Re: Fiddling with exclude statement

2024-03-08 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hi Eric, Thanks for pointing out that doc issue. I am looking into getting that resolved. It is correct that the EXCLUDE (without the .DIR) and INCLUDE operate on file objects only, not directories. I agree that the approach you are using is probably the easiest if the backup of undesired

Re: Fiddling with exclude statement

2024-03-08 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi Andy, I have been able to get the job done through the following lines in the cloptset: Use Option Set Value (FORCE): No Option Value: EXCLUDE '/tech/splunk/.../*' Option: INCLEXCL Sequence number: 105 Use Option Set Value (FORCE): No

Re: Fiddling with exclude statement

2024-03-08 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hi Eric, Based on your previous response to the exclude.dir suggestion, I suppose you have a scenario like this: * Exclude all other files underneath /tech/splunk, * but directory objects are still processed. exclude /tech/splunk/.../* * Back up everything in /tech/splunk/keep1 and

Re: On-premise Cloud copy

2024-03-01 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi Julien, Indeed quite a while ago! Unfortunately, retention sets do not support Oracle and SAP data. The vast majority of our most critical data in Oracle and SAP databases... Thanks for your help though! Kind regards, Eric van Loon Air France/KLM Core Infra

Re: On-premise Cloud copy

2024-02-29 Thread Julien Sauvanet
Hi Eric, I hope you are doing well - it's been a long time since last time we spoke. One possibility I see is to leverage the Retention Set Copy to Cloud Object Storage ( something you can do starting SP 8.1.13+ ) . You can read more about here

On-premise Cloud copy

2024-02-29 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi everybody, We are currently using stgrule replication to replicate the data from one server to another. I'm looking into the option of creating a third copy; to comply to the 3-2-1 rule. I'd like to see if I use our onsite IBM Cloud Object Storage for this. As far as I could find, you can't

Re: Fiddling with exclude statement

2024-02-27 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi Skylar, Yes, we have a DIRMC set in the client option file. I removed it, just to check whether it makes any difference, but the subdirectories are still being backed up, with the only difference that they are bound to the longest retention mgmtclass ofcourse. Thanks for your help. Kind

Re: Fiddling with exclude statement

2024-02-27 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi Andy, That would be much easier, the problem is that I need to include two subdirectories too and an exclude.dir won't allow you to include subdirectories... Thanks for your help. Kind regards, Eric van Loon Air France/KLM Core Infra From: ADSM: Dist

Re: Fiddling with exclude statement

2024-02-26 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hi Eric, I think you need to use exclude.dir, like this: define clientopt myoptset inclexcl "exclude.dir /tech/splunk" Regards, Andy Andrew Raibeck IBM Storage Protect Level 3 stor...@us.ibm.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager On Behalf Of Skylar Thompson Sent:

Re: Fiddling with exclude statement

2024-02-26 Thread Skylar Thompson
Do you have DIRMC set? My experience is that supersedes any normal exclude rules, though would only backup the directories and not their contents. I think exclude.dir would work to exclude that path and avoid the directories being backed up, though. On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 03:59:47PM +,

Fiddling with exclude statement

2024-02-26 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi everybody, I'm trying to exclude a directory called /tech/splunk (including all subdirectories) through a client option set. The exclude on the client seem to be processed OK: [root@hostname ~]# dsmc q inclexcl|grep splunk Exclude All /tech/splunk/.../* Server But when I

Re: recommended server version 8.1.20 or 8.1.21?

2024-02-23 Thread Oscar Kolsteren
Hi Kirsten, I'm part of the Client Storage Assessment team and we provide FREE of charge HTML based, stand-alone SP Health Check reports. If you interested please DM me so we can get this going. Best Regards, Oscar Kolsteren Lead Storage Consultant, IBM Client Storage Assessment Team

AW: recommended server version 8.1.20 or 8.1.21?

