Re: SAN, 3494, library shared HP-UX & AIX

[Francisco Molero]

Hi Suad,
   I have working the library with HP-UX whitout
problem. But I found this library is not supported by
Tape library Manager and Client whether one of the
platform is HP-UX.
   On the other hand, the chapter about "Configuring
TSM servers to Share SAN-Connected Devices" exists in
AIX but no in HP-UX. Besides the define library under
AIX is also different from HP-UX.
you said , " sharing is possible ". How can I do ?
could you help me to do that ? When you try to
configurate the library under HP-UX, you have the
share option but this options is related to other
product to TSM.
Thanks again, Fran





--- Suad Musovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> TSM 3.7/4.1 can share SAN connected libraries
> (including libraries
> connected via a SCSI/FC gateway).
>
> If you have the drivers and able to see(use) the
> tape and library
> devices from the HP, sharing is possible.
>
> Have a look in the Admin Guide under the section
> "Configuring
> TSM servers to Share SAN-Connected Devices", it
> gives you a
> play-by-play.
>
> I don't run a HP server or a 3494, I am going by
> published blurb
> and experimenting in my own environment.
>
> Once you have set up the SAN, it's just like dealing
> with SCSI
> devices. The difference is the ability to
> reallocate/share devices.
> We haven't bought into full-blown SAN management yet
> as our needs
> are simple for the moment.
>
> Cheers, Suad
> --
>
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 04:54:10AM -0800, Francisco
> Molero wrote:
> > Hi colleagues,
> > my environment is the following:
> >  I have a TSM server running in AIX and another
> TSM
> > server running in HP-UX. Both have a fc connection
> to
> > SAN Data Gateway besides a LAN connection. On the
> > other hand, I have connected to SAN a 3494 library
> via
> > SCSI. Is it possible to configure the Library like
> > shared with the Tape library  manager ( AIX ) and
> Tape
> > library client ( HP-UX ).
> > Could someone help me to resolve this question?
> > Thanks in advance.
> > In addition any info about SAN & TSM experiences
> will
> > be well received.
> >
> >
> >
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Re: ANS1304W on 4.1

[Rainer Wolf]

Reinhold Wagner wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> i searched the archives and found several threads about ANS1304W, but non of
> them seem to be
> related to Version 4.
> 
> We migrated a week ago from 3.1 to 4.1.2 and now see _ANS1304W Active object not
> found_ in a
> client's error log. In the archives i learned that it's a problem with national
> language
> characters and this could be true in this case also.
> 
> Our Environment:
> 
> Server: TSM 4.1.2.0, AIX 4.3.3
> Client: TSM 4.1.2.0, Solaris 7
> 
> 'couse it's 18:29 here and we don't have a support contract which covers this
> time I'll try
> my luck here.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Reinhold Wagner, Zeuna Staerker GmbH & Co. KG

Hello Reinhold,

by reading your mail - just found the same 

Our Environment:
Server: TSM 3.1.2.40, AIX 4.3.3
Client: TSM 4.1.2.0, Solaris 8

at LEAST all files containing a "?" are concerned and thats easy to reproduce:

# echo "ob das auch gut geht ? " > echt\?gut
# dsmc inc
...
# rm echt\?gut
# dsmc inc 
...
Retry # 1  Directory-->   1,024 /priv/ [Sent]  
Retry # 1  Expiring-->   34 /priv/echt?gut  ** Unsuccessful **
ANS1228E Sending of object '/priv/echt?gut' failed
ANS1304W Active object not found

restore and more versions on those files seems to work  ... ?

-- 

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards
Rainer Wolf


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Re: ANS1304W on 4.1

[Richard Sims]

>ANS1228E Sending of object '/priv/echt?gut' failed
>ANS1304W Active object not found

Rainer - Thanks for your warning about even a question mark causing
 the problem, and in a non-Windows 4.1.2 client.
It's really sad to see this problem re-surface in Tivoli programming,
as we went through much the same thing way back in 3.1.0.5 (APAR IC21764).
Tivoli's test suite is woefully inadequate if it failed to detect such
a basic problem in backups, particularly given the history of problems
with international characters and Unicode filenames.
   Richard Sims, BU

Re: ANS1304W on 4.1

[Reinhold Wagner]

I called the IBM/TSM support and was told that all UNIX/Windows/Novell (...?)
clients show
this behavior.

The developers are working on the problem with high priority (what else!).
Untill an
official fix is available, they advice to go back to 4.1.1!!

We will do it if we can (4.1.1 ends with a core dump on our solaris 2.7 box!).

regards

Reinhold Wagner, Zeuna Staerker GmbH & Co. KG

Point in time restore trying to restore files that have been dele ted off the system

[Marc Layne]

Hi All
 I have the following problem.For one of our Windows NT systems we run a
full backup of the D partition every day. e do this so that the batch of
tapes used can be sent to another city where a develpment environment can be
refreshed. Now what is happening is that some files that were backed up in
september or october last year are still appearing as active within the TSM
database, even though these files have been deleted. So when trying to run a
point in time restore to the previous day, it is looking for older tapes
where these older deleted files are stored.These tapes ahve already been
sent back.

Even after the retain only parameter expires these files are still seen as
been active on the system. Even if i change the retaino=20 days and
retaine=10 days .. four months down the line these files are still active
and are not expiring.

Either the deleted files are not been marked as such (inactivated) or there
is a bug somewhere..

Environment:

TSM Server ver 3.7.1 on Windows NT service pack 6
TSM client for Windows NT ver 3.7.3
vere= 14
verd= 2
retaine= 30
retaino= 10

Thanks
Marc
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Why does reclaim/migrate use only 1 drive

[Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM]

Hi *SM-ers!
I have a new 3494 library with two 3590 drives attached to my existing TSM
server. I'm trying to move the data from the "old" 3575 library to the 3494.
I tried two methods: migrate and reclaim. They both just start one process
while there are two 3590 drives available in the 3494 and three 3570 drives
in the 3575.
How can I force TSM to start two migrate or reclaim processes?
Thank you very much for your reply in advance
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


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TSM 4.1.2 Client (on Win2k) on cluster node

[Caffey, Jeff L.]

When installing the TSM client on a node in a cluster that does not have
control of the cluster, I am receiving the following errors:
Error obtaining registry value 'clusterGroupName'.
Then when I go to start the service, either manually or by restarting the
machine, I get the following error:
Could not start the TSM scheduler service on Local Computer.
Error 4294967295:
Any ideas on what is causing this?

Thank you,

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Re: Why does reclaim/migrate use only 1 drive

[David Longo]

To start ultiple migration processes use: upd stg  migpr=x
where x = number of migration processes you want to start.

I don't think there is a way to have more than one reclamation process running for a 
single storage pool.



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>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/26/01 09:49AM >>>
Hi *SM-ers!
I have a new 3494 library with two 3590 drives attached to my existing TSM
server. I'm trying to move the data from the "old" 3575 library to the 3494.
I tried two methods: migrate and reclaim. They both just start one process
while there are two 3590 drives available in the 3494 and three 3570 drives
in the 3575.
How can I force TSM to start two migrate or reclaim processes?
Thank you very much for your reply in advance
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


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Re: SAP and SQL Server

[Neil Schofield]

Christian

I am using TDP for SQL Server v1.1.2. If you have a valid license, this is
available from
ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/tivoli-data-protection/ntsql/1.1.2
The minimum system requirements are NT Server v4.0 SP4 and SQL Server v7.0 SP1.

I would definitely recommed using the TDP agent. The alternative for me would be
to perform scheduled backups to disk using the SQL Server Agent. These would
then have to be backed up to TSM during the file system backup performed by the
normal Windows Backup/Archive client.

This effectively doubles the amount of disk space required by the database and
means the backup is not secured away from the system until both stages have been
completed.

TDP for SQL Server v2.2 has the advantage of being able to perform differential
backups, which the v1.1 agent cannot do. With v2.2, you will have to upgrade to
at least SP2 for SQL Server.

Good luck

Neil Schofield




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Hello Neil, Thank you for your response.
If doesn't have a soft, how do you perform the backup today ?

That you recommend me to do backup to a configuration like that?
Than you very much !!



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Christian

We too use SQL Server 7.0 on NT 4.0 as our SAP platform.

I believe that TDP for R/3 is only for Oracle platforms, not SQL Server.

We rely on TDP for SQL Server v1.1 to perform backups of our SAP databases.
Version 2.2 was released last month. I have been desperately trying to get
hold
of it but have been unsuccessful.

Although the code is not available for download, the documentation can be
found
at
http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/pubs/v1_pdf/mssql/v2/ab5m1mst.pdf
.
This states the minimum requirements are NT 4 SP4 and SQL Server 7 SP2, so
you
should be OK.

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Debian Linux

[Petr Přerost]

Hello ,
is it possible to use Linux client with Debian 2.2 ?
Thank for any info.

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Re: Why does reclaim/migrate use only 1 drive

[Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM]

Hi David!
Tried that, but the 3570 storage pool is a sequential storage pool and the
MIGPR parameter isn't valid for sequential storage pools ;-((
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


-Original Message-
From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 16:01
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Why does reclaim/migrate use only 1 drive


To start ultiple migration processes use: upd stg  migpr=x
where x = number of migration processes you want to start.

I don't think there is a way to have more than one reclamation process
running for a single storage pool.



David B. Longo
System Administrator
Health First, Inc.
3300 Fiske Blvd.
Rockledge, FL 32955-4305
PH  321.434.5536
Pager  321.634.8230
Fax:321.434.5525
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/26/01 09:49AM >>>
Hi *SM-ers!
I have a new 3494 library with two 3590 drives attached to my existing TSM
server. I'm trying to move the data from the "old" 3575 library to the 3494.
I tried two methods: migrate and reclaim. They both just start one process
while there are two 3590 drives available in the 3494 and three 3570 drives
in the 3575.
How can I force TSM to start two migrate or reclaim processes?
Thank you very much for your reply in advance
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


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Re: Guidance

[Prather, Wanda]

My 2 cents on some of your questions:


Can ADSM back up open files ?

A. Yes, with caveats.  You get to set the rules (in the management class)
about whether or not you will accept backups of files that are open for
update.  We generally do not, feeling that is better to fail the backup than
have one that is possibly invalid; however there are some sequential log
files that are fine to back up while they are open for output.  And on
Windows clients, there is a problem with files that are locked.  Windows can
open files for input, for update, and OPEN EXCLUSIVE.  If it's opened with
the EXCLUSIVE lock, nothing can read it, including TSM or other
applications.  For those files you get a message saying TSM could not back
up the file, even if you allow files to be backed up while open.

Does ADSM support data compression ? If so, What is
the compression ratio ?

A. Yes, you can set up clients to use compression.  The compression ratio
will depend on the type of data.  Client filesystems that have a lot of
character-based data will compress somewhere around 3 - to -1; clients where
the data is already mostly compressed (like Windows .pst files, or web
servers with .jpeg files) may not compress at all.  You can find lots of
discussion of the pros and cons of client compression in the list archives
at www.adsm.org.  In general, compression cuts down on the amount of traffic
you send across the network.  However, it can make restores take longer
because the client has to decompress on the way back.  If you have lots of
clients and you don't use client compression, your disk pool must be much
larger than if your clients don't compress.  For clients like web servers
where the files don't compress well, there's no point in doing it.  You can
set up each client to compress or not, as you find appropriate.  You have to
make the decision based on your own requirements, where your bottlenecks
are, and your priorities.  Because we backup over 400 clients, we set up
compression as the default for everyone, then address "special" cases
individually if restores become a problem.  If I only had a few critical
servers to back up, I would make different choices.

And BTW, if your tape hardware compresses, data that is already compressed
on the client end, usually can't be compressed much more by the hardware.


