Re: MS-SQL 2019 TDP support

2019-11-13 Thread Del Hoobler
Hi, Yes, SQL Server 2019 support is scheduled for release soon. SQL Server 2019 itself just official GA'd on November 4th. IBM has been testing this with "pre-release" versions of SQL Server 2019, but needs to complete the full regression testing with the official GA version. So, this is

Re: MS-SQL 2019 TDP support

2019-11-13 Thread Zoltan Forray
Agreed. But yes, my DBA asked me about it yesterday. They just put up a 2019 server and installed MS-SQL 2019 this morning. They already have departments/users asking to migrate to it. Not sure how they are going to handle the backups without TDP. Is anyone from IBM still monitoring ADSM-L?

Re: MS-SQL 2019 TDP support

2019-11-13 Thread Rick Adamson
Zoltan, Yea, I do not recall seeing anything on 2019 either, fortunately my DBA's having asked (yet). I do like the "all requirements" approach though, kind of provides a one-stop for links to all the supported revisions. It beats the heck out of searching for each individual release. Thank

Re: MS-SQL 2019 TDP support

2019-11-13 Thread Zoltan Forray
Rick, Thanks for the reply. I guess I should have mentioned I did find those documents. So I guess I am waiting for IBM to chime in as to when they expect to have backup support for MS-SQL 2019 out? We tried installing the 8.1.8 TDP but it said it only supported as high as 2017! On Wed, Nov

Re: MS-SQL 2019 TDP support

2019-11-13 Thread Rick Adamson
Zoltan, This doc provides links to the hardware and software requirements for all versions of Spectrum Protect for Databases: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-protect%E2%84%A2-databases-all-requirements-documents More specifically this is the link to that information as it

Re: Problems backup NFS mount

2019-11-13 Thread Skylar Thompson
You would need to add an exclude.dir statement to your include/exclude list: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEQVQ_8.1.7/client/r_opt_exclude.html On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 10:59:04AM -0500, yoda woya wrote: > I am using the Domain ALL-NSF to backup this device but need to >

MS-SQL 2019 TDP support

2019-11-13 Thread Zoltan Forray
First off, I am wondering if this listserv is active at all. I have posted a couple of questions and received absolutely no responses and the amount of other posts is almost non-existent . I see more activity on www.adsm.org and it's link to ADSM-L Mailing lists posts/archives seem to have

backup qumulo filer

2019-11-13 Thread J. Eric Wonderley
We are backing up one with ba client over nfs. Its fairly large so this is slow. I don't believe its capable of ndmp. Does anyone backup qumulo using some other method? I know I could setup several nfs mounts and breakup the directory tree...but i think this would be somewhat complicated.

Re: Problems backup NFS mount

2019-11-08 Thread yoda woya
I am using the Domain ALL-NSF to backup this device but need to exclude /var/echo360/.snapshot/. where/what would be the syntax of the exclude statement to accomplish this. Thanks. On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 11:17 AM yoda woya wrote: > Thanks for the lead. > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 10:30 AM

Re: Problems backup NFS mount

2019-11-06 Thread yoda woya
Thanks for the lead. On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 10:30 AM Skylar Thompson wrote: > You'll need to change your NFS mount options, or improve the > network/storage so that you're not experiencing timeouts. Note that this is > just speculation - there isn't enough information to know whether it's the >

Re: Problems backup NFS mount

2019-11-06 Thread Skylar Thompson
You'll need to change your NFS mount options, or improve the network/storage so that you're not experiencing timeouts. Note that this is just speculation - there isn't enough information to know whether it's the case. You don't say what OS you're using, but NFS timeouts would generally show up

Re: Problems backup NFS mount

2019-11-06 Thread yoda woya
Any idea on how to mitigate that and instruct TSM to proceed. Thank you. 11/06/2019 00:32:26 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS BEGIN 11/06/2019 00:32:26 Total number of objects inspected: 174,098 11/06/2019 00:32:26 Total number of objects backed up: 173,575 11/06/2019 00:32:26 Total number of