2024-02-22 Thread Glöer , Kirsten
Hi Eric, thanks. Yesterday, I installed 8.1.21. Kirsten Glöer -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Im Auftrag von Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2024 11:07 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: [ADSM-L] recommended server version

Re: recommended server version 8.1.20 or 8.1.21?

2024-02-22 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi Kirsten, 8.1.21 doesn't provide any new features, compared to 8.1.20, merely bug fixes. Especially when you use stgrule replication, I would definitely go for 8.1.21. Kind regards, Eric van Loon Air France/KLM Core Infra From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on

recommended server version 8.1.20 or 8.1.21?

2024-02-21 Thread Glöer , Kirsten
Hello, we would like to update our servers. Is it recommended to update to version 8.1.20 or 8.1.21? best regards, Kirsten Glöer -- FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz-Institut für Informationsinfrastruktur GmbH. Sitz der

Antwort: Disaster recovery - I would like to hear your thoughts.

2023-11-22 Thread Tsm Tsm
Hello David, as you have your data deduplicated and you cannot move it or copy it i would prefer a second TSM Server on which you can replicate your data. This second TSM Server must be on a second destination far away (some miles) from your central destination. with best regards Stefan

Disaster recovery - I would like to hear your thoughts.

2023-11-18 Thread David L.A. De Leeuw
Hi Forum, Living in an area with sirens warning for incoming rockets about daily, I got somewhat pressured reviewing our Disaster Recovery procedures. Our setup: We have a single server center that is backed up on TSM Spectrum Protect on daily basis. The backup is container based with 100 TB

Re: Servergraph alternatives

2023-10-30 Thread Skylar Thompson
Thanks, Eric, I've had other endorsements of TSM Manager so definitely will be on the list. Servergraph's UI can be overwhelming too, so I won't hold it against TSM Manager. :) On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 06:45:13AM +, Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM wrote: > Hi Skylar, > > I'm using TSMManager

Re: Servergraph alternatives

2023-10-26 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi Skylar, I'm using TSMManager for years. It gives me so much more insights. I have encountered several unexpected growth issues in the past, which I would not have been able to resolve, without the historical data collected by TSMManager. The footprint is small and you can manage multiple

Servergraph alternatives

2023-10-24 Thread Skylar Thompson
We've been a long-time Servergraph customer to do monitoring, reporting and billing for our TSM services, and just received the announcement that Rocket will be ending development at the end of May 2025. What are other Servergraph customers planning on moving to? Servergraph hasn't been perfect

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Re: INCR backups fail ! TSM 8.1.17 Windows Server and client

2023-08-24 Thread David L.A. De Leeuw
Good morning, TSM'ers. My explanation of the problem, as I wrote yesterday, was wrong. It appears some of our disks on the backup system were defined as "thin provisioned". When these fill up, and cannot expand anymore, Windows will still show empty space on them. I focused my attention on the

Re: INCR backups fail ! TSM 8.1.17 Windows Server and client

2023-08-23 Thread David L.A. De Leeuw
Dear Chavdar, Michall and others, Just an update on the issue I raised a few days ago concerning the failed backups. Our ISP server uses a separate windows server with about 100 TB of containers, divided over 28 disks. Backups started crashing about a week ago. At some point the system would

Re: INCR backups fail ! TSM 8.1.17 Windows Server and client

2023-08-21 Thread Chavdar Cholev
Hi David, Just make sure that containers are excluded from anti-virus scan. On Sunday, August 20, 2023, David L.A. De Leeuw wrote: > Hi all, > > Apparently, this has nothing to do with SP at all ! > > The (Windows server 2019 on ESXI) system holding the containers just > disconnects for 5

Re: INCR backups fail ! TSM 8.1.17 Windows Server and client

2023-08-20 Thread David L.A. De Leeuw
Hi all, Apparently, this has nothing to do with SP at all ! The (Windows server 2019 on ESXI) system holding the containers just disconnects for 5 minutes ! No pings to the server. When access is restored, later on, a message appears in the events: "The system time has changed to

Re: INCR backups fail ! TSM 8.1.17 Windows Server and client

2023-08-20 Thread David L.A. De Leeuw
Hi Michael, Thanks a lot. The SP Server is not on VM, just the storage. I am not the manager to the server. Just got a lot of backup storage if we provide the space for the containers. Sure we run a lot of sessions in parallel as you said. I will try a run according to your recommendations.