How is security handled? Can users just recover their
own files ?

A:  Clients are registered on the server and given a TSM password.  You
can't recover data that belongs to another client without knowing the
password.  The password is never sent over the nework in clear text.



Can labelling be done at the same time that backups
are running ?

A:  Yes, but generally you don't need to; you only label the tapes once,
when you use them the first time.




Does UNIX Servers require Root or can ADSM be
configured to be fully functional from a non- root UID
?
A: Generally you run the backup (with the scheduler daemon) as root, so that
everything can be backed up.  I've never tried to run the scheduler as
somebody else.

However, the client fully understands that UNIX is a multi-user system and
honors UNIX file security.  There are options in the dsm.sys file where you
can put a list of the users and groups that are allowed to start the TSM GUI
client.  If a non-root user is not in the list, they can't even start the
client.  If they are allowed to start the client, the client honors the
standard UNIX security for file;  it only allows a non-root user to back up
and restore files to which they normally would have read and write access,
respectively.


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Re: New list at Duke???

[Jim Kirkman]

As a grad and staff member of UNC-Chapel Hill, I will HEARTILY concur with
Kelly's sentiments.

As we say around here, Go to H** Duke! (is this a family oriented list?)

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966-5884



"Kelly J. Lipp" wrote:

> Hell no we won't go! Hell no we won't go!
>
> I think I speak for all of us.
>
> Kelly J. Lipp
> Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
> PO Box 51313
> Colorado Springs CO 80949-1313
> (719) 531-5926
> Fax: (240) 539-7175
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.storsol.com
> www.storserver.com
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Martha McConaghy
> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 6:41 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: New list at Duke???
>
> One of the list subscribers has forwarded to me notes he has received from
> Duke University about a new ADSM-L list.  So far, I know nothing about it,
> nor what that list owner intends.  I have sent them a note asking for an
> explanation.  Has anyone else received such notes?  Clearly, I cannot
> prevent
> someone from starting a competing list and I have no desire to do so.
> However,
> it would have been courteous of them to have consulted me as I have been
> running this list, at great effort, for many years. If someone is interested
> in taking over the responsiblity, I would have been happy to discuss it with
> them.  Its pretty rude to find out this way.
>
> Martha McConaghy - ADSM-L list owner

Re: Performance Large Files vs. Small Files

[bbullock]

EEK. I'm sure this is not the answer, because if I rename the
filesystem everyday, then I have to do a  full backup of the filesystem
every day. I don't think there are enough hours in the day to do a full
backup, export it, and delete the filespace. Thanks for the suggestion
though. 

Ben Bullock
UNIX Systems Manager
(208) 368-4287

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> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> you might think of renaming the node every day, then doing an export
> followed by a delete of the filespace (this will free the DB).
> 
> In case of restore, import the needed node
> 
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> > 
> > Jeff,
> > You hit the nail on the head of what is the biggest 
> problem I face
> > with TSM today. Excuse me for being long winded, but let me 
> explain the
> > boat
> > I'm in, and how it relates to many small files.
> > 
> > We have been using TSM for about 5 years at our 
> company and have
> > finally got everyone on our band wagon  and away from the variety of
> > backup
> > solutions and media we had in the past. We now have 8 TSM 
> servers running
> > on
> > AIX hosts (S80s) attached to 4 libraries with a total of 44 
> 3590E tape
> > drives. A nice beefy environment.
> > 
> > The problem that keeps me awake at night now is 
> that we now have
> > manufacturing machines wanting to use TSM for their 
> backups. In the past
> > they have used small DLT libraries locally attached to the host, but
> > that's
> > labor intensive and they want to take advantage of our 
> "enterprise backup
> > solution". A great coup for my job security and TSM, as 
> they now see the
> > benefit of TSM.
> > 
> > The problem with these hosts is that they generate 
> many, many
> > small
> > files every day. Without going into any detail, each file 
> is a test on a
> > part that they may need to look at if the part ever fails. 
> Each part gets
> > many tests done to it through the manufacturing process, so 
> many files are
> > generated for each part.
> > 
> > How many files? Well, I have one Solaris-based host 
> that generates
> > 500,000 new files a day in a deeply nested directory 
> structure (about 10
> > levels deep with only about 5 files per directory). Before 
> I am asked,
> > "no,
> > they are not able to change the directory of file structure 
> on the host.
> > It
> > runs proprietary applications that can't be altered". They 
> are currently
> > keeping these files on the host for about 30 days and then 
> deleting them.
> > 
> > I have no problem moving the files to TSM on a 
> nightly basis, we
> > have a nice big network pipe and the files are small. The 
> problem is with
> > the TSM database growth, and the number of files per 
> filesystem (stored in
> > TSM). Unfortunately, the directories are not shown when you 
> do a 'q occ'
> > on
> > a node, so there is actually a "hidden" number of database 
> entries that
> > are
> > taking up space in my TSM database that are not readily 
> apparent when
> > looking at the output of "q node".
> > 
> > One of my TSM databases is growing by about 1.5 GB 
> a week, with no
> > end in sight. We currently are keeping those files for 180 
> days, but they
> > are now requesting that them be kept for 5 years (in case a 
> part gets
> > returned by a customer).
> > 
> > This one nightmare host now has over 20 million 
> files (and an
> > unknown number of directories) across 10 filesystems. We 
> have found from
> > experience, that any more than about 500,000 files in any 
> filesystem means
> > a
> > full filesystem restore would take many hours. Just to restore the
> > directory
> > structure seems to take a few hours at least. I have told 
> the admins of
> > this
> > host that it is very much unrecoverable in it's current 
> state, and would
> > take on the order of days to restore the whole box.
> > 
> > They are disappointed that an "enterprise backup 
> solution" can't
> > handle this number of files any better. They are willing to 
> work with us
> > to
> > get a solution that will both cover the daily "disaster 
> recovery" backup
> > need for the host and the long term retentions they desire.
> > 
> > I am pushing back and 

Tape Problems?

[Gill, Geoffrey L.]

Hi all,

Environment:
TSM 4.1.2.0
AIX 4.3.3
3494 Library

I have a question related to tapes. Below are a couple of errors that look
like these tapes may not have a label. I was trying to use the following
command to label them but it comes back with this:

ANR2017I Administrator GEOFF issued command: LABEL libvol 3494lib U00954
devt=3590 checkin=scratch overwrite=yes
ANR8432E LABEL LIBVOLUME: Volume U00954 is already present in library
3494LIB.

Am I using the wrong command or do I need to check out the volume and use
the label command during checking?

02/20/01 11:14:08 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume U00954 in
drive RMT4 (/dev/rmt4).
02/20/01 11:14:38 ANR8778W Scratch volume U00954 changed to Private
Status to prevent re-access.

02/23/01 07:01:39 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume U00959 in
drive RMT1 (/dev/rmt1).
02/23/01 07:02:10 ANR8778W Scratch volume U00959 changed to Private
Status to prevent re-access.


This second error relates to ?, Not sure I understand where this came
from or what it actually means.

02/23/01 09:42:52 ANRD asvol.c(910): NumEmptyVols went negative for
pool 29.
02/23/01 09:43:07 ANRD asvol.c(910): NumEmptyVols went negative for
pool 29.


Thanks for the help

Geoff Gill
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
Computer Systems Group
E-Mail:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (888) 997-9614

Re: Performance Large Files vs. Small Files

[Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,FC-SIL/INF.]

you could also export only inactive versions,

René Lambelet
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> -Original Message-
> From: bbullock [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 4:32 PM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:  Re: Performance Large Files vs. Small Files
> 
> EEK. I'm sure this is not the answer, because if I rename the
> filesystem everyday, then I have to do a  full backup of the filesystem
> every day. I don't think there are enough hours in the day to do a full
> backup, export it, and delete the filespace. Thanks for the suggestion
> though.   
> 
> Ben Bullock
> UNIX Systems Manager
> (208) 368-4287
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,FC-SIL/INF. 
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 1:13 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Performance Large Files vs. Small Files
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > 
> > you might think of renaming the node every day, then doing an export
> > followed by a delete of the filespace (this will free the DB).
> > 
> > In case of restore, import the needed node
> > 
> > René Lambelet
> > Nestec S.A. / Informatique du Centre 
> > 55, av. Nestlé  CH-1800 Vevey (Switzerland) 
> > *+41'21'924'35'43  7+41'21'924'28'88  * K4-117
> > email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Visit our site: http://www.nestle.com
> > 
> > This message is intended only for the use of the 
> > addressee and 
> > may contain information that is privileged and confidential.
> > 
> > 
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: bbullock [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 11:22 PM
> > > To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject:  Re: Performance Large Files vs. Small Files
> > > 
> > > Jeff,
> > > You hit the nail on the head of what is the biggest 
> > problem I face
> > > with TSM today. Excuse me for being long winded, but let me 
> > explain the
> > > boat
> > > I'm in, and how it relates to many small files.
> > > 
> > > We have been using TSM for about 5 years at our 
> > company and have
> > > finally got everyone on our band wagon  and away from the variety of
> > > backup
> > > solutions and media we had in the past. We now have 8 TSM 
> > servers running
> > > on
> > > AIX hosts (S80s) attached to 4 libraries with a total of 44 
> > 3590E tape
> > > drives. A nice beefy environment.
> > > 
> > > The problem that keeps me awake at night now is 
> > that we now have
> > > manufacturing machines wanting to use TSM for their 
> > backups. In the past
> > > they have used small DLT libraries locally attached to the host, but
> > > that's
> > > labor intensive and they want to take advantage of our 
> > "enterprise backup
> > > solution". A great coup for my job security and TSM, as 
> > they now see the
> > > benefit of TSM.
> > > 
> > > The problem with these hosts is that they generate 
> > many, many
> > > small
> > > files every day. Without going into any detail, each file 
> > is a test on a
> > > part that they may need to look at if the part ever fails. 
> > Each part gets
> > > many tests done to it through the manufacturing process, so 
> > many files are
> > > generated for each part.
> > > 
> > > How many files? Well, I have one Solaris-based host 
> > that generates
> > > 500,000 new files a day in a deeply nested directory 
> > structure (about 10
> > > levels deep with only about 5 files per directory). Before 
> > I am asked,
> > > "no,
> > > they are not able to change the directory of file structure 
> > on the host.
> > > It
> > > runs proprietary applications that can't be altered". They 
> > are currently
> > > keeping these files on the host for about 30 days and then 
> > deleting them.
> > > 
> > > I have no problem moving the files to TSM on a 
> > nightly basis, we
> > > have a nice big network pipe and the files are small. The 
> > problem is with
> > > the TSM database growth, and the number of files per 
> > filesystem (stored in
> > > TSM). Unfortunately, the directories are not shown when you 
> > do a 'q occ'
> > > on
> > > a node, so there is actually a "hidden" number of database 
> > entries that
> > > are
> > > taking up space in my TSM database that are not readily 
> > apparent when
> > > looking at the output of "q node".
> > > 
> > > One of my TSM databases is growing by about 1.5 GB 
> > a week, with no
> > > end in sight. We currently are keeping those files for 180 
> > days, but they
> > > are now requesting that them be kept for 5 years (in case a 
> > part gets
> > > returned by a customer).
> > > 
> > > This one nightmare host now has over 20

TSM Monitoring: Crystal Reports v TEC....

[Vint A. Maggs]

Hello All,
I am interested in developing a TSM monitoring environment and I
want to investigate what tools are out there.  My goal is to bring in
salesmen from the competing vendors and see who can do what.
I have 4 TSM servers backing up hundreds of NT, Solaris, Netware,
BUTA, and Domino clients across our network to a pair of ACSLS controlled
STK 9310 Powderhorn tape libraries using 9840 tape drives.
I do not want to reinvent the wheel and feel a lot of the trending
and analysis reports I desire are already built into these packages.
Anyone have any idea what happened with Mainstar?
Please respond and let me know what you are using and how you feel
about these products, or any other that you like.

