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[RB Hermann Björn Erlingsson]

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3494 library with J and K type cartridges

[MUSTAFA BAYTAR]

Hi TSM'ers ,

i have 3494 library with 3590 J and K type cartridges in it  for all sequential access 
storage pool,
İ want to  define sequential access storage pool that can use  only J type cartridges.
Any ideas?

Thanks

[no subject]

[Amit Kumar]

Hi

I am trying to receive TSM Events on SNMP port. I am using TSM 4.1 on
Windows 2000 Server. What I need to trap  the events on SNMP Port and if
some Agent/Subagent is required , from where I can get that.

Thanks in Advance

Amit

TSM 4.2.1 and oracle

[Andrew Hull]

I want to be able to backup a mixture of oracle 8 and 9 databases. I will
shut oracle down at night so i don't have to use the TDP.
I am using TSM4.2.1 on NT4.0 , when i backup the databases files will every
file need backing up. for example. one of our databases is spread over 19
4gb files. will each one get backed up each night?


Andy


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Re: TSM 4.2.1 and oracle

[Kurt Beyers]

Yes, it will. The time stamp of every database file changes when you shut down the 
database. Hence TSM sees the files as they were changed.

Kurt




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


>I want to be able to backup a mixture of oracle 8 and 9 databases. I will
>shut oracle down at night so i don't have to use the TDP.
>I am using TSM4.2.1 on NT4.0 , when i backup the databases files will every
>file need backing up. for example. one of our databases is spread over 19
>4gb files. will each one get backed up each night?
>
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>Andy
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Two TSM Client Questions

[Farren Minns]

Hello TSMers

OK, I have two questions for you today.

Question 1

The first one is quite straight foward. I am presently running TSM Server
3.7.3.8 on a Solaris 7 box and have just installed a new Solaris 8 box.
This is the first Solaris 8 machine we have and up to now I have been
putting TSM Client 3.7.2.0 on all of our machines. So what I want to know,
is will that version of the client run ok on a Solaris 8 machine.

Question 2

My next question is this. Let's say I have a machine called FRED that is no
longer needed. Up to this point I have been getting TSM to incrementally
back it up every day. I then re-build this machine and still call it FRED
so that TSM will still be able to see it as before, but of course it will
have different data on it.

So next time I run an incremental backup of this machine, I understand that
it will expire loads of files, but will it be able to cope with this, or
should I delete the present filespaces before doing a new full backup.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me

Kind Regards

Farren Minns - Trainee TSM and Solaris System Admin - John Wiley & Sons

Re: Two TSM Client Questions

[Michael Bartl]

Farren,
Q1: I won't expect problems with the 3.7 client on Solaris 8.

Q2: You're right: nearly all files get expired, all new files get into
the backup. TSM has no problem with this scenario, just have ready
enough database space in TSM. Just one limitation: All filespaces
(mountpoint) with identical names (e.g. /var) will get updated as
described, all new mountpoints will create new filespaces in TSM, but
all no longer existing filespaces will not get deleted automatically
after a retention period. You'll have to delete them manually after you
no longer need them.

Best regards,
Michael
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Farren Minns wrote:
>
> Hello TSMers
>
> OK, I have two questions for you today.
>
> Question 1
>
> The first one is quite straight foward. I am presently running TSM Server
> 3.7.3.8 on a Solaris 7 box and have just installed a new Solaris 8 box.
> This is the first Solaris 8 machine we have and up to now I have been
> putting TSM Client 3.7.2.0 on all of our machines. So what I want to know,
> is will that version of the client run ok on a Solaris 8 machine.
>
> Question 2
>
> My next question is this. Let's say I have a machine called FRED that is no
> longer needed. Up to this point I have been getting TSM to incrementally
> back it up every day. I then re-build this machine and still call it FRED
> so that TSM will still be able to see it as before, but of course it will
> have different data on it.
>
> So next time I run an incremental backup of this machine, I understand that
> it will expire loads of files, but will it be able to cope with this, or
> should I delete the present filespaces before doing a new full backup.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can give me
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Farren Minns - Trainee TSM and Solaris System Admin - John Wiley & Sons

Re: TSM 4.2.1 and oracle

[Michael Bartl]

Andrew,
directly backing up the database files tends to wasting lots of storage
space in TSM as you not only do uncompressed but very uncompressed
backups (especially when your db is quite new and has larger free
capacity). When you have enough diskspace on your Oracle server, why not
use RMAN to write backups (and subsequent incremental backups) on disk
and back up these files with TSM?

Best regards,
Michael
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Andrew Hull wrote:
>
> I want to be able to backup a mixture of oracle 8 and 9 databases. I will
> shut oracle down at night so i don't have to use the TDP.
> I am using TSM4.2.1 on NT4.0 , when i backup the databases files will every
> file need backing up. for example. one of our databases is spread over 19
> 4gb files. will each one get backed up each night?
>
> Andy
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Re: TSM 4.2.1 and oracle

[Karel Bos]

If you use resourceutil=5 or greater and have a fast (and stable) network it
can be done.



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Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: TSM 4.2.1 and oracle


I want to be able to backup a mixture of oracle 8 and 9 databases. I will
shut oracle down at night so i don't have to use the TDP.
I am using TSM4.2.1 on NT4.0 , when i backup the databases files will every
file need backing up. for example. one of our databases is spread over 19
4gb files. will each one get backed up each night?


Andy


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Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously

[Sascha Askani]

- Original Message -
From: "William SO Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 6:41 AM
Subject: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously


> Based on my understanding, TSM does not support simultaneously write to
> multiple tape, i.e. I want to write to multiple tapes during backup.  If I
> want to work around this limitation, can I do the followings :
>
> Install another instance on the TSM server.  Configure the new TSM server
> to backup the same set of files.  Start the backup at once for this two
TSM
> servers.  So one TSM server will backup to one drive, the other will
backup
> the next drive.

Wouldn't just do setting MAXRESOURCEUTIL on the client to a higher value
accomplish the same ?
Correct me if I'm wrong.

Greetings

Sascha

Re: TSM 4.2.1 and oracle

[Andrew Hull]

kurt

thanks for the advice. however i know little about oracle so i would think
it would be wise to use the TDP.
would you suggest using the TDP

Thanks

Andy

-Original Message-
From: Kurt Beyers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 13 March 2002 11:38
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM 4.2.1 and oracle


Yes, it will. The time stamp of every database file changes when you shut
down the database. Hence TSM sees the files as they were changed.

Kurt




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


>I want to be able to backup a mixture of oracle 8 and 9 databases. I will
>shut oracle down at night so i don't have to use the TDP.
>I am using TSM4.2.1 on NT4.0 , when i backup the databases files will every
>file need backing up. for example. one of our databases is spread over 19
>4gb files. will each one get backed up each night?
>
>
>Andy
>
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Re: Download TDP for MS-Exchange and Oracle?

[Del Hoobler]

> does anyone know if it is possible to download TDP for MS-Exchange and
for Oracle from web?
> I know that it is possible for TDP for SAP/R3 but can't find a link for
other TDP's.

Wolfgang,

The TDP products must be purchased.  They are not a "free" client
like the BA "file level" client.  Talk with your Tivoli rep.

Thanks,

Del



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Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously

[Karel Bos]

TSM doesn't support multiple reads/writes from/to the same tape. We use
resourceutil en max mountpoint >1. The client uses multiple back-up sessies
to multiple tapes. It works fine.

