the database.
This is TSM 3.7 running on AIX 4.3.3. The past week I have noticed that
this schedule does not appear to be executing at all. The only other
process that is consistently running at this time is a storage pool backup.
I can
it?
Thanks again.
David.
--- Martin, Jon R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David,
I experienced a similar situation. I
excluded the object in
general. For the occasions when I wanted to back
that object up I used
include as an option to my backup command and
specified the area in
question
You can to go www.adsm.org to review archived postings.
-Original Message-
From: Chuck Lam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 3:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: archives for this list
Hello,
Would someone kindly show me how to look up archives
for this
When you run the dsm session. There is an option to change you
login/connection from the menu bar ( FILE / LOGON ). On the server you want
to restore to login to dsm as the server you want to restore from. From
there on it is the same as usual.
-Original Message-
From: Yahya Ilyas
This is from and old posting. I used it last week to bail me out of the
same situation. You might need to choose a different directory I used /tmp
instead of /usr/lpp/adsmserv/bin
-
Check out page 715 of the Admin reference for AIX... Recovery Log
Extension Command. What you
Eric,
You are not alone. I am having the same problem with one Solaris
Client. I also applied the same patch and observe the same output from
dsmc. Since I am upgrading to 4.1 server in the near future I haven't put
much effort into correcting it.
-Original Message-
From:
I am trying to create an additional db and log volume to implement TSM
mirroring. If I use a logical volume created on an internal scsi or ssa
attached drive I have no problem. However the goal is to create the logical
volumes on a ESS vpath. When I try to dsmfmt these volumes I run into the
This is it exactly. I should have searched the archive before posting.
Thanks for the reply
-Original Message-
From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 3:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM db and log volumes / ESS
Error writing file
Good Morning,
I am running TSM on AIX 4.3. Most of the suggestions I have seen
for correcting a recovery log issue involve having access to TSM.
Unfortunately I don't have any access. Does anyone have and suggestions?
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