Thanks,
Vint

Re: TSM Monitoring: Crystal Reports v TEC....

[Gill, Geoffrey L.]

>Anyone have any idea what happened with Mainstar?

Vint,
At one point I was evaluating the Monitor Plus software. As I tried to get
fixes I was finally told they are no longer developing the product. They
weren't sure if anyone was going to pick it up from them. I actually liked
what I was seeing but with all the bugs I started to find I didn't think the
asking price was worth what I was going to get.

I don't know of any other software that is similar but would also appreciate
any information on some.

Geoff Gill
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
Computer Systems Group
E-Mail:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (888) 997-9614

Re: TSM Monitoring: Crystal Reports v TEC....

[Talafous, John G.]

My queries into Mainstar revealed that they pulled their TSM monitoring and
reporting product from marketing.

I will be interested in what you find.

John G. Talafous  IS Technical Principal
The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support
P.O. Box 6927 Data Management
1835 Dueber Ave. S.W. Phone: (330)-471-3390
Canton, Ohio USA  44706-0927  Fax  : (330)-471-4034
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-Original Message-
From: Vint A. Maggs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 10:35 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM Monitoring: Crystal Reports v TEC


Hello All,
I am interested in developing a TSM monitoring environment and I
want to investigate what tools are out there.  My goal is to bring in
salesmen from the competing vendors and see who can do what.
I have 4 TSM servers backing up hundreds of NT, Solaris, Netware,
BUTA, and Domino clients across our network to a pair of ACSLS controlled
STK 9310 Powderhorn tape libraries using 9840 tape drives.
I do not want to reinvent the wheel and feel a lot of the trending
and analysis reports I desire are already built into these packages.
Anyone have any idea what happened with Mainstar?
Please respond and let me know what you are using and how you feel
about these products, or any other that you like.

Thanks,
Vint

Re: DB backup series expiration.

[Bernhard Unold]

Do you make the backup db every day or every weekday? Have a look at the
output of your q volhist. Compare the creation dates. The error must be
more than 7 days before to get the expected number of backups. If you
cannot find the reason, send the output of your q volhist.

"Gill, Geoffrey L." schrieb:
> 
> With DB Backup Series Expiration Days: 7 Day(s), within DRM, I'm only
> getting 5 to show up with q volhist type=dbb. Has anyone seen this problem
> before? It seemed to be working fine until a week ago when I had the
> dbbackup fail due to a tape error. Now it doesn't want to climb back up to
> 7.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Geoff Gill
> NT Systems Support Engineer
> SAIC
> Computer Systems Group
> E-Mail:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Phone:  (858) 826-4062
> Pager:   (888) 997-9614

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen


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Re: TSM 4.1.2 Client (on Win2k) on cluster node

[Neil Schofield]

Jeff

You should have separate scheduler's installed to back up the local disks and
the shared disks.

The scheduler that is installed to back up the shared disks should have two
values stored in the registry:
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\\Parameters\ClusterNode :
REG_SZ : 1
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\\Parameters\ClusterGroupName

: REG_SZ : NameOfCluster

For the scheduler installed to back up the local disks, these values should be
absent (or have a ClusterNode value of 0).

It sounds like you might have the ClusterNode value set to 1 for the scheduler
in question, but are missing the ClusterGroupName key.

If this is the case, try using DSMCUTIL to remove the scheduler and re-install
it with the /CLUSTERNODE:YES and /CLUSTERNAME:NameOfCluster. If it's the
scheduler installed to back up the local disks, specify /CLUSTERNODE:NO.

Please be aware that I've never succeeded in getting the 4.1.2 client to work in
an MSCS environment. There is an open APAR with Tivoli that I'm waiting to be
fixed - APAR IC29377. Until this is fixed, I will continue to use 4.1.1.

Neil Schofield




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Re: Tape Problems?

[Bernhard Unold]

Yes, you must check out the volumes, if you want to label it. But you
don't have to remove it. You can use the  REMOVE=NO  parameter. More
Info with   HELP CHECKOUT LIBVOLUME.
Be carefully and don't overwrite written tapes.


"Gill, Geoffrey L." schrieb:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Environment:
> TSM 4.1.2.0
> AIX 4.3.3
> 3494 Library
> 
> I have a question related to tapes. Below are a couple of errors that look
> like these tapes may not have a label. I was trying to use the following
> command to label them but it comes back with this:
> 
> ANR2017I Administrator GEOFF issued command: LABEL libvol 3494lib U00954
> devt=3590 checkin=scratch overwrite=yes
> ANR8432E LABEL LIBVOLUME: Volume U00954 is already present in library
> 3494LIB.
> 
> Am I using the wrong command or do I need to check out the volume and use
> the label command during checking?
> 
> 02/20/01 11:14:08 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume U00954 in
> drive RMT4 (/dev/rmt4).
> 02/20/01 11:14:38 ANR8778W Scratch volume U00954 changed to Private
> Status to prevent re-access.
> 
> 02/23/01 07:01:39 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume U00959 in
> drive RMT1 (/dev/rmt1).
> 02/23/01 07:02:10 ANR8778W Scratch volume U00959 changed to Private
> Status to prevent re-access.
> 
> This second error relates to ?, Not sure I understand where this came
> from or what it actually means.
> 
> 02/23/01 09:42:52 ANRD asvol.c(910): NumEmptyVols went negative for
> pool 29.
> 02/23/01 09:43:07 ANRD asvol.c(910): NumEmptyVols went negative for
> pool 29.
> 
> Thanks for the help
> 
> Geoff Gill
> NT Systems Support Engineer
> SAIC
> Computer Systems Group
> E-Mail:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Phone:  (858) 826-4062
> Pager:   (888) 997-9614

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen


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Re: Hung Admin Sessions

[George Lesho]

Jennifer,  The same type problem occurs in threads on my version of TSM 3.7.3.6
for drives waiting on instructions to dismount tapes... you would probably do us
a favor by bringing this issue to TSM for resolution... Don't the sessions
eventually "time out" and disappear?

George Lesho
Storage/System Admin
AFC Enterprises






"Jennifer I. Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/23/2001 06:32:14 PM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC)
Fax to:
Subject:  Hung Admin Sessions



Gentle Greetings,

Has anyone noticed any situations where Admin sessions on the server get
hung and become "ghost" sessions that will not go away?  Cancelling has no
effect.  Opening a separate Admin session and cancelling from there has no
effect.  In some cases, subsequent sessions get hung and a reboot is
necessary.  And in other cases, there seems to be no adverse side effects.

In this case, I was doing some SQL queries on the database, and two user
Admin sessions hung and two Query Admin sessions hung.  (Fortunately,
everything else is continuing to run smoothly.)  Below is the output from
"show threads" related to these 4 sessions.

We are running 4.1.2 Server on an IBM M80 running AIX 4.3.3.

Thank you in advance for any help and/or suggestions.

Jennifer


Thread 68: SessionThread
tid=4437, ktid=34577, ptid=52, det=1, zomb=0, join=0, result=0, sess=31636
  Awaiting cond 5c355b04 (mutex 301a65b0) at 10009b38 (outGetNext)

Thread 101: SessionThread
  tid=653d, ktid=69811, ptid=52, det=1, zomb=0, join=0, result=0, sess=31768
   Awaiting cond 5c33a484 (mutex 301a65b0) at 10009b38 (outGetNext)

Thread 105: SessionThread
  tid=6963, ktid=72547, ptid=52, det=1, zomb=0, join=0, result=0, sess=30446
   Awaiting cond 5c286354 (mutex 301a65b0) at 10009b38 (outGetNext)

Thread 108: SessionThread
  tid=6acf, ktid=52079, ptid=52, det=1, zomb=0, join=0, result=0, sess=31704
   Awaiting cond 5c1c69d4 (mutex 301a65b0) at 10009b38 (outGetNext)

No forum mails received anymore

[Michel Engels]

As from friday I do not receive any forum mails anymore. I went to the site and
saw a number of new questions and answers are created without receiving a copy
in my mailbox. Is the problem known by other people or is the problem somewhere
between the forum server and our mailserver?

Michel

Re: Hung Admin Sessions

[David_Bohm]

Each of these threads will have at least one other thread associated with
it.
You should find an admin command thread that has a ptid= the thread number
of the session thread.  What this session thread is waiting for is more
output
from that command thread.  You should probably open a problem record on
this.  There have been some situations in the past where there was some
lock contention with certain queries.  It might be possible to figure this
out
from just some additional query and show commands or it might require
a kill -11 so a core dump can be generated and those threads can be
examined.  The point to start with is what those command threads are
waiting for and continue diagnosis from there.

David Bohm
TSM server development
email - [EMAIL PROTECTED]


>Gentle Greetings,
>
>Has anyone noticed any situations where Admin sessions on the server get
>hung and become "ghost" sessions that will not go away?  Cancelling has no
>effect.  Opening a separate Admin session and cancelling from there has no
>effect.  In some cases, subsequent sessions get hung and a reboot is
>necessary.  And in other cases, there seems to be no adverse side effects.
>
>In this case, I was doing some SQL queries on the database, and two user
>Admin sessions hung and two Query Admin sessions hung.  (Fortunately,
>everything else is continuing to run smoothly.)  Below is the output from
>"show threads" related to these 4 sessions.
>
>We are running 4.1.2 Server on an IBM M80 running AIX 4.3.3.
>
>Thank you in advance for any help and/or suggestions.
>
>Jennifer
>
>
>Thread 68: SessionThread
>tid=4437, ktid=34577, ptid=52, det=1, zomb=0, join=0, result=0, sess=31636
>  Awaiting cond 5c355b04 (mutex 301a65b0) at 10009b38 (outGetNext)
>
>Thread 101: SessionThread
>  tid=653d, ktid=69811, ptid=52, det=1, zomb=0, join=0, result=0,
sess=31768
>   Awaiting cond 5c33a484 (mutex 301a65b0) at 10009b38 (outGetNext)
>
>Thread 105: SessionThread
>  tid=6963, ktid=72547, ptid=52, det=1, zomb=0, join=0, result=0,
sess=30446
>   Awaiting cond 5c286354 (mutex 301a65b0) at 10009b38 (outGetNext)
>
>Thread 108: SessionThread
>  tid=6acf, ktid=52079, ptid=52, det=1, zomb=0, join=0, result=0,
sess=31704
>   Awaiting cond 5c1c69d4 (mutex 301a65b0) at 10009b38 (outGetNext)

Hung Admin Sessions

[Dennis Riley]

Hi Jennifer,
We have see this problem of Web Admin sessions hanging in earlier
releases (APAR IC28349). We are now running 3.7.3.8 and are not
presently experiencing this. But we have seen some other problems
running SQL queries. One issue is that TSM does not support correlated
sub-queries. When I've issued these complex SQL queries, the query may
run for a very long time or appear to loop and then crash the server.
Another issue we've seen with SQL queries, is that they use database
space for their calculations. We've had some problems with not have
enough contiguous space for the transaction. This is partially true for
us, because we have an old, large, highly fragmented database.
Good luck getting to the bottom of this issue.
Dennis

Subject:
Hung Admin Sessions
   Date:
Fri, 23 Feb 2001 19:32:14 -0500
   From:
"Jennifer I. Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



Gentle Greetings,

Has anyone noticed any situations where Admin sessions on the server get

hung and become "ghost" sessions that will not go away?  Cancelling has
no
effect.  Opening a separate Admin session and cancelling from there has
no
effect.  In some cases, subsequent sessions get hung and a reboot is
necessary.  And in other cases, there seems to be no adverse side
effects.

