From IBM's 3590 web site:
The new AIX(R) high-availability failover mechanism in the AIX tape
device driver enables multiple redundant paths in a Storage Area
Network (SAN) to 3590 Model E and Model H Tape Drives having Fibre
Channel attachment.
and
The AIX tape device driver also offers
On 26 Aug 2002 at 9:00, Kauffman, Tom wrote:
I do a 650+ GB SAP/R3 database in 2 hours 40 minutes. TSM and SAP on
RS/6000 systems (660-6M1 now, was S7A two weeks ago). All disk is IBM
ESS and the backups run over two dedicated Gigabit ethernet networks
to four IBM LTO tape drives. No
On 2 Aug 2002 at 4:16, Rafael Mendez wrote:
Hi,
In my opinion (I have used Legato and TSM not Veritas) each storage
product has its advantages and disadvantages.
I have also used both . . .
Legato is easy to
install and configure
Very easy! The first time I downloaded the demo to try it
On 15 Jul 2002 at 21:50, Seay, Paul wrote:
From: Mark Stapleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 11:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AIX Oracle Snapshots
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
Of Markus Veit has anyone tried to
Legato will pack fulls and incrementals into the same tapes, or,
separate tapes, depending upon how you set up storage pools. I'd say
the waste of tape comes from having to perform periodic
full/differential backups, depending upon your schedule. If you mix
multiple retention periods on the
We had a meeting with IBM last week where they described some of the
new features of 5.1 - coming within a few weeks.
1) multi session restore
2) simultaneous writes to copy pools (more than one)
3) a move nodedata command
4) lan-free backup/restore (I thought it already had this)
5) hpux
IBM and Veritas are getting quite close lately. They are jointly
working on a project to port Veritas sftw to AIX. This includes
Veritas's filesystem, volume manager, special DB filesystem,
clustering sftw, etc. My understanding is that IBM has been pushing
this, and that a joint team of some
On 30 Jan 2002 at 16:07, Wholey, Joseph (TGA\MLOL) wrote:
With regard to compressing data twice, I disagree. There's
something very wrong with it. That's why it is strongly
recommended not to do it. (not just with TSM, but with all
data) Some data that goes thru multiple compression routines
We have several thousand 3590K tapes. In general we are very happy
with them. Like you, we have experienced some problem with a few new
tapes, but no where near your 10% rate - more like less than 1%.
Once past the initial use, they are rock solid.
We just received another shippment of tapes.
Thanks for all the HELP!
Ya'll are wonderfull . . . . .
Rick
I need a quick/rough idea of the cost of
TDP for SAP R/3. This is a rush request from my
bos for a possible SAP test system.
I don't know how it's priced, but the Oracle db
being backed up will be around 500gb-1tb, running
on a S7A.
We've got a call into our local Tivoli rep, but like usual,
I'd trust more experienced help, but here
are my thoughts . . .
pi + po indicate you are constantly paging. This probably
means you need more memory, but could be caused by aggressive
aix filesystem caching. If so, vmtune can help limit
filesystem caching.
Your cpu is hardly being hit. us +
I agree.
The last time we needed to order more client licenses it was
impossible to get someone from Tivoli to even talk to us. We wanted
to spend money, but they wouldn't respond to emails or voice mails.
I found this amazing! I had to get our local IBM storage rep to
contact Tivoli before
Just what all do you copy in order to set up a independent tsm
instance?
Thanks
Rick
On 10 Dec 2001 at 9:13, Davidson, Becky wrote:
I keep a copy of everything regarding each machine in it's own directory
tree including the code. Then I have a rc.adsmserv2 and rc.adsmserv4 to
start each.
What is involved in changing a TSM server from one platform (HPUX) to
another (AIX)?
I'm involved in a project that needs to move a TSM server from hp to
ibm. I know the db needs exported/imported, unloaded/loaded,
backedup/restored (I'm not sure how, but I've heard it can be done).