-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Sascha Askani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Verzonden: woensdag 13 maart 2002 12:02
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously


- Original Message -
From: "William SO Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 6:41 AM
Subject: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously


> Based on my understanding, TSM does not support simultaneously write to
> multiple tape, i.e. I want to write to multiple tapes during backup.  If I
> want to work around this limitation, can I do the followings :
>
> Install another instance on the TSM server.  Configure the new TSM server
> to backup the same set of files.  Start the backup at once for this two
TSM
> servers.  So one TSM server will backup to one drive, the other will
backup
> the next drive.

Wouldn't just do setting MAXRESOURCEUTIL on the client to a higher value
accomplish the same ?
Correct me if I'm wrong.

Greetings

Sascha

Re: TSM 5.1

[Andy Carlson]

No, this is just copypools, up to two.  I agree  with you, and we put in
a requirement at Share to do something  like this, with one copy going
to primary and one copy to copypool, but this was during migrate.  I
won't be able to take advantage of the copypools  in the way that it was
added, because of the tape drive per session requirement.

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On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, MC Matt Cooper (2838) wrote:

> Can it be used to do both a MIGRATE and a COPY?  Ie, as it moves from disk
> to tape, it is also writing to a 2nd tape that is a part of the COPYPOOL
> which will go offsite?   That would make it more in line with other
> mainframe copy products.  Dual write, one for onsite and one for offsite.
> Matt
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Andy Carlson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 2:07 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: TSM 5.1
>
> #2 is not the panacea that it sounds like.  The dual writes to the
> copypool's happens during session data transfer to disk pool - thus, you
> must have a tape drive per session doing the dual write.
>
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> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Richard L. Rhodes wrote:
>
> > We had a meeting with IBM last week where they described some of the
> > new features of 5.1 - coming within a few weeks.
> >
> > 1)  multi session restore
> > 2)  simultaneous writes to copy pools (more than one)
> > 3)  a "move nodedata" command
> > 4)  lan-free backup/restore (I thought it already had this)
> > 5)  hpux lan-free
> >
>

Re: Monthly full backup

[MC Matt Cooper (2838)]

Robert,
 There really isn't a 'FULL' backup option in the client
scheduler.  There is the option of saying SELECTIVE and then you have to
list all the files that are to be backed up.  Meaning it isn't reading
through the INCLUDE/EXCLUDE list that you so painstakingly put together.
So what I do is I have my client backups spread out a little by POLICY and
start time.  Then every 2 weeks for some and monthly for others,  I run an
administrative schedule that updates the COPYMODE on the particular
POLICY/MANAGEMENT CLASS/COPYGROUP,  and ACTIVE the updated POLICY SET.  Then
when the backup runs the copygroup is set to ABSOLUTE.  This causes the FULL
backup to occur.  It is kind of a round about way of doing things but I
found no better way of getting the FULL backups to happen.  I run another
administrative schedule that sets the COPYMODE to MODIFIED an hour after the
backup starts.  The backup reads through this information when it starts so
you don't have to wait till all the backups in the schedule have finished to
switch it back.  This way I can have a portion of the servers in 1 POILICY
doing a FULL backup while other servers are doing an INCREMENTAL.
  I spread the client backups into different POLICYs and start
times so I can better control the amount of data that is going to the server
when I am doing the FULL backups.  I try to keep the client backup schedules
pretty much the same.  I have week day schedules and week end schedules.
But the administrative schedules are controlling whether or not any
particular schedule is doing a FULL.
Matt

-Original Message-
From: Robert Ouzen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Monthly full backup

Matt

I miss something what about the action in the client schedule by default is
: Incremental don't we have to change it to: Full and so we have to insert
in objects all the filesystems ?

Regards Robert

-Original Message-
From: MC Matt Cooper (2838) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 7:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Monthly full backup


Bill,
I do monthly FULL backups by using an admin schedule to changed the
COPYMODE to absolute before the desired server is backed up.  I also have
one that switches it back to modified about a hour after the backup starts.
Don't forget to do the ACTIVATE of the updated POLICY.   I only use one node
name per server.
Matt

-Original Message-
From: Bill Dourado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Monthly full backup

Hi ,

I am new to TSM (mostly self taught) and not too hot on  NT either. I need
help from someone with a bit of time and patience to spare.

My objective is to do a full monthly backup in addition to the daily
incrementals for a particular backup client.

I intend to use two different node names, two different Domain policies, and
two separate schedulers and different dsm.opt files. Maybe run the full
backup in command mode & copy control mode absolute. I would like the
schedules to run without  any manual intervention.

Am I on the right track ?

Now how exactly do I go about this ? ( as much detail as you like,please!)

My TSM  Server runs NT 4.1 &  TSM 4.1

My Backup Client runs NT 4.1

Cheers

Bill Dourado





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Re: TSM 4.2.1 and oracle

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Andy,

Even a backup with the TDP requires basic Oracle dba knowledge. I suggest that you 
discuss it with your Oracle dba how you are going to backup the database (and how 
you'll perform restores).

Kurt


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


>kurt
>
>thanks for the advice. however i know little about oracle so i would think
>it would be wise to use the TDP.
>would you suggest using the TDP
>
>Thanks
>
>Andy
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Kurt Beyers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: 13 March 2002 11:38
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: TSM 4.2.1 and oracle
>
>
>Yes, it will. The time stamp of every database file changes when you shut
>down the database. Hence TSM sees the files as they were changed.
>
>Kurt
>
>
>
>
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote:
>
>
>>I want to be able to backup a mixture of oracle 8 and 9 databases. I will
>>shut oracle down at night so i don't have to use the TDP.
>>I am using TSM4.2.1 on NT4.0 , when i backup the databases files will every
>>file need backing up. for example. one of our databases is spread over 19
>>4gb files. will each one get backed up each night?
>>
>>
>>Andy
>>
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Re: TSM 5.1

[Andy Carlson]

move nodedata looks  like it allows you to move a nodes data from one
storage pool to another.  Say  for instance, you knew you had a big
restore coming up, and had the time, you could move that nodes data into
the disk pool.  The downside that  was brought up is that it copies both
active and inactive data, so you could potentially be copying much more
data than you need for the restore.

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On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Joseph Dawes wrote:

> what is move nodedata?
>
>
>
> Andy Carlson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> RENET.ORG>cc:
> Sent by: "ADSM:   Subject: Re: TSM 5.1
> Dist Stor
> Manager"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ST.EDU>
>
>
> 03/12/02 02:07
> PM
> Please respond
> to "ADSM: Dist
> Stor Manager"
>
>
>
>
>
>
> #2 is not the panacea that it sounds like.  The dual writes to the
> copypool's happens during session data transfer to disk pool - thus, you
> must have a tape drive per session doing the dual write.
>
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> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Richard L. Rhodes wrote:
>
> > We had a meeting with IBM last week where they described some of the
> > new features of 5.1 - coming within a few weeks.
> >
> > 1)  multi session restore
> > 2)  simultaneous writes to copy pools (more than one)
> > 3)  a "move nodedata" command
> > 4)  lan-free backup/restore (I thought it already had this)
> > 5)  hpux lan-free
> >
>

Re: 3494 library with J and K type cartridges

[David E Ehresman]

If you're running an OS390 Server, use SMS to control what data goes to
which type carts.

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/13/02 04:20AM >>>
Hi TSM'ers ,

i have 3494 library with 3590 J and K type cartridges in it  for all
sequential access storage pool,
I want to  define sequential access storage pool that can use  only J
type cartridges.
Any ideas?

Thanks

Archive dates/details

[Martin, Jon R.]

Good Morning,

When attempting to retrieve archive data through the GUI, a
list/description of each available archive is shown.  .  Is there a way
through dsmadmc to list the dates/descriptions of archives for each node?

Thank You,
Jon Martin

Re: Archive dates/details

[Christo Heuer]

Hi Jon,

You could do it with a SQL select statement:
select node_name, archive_date, description from archives

This would give you what you want.