In this case, I was doing some SQL queries on the database, and two user

Admin sessions hung and two Query Admin sessions hung.  (Fortunately,
everything else is continuing to run smoothly.)  Below is the output
from
"show threads" related to these 4 sessions.

We are running 4.1.2 Server on an IBM M80 running AIX 4.3.3.

Thank you in advance for any help and/or suggestions.

Jennifer


Thread 68: SessionThread
tid=4437, ktid=34577, ptid=52, det=1, zomb=0, join=0, result=0,
sess=31636
  Awaiting cond 5c355b04 (mutex 301a65b0) at 10009b38 (outGetNext)

Thread 101: SessionThread
  tid=653d, ktid=69811, ptid=52, det=1, zomb=0, join=0, result=0,
sess=31768
   Awaiting cond 5c33a484 (mutex 301a65b0) at 10009b38 (outGetNext)

Thread 105: SessionThread
  tid=6963, ktid=72547, ptid=52, det=1, zomb=0, join=0, result=0,
sess=30446
   Awaiting cond 5c286354 (mutex 301a65b0) at 10009b38 (outGetNext)

Thread 108: SessionThread
  tid=6acf, ktid=52079, ptid=52, det=1, zomb=0, join=0, result=0,
sess=31704
   Awaiting cond 5c1c69d4 (mutex 301a65b0) at 10009b38 (outGetNext)

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New server migration

[Denis L'Huillier]

Hello,
I am planning to migrate my ADSM server to a new Server running TSM.
ADSM 3.1.2.50 RS/6000 R20 (IBM 3466 B03) 3494 Library 3590 B1A drives- OLD
SERVER
TSM 3.7 RS/6000 H70 (IBM 3466 C01) - 3494 Library 3590 E1A drives - NEW SERVER
AND NEW 3494
Here is my basic plan:
 From the old server:
1. Copy devconfig and volhist. Record db and log size from q log and q db
2. Initiate a full db backup then eject from library / insert in new Library
 From the new server:
1. Restore devconfig and volhist.
2. Format the db and log via:
 dsmserv format 1  sizeinMB 1  sizeinMB
3. Restore the db via:
 dsmserv restore db todate=
 From what I have read I will not have to do a upgrade db because when running
on AIX this is done automatically.
4. Move all the tapes from the old 3494 to the new 3494.

The part I am not sure of is the format db command.  Is this necessary if I'm
doing a restore db?
How can I find out what my database name and recovery log name is?
This is the output from q logvol:
Volume Name   CopyVolume Name   CopyVolume Name   Copy
(Copy 1)  Status  (Copy 2)  Status  (Copy 3)  Status
  --    --    --
/lgaa1dk2/lg  Sync'd  /lgaa1dk6/lg  Sync'dUndef-
   ined

This is the output from q log:
Available Assigned   Maximum   MaximumPage Total  Used   Pct  Max.
Space Capacity Extension ReductionSizeUsable Pages  Util   Pct
 (MB) (MB)  (MB)  (MB) (bytes) Pages  Util
-  - - --- - - - -
1,9801,980 0 1,976   4,096   506,368   215   0.0   1.1

(Courier New and Font 10 will make the q log,logvol look normal)

Would the command be:dsmserv format db 1 lgaa1dk2 1980 1  ?
Would I have to issue this command for each recovery log volume and each db
volume?
I think I'm missing something here... I've spent hours searching the list and
reading the adsm guides but I am
still unsure..  I'm a new adsmer, sorry for the "dumb" questions..
Thanks in advance,
Denis

Re: DB backup series expiration.

[Gill, Geoffrey L.]

>
>
>Do you make the backup db every day or every weekday?

Bernard,

I do a db backup every day. I can see there are sequential db backups for
the past 5 days but for whatever reason it would not climb past 5, after the
day the db backup error occurred. I fixed this problem by changed the
Expiration Days from 7 to 6, it then climbed to 6 db backups. I then changed
it back to 7, and now I do have 7 concurrent db backups again.

   Date/Time: 02/19/01 10:15:39
 Volume Type: BACKUPFULL
   Backup Series: 492
Backup Operation: 0
  Volume Seq: 1
Device Class: 3590CLASS
 Volume Name: U00978
 Volume Location: Arcus
 Command:

   Date/Time: 02/20/01 10:15:36
 Volume Type: BACKUPFULL
   Backup Series: 493
Backup Operation: 0
  Volume Seq: 1
Device Class: 3590CLASS
 Volume Name: U00299
 Volume Location: Arcus
 Command:

   Date/Time: 02/21/01 10:15:47
 Volume Type: BACKUPFULL
   Backup Series: 494
Backup Operation: 0
  Volume Seq: 1
Device Class: 3590CLASS
 Volume Name: U00738
 Volume Location: Arcus
 Command:

   Date/Time: 02/22/01 10:15:38
 Volume Type: BACKUPFULL
   Backup Series: 495
Backup Operation: 0
  Volume Seq: 1
Device Class: 3590CLASS
 Volume Name: U00407
 Volume Location: Arcus
 Command:

   Date/Time: 02/23/01 10:15:34
 Volume Type: BACKUPFULL
   Backup Series: 496
Backup Operation: 0
  Volume Seq: 1
Device Class: 3590CLASS
 Volume Name: U00232
 Volume Location: Arcus
 Command:

   Date/Time: 02/24/01 10:15:41
 Volume Type: BACKUPFULL
   Backup Series: 497
Backup Operation: 0
  Volume Seq: 1
Device Class: 3590CLASS
 Volume Name: U00204
 Volume Location:
 Command:

   Date/Time: 02/25/01 08:59:48
 Volume Type: BACKUPFULL
   Backup Series: 498
Backup Operation: 0
  Volume Seq: 1
Device Class: 3590CLASS
 Volume Name: U00113
 Volume Location:
 Command:

I'd be willing to bet if I have another failure, the next time a db backup
occurs, this will happen again. I've already seen this problem 3 times on my
system. I'm curious if anyone else has had this problem.

Geoff Gill
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
Computer Systems Group
E-Mail:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (888) 997-9614

Re: FIVE questions for TSM 4.1.2 (server on AIX, clients on Windo ws)

[Jolley, Bill]

During the use of EMC timefinder, did you use the BCV (third mirror) to
perform backups?  If so
how does IBM Flash Copy compares to your backup stragety?

-Original Message-
From: Caffey, Jeff L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 11:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FIVE questions for TSM 4.1.2 (server on AIX, clients on
Windo ws)


REALLY...?   Are you using SAN connection agents or is that performance
increase still going across your network?

Thank you,

Jeff Caffey
Enterprise Systems Programmer
Pier 1 imports, Inc.  -  Information Services
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Voice: (817) 252-6222
Fax:   (817) 252-7299

 -Original Message-
From:   Carl Makin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Thursday, February 22, 2001 5:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: FIVE questions for TSM 4.1.2 (server on AIX, clients on
Windows)

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Caffey, Jeff L. wrote:

>
> We are in the process of implementing TSM, an IBM Shark, and a SAN all at
> the same time (I'm swamped)!  We are replacing EMC's Data Manager, an EMC
> Symmetrix, and Veritas' Backup Exec with one brand new TSM server running
on
> an IBM RS/6000 (H80, 1GB RAM, 500GB Internal SSA Disk for storage pools,
> Gigabit Ethernet to LAN, Fibre Channel to SAN, 5 LTO tape drives, and as
> much additional 'shark' disk as necessary) performing backups on the
> following server platforms:

We moved our 120Gb disk backup pool from a SSA D40 drawer (RAID5) to the
Shark and got an order of magnitude improvement in backup times.  40Gb
NOTES backups went from 20 hours to 4 hours.  The shark outperforms the
SSA disk by a significant amount.  If you start having performance
problems then I'd recommend moving all your TSM data to the shark and
using the SSA somewhere else. (That's what we're doing now)

We have 83 nodes (mixed AIX, Solaris, NT and FreeBSD) and the ADSM server
is a H70.


Carl.

Restore error - ANS9505E

[Boothby Don]

Can anyone explain why I'm getting this error?

Restoring 237 /opt/trace/icom4.to5.ftp.txt ANS9505E : cannot
initialize DM services. Reason: No such file or directory
[Done]

My problem in understanding it is that we don't use DM.  Also, I was
wondering if the message was superfluous.  In other words, it does the
restore, reports the error for some reason, and continues.

Version information follows:

NODE V  R  L  SL PLATFORM_NAME
 -- -- -- -- 
ICOM005  3  1  0  8  SUN SOLARIS

Session established with server ADSMICOM: AIX-RS/6000
  Server Version 3, Release 1, Level 2.50
  Server date/time: 02/22/01   08:56:10  Last access: 02/21/01   15:40:32

Operating system is AIX 4.3.2.0 for the server.
Operating system is Solaris 2.6 for the clients.

Re: SOLUTION: RE: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 dependency in RedHat7.0 ?

[John Marquart]

Michael,
I believe the X-lib dependencies are fine to ignore as long as you
do not wish to use the graphical interface (dsm).  As for the
/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsm.sys file, that is your client
configuration file.  (Not sure if you are/were asking for help with that
error or just included that output for some reason.)  Check you
/opt/.../bin/dsm.opt.smp  and /opt/.../bin/dsm.sys.smp files for examples
for your dsm.opt and dsm.sys files.


-john



On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Michael Jung wrote:

> Hi John
>
> Thank you VERY VERY MUCH, your tip was excellent good and after that horrible time 
>of searching for a solution after I switched from our WinNT system to Linux with this 
>unsolved problem !
> After that there were only the X-libs dependencies there. Further install with "rpm 
>--nodeps" I could the error from dsmc:
> root@SONNE Tivoli]# dsmc
> ANS1035S Options file '/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsm.sys' not found
> [root@SONNE Tivoli]#
>
> Really, really good. Now I could sleep better because I have the chance to set up 
>the backup next week.
>
> Kind regards from
> Michael
>
>
> > I am not working on a 7.0 system - so I may be slightly off, but I am
> > pretty sure that libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 is included in an rpm labeled:
> >
> > compat-libstdc++-6.2-2.9.0.9.i386.rpm   which is available at:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-7.0/i386/en/RedHat/RPMS/
> >
> > -john
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Michael Jung wrote:
> >
> > > I took a few days to search around but didn't come up with a solution.
> > >
> > > I'm able to install the Tivoli client on a 6.1 RedHat system.
> > This system is installed as server WITH gui.
> > > The so called E-Smith-server isn't running a gui and I also
> > don't need any gui.
> > >
> > > (1)---
> > > Joerg Nouvertne wrote:
> > > > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > >   ^^
> > > This indicates, that the library running on your system has
> > been found, but
> > > does not contain the expected object file. I know that RedHat 7.0 has a
> > > special version of the glibc and gcc installed, which is not binary
> > > compatible to non-RedHat binaries. Is this client compiled for
> > RedHat 7.0?
> > >
> > > --> I have not compiled it because it is an .rpm and specified
> > to run with RedHat 7.0
> > > (2)---
> > > Richard Sims wrote:
> > > > Subject: Re: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 dependency in RedHat7.0 ?
> > > > > > dsmc: error while loading shared libraries: =
> > > > libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2:
> > > > > > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > > > Michael - You seem to not have the appropriate libraries as
> > > >   specified in the Tivoli requirements page
> > > > http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/adcllin.htm .
> > > > Check your Linux system via the 'rpm' command to see if it
> > > > has the pre-reqs that TSM calls for.
> > >
> > > I know the webpages, they say its specified for RedHat 7.0, my
> > server is a kickinstall based on RedHat 7.0. The comment from
> > E-Smith dev list was:
> > > > > Question: There are any differences between standard installed
> > > > > libaries on RedHat 7.0 to E-Smith 4.1rc4 ?
> > > >
> > > > No. (and please upgrade from 4.1rc4 to 4.1 or 4.1.1)
> > >
> > > When I do:
> > > [root@SONNE Tivoli]# rpm -i TIVsm-BA.i386.rpm
> > > error: failed dependencies:
> > > libICE.so.6 is needed by TIVsm-BA-4.1.2-1
> > > libSM.so.6 is needed by TIVsm-BA-4.1.2-1
> > > libX11.so.6 is needed by TIVsm-BA-4.1.2-1
> > > libXext.so.6 is needed by TIVsm-BA-4.1.2-1
> > > libXp.so.6 is needed by TIVsm-BA-4.1.2-1
> > > libXpm.so.4 is needed by TIVsm-BA-4.1.2-1
> > > libXt.so.6 is needed by TIVsm-BA-4.1.2-1
> > > libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 is needed by TIVsm-BA-4.1.2-1
> > > As I understand all libs except the last one only required for
> > a GUI which I would not use.
> > > On my server I found:
> > > # rpm -qa | grep libst
> > > libstdc++-2.96-69
> > > where the files are in:
> > > /usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.a
> > > /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.a.3
> > >
> > > It seems that this lib don't fullfill the requierements.
> > >
> > > A suggestion was:
> > > > You can hope that the non-GUI bit does not need C++ libraries, you can
> > > > downgrade the C++ libraries to RH6.2 versions and hope that it doesn't
> > > > break anything, or you can try to get Tivoli to issue a new
> > version and/or
> > > > correct their release notes.
> > > >
> > > > C++ library compatibility has been a big issue with Rh7.
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > > Michael Jung
> > >
> >
> >
> > John "Jamie" Marquart   | This message posted 100% MS free.
> > Digital Library SysAdmin|  Work: 812-856-5174   Pager:
> > 812-334-6018
> > Indiana University Libraries|  ICQ: 1131494 D'net Team:  6265
> >
>
>