Re: INCR backups fail ! TSM 8.1.17 Windows Server and client

2023-08-20 Thread Michael Prix
Hello David,   an *SP-Server in a VM is not the best setup, but nevertheless it should work - and has proven so for the past. For the client: Please show the dsm.opt. I suspect you are trunning several sessions from this client in parallel during a backup-> stop it for the moment. Start with a

Re: INCR backups fail ! TSM 8.1.17 Windows Server and client

2023-08-20 Thread David L.A. De Leeuw
Hi Chavdar and Michael, Thanks for your thoughts and help. I added "memoryefficientbackup". But still the sessions keep crashing. Once the session crashes, I get a whole bit of errors for storage pool directories, and in fact the whole pool becomes unavailable. I run "update stgpooldir

Re: INCR backups fail ! TSM 8.1.17 Windows Server and client

2023-08-20 Thread Chavdar Cholev
Just to make sure that we are on the same page... You have TSM installed on VM running on VMware. This VM has few LUNs presented and those LUN are used for containers? Short in the dark: 1. Check VM resources if they are as IBM TSM blue print. 2. Check LUNs/HDDs response time in perf. monitor.

Re: INCR backups fail ! TSM 8.1.17 Windows Server and client

2023-08-20 Thread Michael Prix
Hello David,   if partial incremental backups work, but full incrementals fail, this points to a problem with the client. Have you tried the clientoption "memoryefficientbackup" already for this client? It might be that the number of files grew in the past and just hit the memory boundaries of

Re: INCR backups fail ! TSM 8.1.17 Windows Server and client

2023-08-20 Thread David L.A. De Leeuw
Hi Chavdar, For the containers we use a dedicated Windows Server, (on VMWare EsxI), with just a bunch of disks on NTFS. Each disk about 4 TB. INCR of one specific client crashes since a few days every time. There are about 25 million files there (40 TB). If I try incremental backup on a part of

Re: INCR backups fail ! TSM 8.1.17 Windows Server and client

2023-08-20 Thread Chavdar Cholev
Hi David, What kind of storage do you use for containers (SAN, NAS...)? On Saturday, August 19, 2023, David L.A. De Leeuw wrote: > Hi TSM experts, > > Our incr backup fails consistently in the last few days. It starts alright > but after a few gigabyte on the client we get the error: > >

INCR backups fail ! TSM 8.1.17 Windows Server and client

2023-08-19 Thread David L.A. De Leeuw
Hi TSM experts, Our incr backup fails consistently in the last few days. It starts alright but after a few gigabyte on the client we get the error: ANS1301E This operation cannot continue due to an error on the IBM Spectrum Protect server. See your IBM Spectrum Protect server administrator

The new IBM Storage Defender - questions

2023-08-09 Thread MM
Hallo Del, thanks a lot for the Infos about the new IBM Storage Defender. I've two questions regarding these new capabilities. - thanks in advance for the answers. Basically I think, that it is a very good idea to improve resilience for data storage, backup and restore across the storage

Linux cache tuning

2023-07-26 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi everybody, I'm trying to find the best way to tune Linux disk caching, but the Blueprints are not mentioning anything about these parameters. On the Internet, I find some mixed information about tuning disk cache in a SAN environment, so I'm wondering what everybody else is using. If you

Re: Antwort: Copy stgrule performance

2023-06-26 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi Stefan, An LTO8 drive should be able to 360 Mbytes/sec uncompressed, which is 1.2 TB/hour. So 300 GB/hour isn't great either. I'm using 4 drives in parallel and I'm still stuck at 0.5 TB/h... I think I will open a case for this. Thanks for your feedback! Kind regards, Eric van Loon Air