Re: Problems backup NFS mount

2019-11-04 Thread Skylar Thompson
Assuming that you're able to access the mount independently of backups, my best guess would be that you have a soft mount and are experiencing a timeout. On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 04:07:01AM -0400, yoda woya wrote: > Any reason why TSM would think that my NFS mount is stale: > > 11/02/2019 00:32:47

Ubuntu as ISP Server Platform

2019-11-04 Thread Zoltan Forray
RHEL has become too expensive for us (even before IBM bought them) so we started a university-wide project to migrate all RHEL servers to CentOS with the exception of servers with vendor applications that don't support CentOS. This includes IBM / ISP but the "IBM Spectrum Protect Supported

Problems backup NFS mount

2019-11-02 Thread yoda woya
Any reason why TSM would think that my NFS mount is stale: 11/02/2019 00:32:47 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS BEGIN 11/02/2019 00:32:47 Total number of objects inspected: 163,326 11/02/2019 00:32:47 Total number of objects backed up: 162,913 11/02/2019 00:32:47 Total number of objects updated:

EXPORT/IMPORT weird issues/numbers

2019-11-01 Thread Zoltan Forray
We have spent the better part of this week trying to export a node from one server to another. It is constantly failing with server lock issues, requiring us to restart it. Then when it finishes, there are lots of "objects that are part of incomplete groups" being deleted when it finishes?

How to backup an nfs share mountpoints

2019-10-21 Thread yoda woya
Whenever I execute "dsmc incremental" only "/" gets backup. /boot, /home/, and /var/echo360 do not get backup even though I specify Domain All-Local in dsm.sys. How can I fix that problem? Thank you [root@echo /]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on

Re: export question

2019-10-08 Thread Zoltan Forray
I see that all the time where there is a difference between the export and import totals - sometimes 2-3 objects (or more) difference - sometimes occupancy totals varying a little. A long time ago when I first saw such a difference, I reran the export with mergefilespace and it still didn't

export question

2019-10-08 Thread Lee, Gary
I just finished exporting a linux server changing hardware and decommissioning a tsm server. The original node on server x has 4,000,798 objects. The import on server y has 4,000,797 objects. I calculated the number with the following sql statement Select sum(num_fules) from occupancy where

Re: Converting Bareos to Spectrum Protect

2019-10-07 Thread Stefan Folkerts
You can't convert, you have to retrieve to disk and re-archive to Spectrum. I've done this for other systems and also moved archives from Spectrum Protect to other systems. Scripting is what I used, inventory all the archives via a script and create a script that retrieves them to a logical

Converting Bareos to Spectrum Protect

2019-10-04 Thread Deschner, Roger Douglas
I have been asked to move a departmental system into our central Spectrum Protect backup system. The departmental system is running an open-source backup product called Bareos, which is a fork of Backula. Anybody done anything like this? I assume there is no practical way to simply import the

RFE to address overlap issue

2019-10-02 Thread Saravanan Palanisamy
Team Would appreciate if you can vote for below RFE to address schedule overlap issue with Fourth and Last Week of the month. > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe_ID=135079 > > Regards > Sarav > +65 9857 8665 >

Re: TSM4VE storage pools

2019-09-30 Thread Jansen, Jonas
Hi, you can use the VMMC and VMCTLMC options to use a differing management class. Please have a look at the Docs (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSERB6_8.1.8/ve.inst/r_ve_mount_tape.html). You definitively need to store your control files on a non tape storage. We ran into

Re: very large number of objects being deleted

2019-09-27 Thread Sasa Drnjevic
On 2019-09-27 20:24, Lee, Gary wrote: > Is this normal?Tsm 7.1.7.1, running on redhat 6.9. > > Deleting a windows 2008r2 node's data using delete filespace. Killed > the process after 5.5 hours ad 34 million ojects. Restarted this > morning, has been running for 6 hours and says it has deleted

Re: very large number of objects being deleted

2019-09-27 Thread Lee, Gary
Thanks. Forgot about q occ. Nothing huge, maybe its almost done. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager On Behalf Of Skylar Thompson Sent: Friday, September 27, 2019 2:39 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] very large number of objects being deleted I would