John "Jamie" Marquart 

Re: Hung Admin Sessions

[Prather, Wanda]

We see a similar problem occasionally, but can't reproduce it on demand.

A long-running SQL query will run fine one day, hang the next.
I think it MAY be related to having another long-running process (such as
reclamation) in flight while the query is running. (But this could be
coincidence.)

You can cancel any active processes, and you can cancel the session that
started the long-running query, but that session never goes away, and never
times out.  Then any additional SQL queries also hang.  Eventually ALL
queries hang, although backups continue to run just fine.  You can leave the
situation there for days and it will never clear up on its on.  Eventually
you have to kill the server and restart it to clear the condition.


We are TSM 3.7.2 on AIX 4.3.3, 20 GB data base.
Doesn't happen on our other TSM 3.7.2 server, which is exactly the same
config, but only as a 3 GB data base.


Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
443-778-8769
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
Scott Adams/Dilbert




-Original Message-
From: George Lesho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 11:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Hung Admin Sessions


Jennifer,  The same type problem occurs in threads on my version of TSM
3.7.3.6
for drives waiting on instructions to dismount tapes... you would probably
do us
a favor by bringing this issue to TSM for resolution... Don't the sessions
eventually "time out" and disappear?

George Lesho
Storage/System Admin
AFC Enterprises






"Jennifer I. Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/23/2001 06:32:14 PM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC)
Fax to:
Subject:  Hung Admin Sessions



Gentle Greetings,

Has anyone noticed any situations where Admin sessions on the server get
hung and become "ghost" sessions that will not go away?  Cancelling has no
effect.  Opening a separate Admin session and cancelling from there has no
effect.  In some cases, subsequent sessions get hung and a reboot is
necessary.  And in other cases, there seems to be no adverse side effects.

In this case, I was doing some SQL queries on the database, and two user
Admin sessions hung and two Query Admin sessions hung.  (Fortunately,
everything else is continuing to run smoothly.)  Below is the output from
"show threads" related to these 4 sessions.

We are running 4.1.2 Server on an IBM M80 running AIX 4.3.3.

Thank you in advance for any help and/or suggestions.

Jennifer


Thread 68: SessionThread
tid=4437, ktid=34577, ptid=52, det=1, zomb=0, join=0, result=0, sess=31636
  Awaiting cond 5c355b04 (mutex 301a65b0) at 10009b38 (outGetNext)

Thread 101: SessionThread
  tid=653d, ktid=69811, ptid=52, det=1, zomb=0, join=0, result=0, sess=31768
   Awaiting cond 5c33a484 (mutex 301a65b0) at 10009b38 (outGetNext)

Thread 105: SessionThread
  tid=6963, ktid=72547, ptid=52, det=1, zomb=0, join=0, result=0, sess=30446
   Awaiting cond 5c286354 (mutex 301a65b0) at 10009b38 (outGetNext)

Thread 108: SessionThread
  tid=6acf, ktid=52079, ptid=52, det=1, zomb=0, join=0, result=0, sess=31704
   Awaiting cond 5c1c69d4 (mutex 301a65b0) at 10009b38 (outGetNext)

Creating a Client Backup Set???

[Marc Levitan]

Hi all-

I have been asked to create a client backup set for the purpose  of
restoring a client in the event that the TSM Server is not available via
the network.
I am supposed to burn the backup set to cd.  This way I can walk up to the
client, put in the cd, and restore locally from the cd.

Here is my question:  Where is the default output of the backup set?  Where
does it go -- to tape?  Is there a way to create the backup set onto the
hard disk rather than tape?
How does the Device Class fit into this?
I am trying to figure out how I am supposed to transfer the backup set to
cd-rom.  One more issue: the cd Burner is NOT local to the tsm server, it
is accross the network.

Tsm server is 3.7.4 on AIX RS/6000.
StorageTek 9840

 Storage Management Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 3, Release 7, Level
 4.0


Any ifo would be appreciated!
Thanks,

 Storage Management Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 3, Release 7, Level
 4.0


Marc Levitan
Senior LAN Engineer
PFPC Global Fund Services

Re: FIVE questions for TSM 4.1.2 (server on AIX, clients on Windo ws)

[Prather, Wanda]

Del, thanks VERY much, this is WONDERFUL information and would help a lot if
we can make it work.

I fell stupid asking this, but I'm not a Windows heavy -
can anybody  tell me where to find this mspst.ini file?
I have Outlook installed on my machine, and I don't have one..

do you just create one if you don't have it already?

-Original Message-
From: Del Hoobler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 3:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FIVE questions for TSM 4.1.2 (server on AIX, clients on
Windo ws)


Team,

Just thought I'd add something I had learned about this
The following info is from one of my Microsoft contacts:


===
The filesystem unfortunately does not support "transactioning"
and so if we let someone copy the file while it is open, they
are highly likely to end up with a "corrupted" version of the file.

The Outlook client can be configured to release the PST file
after some period of inactivity so that another application
can open and read it, even though the Outlook client is running:

I did some checking and you are right the default is 15min.  It is
apparently configurable via a "MSPST.INI" file too.

This is what you want to put in the mspst.ini file to control this.

[ndb]
DisconnectDelay=60// seconds till disconnect, default is 15min
DisconnectDisable=2// 0 = disallow disconnect to occur, 2 = allow
disconnect, default is 2

===

I am not an expert in this area, but I wanted to pass the above information
on to all of you if it can help solve an issue.

Thanks,

Del



Del Hoobler
IBM Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


"Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 02/23/2001
01:27:12 PM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Sent by:  "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:  Re: FIVE questions for TSM 4.1.2 (server on AIX,
  clients on Windo ws)



1.  When TSM performs incremental backups, does it backup the ENTIRE
file (at a file level) or does it only backup the CHANGES to the file (at a
binary level)?  EXAMPLE: When backing up our primary file server that
contains users' home directories with MS Exchange *.pst and *.pab files
that
may be quite large, will it only backup the small changes to those large
files?

2.  When backing up MS Exchange files such as *.pst and *.pab, does it
require them to be closed so that it can have access, or will it back them
up while they are opened?  EXAMPLE: When (using the above example) TSM runs
it's backups, will the "Access Denied" message appear when it tries to
backup "user123.pst" because the user stayed logged in over night.

We have lots of large .pst files.  I mean REALLY large.  And yes, Microsoft
locks them while in use, and TSM can't back them up.

TSM can back up files that are OPEN, but Microsoft has two kinds of locks,
OPEN and OPEN EXCLUSIVE, and TSM can't get past an OPEN EXCLUSIVE.  Neither
can anything else, short of some 3rd party open file manager.  If a Windows
application can't copy the file, TSM can't copy it, period.  However, we
have found that with Outlook, Outlook does release the locks periodically.
You can have Outlook open, and your .pst files won't stay always locked if
they are not actively in use.  (The .pab file is always in use.)

We even experiemented with a C program invoked from PRESCHEDCMD to try and
force Exchange to shut down before the TSM backup, but never got one that
would work reliably.  The only guarantee is to set up your backup schedules
for overnight and tell your users to LOG OFF (or at least shutdown
Exchange)
before they leave.

Or another thing you could do, if you really wanted to, is to create an
autoexec.bat (or whatever that equivalent thing is on Win2K, I don't
recall)
that would run a dsmc selective backup on your .pst files when the user
starts up, then open EXCHANGE for them after the backup is done.  Or
something like that.

FWIW,
At least with the old Exchange client (as opposed to the new OUTLOOK),
Exchange used to compress the .pst files regularly while you weren't
looking.  So I think even if you used the TSM 4.x feature to back up only
at
the byte level, it wouldn't help because more of the file would change than
you expect.  I had thought about trying it because we have people backing
up
.pst files that are 1GB plus (yep, GIGABYTES of old mail...).  But I but
have never gotten further than musing about it.


Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
443-778-8769
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
Scott Adams/Dilbert

Re: Restore error - ANS9505E

[Richard Sims]

>ANS9505E : cannot initialize DM services. Reason: No such file or directory

Don - This is a defect, described in APAR  IC23349

 Richard Sims, BU

Re: Performance Large Files vs. Small Files

[Per Ekman]

bbullock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Jeff,
> You hit the nail on the head of what is the biggest problem I face
> with TSM today. Excuse me for being long winded, but let me explain the boat
> I'm in, and how it relates to many small files.

> Any other options or suggestions from the group? Any other backup
> solutions you have in place for tracking many files over longer periods of
> time?

How about taking a native dump of the filesystems and either backing
up just the dump, or store it using the archive function? It may not
be very elegant, but sounds better than renaming the node every day :)

/Per

Checkin tape/Label tape

[Gill, Geoffrey L.]

I'm having a problem with 2 tapes that don't seem to have a label, or are
bad. I checked one out and am trying to  get in back in the library, while
checking the label. Here is what I've done:

checkout libv 3494lib U00954 remove=no

checkin libv 3494lib U00954 search=yes checkl=yes devt=3590 status=scratch

I get the following error when using this command:
ANR2020E CHECKIN LIBVOLUME: Invalid parameter - SEARCH


So I issue this:
checkin libvol 3494lib U00954 devt=3590 status=scratch checklabel=yes

And I get this:
02/26/01 10:11:06 ANR0984I Process 25 for CHECKIN LIBVOLUME started in
the BACKGROUND at 10:11:06.
02/26/01 10:11:06 ANR8422I CHECKIN LIBVOLUME: Operation for library
3494LIB started as process 25.
02/26/01 10:11:06 ANR0609I CHECKIN LIBVOLUME started as process 25.

02/26/01 10:11:06 ANR8319I 002: Insert  volume U00954 R/W into library
3494LIB within 60 minute(s).

02/26/01 10:13:39 ANR8335I 002: Verifying label of 3590 volume U00954 in
drive RMT1 (/dev/rmt1).
02/26/01 10:14:08 ANR8353E 002: I/O error reading label of volume in
drive RMT1 (/dev/rmt1).