The bigger
On 25 Nov 2001 at 19:12, Seay, Paul wrote:
The issue that I see is that a storage pool in the future will need to span
more than one library simply because of the number of needed devices and
exploiting the flexibility of SANs. I hope TSM Development is working on
this.
I just had this
On 26 Nov 2001 at 12:12, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote:
Can anyone tell me if there are any issues with the 50 micron cables as
opposed to the 62.5 micron cables and 3590 drives. Taking into consideration
these will be on a SAN soon but for now direct connect. We only need to run
about 50 ft
How well does TSM work with STK silos?
- issues
- problems
Thanks
Rick
On 8 Nov 2001, at 10:29, Seay, Paul wrote:
Based on numbers that I have heard, you are looking at as much as a day. It
depends on your disk subsystem speed. Just be cause it is EMC does not mean
it is fast. It must be laid out properly and not all EMC disk is created
equal.
Absolutely!
When our TSM server get's a very high cpu utilization, what is high
is the %sys.
%usr%sys%wio %idle
00:43:28 22 56 11 12
00:44:28 22 57 10 11
00:45:28 22 55 10 12
03:37:30
We share a 3494 with a mainframe vts and a aix/rs6k based tsm server.
The vts origionally had 6 frame units with 6 drives (base end unit,
high availability frame at the other end, and 4 storage frames with
drives). To support TSM we've now added 8 more frames and 12 drives.
It took the IBM
The TSM manuals talk about a no-query restore where the
TSM server does the work of figuring out what files to
restore and the best order use. The documentation for
no-query is only under the restore cmd - nothing is
said about the gui.
Will the Web gui perform a no-query?
Thanks
Rick
On 22 Oct 2001, at 23:07, Mark Stapleton wrote:
Is this sound reasoning?
No.
Thoughts?
Use some logic. A restore reads a file off of a tape and sends it
along the SCSI/fiber connection to the TSM server, which in turn pipes
it through the I/O bus (getting it from SCSI to ethernet/token
W did a test full restore of a netware server. The restore was
around 40gb and took 8 hours. The Netware admins were disappointed
with this time.
To try and compare this time with something else, we created a
backup set for the same server - it took 3 hours.
My take is that a backup set
On 22 Oct 2001, at 15:48, John Naylor wrote:
Because you produced your backupset in 3 hours does not mean you will
get it back in 3 hours. The backupset speed is determined by how fast your host
server
can pull the entries from the database and write to its tapes These speeds are
likely to
Since converting from Legato to TSM, I find the ONLY thing I miss
is the really slick legato monitoring interface. Oh how I
wish tsm had one, kind of like topas or monitor do for AIX. I find
it tedious at best to try and piece together a picture of what
the server is doing from several tsm
On 24 Sep 2001, at 15:46, Zlatko Krastev/ACIT wrote:
Eric,
if you set-up an EtherChannel on both sides (!) it is like connecting
through 400 Mb/s interface (virtual one which distributes load on real ones
- ent0, ent1, ...). This is done at interface (OSI Level 2) and has to be
transparent
There's lots of misunderstanding about Etherchannel. Check out this
Cisco web page for a highlevel overview.
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/techno/media/lan/ether/channel/pro
dlit/faste_an.htm
On 19 Sep 2001, at 10:35, David Longo wrote:
That question has come up here about viruses. I don't think there is an
easy way. Maybe someone has some experience/ideas.
Lets suppose that instead of just a few clients, you wanted to do
this for all clients - or at least be willing to accept
The question is what is a reorg?
I would think moving the db to a new volume would just move the db
blocks - not changing their contents. It would collapse the unused
db blocks, but I think this would be different result than a
unload/load, which would recreate all db objects.
Kind of like the
Our current internal network has a bunch of dns domains resulting
from poor planning, mergers, etc. A decision has been made to
re-domain(?) our network. We are going to move all our network under
one new domain. IP numbers are NOT changing, just the domain.
