Right, watch out for the Windows journalling service quietly dying off. TSM then reports successful backups, but doesn't back up anything. One of our customers got a big black eye that way.
TSM development is considering abandoning the Windows journaling service for something more reliable; until then, reboot windows nodes weekly, if they are using the JBB trick. Lindsay Morris Principal TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:21 AM, David McClelland <t...@networkc.co.uk>wrote: > If nobody has pointed it out already, perhaps this is the article that > you're looking for: > > Steps required to setup the TSM Journaling Service in a MSCS environment > > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1019&context=SSSQWC&context=SSG > SG7&q1=Journal+Service+Cluster&uid=swg21167834&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en > > I've worked with TSM Journalling in MSCS clusters in the past, and it's > *okay* on the whole, but I'd recommend some good monitoring to make sure > the > journal service is up/running as expected, and also to run a non-journalled > backup at intervals (e.g. once a week, once a month perhaps - iirc the > option '-nojournal' might be your friend here) using MEMORYEFFICIENTBACKUP > YES as Mr Coles suggests. > > HTH, > > /David Mc > London, UK > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of > Johnny Lea > Sent: 26 October 2009 15:00 > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM journaling > > Will not the PreserveDBOnExit=1 setting keep the journal active during a > failover and prevent a full backup? > I hope so cause I just set up journaling on a cluster and was counting on > this. > > Johnny > > >>> Howard Coles <howard.co...@ardenthealth.com> 10/26/2009 9:40 AM >>> > We tried this for a while, and I can dig up the docs on exactly how to > set this up on an older Windows cluster. However, I would highly > recommend using the memoryefficient backup with disk cache method > instead. Every time the cluster fails over you'll have to do another > full normal backup, which may or may not work due to the sheer number of > files causing the inventory to fill up memory. With the disk cache > method it's a little slower, but it doesn't have to start over every > time you fail over or reboot. > > See Ya' > Howard > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf > > Of Sanju Chacko > > Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 4:47 AM > > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > > Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM journaling > > > > Could someone provide me steps to install journaling on cluster? > > (Windows 2003 cluster) > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Sanju > > > > Individuals who have received this information in error or are not > authorized to receive it must promptly return or dispose of the information > and notify the sender. Those individuals are hereby notified that they are > strictly prohibited from reviewing, forwarding, printing, copying, > distributing or using this information in any way. > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.423 / Virus Database: 270.14.27/2452 - Release Date: 10/24/09 > 14:31:00 >