If I do this:
LABEL libvol 3494lib U00954 devt=3590 checkin=scratch search=yes
labelsource=barcode overwrite=yes

I get this:
02/26/01 10:19:20 ANR2020E LABEL LIBVOLUME: Invalid parameter - SEARCH.

So I issue this without the search parameter:
LABEL libvol 3494lib U00954 devt=3590 checkin=scratch labelsource=barcode
overwrite=yes

And I get this:
02/26/01 10:19:30 ANR8812E LABEL LIBVOLUME: The SEARCH parameter is
required when using LABELSOURCE with this command.

How can I get this in the library while checking the label, and writing a
new one, if it doesn't have one?

What a pain in the rear this is just to get a tape in and labeled...

Geoff Gill
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
Computer Systems Group
E-Mail:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (888) 997-9614

Re: Checkin tape/Label tape

[Patricia LeBlanc]

You can't use the tape number and search at the same time

use
checkin libv 3494lib labels=b checkin=scratch search=bulk overwrite=yes

then q req and put the tape in the bulk to check in...
reply to the req

-Original Message-
From:   Gill, Geoffrey L. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Monday, February 26, 2001 1:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Checkin tape/Label tape

I'm having a problem with 2 tapes that don't seem to have a label, or are
bad. I checked one out and am trying to  get in back in the library, while
checking the label. Here is what I've done:

checkout libv 3494lib U00954 remove=no

checkin libv 3494lib U00954 search=yes checkl=yes devt=3590 status=scratch

I get the following error when using this command:
ANR2020E CHECKIN LIBVOLUME: Invalid parameter - SEARCH


So I issue this:
checkin libvol 3494lib U00954 devt=3590 status=scratch checklabel=yes

And I get this:
02/26/01 10:11:06 ANR0984I Process 25 for CHECKIN LIBVOLUME started in
the BACKGROUND at 10:11:06.
02/26/01 10:11:06 ANR8422I CHECKIN LIBVOLUME: Operation for library
3494LIB started as process 25.
02/26/01 10:11:06 ANR0609I CHECKIN LIBVOLUME started as process 25.

02/26/01 10:11:06 ANR8319I 002: Insert  volume U00954 R/W into library
3494LIB within 60 minute(s).

02/26/01 10:13:39 ANR8335I 002: Verifying label of 3590 volume U00954 in
drive RMT1 (/dev/rmt1).
02/26/01 10:14:08 ANR8353E 002: I/O error reading label of volume in
drive RMT1 (/dev/rmt1).

If I do this:
LABEL libvol 3494lib U00954 devt=3590 checkin=scratch search=yes
labelsource=barcode overwrite=yes

I get this:
02/26/01 10:19:20 ANR2020E LABEL LIBVOLUME: Invalid parameter - SEARCH.

So I issue this without the search parameter:
LABEL libvol 3494lib U00954 devt=3590 checkin=scratch labelsource=barcode
overwrite=yes

And I get this:
02/26/01 10:19:30 ANR8812E LABEL LIBVOLUME: The SEARCH parameter is
required when using LABELSOURCE with this command.

How can I get this in the library while checking the label, and writing a
new one, if it doesn't have one?

What a pain in the rear this is just to get a tape in and labeled...

Geoff Gill
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
Computer Systems Group
E-Mail:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
Pager:   (888) 997-9614

Re: FIVE questions for TSM 4.1.2 (server on AIX, clients on Windo ws)

[Del Hoobler]

Wanda,

It appears that you create it in the "\WINDOWS" directory.
I found some info under Microsoft Q-article: Q143384


SUMMARY:
  This article lists and explains the entries for
  the [NDB] section of the Microsoft Exchange Windows client
  initialization file.

NOTE: The file must be in the root of the
  Microsoft Windows installation, by default C:\WINDOWS.
=

I hope this gets you pointed in the right direction.
BTW, I'm not an Exchange client user either...
I user Notes/Domino, of course...  :-)

Thanks,

Del



Del Hoobler
IBM Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


"Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 02/26/2001
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Del, thanks VERY much, this is WONDERFUL information and would help a lot
if
we can make it work.

I fell stupid asking this, but I'm not a Windows heavy -
can anybody  tell me where to find this mspst.ini file?
I have Outlook installed on my machine, and I don't have one..

do you just create one if you don't have it already?

-Original Message-
From: Del Hoobler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 3:19 PM
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Subject: Re: FIVE questions for TSM 4.1.2 (server on AIX, clients on
Windo ws)


Team,

Just thought I'd add something I had learned about this
The following info is from one of my Microsoft contacts:



===
The filesystem unfortunately does not support "transactioning"
and so if we let someone copy the file while it is open, they
are highly likely to end up with a "corrupted" version of the file.

The Outlook client can be configured to release the PST file
after some period of inactivity so that another application
can open and read it, even though the Outlook client is running:

I did some checking and you are right the default is 15min.  It is
apparently configurable via a "MSPST.INI" file too.

This is what you want to put in the mspst.ini file to control this.

[ndb]
DisconnectDelay=60// seconds till disconnect, default is 15min
DisconnectDisable=2// 0 = disallow disconnect to occur, 2 = allow
disconnect, default is 2


===

I am not an expert in this area, but I wanted to pass the above information
on to all of you if it can help solve an issue.

Thanks,

Del



Del Hoobler
IBM Corporation
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"Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 02/23/2001
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  clients on Windo ws)



1.  When TSM performs incremental backups, does it backup the ENTIRE
file (at a file level) or does it only backup the CHANGES to the file (at a
binary level)?  EXAMPLE: When backing up our primary file server that
contains users' home directories with MS Exchange *.pst and *.pab files
that
may be quite large, will it only backup the small changes to those large
files?

2.  When backing up MS Exchange files such as *.pst and *.pab, does it
require them to be closed so that it can have access, or will it back them
up while they are opened?  EXAMPLE: When (using the above example) TSM runs
it's backups, will the "Access Denied" message appear when it tries to
backup "user123.pst" because the user stayed logged in over night.

We have lots of large .pst files.  I mean REALLY large.  And yes, Microsoft
locks them while in use, and TSM can't back them up.

TSM can back up files that are OPEN, but Microsoft has two kinds of locks,
OPEN and OPEN EXCLUSIVE, and TSM can't get past an OPEN EXCLUSIVE.  Neither
can anything else, short of some 3rd party open file manager.  If a Windows
application can't copy the file, TSM can't copy it, period.  However, we
have found that with Outlook, Outlook does release the locks periodically.
You can have Outlook open, and your .pst files won't stay always locked if
they are not actively in use.  (The .pab file is always in use.)

We even experiemented with a C program invoked from PRESCHEDCMD to try and
force Exchange to shut down before the TSM backup, but never got one that
would work reliably.  The only guarantee is to set up your backup schedules
for overnight and tell your users to LOG OFF (or at least shutdown
Exchange)
before they leave.

Or another thing you could do, if you really wanted to, is to create an
autoexec

Re: Creating a Client Backup Set???

[Phil Bone]

It sounds like it would be a two step process: 1) output the Backup Set to a
file then 2) burn the file to a CD.

It may require defining a storage pool (DEF STG pool_name DISK ...), then
creating one volume in that pool (DEF VOL pool_name volume_name ...), and
creating the backup set to that volume (DEF BACKUPSET node_name
bckup_set_name DEV=device_class_name VOL=volume_name).  You may also need to
define a new device class (DEF DEV device_class_name DEVT=FILE MAXCAP=???M
DIR=directory_name).


Phil Bone
Sr. Systems Consultant
NT Platform Services
Office: 706.596.5928
Fax: 706.596.5950
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


-Original Message-
From: Marc Levitan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 12:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Creating a Client Backup Set???


Hi all-

I have been asked to create a client backup set for the purpose  of
restoring a client in the event that the TSM Server is not available via
the network.
I am supposed to burn the backup set to cd.  This way I can walk up to the
client, put in the cd, and restore locally from the cd.

Here is my question:  Where is the default output of the backup set?  Where
does it go -- to tape?  Is there a way to create the backup set onto the
hard disk rather than tape?
How does the Device Class fit into this?
I am trying to figure out how I am supposed to transfer the backup set to
cd-rom.  One more issue: the cd Burner is NOT local to the tsm server, it
is accross the network.

Tsm server is 3.7.4 on AIX RS/6000.
StorageTek 9840

 Storage Management Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 3, Release 7, Level
 4.0


Any ifo would be appreciated!
Thanks,

 Storage Management Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 3, Release 7, Level
 4.0


Marc Levitan
Senior LAN Engineer
PFPC Global Fund Services

TDP For Domino DB

[Steve Hicks]

Anyone out there ever have any trouble with TDP for Domino losing restore
capabilities for DBs that start with a certain letter. Ours won't list any
past the letter "D". The way the scroll bar works, it doesn't show all DBs
in a single scroll, so it populates database names when you get to the
bottom of the list it provides (I guess this is meant to be a time saver),
but ours isn't populating. This happens on all folders that have a large
number of files in it.

Steve

Re: No future for buta ?

[Alex Paschal]

RTFM does it again.  Thanks, James.

Alex

-Original Message-
From: James Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 9:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: No future for buta ?


The 4.1.2 AIX client readme spells it out.

Tivoli Storage Manager AIX 4.3 afs buta Client

BUTA, for AFS Volume Backup with TSM (an TSM version of butc) - README
Version 4 Release 1 Level 2 supports AFS 3.4a and AFS 3.5 .

Note: Since AFS 3.6 butc supports backups to the TSM server, buta will
not be supported on AFS 3.6 and any future AFS releases.



>From: Alex Paschal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: No future for buta ?
>Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 09:58:03 -0800
>
>That's a good question.  The new version of DFS isn't supported by BUTA
>either.  The TSM client install fails says you should uninstall any
>previous
>version of buta.  In capital letters.  With lots of asterisks.  It's very
>impressive.
>
>Is buta going to be updated?
>
>Alex Paschal
>Storage Administrator
>Freightliner, LLC
>(503) 745-6850 phone/vmail
>
>
>-Original Message-
>From: daniel gerlic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 6:22 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: No future for buta ?
>
>
>I recently saw, in TSM AFS/DFS Backup Clients, p 1, that buta
>is supported on AFS 3.5 &  AFS  3.6a only, but not not on AFS 3.6 and
>higher.
>
>Does anyone have information about this?
>
>--
>--- Daniel GERLIC ---
>CCIN2P3,27 Bd du 11 Novembre,
>F69622 VILLEURBANNE Cedex,FRANCE

_
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Excessive mount failures on 3494 ATL

[Brazner, Bob]

We recently upgraded from ADSM 3.1.2.20 to TSM 4.1.2.0 on AIX 4.3.3 with
3494 ATL.   Shortly after the upgrade, we started to experience a situation
where the ATL is "refusing" nearly all mount requests, even though
sufficient drives are available.  The message is "ANR8447E no drives are
currently available in library".  Scratch mounts as well as volser mounts
are failing.  The IBM CE says the service log on the 3494 shows no
indication of a mount being requested.  Occasionally, a mount is satisfied
so we're actually able to perform some amount of productive work.  The
devclass is defined as mountl=drives.  The 3494 is not shared.

Bob Brazner
Johnson Controls, Inc.
(414) 524-2570

Re: TDP For Domino DB

[Del Hoobler]

Steve,

Is this with the TDP for Domino GUI on Windows NT/2000?
...or is this with the command-line client "PICK" option
on another operating system?

Are you showing active and inactive?
Have you tried using the command-line client?

You really need to call IBM/Tivoli service to pursue this further.
We may need to get a trace to see what is happening.