TSM4VE storage pools

2019-09-27 Thread Chris McKay
Hi there, I currently have a basic TSM4VE implementation setup that backs up to our VTL by default. I have a requirement now though to back up some VM's and templates directly to physical tape. I'm not 100% sure how to achieve this. Do I create a new data mover node for this? How do I backup to a

Re: very large number of objects being deleted

2019-09-27 Thread Skylar Thompson
I would start with a QUERY OCCUPANCY for the node on the TSM server to figure out which filespaces have lots of objects, and whether the BA client was responsible for them, or some other client type. You could also try looking at the client logs, if you have access to them. On Fri, Sep 27, 2019

very large number of objects being deleted

2019-09-27 Thread Lee, Gary
Is this normal?Tsm 7.1.7.1, running on redhat 6.9. Deleting a windows 2008r2 node's data using delete filespace. Killed the process after 5.5 hours ad 34 million ojects. Restarted this morning, has been running for 6 hours and says it has deleted over 88 million objects. There is only 500 gB of

Re: Moving Library Manager function to different ISP server

2019-09-06 Thread Skylar Thompson
Yep, that's been our experience as well. At least for LTO, I believe the VOLSER is written unencrypted so both the library manager and clients can read it, while the storage pool data are encrypted using the key in the client database. On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 10:35:15AM -0400, Zoltan Forray

Moving Library Manager function to different ISP server

2019-09-06 Thread Zoltan Forray
We need to discontinue one of our servers that is an LM and want to make sure there aren't any gotchas. The last time I did this many years ago, the process was fairly straightforward (checkout tapes, define library, paths, drives on target server, check-in tapes on target server, redo all

Re: ISP server as a VM

2019-09-06 Thread Stefan Folkerts
I have asked IBM at the SP Symposium in Germany two years ago what I should expect performance wise when I run my SP server as a VM. They gave me an indication of -20% from the blueprints based on blueprints hardware + vSphere 6.5 or higher. I've been running a few SP servers in our cloud

Re: ISP server as a VM

2019-09-05 Thread Rick Adamson
Zoltan, As I understand it IBM does support virtual ISP servers but I recall seeing a document that stated they will not support their performance or scalability, so for a small application it is probably fine. My management team requested that I move our operation virtual (VMware) roughly 2

Re: ISP server as a VM

2019-09-04 Thread Zoltan Forray
Hi Eric, No inbound deduplication on the clients and right now for the existing 6 nodes there is a total of 2TB of occupancy and we do not expect much if any growth. --- Zoltan Forray Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. TSM) Software & Hardware Administrator VMware Administrator Xymon Monitor Administrator

Re: ISP server as a VM

2019-09-04 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM
Hi Zoltan, I don't know if it's supported by IBM, but I think it's all related to load. A VM will not provide the same I/O performance as dedicated hardware does. So if you are planning to install a server with inbound deduplication with container pools, I would stay away from virtualization.

Re: TSM server performance continuing

2019-09-04 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM
Hi Stefan, At the time the servers were installed Redhat 6.4 was our standard. The servers need to be upgraded to the latest 6.x release first before we can upgrade TSM to 8.1.x. But before making any changes to the environment while we have a case open at IBM, I need to be sure there is a

ISP server as a VM

2019-09-03 Thread Zoltan Forray
We have an old hardware based ISP server that needs to be replace. It is PCI network isolated and only backs up 6-PCI servers. We are thinking about recreating it as a VM since there aren't any hardware-based requirements (e.g. tape drives). Anyone running an ISP server as a VM? What are the

Re: TSM server performance continuing

2019-09-03 Thread Stefan Folkerts
Very strange issue indeed Eric, I have never heard of a specific client causing slowdowns, I would understand if it where a massive amount of oracle sessions starting but if it's really platform and not session count related it would have to be something that IBM needs to look into I guess. May I

LDAPOVERRIDE query

2019-09-02 Thread Andrew Collyer
Morning All We have configured our SP servers to use LDAP but occasionally see errors upon server start-up. Unfortunately it appears that if the LDAP lookups fail then this prevents SP from starting. 21-08-2019 19:36:54 ANR3339I Default Label in key data base is TSM Server