The plan is to put all hosts in
On 6 Sep 2001, at 9:08, Cory Heikel wrote:
First and foremost, the support for arcserv is lousy at best -
While I didn't work with Archserv, I've watched our archserv admins
and had many conversations with them.
- Their support truly is very, very bad.
- The product doesn't scale. It seems
We pulled the plug on our old Legato backup server a short
while ago, which had 2 qualstar 46120 libraries with AIT1
tape drives.
We decided to try and hook one of the these qualstar's
up to our TSM server (3494 with Magstars). We got it up
and configured in tsm, but when we go and try to
label
While expiration is running you can see on a q pro cmd how many
objects are inspected and expired. Is there any way to tell the
number of objects expiration still has to inspect? In other words,
I'm trying to find some way to know where exp is and now much longer
it might run.
THanks
Rick
On 30 Aug 2001, at 14:48, Jeff Bach wrote:
1. A single backups runs to a single volume as perceived by ADSM. The
first session runs to the first volume allocated to the storage pool. The
second session runs to the second logical volume allocated to the storage
pool. The third sessions to
How do you restore the mksysb that was done to disk and was backed up
to TSM? The only way I know of to restore one is via NIM.
Thanks
Rick
On 22 Aug 2001, at 14:22, Prather, Wanda wrote:
We do the mksysb's to disk. Then TSM backs them up.
Then we only need the tape version of mksysb for
In general, yes you can.
How were you planning to perform the bcv split? The
normal ways are to either shutdown Oracle (cold backup)
or put Oracle into backup mode (hot backup). Either way,
once restored you can force oracle into recovery mode and
roll forward through any logs. Yes, you will
We use sql-backtrack for Sybase, but not Oracle - never wanted to
spend the money. We've also looked at RMAN, but rejected it for
various reasons. The incremental hot seems good, but you're still
just pulling out changed blocks, which is basically whats in the logs.
The vast majority of our
Is it possible, on one AIX server, to run two TSM servers where each
server is a different TSM version? For example, one TSM server
running at TSM4.1 and another server running at version 4.2?
We want to do some testing with 4.2 (we're on 4.1) with a spare scsi
jukebox. We could think of no
On 7 Aug 2001, at 14:22, Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM wrote:
Hi Rick!
The 3494 uses the library manager (the PC with an customized OS/2, which is
located inside your library control unit frame) to control this. Your AIX
host uses the ATLDD driver to address the library. The library manager
assigns
Our bufpool hit ratio has been running in the mid 90% and I would
like to increase it's size. Currently, it's set to:
dsmserv.opt: BUFPoolsize 1048576
Our tsm server is a hand-me-down with lots of memory - 12GB. I
decided to double the bufpoolsize parm to 2048576. When I tried to
start
We have TSM setup with several tape pools in our 3494. The tape
pools are collocated. When we add scratch volumes to the library,
TSM grabs the scratch tapes for the tape pools even though there are
lots of tapes only partially full. I understand this - it's the
effect of collocation. The
Another idea . . . .
Sounds like the backup is working correctly, just taking a long time.
What is the load on the firewall system during the backup? You might
be hitting a max throughput on the firewall. Try turning on
client compression to ease the firewalls load.
Rick
On 16 Jul 2001, at
Our db backup stats are below. We do 2 db backups
per day, one to disk and one to tape.
all pages: 11,266,048 (44g)
used pages: 8,387,060 (34g)
disk bkup: 60min - local ESS disk
tape bkup: 60min - 3590 drives
processor: 6k-s7a
I'm sure TSM can do this, but initial hunting didin't turn up
anything. It's probably right before our eyes . . .
We have systems A and B that we backup to TSM. THey are the same
architecture (AIX). We want to do a TSM restore from system A's
backups to system b.
How do you setup TSM so
Yes, this would be a consequence of moving access from one ess port
to another.