Regards
Christo Heuer

Good Morning,

When attempting to retrieve archive data through the GUI, a
list/description of each available archive is shown.  .  Is there a way
through dsmadmc to list the dates/descriptions of archives for each node?

Thank You,
Jon Martin

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Re: Sending certain messages in the actlog to be displayed in the NT Eventlog

[Joe Cascanette]

Actually I just tried something. 

If I changed the command "issue message i" to "issue message e" in my script files and 
now the message is put into the event log so my network monitor picks it up using SNMP.

Thanks for the reply.

Joe

-Original Message-
From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 4:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sending certain messages in the actlog to be displayed in
the NT Eventlog


Well, the admin ref manual says you can do it with:   ENABLE  EVENTS
NTEVENTLOG  ANR1596

(note you leave the I off ANR1596I).

I've never done ENABLE with the EVENTLOG, just with SNMP (and on AIX, at
that).  So I don't know if there is stuff you have to do in Windows.
ANyway, check out the commands ENABLE EVENTS, BEGIN EVENTLOGGING and END
EVENTLOGGING in the Admin ref, that's where you start.


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

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Scott Adams/Dilbert






-Original Message-
From: Joe Cascanette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 1:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FW: Sending certain messages in the actlog to be displayed in
the NT Eventlog


>  -Original Message-
> From: Joe Cascanette
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 1:54 PM
> To:   Adsm (E-mail)
> Subject:  Sending certain messages in the actlog to be displayed in
the NT Eventlog
>
> Can I send messages from the actlog to the NT event log?. I have some
ANR1496I messages that I put have put into the actlog (from my macros) and
would like these messages to be put into the event log so my network watch
can pick these up and email me.
>
>
> Joe

Backup systemobjects

[Ochs, Duane]

Good morning,
 I am running TSM 4.1 on AIX 4.3.3 with NT clients running 4.1. We will be
migrating to Win2K some time this year and I will need to backup system
objects. So far,  want I can determine is that my server will need to be at
4.2 as well as my clients. Has anybody completed this migration already ?
Where there any problems I can try to eliminate before the install ? I am
researching all the patches to both AIX and TSM, but some upgrade experience
would be greatly appreciated.

Duane Ochs
Quad/Graphics Inc.
414.566.2375

Re: Monthly full backup

[Bill Boyer]

Using 1 nodename for both daily and monthly backups...? Don't you have
problems with versioning? Or did you take into account that you would always
be getting a version of every file at least once a month.

Is there a reason you couldn't use backupsets for the monthly backup? You
could set up a monthly admin schedule to run a generate backupset for these
node(s). We do this for a client. We defined a TSM server script called
GENBSET that takes the nodename as a parameter and issues the generate
command. We do 4-5 a day, for days 1-28 of each month (since all months have
28-days). They don't care when during the month the 'monthly' tape is
generated, just that there is one that they can keep for a year. They also
use Autovault to offsite vault these 'monthly' tapes.

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Robert Ouzen
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Monthly full backup


Matt

I miss something what about the action in the client schedule by default is
: Incremental don't we have to change it to: Full and so we have to insert
in objects all the filesystems ?

Regards Robert

-Original Message-
From: MC Matt Cooper (2838) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 7:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Monthly full backup


Bill,
I do monthly FULL backups by using an admin schedule to changed the
COPYMODE to absolute before the desired server is backed up.  I also have
one that switches it back to modified about a hour after the backup starts.
Don't forget to do the ACTIVATE of the updated POLICY.   I only use one node
name per server.
Matt

-Original Message-
From: Bill Dourado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Monthly full backup

Hi ,

I am new to TSM (mostly self taught) and not too hot on  NT either. I need
help from someone with a bit of time and patience to spare.

My objective is to do a full monthly backup in addition to the daily
incrementals for a particular backup client.

I intend to use two different node names, two different Domain policies, and
two separate schedulers and different dsm.opt files. Maybe run the full
backup in command mode & copy control mode absolute. I would like the
schedules to run without  any manual intervention.

Am I on the right track ?

Now how exactly do I go about this ? ( as much detail as you like,please!)

My TSM  Server runs NT 4.1 &  TSM 4.1

My Backup Client runs NT 4.1

Cheers

Bill Dourado





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Re: Need some ADSM pointers

[Dan Foster]

Here's a summary of the questions and answers discovered:

* Is there a way on Solaris boxes to adjust sliding windows? TCPWINDOW doesn't
  seem to work in dsm.sys on the Solaris-based clients.

  Unknown. Possibly just simply not supported for Solaris, but is for AIX.

* What's the appropriate way to exclude a directory and everything under it?

  Set up lines like this in the inclexcl file:

  exclude.dir /opt/foo

  (or exclude.fs if it's on its own fs)

* Is it possible to rename the ADSM server's name? (Not machine hostname,
  but its ADSM name) Or am I just out of luck short of a total reinstall?

  adsm> set servername 

  set this in dsm.sys on all clients

* Where do I obtain latest ADSM and TSM server and client fixes? Is there
  a FTP or HTTP site?

  ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/adsm/fixes/v3r1/aixsrv/

  3.1.2.90 is the final maint release for 3.1.2. EOL was 31 Jan 2001.

  For TSM patches:

  ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/tivoli-storage-management/patches

  For TSM maint levels:

  ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance

* Is there any way to temporarily disable paging (ie,  to continue)
  within dsmadmc when wanting to gather data for easy copy-n-paste? At least
  one command's output looks very poor when done in batch mode with stdout
  redirected to a file.

  # dsmadmc -id= -password= -{comma|tab} -out= 

* Where can I find documentation pertaining to my version of ADSM server?

  /usr/share/html
  /usr/share/pdf
  ADSM install CD

  For ADSM docs:

  http://www.adsm.org
  click DOCS for links to 3.1 manuals in HTML and PDF

  For TSM support:

  http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/tivolimain.html

  For TSM docs:

  http://www.tivoli.com/products/index/storage_mgr/

  ADSM redbooks:

  Version 3 Technical Guide (SG242236)
  http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/pubs/pdfs/redbooks/sg242236.pdf

  ADSM to Back Up Databases (SG244335)
  http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/pubs/pdfs/redbooks/sg244335.pdf

  TSM client manuals for v4.2.1:

  UNIX - Using the Backup-Archive Client
  
http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/TSMC/SH26-4122-02/en_US/PDF/SH26-4122-02.pdf

  Installing the Clients
  
http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/TSMC/SH26-4119-02/en_US/PDF/SH26-4119-02.pdf

  Windows - Using the Backup-Archive Client
  
http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/TSMC/SH26-4117-02/en_US/PDF/SH26-4117-02.pdf

  TSM server manuals for AIX, v4.2:

  Managed System for SAN Storage Agent's User Guide
  
http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/SMAIXN/GC36-0001-01/en_US/PDF/GC36-0001-01.pdf

  Administrator's Reference
  
http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/SMAIXN/GC35-0404-01/en_US/PDF/GC35-0404-01.pdf

  Administrator's Guide
  
http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/SMAIXN/GC35-0403-01/en_US/PDF/GC35-0403-01.pdf

  Quick Start
  
http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/SMAIXN/GC35-0402-01/en_US/PDF/GC35-0402-01.pdf

A million thanks to the following individuals:

Steve Harris
Demetrius Malbrough
Alex Paschal
Wanda Prather
Jeffery Bach

Now I'm on the right path. :) I do believe we will be migrating to TSM v4
shortly... but for now, needed to deal with any more immediate ADSM v3 support
issues here (especially since it's EOL'd!).