Antwort: Copy stgrule performance

2023-06-23 Thread Tsm Tsm
Hello Eric, just implemented it yesterday and i see 5 TB in 16h on one LTO8 Tape. somehow 300 GB/h with best regards Stefan Savoric PROFI AG

Copy stgrule performance

2023-06-14 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi everybody, We recently implemented a TS4300 tape library and added it to our 8.1.18 SP servers. I'm running a copy stgrule to tape, to create an extra copy of our container storagepool. The performance however is dramatic: 667 GB/h to 4 LTO9 tape drives in parallel. Does anybody have

Re: TSM db backup delayed or hung for more than few hours

2023-05-30 Thread Skylar Thompson
Ah, OK, I was thinking in relation to tape devices, I wouldn't expect SAN discovery to be in play for disk, or at least not in a way that's visible to TSM. Definitely let the list know what the results of the PMR are, I suspect many of us will be curious... On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 11:52:14PM

Re: TSM db backup delayed or hung for more than few hours

2023-05-30 Thread Saravanan Palanisamy
Hi Skylar We use disk for db backup and it will finish within 30 minutes once db backup started at db2 level for 2 tb database. There is no errors or warnings reported during db backup and only concern it takes more than 30 min to see db backup message in db2diag log though tsm side backup db

Re: TSM db backup delayed or hung for more than few hours

2023-05-30 Thread Skylar Thompson
What's the device type for the DB backup? We'll see this when SAN discovery hasn't caught up with new device paths after a replacement. The telltale will be ANR8975I messages on the library manager and ANR8974I messages on the clients. As others noted, though, it can also be an API package

Re: TSM db backup delayed or hung for more than few hours

2023-05-30 Thread Saravanan Palanisamy
Hi Vikas We are using latest tsm client (8.1.17.2) and server version (8.1.18) Regards Sarav +65 9857 8665 > On 30 May 2023, at 2:27 AM, Vikas Arora wrote: > > Hi Sarav, > > May I ask which tsm client version (dsmadmc) you are using? Can you please > try to update it with the latest

Re: TSM db backup delayed or hung for more than few hours

2023-05-29 Thread Vikas Arora
Hi Sarav, May I ask which tsm client version (dsmadmc) you are using? Can you please try to update it with the latest version and then re-try? I had a similar experience a few days ago and that helped! thanks Grüße Vikas Arora *e Mail* : vikar...@gmail.com On Mon, 29 May 2023 at 13:38,

Re: TSM db backup delayed or hung for more than few hours

2023-05-29 Thread Saravanan Palanisamy
Today it took more than 90 min to initiate db backup at db2 level where as admin schedule issues backup db command 90 min before and backup got completed. We will monitor closely. Regards Sarav +65 9857 8665 > On 29 May 2023, at 3:29 PM, David L.A. De Leeuw wrote: > > Hi Sarav > > We

Re: TSM db backup delayed or hung for more than few hours

2023-05-29 Thread David L.A. De Leeuw
Hi Sarav We had a similar case, just yesterday. I noticed the daily full database backup schedule was missed a number of days. Then I found that five days ago the daily full backup just hanged. Canceling the process hung as well on "pending". I contacted our system administrator and she

TSM db backup delayed or hung for more than few hours

2023-05-28 Thread Saravanan Palanisamy
V8.1.18 We have noticed tsm backup started at tsm level but didn’t issue any message to db2 and tsm level db backup appears hung db2 list utilities show details - No process db2diag.log - didn’t see any message like ( Starting an online db backup ) Tried to restart tsm server to clear db2

Re: Good Bye

2023-05-27 Thread Stefan Folkerts
I've had a bit of a sneak peak into what is coming from IBM and I must say it's the first time in a while that I got excited for what is coming from IBM in this domain. It's a major change and I think it was needed but the architecture means that it's very capable, at least in the datacenter, from