Each ess port has a separate wwpn. During the cfgmgr run the wwpn of
the ess port is stored in the ODM under the hdisk definition. So,
when you change the ess port used by a lun, AIX still tries to access
the lun
Were having problems with our TSM server hanging during nightly
backups.
server: RS/6K-S7A
tsm:TSM 4.1.1
Drives: 3494 with 8 3590E drives
Within the last several weeks our server has hung during nightly
backups about a half dozen times. Actually, we don't think it's
hung, just running
We will be looking at running multiple TSM instances, probably on one
box, later this year. Our server has plenty of horsepower and
bandwidth . . . the only reason we may need to do this is database
size.
The more I ponder this the madder I'm getting! Why should I have to
purchase another
My understanding is that there is only one vendor for
the tapes, Imation, even though you might get them
from someone else (even IBM).
Rick
On 1 May 2001, at 13:51, Talafous, John G. wrote:
Yes, I was told two weeks ago that there was a 9-12 week wait. If it is now
8-10 weeks, there must be
You're getting you terms mixed up.
9000 kB/s is 9MB/s, as you state.
A 100/mbps ethernet (fast ethernet) is bits-per-second,
not bytes-per second. 100mbps=10mB/s, so if your getting
9mB/s, your doing quite well. This is your bottleneck.
To get faster you're going to need gigabit ethernet,
You won't find it. Tivoli no longer
publishes list prices for TSM, at least
that's what they told me when I complained about
not finding price info. The only way to get
pricing is to request a quote.
Oh, BTW, the find print
on the quote doesn't allow you to tell anyone else
the price they
On 30 Apr 2001, at 11:24, Burton, Robert wrote:
We have benchmarked this to deathEMC/IBM and Hitachi disk we can get 8
to 10 MB/s, on both IBM 3590e's and STK 9840 we are getting
35 to 40 MB/sec
We use IBm Shark disk for our TSM staging pools. One raid set in the
Shark (8 drives,
On 27 Apr 2001, at 12:32, Dearman, Richard wrote:
I am not using any TDP product. I'm picking up oracle db dump files with
the regular tsm client. Going over a 100mb ethernet segment. Then
migrating the files to a 3494 library. All the data goes to disk first.
-Original
According to the release material I've read, AIX5L will allow
multiple default gateways. You might check if this is
back-ported to some patch level for AIX 433.
Rick
On 26 Apr 2001, at 10:42, Taylor, David wrote:
By definition, you can only have one default gateway.
David Taylor
Senior
As our TSM Database grows, were hitting the inevitable question
of how big to let the db grow vs purchasing and bringing up another
TSM instance. We're not there yet, but we can see this on the
horizon.
The issues isn't TSM performance, but db backup/recovery. This got
me thinking (always a
Looks like IBM (well, Tivoli really) is reselling BMR.
http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/usaletsparms=H_201-101
We backup about 1.2TB per night. 850gb of Lotus Notes and +400gb of
normal stuff.
Rick
On 5 Apr 2001, at 13:39, Diana J.Cline wrote:
Is there anyone else out there who is backing up 300gb per night or more?
If so, i'd love to converse with you.
Well, we are in the process of converting to TSM from Legato (Unix)
and Archserv (NT, Netware).
Legato: I've delt with lots of companies support organizations, but
Legato's is absolutely the worse. Code quality? Check the Legato
mailing list - The complaints loud and clear about the code
As I stated in a previous post, we are merging with a company that
uses the AS/400 platform for their Notes server. Ours is currently
on NT, but the merger teams sound like they are leaning toward AS/400
for the merged company.
From a previous post I learned that there is no TDP for Notes on
We are merging with a company that uses IBM AS400 for their Notes
server. It's looking like the combined company may standardize on
the AS400 for this function. Neither company uses Domino transaction
logging, which means we're both doing full backups every night. The
Notes merger team is
Thanks for great info!
q) What kind of a client system are you using?
- machine type
- # of processors
q) When you say " don't multiplex with tdp" I'm not sure what you
mean.
- Are you using TDP for SAP?