Very interesting processing of the includes/excludes - duly noted and just
means that I'll have to carefully study those some more for the more
interesting (and pathological, heh) cases.

-Dan Foster
IP Systems Engineering (IPSE)
Global Crossing Telecommunications
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Monthly full backup

[John Naylor]

That is not my understanding of a selective backup.

You can set up a client schedule something like  below and it will back up the
filespaces specified,
and it will honour your includes/excludes in the dsm.opt

   Action
  SELECTIVE
 Options
  -subdir=yes
 Objects
  SYS:* DATA:*

>From the Netware client manual and I believe other clients will behave in the
same way the following may prove useful

Understanding Which Files Are Backed Up:  When you request a selective
backup, TSM backs up a file if all of the following requirements are met:

   The file is not specified on an exclude statement in your
include-exclude list. If you do not have an include-exclude list, all
files are considered for backup.

   The selected management class contains a backup copy group.

   The file meets the serialization requirements defined in the backup
copy group. If serialization is static or shared static, and the file
is in use each timeTSM attempts to back it up, the file is not backed
up.


For selective backups, TSM does not check frequency or mode, and does not
check to see whether a file has changed since it was last backed up. The
only criteria for selective backups are that the file is not excluded from
backup services and the management class associated with it has a backup
copy group.





"MC Matt Cooper (2838)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03/13/2002 12:28:16 PM

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

To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE)
Subject:  Re: Monthly full backup



Robert,
 There really isn't a 'FULL' backup option in the client
scheduler.  There is the option of saying SELECTIVE and then you have to
list all the files that are to be backed up.  Meaning it isn't reading
through the INCLUDE/EXCLUDE list that you so painstakingly put together.
So what I do is I have my client backups spread out a little by POLICY and
start time.  Then every 2 weeks for some and monthly for others,  I run an
administrative schedule that updates the COPYMODE on the particular
POLICY/MANAGEMENT CLASS/COPYGROUP,  and ACTIVE the updated POLICY SET.  Then
when the backup runs the copygroup is set to ABSOLUTE.  This causes the FULL
backup to occur.  It is kind of a round about way of doing things but I
found no better way of getting the FULL backups to happen.  I run another
administrative schedule that sets the COPYMODE to MODIFIED an hour after the
backup starts.  The backup reads through this information when it starts so
you don't have to wait till all the backups in the schedule have finished to
switch it back.  This way I can have a portion of the servers in 1 POILICY
doing a FULL backup while other servers are doing an INCREMENTAL.
  I spread the client backups into different POLICYs and start
times so I can better control the amount of data that is going to the server
when I am doing the FULL backups.  I try to keep the client backup schedules
pretty much the same.  I have week day schedules and week end schedules.
But the administrative schedules are controlling whether or not any
particular schedule is doing a FULL.
Matt

-Original Message-
From: Robert Ouzen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Monthly full backup

Matt

I miss something what about the action in the client schedule by default is
: Incremental don't we have to change it to: Full and so we have to insert
in objects all the filesystems ?

Regards Robert

-Original Message-
From: MC Matt Cooper (2838) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 7:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Monthly full backup


Bill,
I do monthly FULL backups by using an admin schedule to changed the
COPYMODE to absolute before the desired server is backed up.  I also have
one that switches it back to modified about a hour after the backup starts.
Don't forget to do the ACTIVATE of the updated POLICY.   I only use one node
name per server.
Matt

-Original Message-
From: Bill Dourado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Monthly full backup

Hi ,

I am new to TSM (mostly self taught) and not too hot on  NT either. I need
help from someone with a bit of time and patience to spare.

My objective is to do a full monthly backup in addition to the daily
incrementals for a particular backup client.

I intend to use two different node names, two different Domain policies, and
two separate schedulers and different dsm.opt files. Maybe run the full
backup in command mode & copy control mode absolute. I would like the
schedules to run without  any manual intervention.

Am I on the right track ?

Now how exactly do I go about this ? ( as much de

Re: Monthly full backup

[William Rosette]

How many tape drives do you have and how long do your backupsets run?



Bill Boyer
   cc:
Sent by: Subject: Re: Monthly full backup
"ADSM: Dist
Stor Manager"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
IST.EDU>


03/13/02 09:15
AM
Please respond
to "ADSM: Dist
Stor Manager"






Using 1 nodename for both daily and monthly backups...? Don't you have
problems with versioning? Or did you take into account that you would
always
be getting a version of every file at least once a month.

Is there a reason you couldn't use backupsets for the monthly backup? You
could set up a monthly admin schedule to run a generate backupset for these
node(s). We do this for a client. We defined a TSM server script called
GENBSET that takes the nodename as a parameter and issues the generate
command. We do 4-5 a day, for days 1-28 of each month (since all months
have
28-days). They don't care when during the month the 'monthly' tape is
generated, just that there is one that they can keep for a year. They also
use Autovault to offsite vault these 'monthly' tapes.

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Robert Ouzen
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Monthly full backup


Matt

I miss something what about the action in the client schedule by default is
: Incremental don't we have to change it to: Full and so we have to insert
in objects all the filesystems ?

Regards Robert

-Original Message-
From: MC Matt Cooper (2838) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 7:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Monthly full backup


Bill,
I do monthly FULL backups by using an admin schedule to changed the
COPYMODE to absolute before the desired server is backed up.  I also have
one that switches it back to modified about a hour after the backup starts.
Don't forget to do the ACTIVATE of the updated POLICY.   I only use one
node
name per server.
Matt

-Original Message-
From: Bill Dourado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Monthly full backup

Hi ,

I am new to TSM (mostly self taught) and not too hot on  NT either. I need
help from someone with a bit of time and patience to spare.

My objective is to do a full monthly backup in addition to the daily
incrementals for a particular backup client.

I intend to use two different node names, two different Domain policies,
and
two separate schedulers and different dsm.opt files. Maybe run the full
backup in command mode & copy control mode absolute. I would like the
schedules to run without  any manual intervention.

Am I on the right track ?

Now how exactly do I go about this ? ( as much detail as you like,please!)

My TSM  Server runs NT 4.1 &  TSM 4.1

My Backup Client runs NT 4.1

Cheers

Bill Dourado





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ADSM v3r1 client for SCO Openserver v 5.0.6

[Marc Layne]

Hi All
can anyone tell me where I can source a copy of this code. We need it
desperately and the ftp sites do not have the code anymore.


Kind Regards
Marc Layne
Faritec (Pty) Ltd
Services Delivery Manager
Tel: +27 21 762 9702
Fax: +27 21 762 9737
Cell:+ 27 82 416 9086
Website: www.faritec.co.za 
E-mail:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Oracle on Linux backups

[Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU]

I had earlier asked the question about using the TSM TDP for Oracle on a
Linux box but never got a response.  From the silence and other messages
related to this topic, I can only surmize that this won't/doesn't work and
I shouldn't waste my time/money in purchasing the TDP.

So, since I can't change the platform, I need to know how anyone else in
this situation/configuration backs up their Oracle systems on Linux ? Or
are most folks waiting for TSM 5.x and the supposed forthcoming TDP that
will work on Linux and are keeping Oracle on supported/backup-able OS'es ?

Note, I am not a DB person. I don't know the first thing about Oracle. I
have seen some discussions about an RMAN program/utility, but I only know
the name.

The objective is to do live (i.e. not shutting down the application)
backups of the Oracle DB and be able to restore it on a backup/test
machine.

We do a nightly backup but all attempts to restore from these backups to
another box, have produced useless files. Oracle is very unhappy !!