Thanks,

Del



Del Hoobler
IBM Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



Steve Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 02/26/2001 02:40:19 PM

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Subject:  TDP For Domino DB



Anyone out there ever have any trouble with TDP for Domino losing restore
capabilities for DBs that start with a certain letter. Ours won't list any
past the letter "D". The way the scroll bar works, it doesn't show all DBs
in a single scroll, so it populates database names when you get to the
bottom of the list it provides (I guess this is meant to be a time saver),
but ours isn't populating. This happens on all folders that have a large
number of files in it.

Steve

Re: Excessive mount failures on 3494 ATL

[Talafous, John G.]

Bob,
  Have you queried your drives? Try the "q drive" command to be sure the
drives show online. Then, quickly check out the 'UPD DRIVE libname drivename
ONLINE=YES' command if they are not.

Hope this helps,
John G. Talafous  IS Technical Principal
The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support
P.O. Box 6927 Data Management
1835 Dueber Ave. S.W. Phone: (330)-471-3390
Canton, Ohio USA  44706-0927  Fax  : (330)-471-4034
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   http://www.timken.com


-Original Message-
From: Brazner, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 2:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Excessive mount failures on 3494 ATL


We recently upgraded from ADSM 3.1.2.20 to TSM 4.1.2.0 on AIX 4.3.3 with
3494 ATL.   Shortly after the upgrade, we started to experience a situation
where the ATL is "refusing" nearly all mount requests, even though
sufficient drives are available.  The message is "ANR8447E no drives are
currently available in library".  Scratch mounts as well as volser mounts
are failing.  The IBM CE says the service log on the 3494 shows no
indication of a mount being requested.  Occasionally, a mount is satisfied
so we're actually able to perform some amount of productive work.  The
devclass is defined as mountl=drives.  The 3494 is not shared.

Bob Brazner
Johnson Controls, Inc.
(414) 524-2570

Re: Excessive mount failures on 3494 ATL

[Richard Sims]

>We recently upgraded from ADSM 3.1.2.20 to TSM 4.1.2.0 on AIX 4.3.3 with
>3494 ATL.   Shortly after the upgrade, we started to experience a situation
>where the ATL is "refusing" nearly all mount requests, even though
>sufficient drives are available.  The message is "ANR8447E no drives are
>currently available in library".  Scratch mounts as well as volser mounts
>are failing.  The IBM CE says the service log on the 3494 shows no
>indication of a mount being requested.  Occasionally, a mount is satisfied
>so we're actually able to perform some amount of productive work.  The
>devclass is defined as mountl=drives.  The 3494 is not shared.

Bob - There might be problems with 4.1.2.0; but first do the usual 3494
  type of checking...
In the server, do 'show libr' and see if it thinks all the drives are
available.
In the 3494, do an availability check at its operator station and see
if it shows all drives available.  (They might be marked unavailable
from either the Library Manager there, or from drive front panels.)
In AIX, do 'lsdev -C -c tape -H -t 3590' and see if all drives have
status of Available.
If no dice from the above, try setting an explicit Mountlimit value,
rather than depend upon "Drives" and see if any difference.

  Richard Sims, BU

Re: TDP For Domino DB

[Steve Hicks]

This is with TDP GUI on NT 4. Our Tivoli server sits on AIX 4.3.3. I've
tried active and inactive. I also tried to sort the list by clicking on the
list headers at the top and nothing happens. I've not tried the command
line, as I'm unsure of the syntax. That will be my next step.

Steve



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Stor Manager"





Steve,

Is this with the TDP for Domino GUI on Windows NT/2000?
...or is this with the command-line client "PICK" option
on another operating system?

Are you showing active and inactive?
Have you tried using the command-line client?

You really need to call IBM/Tivoli service to pursue this further.
We may need to get a trace to see what is happening.

Thanks,

Del



Del Hoobler
IBM Corporation
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Steve Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 02/26/2001 02:40:19 PM

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cc:
Subject:  TDP For Domino DB



Anyone out there ever have any trouble with TDP for Domino losing restore
capabilities for DBs that start with a certain letter. Ours won't list any
past the letter "D". The way the scroll bar works, it doesn't show all DBs
in a single scroll, so it populates database names when you get to the
bottom of the list it provides (I guess this is meant to be a time saver),
but ours isn't populating. This happens on all folders that have a large
number of files in it.

Steve

Re: FIVE questions for TSM 4.1.2

[Matthew A. Bacchi]

Carl,
I wonder about this comment for two reasons.  First, I have 7133 D40 
drawers which don't appear to be problematic.  But a month or so ago we 
rebuilt a server and found that "Enable Fast-Write Cache" was not set to 
"Yes".  Is it possible that you had a similar problem?  We identified it as a 
problem when the recovery log format took at least 4 times longer than we 
expected.

Secondly, I'm in the process of doing some performance tuning on another 
system with this hardware, and find no real problems with Raid 5 on this dasd 
type.  How did you notice that AIX was waiting for the drawer?  The "monitor" 
program?

What kind of performance is the Shark advertised as doing?  What do you 
actually see with this hardware?


-Matt


>Across the network.  We were looking at IO stats trying to find the
>bottleneck as 20 hours for 40Gb was woefull, even for NT, and we found the
>server was waiting for the D40 drawer.  We moved the backup pools across
>to the shark and it's dramatically faster.
>
>We're now seeing that CPU/network performance is the limiting factor.  The
>slowest clients are a couple of P200Pro NT servers, the fastest some H80s.
>All across 100BaseT.


/**
 **Matt Bacchi   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 **IBM Global ServicesSDC Northeast
 **F6TG; MD Filesystems/Internet (802) 769-4072
 **ADSM & AFS/DFS Backup (tie) 446-4072
 **/

Re: Excessive mount failures on 3494 ATL

[William Boyer]

Be carefull with the UPD DRIVE command and 3494 libraries. There is an APAR
(can't remember the number) that if you DO NOT supply the DEV= parameter on
the UPD DRIVE command, it will make that drive unavailable until you either
delete/define it again, or stop/start TSM. If you do a SHOW LIBRARY you
should see a section under each drive like:

349X-specific fields:
  devNo=5329216, isScsi=1
  last dismounted volume

If you don't, ya got bit! I did. Right now my CE is pissed at me. I had him
checking out the drives, SCSI cables, library, and it turned out to be a
software problem. I won't hear the end of this one! :-)

I would do a Q DRIVE to see what TSM thinks the status is, then a SHOW
LIBRARY to make sure all the information is there. Check the activity log
for any message and check out the recommendations from Richard Simms in his
reply.

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Talafous, John G.
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 3:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Excessive mount failures on 3494 ATL


Bob,
  Have you queried your drives? Try the "q drive" command to be sure the
drives show online. Then, quickly check out the 'UPD DRIVE libname drivename
ONLINE=YES' command if they are not.

Hope this helps,
John G. Talafous  IS Technical Principal
The Timken CompanyGlobal Software Support
P.O. Box 6927 Data Management
1835 Dueber Ave. S.W. Phone: (330)-471-3390
Canton, Ohio USA  44706-0927  Fax  : (330)-471-4034
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   http://www.timken.com


-Original Message-
From: Brazner, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 2:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Excessive mount failures on 3494 ATL


We recently upgraded from ADSM 3.1.2.20 to TSM 4.1.2.0 on AIX 4.3.3 with
3494 ATL.   Shortly after the upgrade, we started to experience a situation
where the ATL is "refusing" nearly all mount requests, even though
sufficient drives are available.  The message is "ANR8447E no drives are
currently available in library".  Scratch mounts as well as volser mounts
are failing.  The IBM CE says the service log on the 3494 shows no
indication of a mount being requested.  Occasionally, a mount is satisfied
so we're actually able to perform some amount of productive work.  The
devclass is defined as mountl=drives.  The 3494 is not shared.

Bob Brazner
Johnson Controls, Inc.
(414) 524-2570

Re: FIVE questions for TSM 4.1.2

[George Lesho]

Matt, I have an even older 7133 D40 attached to a server and rather than have
Fast Write enabled (slightly different syntax between machines), it has
FL_UNAVAIL (fast load unavailable). Any idea what this means??? Thanks-

George Lesho
Storage/System Admin
AFC Enterprises






"Matthew A. Bacchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/26/2001 02:57:44 PM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC)
Fax to:
Subject:  Re: FIVE questions for TSM 4.1.2



Carl,
I wonder about this comment for two reasons.  First, I have 7133 D40
drawers which don't appear to be problematic.  But a month or so ago we
rebuilt a server and found that "Enable Fast-Write Cache" was not set to
"Yes".  Is it possible that you had a similar problem?  We identified it as a
problem when the recovery log format took at least 4 times longer than we
expected.

Secondly, I'm in the process of doing some performance tuning on another
system with this hardware, and find no real problems with Raid 5 on this dasd
type.  How did you notice that AIX was waiting for the drawer?  The "monitor"
program?

What kind of performance is the Shark advertised as doing?  What do you
actually see with this hardware?


-Matt


>Across the network.  We were looking at IO stats trying to find the
>bottleneck as 20 hours for 40Gb was woefull, even for NT, and we found the
>server was waiting for the D40 drawer.  We moved the backup pools across
>to the shark and it's dramatically faster.
>
>We're now seeing that CPU/network performance is the limiting factor.  The
>slowest clients are a couple of P200Pro NT servers, the fastest some H80s.
>All across 100BaseT.


/**
 **Matt Bacchi   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 **IBM Global ServicesSDC Northeast
 **F6TG; MD Filesystems/Internet (802) 769-4072
 **ADSM & AFS/DFS Backup (tie) 446-4072
 **/

LOGCOPY'S and DBCOPY's

[Denis L'Huillier]

One more question
To try and better understand what the process would be to restore a ADSM
database on a new TSM server
I began looking through the PREPARE files.
I have 15 dbvols mirrored for a total of 30.
tsm: ADSM_AIX>q dbvol

Volume Name   CopyVolume Name   CopyVolume Name   Copy
(Copy 1)  Status  (Copy 2)  Status  (Copy 3)  Status
  --    --    --
/dbaa1dk5/db  Sync'd  /dbaa1dk6/db  Sync'dUndef-
/dbaa1dk9/db  Sync'd  /dbab1dk12/db Sync'dUndef-
/dbaa1dk3/db  Sync'd  /dbaa1dk10/db Sync'dUndef-
/dbaa1dk2/db  Sync'd  /dbaa1dk14/db Sync'dUndef-
/dbaa1dk16/db Sync'd  /dbaa1dk17/db Sync'dUndef-
/dbaa1dk7/db  Sync'd  /dbaa1dk8/db  Sync'dUndef-
/dbaa1dk11/db Sync'd  /dbaa1dk13/db Sync'dUndef-
/dbaa1dk27/db Sync'd  /dbaa1dk33/db Sync'dUndef-
/dbaa1dk25/db Sync'd  /dbaa1dk29/db Sync'dUndef-
/dbaa1dk18/db Sync'd  /dbaa1dk32/db Sync'dUndef-
/dbaa1dk28/db Sync'd  /dbaa1dk30/db Sync'dUndef-
/dbaa1dk21/db Sync'd  /dbaa1dk24/db Sync'dUndef-
/dbaa1dk31/db Sync'd  /dbaa1dk22/db Sync'dUndef-
/dbaa1dk19/db Sync'd  /dbaa1dk20/db Sync'dUndef-
/dbaa1dk23/db Sync'd  /dbaa1dk26/db Sync'dUndef-

In the PREPARE script when it formats the dbvols the script only creates the
ones in the "Copy 1" column.
Does the "Copy 2" column automatically get created? Do I have to issue define
dbcopy dbname copydbname for each one?
If so how can I ensure that the copies are going to be made on different ssa
disks/loops?
Thanks,
Denis

Re: Window Client - Time Change bug

[bbullock]

Excellent question. Is the "Daylight savings time" bug that
we had 4 months ago on NT clients fixed? If we have to install a new client
on our 300+ clients, it would be nice to get a head start on the process.