Re: TSM server performance continuing

2019-08-27 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM
Hi Stefan, There is no noticable impact on the TSM performance when we use the tsmdiskperf tool on the database volumes. We recently discovered the issue seems to be related to the TDP for Oracle clients. When none are running the server response is OK, even during a reasonable load. But as

Re: TSM server performance continuing

2019-08-26 Thread Stefan Folkerts
Eric, What happens when you benchmark the DB volumes using the tool provided with the blueprints on an idle system, does the system also slow down with commands such as q stgpool or does it stay fast when the benchmark is running on all volumes? Also, what kind of a result does the benchmark give

Re: TSM server performance continuing

2019-08-22 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
Hi Eric, These seem to be default values when installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.3. I checked several other machines, all are having the same value. And following page https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55428812/how-the-values-of-kernel-parameters-are-defined seems to confirm my

Re: TSM server performance continuing

2019-08-22 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM
Hi Arnoud, I do not understand why your max seg size (kbytes) = 18014398509465599 and max total shared memory (kbytes) = 18014397435740096 are so huge. If you have 256 GB RAM, like I do, I would expect max seg size (kbytes) = 268435456 and max total shared memory (kbytes) = 268435456. Thanks

Re: TSM server performance continuing

2019-08-22 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
Hi Rick, Following to your question, I realized that I erroneously stated "Isilon" instead of "Storwize". Probably due to the fact that I've been stressed quite a lot with these devices, when we initially started setting up a new Spectrum environment, making use of Isilon devices as a

Re: TSM server performance continuing

2019-08-22 Thread Rick Adamson
Arnaud, Apologies for off topic question but what series nodes are you using in the Isilon? Thank you, -Rick Adamson -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager On Behalf Of PAC Brion Arnaud Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 3:02 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L]

Re: TSM server performance continuing

2019-08-22 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM
Hi Eric, Any reason why your kernel.msgmni = 196608 from the /etc/sysyctl.conf differs from the max queues system wide = 516096 from a ipcs -l? Just curious... Thanks for your help! Kind regards, Eric van Loon Air France/KLM Storage & Backup -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: TSM server performance continuing

2019-08-22 Thread PAC Brion Arnaud
Hi Eric, Running 4 TSM servers at 8.1.6.1 (PowerLinux servers with 256 GB RAM), and making use of directory-container storage pools only. No server performance or responsiveness issues here anymore, since we changed our storage to make use of IBM Isilon. Here my values : vmstat 1 procs

Re: TSM server performance continuing

2019-08-21 Thread Sasa Drnjevic
Hi - FYI. Got 3 TSM v8.1.1.0 servers. Srry, no directory containers. Two are mostly idle ATM, and vmstat 1 B column shows all zeroes on these. But, the 3rd which is the primary backup server is currently serving main backup window with 4 data migration to tape processes active ATM so it is

Re: TSM server performance continuing

2019-08-21 Thread Kizzire, Chris
We were having performance issues. I still think there are some. I could tell it was having issues when Q PR took way too long to show- if at all. But much improved now after RAM increase. Specs for our environment: SP 8.1.4.0 IBM 750- AIX 7.2 3.1 TB DB on SSD 128GB RAM increased to 180GB DR

Re: TSM server performance continuing

2019-08-21 Thread J. Eric Wonderley
Get all zeros... We have these settings on a dell730: ipcs -l -- Messages Limits max queues system wide = 516096 max size of message (bytes) = 65536 default max size of queue (bytes) = 65536 -- Shared Memory Limits max number of segments = 129024 max seg size (kbytes)

TSM server performance continuing

2019-08-21 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM
Hi guys, A few weeks ago I already wrote about the severe performance issues we have with our TSM 7.1 servers. In the 'old days' we used to back up our clients to TSM 6.3 servers with Data Domains attached. Smaller clients backed up through the LAN, large ones through the SAN. Our newer

Blueprints updated

2019-08-08 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM
For those of you interested: IBM updated the Blueprints to 4.1 recently: http://ibm.biz/IBMSpectrumProtectBlueprints Kind regards, Eric van Loon Air France/KLM Storage & Backup For information, services and offers, please visit our web

Failed to initialize SSL protocol error after downgrade ??