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

Zoltan Forray
Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  -  voice: 804-828-4807

Re: Need some ADSM pointers

[Andrew Raibeck]

>> * Is it possible to rename the ADSM server's name? (Not machine
hostname,
  but its ADSM name) Or am I just out of luck short of a total reinstall?

  adsm> set servername 

  set this in dsm.sys on all clients
<<

If you're thinking what I think you are thinking (change the SERVERNAME
option in dsm.sys?), that isn't really required. Despite the naming that
suggests otherwise, the dsm.sys SERVERNAME option just acts as a "label"
for a dsm.sys stanza. It can actually be anything, and is not tied to the
TSM server name that you specify with the SET SERVERNAME command. Instead,
it is the communications options you set in the dsm.sys stanza that
specifies which TSM server you connect to (i.e. TCPSERVERADDRESS and
TCPPORT).

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
The command line is your friend.
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.




Dan Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
03/13/2002 07:18
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"


To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:Re: Need some ADSM pointers



Here's a summary of the questions and answers discovered:

* Is there a way on Solaris boxes to adjust sliding windows? TCPWINDOW
doesn't
  seem to work in dsm.sys on the Solaris-based clients.

  Unknown. Possibly just simply not supported for Solaris, but is for AIX.

* What's the appropriate way to exclude a directory and everything under
it?

  Set up lines like this in the inclexcl file:

  exclude.dir /opt/foo

  (or exclude.fs if it's on its own fs)

* Is it possible to rename the ADSM server's name? (Not machine hostname,
  but its ADSM name) Or am I just out of luck short of a total reinstall?

  adsm> set servername 

  set this in dsm.sys on all clients

* Where do I obtain latest ADSM and TSM server and client fixes? Is there
  a FTP or HTTP site?

  ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/adsm/fixes/v3r1/aixsrv/

  3.1.2.90 is the final maint release for 3.1.2. EOL was 31 Jan 2001.

  For TSM patches:

  ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/tivoli-storage-management/patches

  For TSM maint levels:

  ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance

* Is there any way to temporarily disable paging (ie,  to continue)
  within dsmadmc when wanting to gather data for easy copy-n-paste? At
least
  one command's output looks very poor when done in batch mode with stdout
  redirected to a file.

  # dsmadmc -id= -password= -{comma|tab} -out= 

* Where can I find documentation pertaining to my version of ADSM server?

  /usr/share/html
  /usr/share/pdf
  ADSM install CD

  For ADSM docs:

  http://www.adsm.org
  click DOCS for links to 3.1 manuals in HTML and PDF

  For TSM support:

  http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/tivolimain.html

  For TSM docs:

  http://www.tivoli.com/products/index/storage_mgr/

  ADSM redbooks:

  Version 3 Technical Guide (SG242236)
  http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/pubs/pdfs/redbooks/sg242236.pdf

  ADSM to Back Up Databases (SG244335)
  http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/pubs/pdfs/redbooks/sg244335.pdf

  TSM client manuals for v4.2.1:

  UNIX - Using the Backup-Archive Client
  
http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/TSMC/SH26-4122-02/en_US/PDF/SH26-4122-02.pdf

  Installing the Clients
  
http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/TSMC/SH26-4119-02/en_US/PDF/SH26-4119-02.pdf

  Windows - Using the Backup-Archive Client
  
http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/TSMC/SH26-4117-02/en_US/PDF/SH26-4117-02.pdf

  TSM server manuals for AIX, v4.2:

  Managed System for SAN Storage Agent's User Guide
  
http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/SMAIXN/GC36-0001-01/en_US/PDF/GC36-0001-01.pdf

  Administrator's Reference
  
http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/SMAIXN/GC35-0404-01/en_US/PDF/GC35-0404-01.pdf

  Administrator's Guide
  
http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/SMAIXN/GC35-0403-01/en_US/PDF/GC35-0403-01.pdf

  Quick Start
  
http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/SMAIXN/GC35-0402-01/en_US/PDF/GC35-0402-01.pdf

A million thanks to the following individuals:

Steve Harris
Demetrius Malbrough
Alex Paschal
Wanda Prather
Jeffery Bach

Now I'm on the right path. :) I do believe we will be migrating to TSM v4
shortly... but for now, needed to deal with any more immediate ADSM v3
support
issues here (especially since it's EOL'd!).

Very interesting processing of the includes/excludes - duly noted and just
means that I'll have to carefully study those some more for the more
interesting (and pathological, heh) cases.

-Dan Foster
IP Systems Engineering (IPSE)
Global Crossing Telecommunications
Internet: [EMAIL PR

Re: Monthly full backup

[Bill Boyer]

2-drives per backupset. The times vary, but we co-locate the tape pools for
performance. Also helps to have a 2-frame 3494 with 6-drives attached to a
RS/6000 S-80. We had 1 client that had over 6million files and that one took
14-hours to create. Most are probably less than an hour each on the average.
Unfortunately the generate backupset 'events' are not recorded in the
SUMMARY table, so getting timing statistics is difficult as best. You have
to Q ACT to the start time of the generate, then Q ACT for the end time of
the generate, massage it around alittle bit to calculate the time
difference. I was able to do this once with Excel, but it took me  a couple
hours to figure out. Maybe some PERL code could do it...?

Bill

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William Rosette
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:37 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Monthly full backup


How many tape drives do you have and how long do your backupsets run?



Bill Boyer
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Stor Manager"






Using 1 nodename for both daily and monthly backups...? Don't you have
problems with versioning? Or did you take into account that you would
always
be getting a version of every file at least once a month.

Is there a reason you couldn't use backupsets for the monthly backup? You
could set up a monthly admin schedule to run a generate backupset for these
node(s). We do this for a client. We defined a TSM server script called
GENBSET that takes the nodename as a parameter and issues the generate
command. We do 4-5 a day, for days 1-28 of each month (since all months
have
28-days). They don't care when during the month the 'monthly' tape is
generated, just that there is one that they can keep for a year. They also
use Autovault to offsite vault these 'monthly' tapes.

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Robert Ouzen
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Monthly full backup


Matt

I miss something what about the action in the client schedule by default is
: Incremental don't we have to change it to: Full and so we have to insert
in objects all the filesystems ?

Regards Robert

-Original Message-
From: MC Matt Cooper (2838) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 7:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Monthly full backup


Bill,
I do monthly FULL backups by using an admin schedule to changed the
COPYMODE to absolute before the desired server is backed up.  I also have
one that switches it back to modified about a hour after the backup starts.
Don't forget to do the ACTIVATE of the updated POLICY.   I only use one
node
name per server.
Matt

-Original Message-
From: Bill Dourado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Monthly full backup

Hi ,

I am new to TSM (mostly self taught) and not too hot on  NT either. I need
help from someone with a bit of time and patience to spare.

My objective is to do a full monthly backup in addition to the daily
incrementals for a particular backup client.

I intend to use two different node names, two different Domain policies,
and
two separate schedulers and different dsm.opt files. Maybe run the full
backup in command mode & copy control mode absolute. I would like the
schedules to run without  any manual intervention.

Am I on the right track ?

Now how exactly do I go about this ? ( as much detail as you like,please!)

My TSM  Server runs NT 4.1 &  TSM 4.1

My Backup Client runs NT 4.1

Cheers

Bill Dourado





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Re: Backup systemobjects

[Fritz Mesumbe]

Hi there,

I am running the same system.  Your client code has to
be at Version 4 release 1 level 3.0

Fritz Mesumbe.

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> Good morning,
>  I am running TSM 4.1 on AIX 4.3.3 with NT clients
> running 4.1. We will be
> migrating to Win2K some time this year and I will
> need to backup system
> objects. So far,  want I can determine is that my
> server will need to be at
> 4.2 as well as my clients. Has anybody completed
> this migration already ?
> Where there any problems I can try to eliminate
> before the install ? I am
> researching all the patches to both AIX and TSM, but
> some upgrade experience
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
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Raw Linux Volume Backup

[John]

Hi TSM'ers

Does anyone know if a raw logical volume can be backed up from a Linux client to a 
Solaris TSM Server using the image backup facility.