Re: Good Bye

2023-05-26 Thread Chavdar Cholev
Sad to see you are leaving mail list Zoltan Al the best with new challenges Thank you!!! Chavdar On Thursday, May 25, 2023, James Neal BS wrote: > Hi Zoltan, > > This seems like the end of an era. After all these years, it will be > very strange not to see your insightful and

Re: Good Bye

2023-05-25 Thread James Neal BS
Hi Zoltan, This seems like the end of an era. After all these years, it will be very strange not to see your insightful and helpful comments. I remember the first time I saw a post from you I thought "Wow! This guy has the coolest name ever!" Best wishes to you! Berkeley IT

Re: Good Bye

2023-05-25 Thread Dmitry Dukhov
Good Luck Zoltan in other areas > We all will be dreaming of an open API for a TSM admin query client, long > after our last HALT command. p.s. I already wrote a simple Rest API, but no one was interested in it. > On 25 May 2023, at 13:52, Richard Cowen wrote: > > Zoltan, > > Let us know

Re: Good Bye

2023-05-25 Thread Richard Cowen
Zoltan, Let us know how life after TSM feels. We all will be dreaming of an open API for a TSM admin query client, long after our last HALT command. Good luck in all your future endeavors. Richard Richard Cowen CPP Associates From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on

R: [ADSM-L] Good Bye

2023-05-25 Thread Tommaso Bollini
Thanks for your contribution Zoltan!. Best wishes for a similar adventure in your new environment See you, bye. -Messaggio originale- Da: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Per conto di Zoltan Forray Inviato: mercoledì 24 maggio 2023 22:01 A: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Oggetto: [ADSM-L] Good Bye Folks,

Re: Good Bye

2023-05-24 Thread Del Hoobler
I’d love to talk to all of you about what we are doing with IBM Storage Defender. It’s combining the power, scale and maturity of TSM with some of the new capabilities that Cohesity brings to the table. But, we are taking it to a higher level. Backups are critical, but bringing in storage

Re: Good Bye

2023-05-24 Thread Zoltan Forray
Marcel, I too thought it was very interesting that IBM would collaborate with Cohesity ( https://www.cohesity.com/press/ibm-and-cohesity-announce-new-data-security-and-resiliency-collaboration-advancing-enterprises-ability-to-fight-the-impacts-of-breaches-and-cyberattacks/). I guess the saying

Re: Good Bye

2023-05-24 Thread Marcel Anthonijsz
Zoltan, "The Times They are A-Changin", I remember that saying well.. And now with the upcoming announcement for IBM Storage Defender I feel they definitely are! Thanks for your questions, your answers and the support you gave to this community. Live long and prosper! Op wo 24 mei 2023 om

Re: Good Bye

2023-05-24 Thread Zoltan Forray
Thank you and the same to you... On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 5:00 PM Bruno, Jeanne wrote: > Wishing you good health, good luck & good fortune. Rock on! > And thanks for the TSM help over the years. > > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager On Behalf Of Zoltan > Forray > Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2023 4:01

Re: Good Bye

2023-05-24 Thread Zoltan Forray
Thanks! On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 4:10 PM Rick Adamson wrote: > Good Luck Zoltan ! > > > -Rick Adamson > > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager On Behalf Of Zoltan > Forray > Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2023 4:01 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [ADSM-L] Good Bye > > Folks, It has been a fun,

Re: Good Bye

2023-05-24 Thread Skylar Thompson
Glad to have had you as a TSM colleague across the continent! Good luck with whatever comes next. On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 04:01:04PM -0400, Zoltan Forray wrote: > Folks, > > It has been a fun, wild, sometimes entertaining, exasperating, frustrating, > exhausting (insert your adjective/adverb)

Re: Good Bye

2023-05-24 Thread Bruno, Jeanne
Wishing you good health, good luck & good fortune. Rock on! And thanks for the TSM help over the years. From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2023 4:01 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Good Bye Folks, It has been a fun, wild, sometimes