2019-08-07 Thread Tom Alverson
> I have a backup client where I had tried out the 8.1.4 BACLIENT and SQL > agent, but it failed because I did not realize that the server had SQL 2008 > on it (too old for 8.1.4). I then downgraded back to 7.1.6.5 for both > BACLIENT and SQL agent, but now I keep getting these errors: >

Spectrum Protect Meta Data replication feature

2019-08-07 Thread Saravanan Palanisamy
Hello Everyone Does anyone know when Spectrum Protect release feature to replicate meta data between TSM servers for data resides in Object storage ? Regards Sarav +65 9857 8665

Re: What is 8.1.8.1-TIV-TSMHSM-WinX64 vs 8.1.7.1-TIV-TSMBAC-WinX64

2019-08-06 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Yes, there are instructions nominally for Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10, that will also work for Windows Server 2019. Please refer to the "launching pad" page (linked below) which has links to separate documents for (a) best practices for backing up Windows, (b) creating WinPE recovery media,

Re: What is 8.1.8.1-TIV-TSMHSM-WinX64 vs 8.1.7.1-TIV-TSMBAC-WinX64

2019-08-06 Thread Tom Alverson
Are there any updates to the bare metal recovery process detailed here (which only mentions 2012, not 2016 or 2019)

Re: What is 8.1.8.1-TIV-TSMHSM-WinX64 vs 8.1.7.1-TIV-TSMBAC-WinX64

2019-08-06 Thread Tom Alverson
I see in the maintenance branch (not patches) there is a BACLIENT 8.1.8.0 ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client/v8r1/Windows/x64/v818/ On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 4:07 PM Tom Alverson wrote: > I see there is a new 8.1.8.1 version now on the FTP site, but the

What is 8.1.8.1-TIV-TSMHSM-WinX64 vs 8.1.7.1-TIV-TSMBAC-WinX64

2019-08-06 Thread Tom Alverson
I see there is a new 8.1.8.1 version now on the FTP site, but the name now has HSM in it instead of BAC ? Is this the same thing just a newer version? The one called HSM is much smaller. Here are the two links:

Re: [EXT] Re: [ADSM-L] TDP for ERP (S4 Hana) questions about longer-term retention

2019-07-26 Thread Matthew McGeary
Yeah, you're right. I dug into OneProtect a bit this week and it only supports B/A clients and backup objects. So yep, only option is to do dumps to disk for the longer term backups. Thanks __ Matthew McGeary Service Delivery Manager / Solutions Architect Data Center &

Using ISP TDP to backup Oracle's NoSQL database

2019-07-26 Thread Zoltan Forray
I could not find anything on the web about using ISP to backup Oracle NOSQL DB's and the Oracle TDP hasn't been updated since 8.1.0.2 patch. Any thoughts on this? Any plans for IBM ISP to support these? -- *Zoltan Forray* Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. TSM) Software & Hardware Administrator VMware

Re: TDP for ERP (S4 Hana) questions about longer-term retention

2019-07-25 Thread Stefan Folkerts
I think one protect only works for B/A clients and VM's, not for TDP's, but I could be wrong or that information might be outdated (I think this was the case for 8.1.7). So i'm thinking this might require dumps to disk and archives with removal via the B/A client for the montly's and yearly's.