The book "Tivoli Storage Manager for UNIX Using the Backup-Archive Clients" indicates 
that only AIX, Veritas and Solaris LV's can be backed up using "image".

Any thoughts?

John

backup storage pools - quick question...

[Joe Cascanette]

Can I start to backup storagepools before the backups are complete? 

I assume that the data written to tape during the backup of the storage pools (for 
offsite tapes) will also been written providing that it is there before the process 
finishes.?!

Re: how to reserve drive

[Allen Barth]

Depends upon just what you mean by 'reserve'.  Can you make db backups use
the same drive in a library/devc.  That answer is no.  You could, however,
define a 2nd library/devc and define one of the drives to it.  Depending
on your server level, drive sharing may be available, otherwise you'd have
to permanently associate one of the drive to the new library.  Although I
view that as a waste of good hardware.

Are you having some problems with regard to db backups?

Regards,
Al




ARhoads <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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03/12/02 07:21 PM
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:Re: how to reserve drive


Ben,

No.  However if you write scripts to control your server you can hold back
a
tape drive when you would want to perform a tape backup...

Steffan
- Original Message -
From: "Ben V. Nuval" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 4:03 PM
Subject: how to reserve drive


> Hi folks,
>
> Is there a way to reserve a drive (3590) just for database backups?
> I'm running TSM 4.1 on an m80 (aix 4.3.3.0).  I have 8 3590e 's in a
> 3494.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ben V. Nuval






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Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously

[ARhoads]

William,

I've configured multiple clients, each with its own DSM.OPT and unique
NODENAME and separate INCLUDE_EXCLUDE files so each node backed-up a unique
portion of the file systems.

Steffan
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 3:01 AM
Subject: Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously


> - Original Message -
> From: "William SO Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 6:41 AM
> Subject: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously
>
>
> > Based on my understanding, TSM does not support simultaneously write to
> > multiple tape, i.e. I want to write to multiple tapes during backup.  If
I
> > want to work around this limitation, can I do the followings :
> >
> > Install another instance on the TSM server.  Configure the new TSM
server
> > to backup the same set of files.  Start the backup at once for this two
> TSM
> > servers.  So one TSM server will backup to one drive, the other will
> backup
> > the next drive.
>
> Wouldn't just do setting MAXRESOURCEUTIL on the client to a higher value
> accomplish the same ?
> Correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Greetings
>
> Sascha

Re: 3494 library with J and K type cartridges

[ARhoads]

Mustafa,

You could use private tapes instead of scratch.  More trouble but you could
do what you are asking.  Maxscratch to zero and allocate all tapes to the
pool as private.

Steffan
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From: "MUSTAFA BAYTAR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 1:20 AM
Subject: 3494 library with J and K type cartridges


Hi TSM'ers ,

i have 3494 library with 3590 J and K type cartridges in it  for all
sequential access storage pool,
İ want to  define sequential access storage pool that can use  only J type
cartridges.
Any ideas?

Thanks=

Re: Reorg your database

[Michael, Monte]

Dave,

Can you unload the TSM database to a disk volume? I have always unloaded to
a 3590 tape drive.  Disk would be much faster..

Monte

-Original Message-
From: David Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 4:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Reorg your database


Mark,

I've just unloaded/loaded our TSM 4.1.5 database to fix performance
problems.  Our 18GB database shrank to 11GB and a 'query archive' that used
to run for over an hour now takes 10 seconds.  It took 4 hours to dump (to a
fileclass volume) and 2 hours to load on an RS/6000 6M1 but it was mostly
I/O so I don't think the speed of the machine helped all that much.

I did have a failure running it on 4.1.2 server as it locked up when
changing from one file volume to another.  I updated to 4.1.5 and made the
fileclass max volume size 20GB.  The unload then ran fine to the one file
volume.

Regards,

David Smith
AIX Administrator
Corporate Express Australia
67-77 Epsom Rd Sydney NSW
PH 02 93350318 or 0412 258 208



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From: Mark Hayden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 13 March 2002 7:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Reorg your database


Hello, I have been checking into and reading e-mails from here regarding
reorganizing your database. It sounds like this should be done every so
often. We have some problems that I believe this may fix, but am a little
bit nervous and have not done so. My question is ( for people who have ran
this) How has it worked for you and do you run this as a procedure, or only
when you think the DB is fragmented or in need. Maybe how difficult is the
procedure, and any do's and don'ts..Thanks for your help!

Thanks, Mark Hayden
Network Administrator
E-Mail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backup storage pools - quick question...

[Allen Barth]

Joe,

Yes, you can start backup stgpools before your cleint backups are
complete.
NO, the client data arriving at the server after the backup stgpool is
begun does not get backed up to the copypool in this cycle.  Backup
stgpool is an incremental function in the same sense of client
incrementals:  a comparison is made between stgpool & copypool up front,
and then only new objects get copied.

Regards,
Al Barth




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Can I start to backup storagepools before the backups are complete?

I assume that the data written to tape during the backup of the storage
pools (for offsite tapes) will also been written providing that it is
there before the process finishes.?!






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Re: TSM 4.2.1 and oracle

[ARhoads]

Andrew,

RESOURCEUTILIZATION may suffice but you might want to setup a few unique
node names, one for each table space or set of table spaces, and back them
up separately.  This also gets you faster restores since you would have to
restore them the same way you backed them up.

Steffan
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Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:04 AM
Subject: TSM 4.2.1 and oracle


> I want to be able to backup a mixture of oracle 8 and 9 databases. I will
> shut oracle down at night so i don't have to use the TDP.
> I am using TSM4.2.1 on NT4.0 , when i backup the databases files will
every
> file need backing up. for example. one of our databases is spread over 19
> 4gb files. will each one get backed up each night?
>
>
> Andy
>
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Re: Monthly full backup

[MC Matt Cooper (2838)]

We did account for the versioning with the fulls.  We rely much more on the
how long we keep extra versions as compared to how many.   And yes it does
use more DB space to that.  One benefit is that I know that there is nothing
in my system that is a backup that is of any value after 90 days.  We do use
archival for yearly and 7year retentions for the financials.   In doing this
I discover many OLD data sets that are of no value that consume less than 1%
of a tape.  I also know when TDP processes of DB backups aren't run properly
and would grow my tape usage incorrectly.   Basically I don't do tape
consolidation, ever.  MOST tapes will go back to scratch before 90 days, as
they should.  Some things hang on because of AIX file systems that are
created and destroyed as techs move things around.
I guess I could use backup sets as an alternative way of doing
things but  I would then have to incorporate the consolidation procedures.
Reading peoples response to this I am learning something about
SELECTIVE.  I guess it will read an INCLUDE/EXCLUDE list.  However,  I see a
difference in the fact that in doing a SELECTIVE the OBJECT list must be
maintained on the CLIENT SCHEDULE  other wise a new files system that is IN
the domain but not listed is not backed up.  Going through the incremental
path it looks at all the files systems in the domain.   My include/exclude
lists were developed with the understanding that the default is everything
is included.  We took the path of better to error and backup too much as
opposed to making the error of not having enough backedup.
Matt

-Original Message-
From: Bill Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Monthly full backup

Using 1 nodename for both daily and monthly backups...? Don't you have
problems with versioning? Or did you take into account that you would always
be getting a version of every file at least once a month.