Can an official Tivoli person let us know which versions of the 3.7
and 4.1 clients are needed for the fix?

Thanks,
Ben Bullock
UNIX Systems Manager
Micron Technology

> -Original Message-
> From: Doug Thorneycroft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 3:21 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Window Client - Time Change bug
>
>
> With Daylight Savings Time Change a month away, I figured it
> was about time
> to logon to the Tivoli download site to get the current V3.7
> Client code with
> the
> Daylight Savings time change fix. All they have there is the
> 3.7.2 Client,
> which
> doesn't have the fix.
>
> Ok. They've had the fix test out for over 4 months now, isn't
> that enough time
> to test it and move it into production? I'd rather not load a
> test client onto
> my production servers.
>
> Well, I  could always go the latest Version 4 client ...
> Oh yea, that one has been pulled.
>
> Why am I losing confidence here?
>

Re: FIVE questions for TSM 4.1.2 (server on AIX, clients on Windo ws)

[Carl Makin]

Hi Bill,

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Jolley, Bill wrote:

> During the use of EMC timefinder, did you use the BCV (third mirror) to
> perform backups?  If so
> how does IBM Flash Copy compares to your backup stragety?

Eh?  We don't have an EMC and I have no experience with timefinder.

We are yet to upgrade the microcode in our shark to the level required to
use Flashcopy so we haven't experimented with that yet.

Carl.

Window Client - Time Change bug

[Doug Thorneycroft]

With Daylight Savings Time Change a month away, I figured it was about time
to logon to the Tivoli download site to get the current V3.7 Client code with
the
Daylight Savings time change fix. All they have there is the 3.7.2 Client,
which
doesn't have the fix.

Ok. They've had the fix test out for over 4 months now, isn't that enough time
to test it and move it into production? I'd rather not load a test client onto
my production servers.

Well, I  could always go the latest Version 4 client ...
Oh yea, that one has been pulled.

Why am I losing confidence here?

Re: FIVE questions for TSM 4.1.2

[Carl Makin]

Hi Matthew,

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Matthew A. Bacchi wrote:

>   I wonder about this comment for two reasons.  First, I have 7133 D40
> drawers which don't appear to be problematic.  But a month or so ago we
> rebuilt a server and found that "Enable Fast-Write Cache" was not set to
> "Yes".  Is it possible that you had a similar problem?  We identified it as a
> problem when the recovery log format took at least 4 times longer than we
> expected.

I do think our D40 drawer (5 x 36gb disks) was setup poorly.  I've been
over the hardware config with our IBM engineer and he thinks it's probably
not running at the full loop speed (SSA160).  We have a mixture of 40's
and 160s on the same loop which is crossed over in a HA configuration
between two serialraid 160 adaptors.  Fast-Write is disabled, I just
checked.

> Secondly, I'm in the process of doing some performance tuning on another
> system with this hardware, and find no real problems with Raid 5 on this dasd
> type.  How did you notice that AIX was waiting for the drawer?  The "monitor"
> program?

Yes, and iostat.  We have node co-location enabled on our onsite tape pool
and file caching enabled on the disk backup pool.  We had 2 migrates
running (6 DLT 7000 tape drives in a Stotek 9710) and we were only getting
4Mb/s with 100% utilisation out of the D40.  Not enough to stream even 1
drive.

> What kind of performance is the Shark advertised as doing?  What do you
> actually see with this hardware?

I defined 200Gb in 10 x 20Gb disks spread across both clusters in our
Shark E20 and then striped the backup pool logical volume across all of
them.

I just ran Bonnie against the Shark and the D40 and got this below;

  ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input--  --Random--
  -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block---  --Seeks---
MachineMB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec  %CPU
ESS-E20  1024 16870 98.9 34518 42.4 10638 20.7 12025 85.2 21873 23.4  2244.8 35.4

  ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input--  --Random--
  -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block---  --Seeks---
MachineMB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec  %CPU
D40  1024 16660 96.6 41448 54.4  3436  6.8 11233 80.1 23215 25.5 476.4   6.9

Take these with a grain of salt.  I just noticed the scsi adaptor
leading to the shark had;

"Ultra speed on SE bus with external cable"

disabled.  I'm not sure if this effects the shark connection as it is
differential.


Carl.

Re: Creating a Client Backup Set???

[James Thompson]

You don't have to create a new storage pool for this process.
All you have to do is define a device class of type=file and maxsize of
640MB.  (If it needs to fit on a cd-rom)

Then run the generate backupset command using the new devclass.
I would name it file640 to make it easy to remember.

James Thompson


>From: Phil Bone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Creating a Client Backup Set???
>Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:37:27 -0500
>
>It sounds like it would be a two step process: 1) output the Backup Set to
>a
>file then 2) burn the file to a CD.
>
>It may require defining a storage pool (DEF STG pool_name DISK ...), then
>creating one volume in that pool (DEF VOL pool_name volume_name ...), and
>creating the backup set to that volume (DEF BACKUPSET node_name
>bckup_set_name DEV=device_class_name VOL=volume_name).  You may also need
>to
>define a new device class (DEF DEV device_class_name DEVT=FILE MAXCAP=???M
>DIR=directory_name).
>
>
>Phil Bone
>Sr. Systems Consultant
>NT Platform Services
>Office: 706.596.5928
>Fax: 706.596.5950
>Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Marc Levitan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 12:59 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Creating a Client Backup Set???
>
>
>Hi all-
>
>I have been asked to create a client backup set for the purpose  of
>restoring a client in the event that the TSM Server is not available via
>the network.
>I am supposed to burn the backup set to cd.  This way I can walk up to the
>client, put in the cd, and restore locally from the cd.
>
>Here is my question:  Where is the default output of the backup set?  Where
>does it go -- to tape?  Is there a way to create the backup set onto the
>hard disk rather than tape?
>How does the Device Class fit into this?
>I am trying to figure out how I am supposed to transfer the backup set to
>cd-rom.  One more issue: the cd Burner is NOT local to the tsm server, it
>is accross the network.
>
>Tsm server is 3.7.4 on AIX RS/6000.
>StorageTek 9840
>
>  Storage Management Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 3, Release 7, Level
>  4.0
>
>
>Any ifo would be appreciated!
>Thanks,
>
>  Storage Management Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 3, Release 7, Level
>  4.0
>
>
>Marc Levitan
>Senior LAN Engineer
>PFPC Global Fund Services

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Re: Debian Linux

[Gyula Bereczky]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 04:00:34PM +0100, Petr Přerost wrote:
> is it possible to use Linux client with Debian 2.2 ?

Sure it is possible.

apt-get install rpm
rpm -i TIVsm-BA.i386.rpm --nodeps
( Assuming you have all the libs needed. )

Alternatively you can use alien to convert it to .deb

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Look around, hear the sounds, cherish your life while you're still around."

Informix ON-Bar restoration performance problem

[Ganu Sachin, IBM]

Hi

We are using Informix 7.24.UC3 with Tivoli storage Manager on AIX 4.3.3. My
problem is about Database restoration.
I take complete databse backup by using onbar -b -w -L 0 command. For 194 GB
Database, system takes 3 hours and 30 min. But when I tried to restore same
backup using onbar -r -w -p, it takes around 26 Hours.

The hardware setup is as follows:-

RS/6000 H70 with 1.5 GB main memory, 2 SSA Advanced RAID controller
connected to SSA cabinet having 16 disks each of 36 GB. The 2 SSA
controllers have 4 SSA loops with 4 disks per loop and each loop is
configured as RAID 0.
The tape drive 3590 E11 is exclusively connected Fast / Wide SCSI controller
on H70.

The relevant contents of onconfig file are as follows:-

BAR_MAX_BACKUP  6
BAR_RETRY   1
BAR_NB_XPORT_COUNT 10
BAR_XFER_BUF_SIZE 4
BAR_BSALIB_PATH=/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/informix/bin/bsashr10.o

Can anyone have any helpful OS/Informix/Hardware level hints to reduce the
restoration time ?

Pls feel free to contact me in case of any doubt.

Regards

Sachin Ganu
Information Security
IBM Global Services
C/o Siemens Kalwa Data Center
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TSM, SAN and ACSLS

[Walker, Lesley R]

Sorry if this is an FAQ, I've spent a bit of time looking but haven't found
a definitive answer.

Is this possible:

TSM 3.7.x on Solaris
   connected to
SAN switch (don't know what model, but assume it's a supported one)
   connected to
StorageTek PowderHorn (9840 drives, ACSLS controlled)

>From a quick look at the Redbook (Using Tivoli Storage Manager in a SAN
environment), SCSI libraries are supported from TSM 3.7 onwards, but I can't
find any mention of ACSLS.

Has anyone done it?  Tried it and failed?

This is the configuration I am expected to implement, and I don't have much
experience of SANs, so any hand-holding would be appreciated.

--
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Unix Engineering, EDS New Zealand
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Re: SAN, 3494, library shared HP-UX & AIX

[Suad Musovich]

The HP-UX online manual gives no indication it allows library
sharing.
Confirm this with IBM.

Sharing isn't a problem technically as it like SCSI sharing but
the documentation gives no indication of this, so it might not
be written for the HP-UX version of TSM.

Cheers, Suad
--

On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 02:13:00AM -0800, Francisco Molero wrote:
> Hi Suad,
>I have working the library with HP-UX whitout
> problem. But I found this library is not supported by
> Tape library Manager and Client whether one of the
> platform is HP-UX.
>On the other hand, the chapter about "Configuring
> TSM servers to Share SAN-Connected Devices" exists in
> AIX but no in HP-UX. Besides the define library under
> AIX is also different from HP-UX.
> you said , " sharing is possible ". How can I do ?
> could you help me to do that ? When you try to
> configurate the library under HP-UX, you have the
> share option but this options is related to other
> product to TSM.
> Thanks again, Fran
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Suad Musovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > TSM 3.7/4.1 can share SAN connected libraries
> > (including libraries
> > connected via a SCSI/FC gateway).
> >
> > If you have the drivers and able to see(use) the
> > tape and library
> > devices from the HP, sharing is possible.
> >
> > Have a look in the Admin Guide under the section
> > "Configuring
> > TSM servers to Share SAN-Connected Devices", it
> > gives you a
> > play-by-play.
> >
> > I don't run a HP server or a 3494, I am going by
> > published blurb
> > and experimenting in my own environment.
> >
> > Once you have set up the SAN, it's just like dealing
> > with SCSI
> > devices. The difference is the ability to
> > reallocate/share devices.
> > We haven't bought into full-blown SAN management yet
> > as our needs
> > are simple for the moment.
> >
> > Cheers, Suad
> > --
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 04:54:10AM -0800, Francisco
> > Molero wrote:
> > > Hi colleagues,
> > > my environment is the following:
> > >  I have a TSM server running in AIX and another
> > TSM
> > > server running in HP-UX. Both have a fc connection
> > to
> > > SAN Data Gateway besides a LAN connection. On the
> > > other hand, I have connected to SAN a 3494 library
> > via
> > > SCSI. Is it possible to configure the Library like
> > > shared with the Tape library  manager ( AIX ) and
> > Tape
> > > library client ( HP-UX ).
> > > Could someone help me to resolve this question?
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > > In addition any info about SAN & TSM experiences
> > will
> > > be well received.
> > >
> > >
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Script

[Disler Claude ABX-SERV-ZH]

Hello World ;-)

how did you control un- successfully backup of your servers?
manually, or does somebody wrote a script for it?

need some simple ideas?

tx a lot
Claude