Re: Good Bye

2023-05-24 Thread Rick Adamson
Good Luck Zoltan ! -Rick Adamson From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2023 4:01 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Good Bye Folks, It has been a fun, wild, sometimes entertaining, exasperating, frustrating, exhausting (insert your

Good Bye

2023-05-24 Thread Zoltan Forray
Folks, It has been a fun, wild, sometimes entertaining, exasperating, frustrating, exhausting (insert your adjective/adverb) learning adventure working with DSF / ADSM / TSM / Spectrum Protect / whatever-the-new-name-is, for the past 30+ years! But, as they say, "*The Times They Are A-Changin*".

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Re: How to empty a deduped FILE DEVclass stgpool

2023-04-26 Thread Zoltan Forray
Thanks for the reply. We have tried every kind of option/migration/move nodedata/reclaim/consolidate aggregates/audit stgpool/audit volume, etc, to no avail. We are about to go the "nuclear option" and hard delete the volume! On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 5:01 AM Josh-Daniel Davis wrote: > Did you

Re: REPAIR OCCUPANCY

2023-04-26 Thread Zoltan Forray
Thanks for the reply. We have run REPAIR OCCUPANCY numerous times now and it has "adjusted" total reporting occupancy by* -100TB*. This is very concerning since our IBM license is storage/TB based and 100TB makes a lot of difference/required us to increase our license. On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at

Re: Hot add Transport for restore virtual machine

2023-04-25 Thread Saravanan Palanisamy
Thanks Richard. Backup was working well in hotadd as VADP host resides on same data store. I just doubt whether hotadd transport supported for restore vm though we place VADP host in the same data store . We tried to enable SAN policy as Online in VADP host but it didn’t help. Just wondering

Re: Hot add Transport for restore virtual machine

2023-04-25 Thread Elberse, R.H.L. (Richard)
Hi Sarav, The datastore must be available to the host on which the datamover is restoring the vm. DSM.OPT should not have a setting that rules out using hotadd. There may be other options that may cause the hotadd restore not being used. Richard -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: ADSM: Dist

Hot add Transport for restore virtual machine

2023-04-25 Thread Saravanan Palanisamy
Hi Everyone Is there any additional settings required to enable hotadd transport while restoring vm using TSM for VE ( VADP host is virtual machine )? Regards Sarav +65 9857 8665

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: Microsoft SQL Server 2022

2023-04-07 Thread Mike Dile
DP SQL supports SQL 2022 as of 8.1.17.1. See https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-protect%E2%84%A2-databases-all-requirements-documents Mike Dile Program Director, IBM Storage Defender +1 408.891.0902 Mobile +1 408.927.2082 Office He/Him/His IBM

Microsoft SQL Server 2022

2023-04-06 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi everybody, A question for the people from IBM on this list: what are the plans for Spectrum Protect for Databases when it comes to supporting Microsoft SQL Server 2022? Thanks for any reply in advance! Groeten, Eric van Loon Air France/KLM Core Infra

REPAIR OCCUPANCY

2023-03-21 Thread Zoltan Forray
Linux Server 8.1.14.200 Looking for feedback on this "undocumented" (i.e. not in a book but readily available via Google search) command. We have been seeing lots of wacky occupancy numbers, issues with nodes reporting something in stgpools that are empty, etc. I stumbled upon REPAIR OCCUPANCY

How to empty a deduped FILE DEVclass stgpool

2023-03-08 Thread Zoltan Forray
We have an old Powervault that is having too many hardware issues (5-disks replaced in the past 2-weeks) and are trying to retire it. It was being used as a low-activity (nextstgpool after offsite copies have been created), deduped FILE DEVclass. We have emptied it down to a few remaining