Is there a reason you couldn't use backupsets for the monthly backup? You
could set up a monthly admin schedule to run a generate backupset for these
node(s). We do this for a client. We defined a TSM server script called
GENBSET that takes the nodename as a parameter and issues the generate
command. We do 4-5 a day, for days 1-28 of each month (since all months have
28-days). They don't care when during the month the 'monthly' tape is
generated, just that there is one that they can keep for a year. They also
use Autovault to offsite vault these 'monthly' tapes.

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Robert Ouzen
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Monthly full backup


Matt

I miss something what about the action in the client schedule by default is
: Incremental don't we have to change it to: Full and so we have to insert
in objects all the filesystems ?

Regards Robert

-Original Message-
From: MC Matt Cooper (2838) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 7:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Monthly full backup


Bill,
I do monthly FULL backups by using an admin schedule to changed the
COPYMODE to absolute before the desired server is backed up.  I also have
one that switches it back to modified about a hour after the backup starts.
Don't forget to do the ACTIVATE of the updated POLICY.   I only use one node
name per server.
Matt

-Original Message-
From: Bill Dourado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Monthly full backup

Hi ,

I am new to TSM (mostly self taught) and not too hot on  NT either. I need
help from someone with a bit of time and patience to spare.

My objective is to do a full monthly backup in addition to the daily
incrementals for a particular backup client.

I intend to use two different node names, two different Domain policies, and
two separate schedulers and different dsm.opt files. Maybe run the full
backup in command mode & copy control mode absolute. I would like the
schedules to run without  any manual intervention.

Am I on the right track ?

Now how exactly do I go about this ? ( as much detail as you like,please!)

My TSM  Server runs NT 4.1 &  TSM 4.1

My Backup Client runs NT 4.1

Cheers

Bill Dourado





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TDPO 2.2.0.2 patch install on AIX

[Neil Rasmussen]

David,

It may not be necessary at all to shutdown your Databases. However,
because Oracle has changed the way they load in TDP for Oracle library
from version to version, it is sometimes necessary and in our readme's we
try to cover worst case scenario. In short, be aware that it could be
necessary to shutdown the Oracle instances, your upgrade may do fine
without doing so.

--

Date:Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:24:05 -0500
From:David Longo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TDPO 2.2.0.2 patch install on AIX

I have anew install of TDP Oracle 2.2.0.0 on AIX and was going
to follow up with the 2.2.0.2 patch before configuring.  The README
with the patch says "All the database instances under $ORACLE_HOME
should be shutdown before performing the following steps"  The steps
are copying several TDP files and libobk.a file.

Is this really necessary to shutrdown?  Don't have to shutdown to install
=
2.2.0.0.

Thanks,


David B. Longo
System Administrator
Health First, Inc.
3300 Fiske Blvd.
Rockledge, FL 32955-4305
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Pager  321.634.8230
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 annotations on 03/12/02 15:37:26
---=


Regards,

Neil Rasmussen
Software Development
TDP for Oracle
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SQL commands

[Joe Cascanette]

Is there a list of SQL commands that can be used with TSM published anywhere?. Like 
CAST, DECIMAL...etc..and what/how they can be used ?!

Thanks in advance

Joe Cascanette

Re: Oracle on Linux backups

[ARhoads]

Zoltan,

don't jump to the wrong conclusion just because everyone is busy doing their
jobs!

The TDP for Oracle works just fine but there is no TDP for the Linux
platform.  Your best alternative may be to backup Oracle live to disk and
then backup that disk with the regular TSM BAC (backup archive client).  I'd
confugure a separate node name (_ORA for example) and make either
its DOMAIN unique for the oracle backup area or the INCLUDE_EXCLUDE.

Steffan
- Original Message -
From: "Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 6:47 AM
Subject: Oracle on Linux backups


> I had earlier asked the question about using the TSM TDP for Oracle on a
> Linux box but never got a response.  From the silence and other messages
> related to this topic, I can only surmize that this won't/doesn't work and
> I shouldn't waste my time/money in purchasing the TDP.
>
> So, since I can't change the platform, I need to know how anyone else in
> this situation/configuration backs up their Oracle systems on Linux ? Or
> are most folks waiting for TSM 5.x and the supposed forthcoming TDP that
> will work on Linux and are keeping Oracle on supported/backup-able OS'es ?
>
> Note, I am not a DB person. I don't know the first thing about Oracle. I
> have seen some discussions about an RMAN program/utility, but I only know
> the name.
>
> The objective is to do live (i.e. not shutting down the application)
> backups of the Oracle DB and be able to restore it on a backup/test
> machine.
>
> We do a nightly backup but all attempts to restore from these backups to
> another box, have produced useless files. Oracle is very unhappy !!
>
> Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
> --
--
> Zoltan Forray
> Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  -  voice: 804-828-4807

Re: TSM 5.1

[asr]

=> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 06:21:43 -0600, Andy Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> No, this is just copypools, up to two.  I agree  with you, and we put in
> a requirement at Share to do something  like this, with one copy going
> to primary and one copy to copypool, but this was during migrate.  I
> won't be able to take advantage of the copypools  in the way that it was
> added, because of the tape drive per session requirement.

Really, you don't want to copy directly to tape, pacing the backup session, in
any case: this gets you back to starving your tape with your network access
speed.

Keep in mind, there's nothing that prevents you from doing a copy at the same
time that backups are going on.  So if you are (apropos of nothing) backing up
200G nightly, starting at 2000, usually finishing by 0300, start a copy at
2200, and another at 0200.  You'll find there's very little left undone when
you run the third, "cleanup" copy at say 0500.

When I run these copies, I make three copies at a time: my local "media
failure" copy, and two offsite copies.

What I really want to be able to do, though, is generate a DB backup and a DB
snapshot simultaneously.  (or two shapshots, really).  I can understand why
you are forbidden to extend or reduce while "a database operation is in
progress".  I don't get why you can't do a snapshot.


- Allen S. Rout

Re: how to reserve drive

[Nicholas Cassimatis]

Make one drive a different deviceclass than the others, and run the TSM DB
backup to that deviceclass.

Nick Cassimatis
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Today is the tomorrow of yesterday.

schedmode polling and immediate client actions

[Karel Bos]

Hi,

We have changed our scheduling mode from prompted to polling. Scheduled
back-ups run fine. The immediate client schedule won't run. The status of
the immediate schedule turns to pending and will not function.


Schedule Name @621
Description -
Action INCREMENTAL
Options -
Objects -
Priority 1
Start date 2002-03-13
Start time 16:32:17
Duration 1
Duration units DAYS
Period -
Period units ONETIME
Day of Week ANY
Expiration -


 Node Name: X
   Scheduled Start: 03/13/02 16:32:17
  Actual Start:
 Completed:
Status: Pending
Result:

Taperotation form onsinte to offsite and back

[Arthur Hundhammer]

Hi All.

we are actually in the in the process of migrating the TSM-Servers from
OS/390 to  Windows NT.

On OS/390,  the vault management was done by CA1 and  in house written
programs.
With  NT it seems, that this is not so simple.

Our environment is:

TSM 4.2.1.7 Server on NT, in the moment without DRM
EDT-DistibuTAPE 6.4.0 from Gresham Enterprice Software
STK Library Station 4.0   (Software from STK)
STK 9840 Fibre Channel Drives in a STK Powderhorn Silo on Mainframe OS/390

The TSM-Server and the Drives are connected to SAN.

Backup and restores in this environment runs fine.

What  i'm looking for, is a solution how we can managed and control the
transfer from COPYPOOL-Tapes and DB -BACKUP-Tapes
from ONSITE to OFFSITE location and back to ONSITE after the tapes are
empty.