TDP for ERP (S4 Hana) questions about longer-term retention

2019-07-22 Thread Matthew McGeary
Folks, We are currently in the process of building out a S4 Hana environment as an ERP replacement and I have a requirement from business to retain backups of the S4 databases for the following periods: Daily incrementals - 30 days Weekly fulls - 90 days Monthly fulls - 1 year Yearly fulls - 7

Re: deletion performance of large deduplicated files

2019-07-22 Thread Michael Prix
Hello Eric, no, definitely not. TSM-Instance is responding promptly. When the big DBs are backung up, there are always the other takeing their backup and every 30 minutes all DBs are performing their archive log backup. So, every second there is a session open or close, additional traffic by

Re: deletion performance of large deduplicated files

2019-07-22 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM
Hi Michael, When you have large databases backing up, do you also experience long session initiation times? In my case it takes sometimes 30 to 50 seconds to get a prompt with a dsmadmc. Same for each client session. We use TDP for SAP (Oracle database), TDP for SAP HANA and TDP for Oracle

Re: deletion performance of large deduplicated files

2019-07-22 Thread Michael Prix
Hello Eric, that's exactly what I oberserved too. The moment I moved the big DB's away fom the server, the performance raised dramatically. Your SAP is on an Oracle-DB, and you are using TDP ERP with RMAN to backup up the database? I ask because we are experimenting with some paramenters in

Re: deletion performance of large deduplicated files

2019-07-22 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM
Hi Michael, We are using Linux server. The server is sized according to the Blueprints (Large server config). We send all our data to the container pool. It's a mix of BA (Linux and Windows), SQL Server, SAP, Oracle and Lotus Notes clients. Like I stated earlier, the performance issue seems to

Re: deletion performance of large deduplicated files

2019-07-22 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM
Hi Del, Thank you very much again for your help! Kind regards, Eric van Loon Air France/KLM Storage & Backup -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: vrijdag 19 juli 2019 20:32 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: deletion performance of large deduplicated files

2019-07-19 Thread Rick Adamson
Appreciate the input Del, thanks ! Thank you, -Rick Adamson -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Friday, July 19, 2019 2:32 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] deletion performance of large deduplicated files * This email

Re: deletion performance of large deduplicated files

2019-07-19 Thread Del Hoobler
Hi Eric and all, We are aware of this situation and putting additional focus and attention on it. Del "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 07/19/2019 09:35:37 AM: > From: "Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM" > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU >

Re: deletion performance of large deduplicated files

2019-07-19 Thread Kizzire, Chris
OK. Thanks. Michael. We'll give it a try. Chris Kizzire Backup Administrator (Network Engineer II) BROOKWOOD BAPTIST HEALTH Information Systems O:   205.820.5973 chris.kizz...@bhsala.com BROOKWOODBAPTISTHEALTH.COM -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager On Behalf Of Michael

Re: deletion performance of large deduplicated files

2019-07-19 Thread Michael Prix
Hello Eric, could you describe a bit you server setup? What type of data are you storing? SQL (which), VM, File, ... Is everything going into one dedup pool or are they split for different types of data? I assume your TSM-servers run on AIX. In general, performant backup and restore is no

Re: deletion performance of large deduplicated files

2019-07-19 Thread Michael Prix
Chris, yours is easy to answer: You have a performance problem, not a TSM problem. For VM-backup I have a dedicated LPAR in a S842, 3vCPU, 128GB RAM, SR-IOV 10GB. Storage is a V7000, SSD/SAS. There has never been a backup or restore problem performance wise, everything is running with

Re: deletion performance of large deduplicated files

2019-07-19 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM
Hi Rick and others! I replicated the data of the test TDP client to multiple servers, running 7.1.7, 7.1.9 and even 8.1.8: the performance sucks on all servers. We do not use client replication as part of our server protection. We need a real time replication over the datacenter and thus we

Re: deletion performance of large deduplicated files

2019-07-19 Thread Kizzire, Chris
Alas... we are not the only ones I knew it... We went from TSM 6.3 to SP 8.1.4.0. Performance is 5 times slower in the new Environment overall. We use Container Pools, Dedup, & Compression. We use SP for VE for most VM's. Baclient & SQL for physical machines & vm's w/ SQL. It took about 17

Re: deletion performance of large deduplicated files

2019-07-19 Thread Rick Adamson
Eric, Michael, I have been working through similar struggles and as I read your posts had to wonder, can you provide some details on your server and client versions? Basically I now have experience/exposure to every version/maintenance pack/patch SP has put out since 7.1.3.x My servers are now