Re: Listing all nodes without filespaces

2023-03-03 Thread Skylar Thompson
Hi Eric, This should work: select n.node_name from nodes n left join filespaces f on n.node_name=f.node_name where f.node_name is null On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 02:49:20PM +, Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM wrote: > Hi everybody, > > On one of my servers I'm trying to generate a list of nodes

Re: Listing all nodes without filespaces

2023-03-03 Thread Arthur J Roy
Hi Eric, Try this: select node_name from nodes where node_name not in (select node_name from filespaces where node_name is not null) Regards, Art From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM Date: Friday, March 3, 2023 at 9:52 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Listing all nodes without filespaces

2023-03-03 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi everybody, On one of my servers I'm trying to generate a list of nodes without filespaces. I know for sure such node exist: Protect: >q files LH-PPPC01-DB ANR2034E QUERY FILESPACE: No match found using this criteria. ANS8001I Return code 11. But if I try to generate this list through a SQL

Re: Removing tape devices

2023-02-03 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi Skylar, The issue was fixed after a reboot. Thanks for your help! Kind regards, Eric van Loon -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager On Behalf Of Skylar Thompson Sent: Thursday, 2 February 2023 17:19 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Removing tape devices Can you

Re: Removing tape devices

2023-02-02 Thread Skylar Thompson
Can you confirm that the serial_num attribute that udev sees matches the contents of /proc/scsi/IBMtape? udevadm info --attribute-walk --name /dev/IBMtape5|grep serial_num If it does, you might try restarting udevd, though I've had to resort to reboot when udev just doesn't want to notice that

Re: Removing tape devices

2023-02-02 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi Skylar, Yes, all drives are LTO drives (SAN attached). I tried your procedure, but it's not working. The six tape devices are all actually there: # ls -al /dev/IBMtap* crw--- 1 root root 235,0 Feb 2 17:04 /dev/IBMtape0 crw--- 1 root root 235, 1024 Feb 2 17:04 /dev/IBMtape0n

Re: Removing tape devices

2023-02-02 Thread Skylar Thompson
Are these all IBM LTO drives using the lin_tape driver? My experience on RHEL7 w/ FC-attached drives is that the devices show up automatically, though I can't remember if it removes them if the drive falls off the fabric. I suspect not, just so that a transient problem doesn't leave the system in

Removing tape devices

2023-02-02 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi everybody, I'm having some issues with missing persistent names after a HBA replacement on a Linux server. I like to remove all tape devices, so all /dev/IBMTape*, all /dev/lin_tape/by-id/drive* devices and the SCSI devices. What is the proper way to do that in Linux? Afterwards, I like to

Re: Restoring virus infected file halts TSM client

2023-01-24 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hi Bent, It sounds like a good idea to open a support case. Suggestion for doc you can collect in advance: 1. Add these options to the dsm.opt file: TRACEFLAGS SERVICE TRACEFILE C:\somedir\client_trace.txt You can choose any valid file path for "C:\somedir\client_trace.txt". 2. Run the

Re: Restoring virus infected file halts TSM client

2023-01-24 Thread Bent Christensen (BVC)
Hi Andrew, Thanks for your response and suggestion. I have been using the weekend to dig a little deeper into the issue, and it turns out that if I just restore the folder containing the infected file, TSM restores all other files and just responds with a: 01/19/2023 15:58:57 ANSE

Re: Restoring virus infected file halts TSM client

2023-01-19 Thread Francisco J
Hello, A possibility could be deleting filespace for that file, example: https://adsm.org/forum/index.php?threads/delete-filespace-of-a-specific-filespace.11954/ Regards El jue, 19 ene 2023 a las 5:04, Bent Christensen (BVC) () escribió: > Hello, > > Just wondered if anyone have had the

Re: Restoring virus infected file halts TSM client

2023-01-19 Thread Andrew Raibeck
Hello Brent, Without knowing the specific details of the errors you see, one thing you can try is to add this line to the dsm.opt file: TESTFLAGS CONTINUERESTORE Restart the client, and see if that causes the operation to continue with the next file after an error is reported. If that