- Why Not?
Thanks!
Rick
On 20 Mar 2001, at 10:59,
Have you had any support problems between IBM and STK over the IBM
drives in the STK library? It's possible we may run this config in
the future and I'm interested in how the 2 companies cooperate.
Rick
One library is home of 8 9840 drives attached to RS/6000 S7A via SCSI, the
other is
Thanks Andy,
We've tried to get an answer to this question since we first put in
TSM (3rd qtr last year), but couldn't find an answer, including from
support.
Your example exactly describes our situation, but, our systems don't
appear to act like your describing.
We have a domain called "AIX"
Oracle db's are highly compressable. We run our Oracle backups
through the unix compress utility. I've seen tablespace files on a
newly created instance (no data loaded yet) compress from 1gb down
to 10mb. A normal tablespace file full of data will tipically
compress about 3-to-1.
In general,
On 6 Mar 2001, at 7:55, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote:
3. I noticed the post recently that talks about putting backupsets on CD. I
have never heard of a cd-writer/rewriter on an AIX box, which doesn't mean
it's not possible. I'm wondering if anyone has a solution for creating
backupsets on an
The tape with the splice was an Imation tape purchased
through IBM.
Rick
On 15 Feb 2001, at 10:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...there was a splice...
Rick - Yikes! Most bad.
Could you post to ADSM-L what brand of tape that was?
thanks, Richard
WHile we've had some problems with K tapes, overall were very happy
with them. Out of about 1600 tapes in use, we've have problems
with about 6.
Rick
On 15 Feb 2001, at 12:50, Debbie Lane wrote:
Thanks for all the input regarding this tape. Imation is the only
manufacture. I have decided
Go download the DR redbook
Could please give the full name of the Redbook you are refering to?
Initial searches on the redbook web site didn't find anything.
Thanks
Rick
Here is a real general question . . . . .
How do you handle tsm upgrade testing?
When a new release comes out do you:
a) dump it on you server, upgrade and see if it works?
b) create a test instance and try it out first?
Related questions:
1) I know you can have multiple tsm instances
On 26 Jan 2001, at 9:10, Steve Schaub wrote:
I am looking to find out what kind of mb/sec other shops are getting. Our
environment is:
Hi Steve,
Our TSM server is a RS6k-S7A with IBM ESS disk
staging area. The system has
2 gigabitethernet connections. THese connections
seem to hit around
Hi Everyone,
As with many tsm sites, we are struggling with Notes backup.
Our environment is that we backup Notes from several large
centralized replication servers, not the actual servers users
interact with. Our Notes servers do NOT use the v5 transaction log
feature, so we basically do a
The first time I ran into the dsmserv.dsk file I was completely
confused. The QuickStart guide has 2 references to it: page 2 and 7.
Neither gives any idea of what it is or why you need it. The
comment on page 7 about this file being read from the directory where
the server is started is under
I can't speak for AIT-2, but I have 2 46120's with AIT-1 drives.
Now, my libraries are 4+ years old (upgraded once from exabyte to
ait1), but they do not have any ability to auto-clean drives. You
need your bkup program to control this.
As far as self cleaning, I found that if I didn't clean
On 12 Sep 2000, at 8:04, Richard Sims wrote:
We are having problems starting our server automatically via the INITTAB file.
...
Explanation (fstat error): A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
The server is testing for its database and recovery log volumes, per the
We will be using a IBM Shark disk subsystem for our TSM db and
staging pools. I'm interested in advise from others who use a Shark
for these purposes on how you have it setup.
1) My first thought for the tsm db, is to allocate small luns on each
raid set, combine them into one AIX volume group.
On 28 Jul 2000, at 11:01, Shekhar Dhotre wrote:
Storing mksyb on s solaris is ok, but whats the use?
i mean how we can use it to reintsall the crasghed AIX srver. it should be on
tape , i dont know i am wrong or right?
My understanding is that you can only network install a mksysb via
nim.
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