Re: deletion performance of large deduplicated files

2019-07-19 Thread Michael Prix
Hello Eric, welcome to my nightmares. Take a seat, wanna have a drink? I had the pleasure of performance and data corruption PMRs during the last two years with TDP Oracle. Yes, at first the customer got blamed for not adhering completely to to blueprints, but after some weeks it boild down to

deletion performance of large deduplicated files

2019-07-19 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM
Hi TSM/SP-ers, We are struggling with the performance of our TSM servers for months now. We are running several servers with hardware (Data Domain) dedup for years without any problems, but on our new servers with directory container pools performance is really, really bad. The servers and

Re: How to make dsmc recognize drives

2019-07-18 Thread Rick Adamson
Eric, Just seen Andy's reply and learned something new. Thanks Andy. Sorry for the misinfo. Thank you, -Rick Adamson -Original Message- From: Rick Adamson Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2019 7:59 AM To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Subject: RE: How to make dsmc recognize drives Eric, My

Re: How to make dsmc recognize drives

2019-07-18 Thread Rick Adamson
Eric, My understanding is the substitute (subst) command is only defining an alias for the full path to a location on a drive not actually creating a new drive or file space. Think about it in the context of creating a share except using a drive letter versus an alpha-numeric string. The data

Re: How to make dsmc recognize drives

2019-07-18 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM
Hi Andy, That was it! As soon as I open an elevated cmd, a backup works fine. Thanks again for your help! Kind regards, Eric van Loon Air France/KLM Storage & Backup -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent:

Re: How to make dsmc recognize drives

2019-07-18 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hi Eric, It seems to work for me. Example shown below. In the mean time, is it possible that Windows UAC could be involved? Try opening a Windows OS prompt with the "Run as Administrator" option, then try running a sequence of commands like I show below

How to make dsmc recognize drives

2019-07-18 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM
Hi guys, For some tests I want to create separate drives in Windows and back them up with SP. I create these drives with the subst command (subst D: c:\). The drives created are visible in the Windows GUI and accessible through the Windows command line, but the Spectrum Protect client does not

Re: Number of volumes per client

2019-07-12 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM
Hi guys, To everybody who responded: thank you very much for your help! Kind regards, Eric van Loon Air France/KLM Storage & Backup -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ron Delaware Sent: donderdag 11 juli 2019 17:43 To:

Re: Number of volumes per client

2019-07-11 Thread Ron Delaware
Hi Eric, These should give you what you are looking for echo "" echo "* Node Activities - How many volumes each client has data data11*" select count(DISTINCT volume_name) as Num_volumes, node_name, stgpool_name from

Re: AW: Number of volumes per client

2019-07-11 Thread Marc Lanteigne
Hi Eric, Stefan's method will be quicker than mine, smaller table to parse. - Thanks, Marc... ___ Marc Lanteigne Spectrum Protect Specialist AVP / SRT 416.478.0233 | marclantei...@ca.ibm.com Summer Hours: Monday to Thursday, 6:00 to 16:30 Eastern

AW: Number of volumes per client

2019-07-11 Thread Schulz Stefan
Hi Eric, i'd suggest "select node_name,count(distinct volume_name) from volumeusage group by node_name". You could also further filter with "where stgpool_name..." or "where copy_type='BACKUP'/'ARCHIVE'" Best Regards, Stefan Schulz CANCOM GmbH CANCOM GmbH Sitz der Gesellschaft:

Re: Number of volumes per client

2019-07-11 Thread Marc Lanteigne
Hi Eric, You could do something like this: select node_name,count(distinct(volume_name)) from contents group by node_name - Thanks, Marc... ___ Marc Lanteigne Spectrum Protect Specialist AVP / SRT 416.478.0233 | marclantei...@ca.ibm.com Summer

Number of volumes per client

2019-07-11 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM
Hi guys, I'm looking for a SQL statement to count the amount of volumes used per client. Can anybody help me out here? Thank you very much in advance! Kind regards, Eric van Loon Air France/KLM Storage & Backup For information, services

Re: Spectrum Protect and The mystery of data reduction differences on the replication target