Restoring virus infected file halts TSM client

2023-01-19 Thread Bent Christensen (BVC)
Hello, Just wondered if anyone have had the same issue and maybe found a solution for it: Now and then we are tasked with restoring data that were backed up very long ago back to Windows file shares. In a few cases it turns out that some of these old files are infected by virus/malware which

Re: OSSM Integration with SP 8.1.16

2023-01-06 Thread Saravanan Palanisamy
Thanks for your response. We have imported the certificate with SAN name then it worked. Looks like SAN name is mandatory for OSSM integration. > On 5 Jan 2023, at 11:21 PM, Lee Miller wrote: > > Hello, > I am working on a similar problem in a Level 2 assist (related to a sale > force

Re: OSSM Integration with SP 8.1.16

2023-01-05 Thread Lee Miller
Hello, I am working on a similar problem in a Level 2 assist (related to a sale force ticket) I have opened your question and the L2 assist in the OSSM development slack channel. Once I get a response I will update both. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager On Behalf

OSSM Integration with SP 8.1.16

2023-01-05 Thread Saravanan Palanisamy
Hello Everyone, I have tried to configure Open Snap Store Manager to integrate with SPP. When I tried to use default TSM self signed cert then I can do the OSSM config without any issue. However when I try to use CA signed cert then OSSM services are not able to communicate with IBM Spectrum

Re: TS4300 configuration

2022-12-23 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi Martin, I had to change SYSFS into ATTR and now it's working. Thank you VERY much again for your help! Kind regards, Eric van Loon Core Infra -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager On Behalf Of Martin Janosik Sent: vrijdag 23 december 2022 16:01 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: TS4300 configuration

2022-12-23 Thread Martin Janosik
Hi, /dev directory is dynamically built so it's not needed to create directory manually, it should get populated once you load kernel module > When you run the lin_tape kernel module, it creates special files in the /dev > directory Adding persistent naming + all stop/unload/load/start steps

Re: TS4300 configuration

2022-12-23 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi Martin! Thanks for the link! I've done some more searching online and I found some documentation about enabling the following option: options lin_tape alternate_pathing=1 So I created a /etc/modprobe.d/lin_tape.conf file and added this option to it, along with the persistent naming option:

Re: TS4300 configuration

2022-12-23 Thread Martin Janosik
Hi Eric, I'm not sure it's possible to selectively remove /dev/IBMchangerX devices. I would follow https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ts4300-tape-library?topic=tape-taking-devices-offline-completing-maintenance to completely stop lintaped as it should remove all IBMtape/IBMchanger and then proceed

TS4300 configuration

2022-12-23 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi guys, I'm connecting a TS4300 to my SP server. The library I defined contains 6 drive and I selected all drives as control path. This however creates six /dev/IBMchanger devices. So before I correct my mistake and update the library definition, I like to remove /dev/IBMchanger1 to 5 first.

Re: Spectrum Protect Plus for office 365

2022-11-21 Thread Dominic Mueller-Wicke01
https://www.ibm.com/products/spectrum-protect-plus-online-services Greetings, Dominic. ___ Dominic Müller-Wicke | Senior Technical Staff Member | IBM Spectrum Protect Architect IBM Master Inventor Slack:

Re: Odd incident with stgpool nextpool/migration

2022-11-18 Thread Deschner, Roger Douglas
Completely normal, working as designed. We do this on purpose. Depending on how you set the migration and reclamation thresholds, that first FILE storage pool will be internally reclaimed before any migration starts. That reclamation process will be labeled "Migration". (This has tripped me up

Default server order in OC reports

2022-11-17 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOP DI) - KLM
Hi everybody, In OC 8.1.16 you can now select a subset of servers for your reports. Thanks IBM for implementing my enhancement request! Does anybody know how you can change the spoke server order in reports? Kind regards, Eric van Loon Air Francd/KLM Core Infra

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