2019-07-09 Thread Stefan Folkerts
Well, I don't think that's correct Rick. :-) The data is deduplicated and compressed at the source and only the new chunks are replicated to the target daily but the data reduction information on the target storagepool is based on the managed data figures just like at the source and they are the

Re: Spectrum Protect and The mystery of data reduction differences on the replication target

2019-07-09 Thread Rick Adamson
Stefan, I understand it as Karel. The replicate (or protect stg) process data is deduplicated at the source. It would be inefficient to consume network bandwidth sending duplicate extents. -Rick Adamson -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager On Behalf Of Stefan Folkerts

Re: Spectrum Protect PVU licensing

2019-07-09 Thread Bent Christensen (BVC)
Thanks, Del I have requested them to do so. - Bent -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Monday, July 8, 2019 5:19 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Spectrum Protect PVU licensing Hi Bent, Please have the auditors contact me

Re: Spectrum Protect PVU licensing

2019-07-08 Thread Del Hoobler
Hi Bent, Please have the auditors contact me directly ASAP. Thank you. Del "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 07/08/2019 11:08:58 AM: > From: "Bent Christensen (BVC)" > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Date: 07/08/2019 11:15 AM > Subject:

Spectrum Protect PVU licensing

2019-07-08 Thread Bent Christensen (BVC)
Hi, We are just going through an IBM license audit and to our overwhelming astonishment the IBM auditors want to charge us for licenses for test nodes - that is, the computers where we test the installation of new fix packs and interim fixes before deploying to our production environment. In

Re: Using same cert.kdb on multiple servers

2019-07-08 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM
Hi Erwann, Out of simplicity. If you install a new TSM server and use an existing key database, you won't have to add the certificates from all other servers. Kind regards, Eric van Loon Air France/KLM Storage & Backup -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Spectrum Protect and The mystery of data reduction differences on the replication target

2019-07-08 Thread Stefan Folkerts
I don't think that's how it works Karel, the values are based on managed data and are normally around the same on the source and on the target. On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 9:16 AM Karel Bos wrote: > As the target server only receives already dedupped data it makes sense > their will be no or barely

Re: Spectrum Protect and The mystery of data reduction differences on the replication target

2019-07-08 Thread Karel Bos
As the target server only receives already dedupped data it makes sense their will be no or barely anything to be dedupped. Regards, Karel On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 08:16, Stefan Folkerts wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm seeing something very strange at a customer site that has two Spectrum > Protect

Spectrum Protect and The mystery of data reduction differences on the replication target

2019-07-08 Thread Stefan Folkerts
Hi all, I'm seeing something very strange at a customer site that has two Spectrum Protect servers. One receives backups and is the replication source. The other is the replication target for that single source and doesn't receive any backup data. All data goes into a single containerpool on each

Re: Using same cert.kdb on multiple servers

2019-07-07 Thread Erwann SIMON
Hi Eric, Why do you want to do that ? What are you trying to do ? -- Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي Erwann SIMON - Mail original - De: "Eric van Loon (ITOP NS) - KLM" À: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Envoyé: Vendredi 5 Juillet 2019 09:17:04 Objet: [ADSM-L] Using same cert.kdb on

Using same cert.kdb on multiple servers

2019-07-05 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM
Hi guys, Does somebody know if it is possible to use the same cert.kdb on all servers? So I create one on one server with the certificate of all other servers in it and then copy it to all other servers? Thanks for your help in advance! Kind regards, Eric van Loon Air France/KLM Storage &

Removing Replication "with extreme prejudice"

2019-07-02 Thread Zoltan Forray
ISP 7.1.7.400 on Linux - Back a while ago, we were working to eliminate an ISP server. So, we removed replication from all of the nodes (or so we thought) and removed the target replication server. Well, somewhere along the way, it didn't completely/successfully remove replication from one of

Re: Upgrading 1-server in complex to 8.12+

2019-06-27 Thread Lee, Gary
Don't know, we never had the hardware to do server replication. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2019 12:15 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Upgrading 1-server in complex to 8.12+ Thanks. That is what

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