Further, how can we determine the tapes that must go OFFSITE (Copypool and
TSM - Database Backup Tapes)
and later if  the tapes are empty go back to STKs Powderhorn.

Your expirence and help are greatly appreciated

Kind Regards

Arthur Hundhammer
Linde AG Munich

[EMAIL PROTECTED]
.

Re: Oracle on Linux backups

[Thomas A. La Porte]

There was an old Redbook on using ADSM to backup databases. It
includes some very good examples of using shell scripts to
accomplish hot backups of Oracle (and many other databases)
without the need for a TDP or RMAN style backup.

We use a method like this to backup all of our Oracle instances
(Linux or otherwise). None of our instances are large enough to
warrant the additional complication of RMAN or TDP.

In addition to the Redbook above, if you are at all involved in
the backup and restoration of Oracle databases, I would *highly*
recommend the Oracle Press book "Oracle Backup and Recovery" by
Velpuri, et al (it exists in several editions for the various
versions of Oracle).

 -- Tom

Thomas A. La Porte
DreamWorks SKG
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote:

>I had earlier asked the question about using the TSM TDP for Oracle on a
>Linux box but never got a response.  From the silence and other messages
>related to this topic, I can only surmize that this won't/doesn't work and
>I shouldn't waste my time/money in purchasing the TDP.
>
>So, since I can't change the platform, I need to know how anyone else in
>this situation/configuration backs up their Oracle systems on Linux ? Or
>are most folks waiting for TSM 5.x and the supposed forthcoming TDP that
>will work on Linux and are keeping Oracle on supported/backup-able OS'es ?
>
>Note, I am not a DB person. I don't know the first thing about Oracle. I
>have seen some discussions about an RMAN program/utility, but I only know
>the name.
>
>The objective is to do live (i.e. not shutting down the application)
>backups of the Oracle DB and be able to restore it on a backup/test
>machine.
>
>We do a nightly backup but all attempts to restore from these backups to
>another box, have produced useless files. Oracle is very unhappy !!
>
>Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Zoltan Forray
>Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center
>e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  -  voice: 804-828-4807
>
>

Re: SQL commands

[Charles Anderson]

Well,

not really that I know of, but a "help select" may give you a good many
pointers if you are already familiar with SQL. ( I think select is the
only SQL command that you can actually use as native SQL, i.e. I think
that when you do an update, it goes through whatever interpreter there
is for query commands )

-ed

Ed Anderson
Unix Systems Administrator
University of Mississippi Medical Center
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002/03/13 09:45:57 AM >>>
Is there a list of SQL commands that can be used with TSM published
anywhere?. Like CAST, DECIMAL...etc..and what/how they can be used ?!

Thanks in advance

Joe Cascanette

TDP for Informix

[Sean M English]

*SMer's,

Last night we were attempting to upgrade an AIX 4.3.3 client from TSM 4.1.2
to TSM 4.2.1.25.  The install went fine, everything was installed
correctly.  However, when we went to test a log backup from Informix, the
node name that the Informix data backs up under would always get locked out
of the TSM server because of an Invalid Password error.  We sync'd up the
passwords between TDP for Informix and the TSM server fine, but it was like
Informix could not read the password file that was generated. We opened up
the directory and password file to 777 just in case the permission bits
might be the culprit. That did not work either.  I did notice that in
4.2.1.x, the name of the password file has been changed to TSM.PWD.  My
question is, do I need to be at a later level of TDP for Informix when I
upgrade to TSM 4.2.1.x?

Environment:

Client: AIX 4.3.3, TDP for Informix 4.1.0, current client level is 4.1.2
and everything works. trying to go to 4.2.1.25 and TDP does not work

Server: AIX 4.3.3, running TSM 4.2.1.11

Any thoughts on what might be happening?

Regards,
Sean

Sean M. English
You can't change the wind, but you can adjust the sails.

Re: schedmode polling and immediate client actions

[Martin, Jon R.]

Karel,

Silly question perhaps.  The start time for the schedule shows
16:32.  I do not know your location but has that time of day come yet?

Thanks,
Jon Martin

-Original Message-
From: Karel Bos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: schedmode polling and immediate client actions


Hi,

We have changed our scheduling mode from prompted to polling. Scheduled
back-ups run fine. The immediate client schedule won't run. The status of
the immediate schedule turns to pending and will not function.


Schedule Name @621
Description -
Action INCREMENTAL
Options -
Objects -
Priority 1
Start date 2002-03-13
Start time 16:32:17
Duration 1
Duration units DAYS
Period -
Period units ONETIME
Day of Week ANY
Expiration -


 Node Name: X
   Scheduled Start: 03/13/02 16:32:17
  Actual Start:
 Completed:
Status: Pending
Result:

Re: schedmode polling and immediate client actions

[Andrew Raibeck]

Is it "will not function" or is it more like "hasn't functioned yet"?

When running in polling mode, the immediate action is not necessarily
immediate; it would be picked up the next time the client polls the server
for its next scheduled event, which is based on the QUERYSCHEDPERIOD
client setting.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked.
The command line is your friend.
"Good enough" is the enemy of excellence.




Karel Bos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
03/13/2002 08:54
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"


To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:schedmode polling and immediate client actions



Hi,

We have changed our scheduling mode from prompted to polling. Scheduled
back-ups run fine. The immediate client schedule won't run. The status of
the immediate schedule turns to pending and will not function.


Schedule Name @621
Description -
Action INCREMENTAL
Options -
Objects -
Priority 1
Start date 2002-03-13
Start time 16:32:17
Duration 1
Duration units DAYS
Period -
Period units ONETIME
Day of Week ANY
Expiration -


 Node Name: X
   Scheduled Start: 03/13/02 16:32:17
  Actual Start:
 Completed:
Status: Pending
Result:

Re: Archive dates/details

[Doug Thorneycroft]

You can get this from the client command line (dsmc q archive)
start dsmc and type help to get the syntax
-Original Message-
From:   Martin, Jon R. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Wednesday, March 13, 2002 5:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Archive dates/details

Good Morning,

When attempting to retrieve archive data through the GUI, a
list/description of each available archive is shown.  .  Is there a way
through dsmadmc to list the dates/descriptions of archives for each node?

Thank You,
Jon Martin

Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously

[Bill Boyer]

Sounds like a mangement nightmare! (no offense intended)

Why not just specify a RESOURCEUTILIZATION > 2 in the DSM.OPT file and
update the nodes' MAXNUMMP value accordingly to get multiple backup streams.
The way I understand it and have seen it on Windows boxes, TSM will start a
backup session for each drive..resource depending.

Bill

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
ARhoads
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously


William,

I've configured multiple clients, each with its own DSM.OPT and unique
NODENAME and separate INCLUDE_EXCLUDE files so each node backed-up a unique
portion of the file systems.

Steffan
- Original Message -
From: "Sascha Askani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 3:01 AM
Subject: Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously


> - Original Message -
> From: "William SO Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 6:41 AM
> Subject: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously
>
>
> > Based on my understanding, TSM does not support simultaneously write to
> > multiple tape, i.e. I want to write to multiple tapes during backup.  If
I
> > want to work around this limitation, can I do the followings :
> >
> > Install another instance on the TSM server.  Configure the new TSM
server
> > to backup the same set of files.  Start the backup at once for this two
> TSM
> > servers.  So one TSM server will backup to one drive, the other will
> backup
> > the next drive.
>
> Wouldn't just do setting MAXRESOURCEUTIL on the client to a higher value
> accomplish the same ?
> Correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Greetings
>
> Sascha

Re: Taperotation form onsinte to offsite and back

[William F. Colwell]

Arthur,

I run on os/390 without ca1 or any product like it.  We have an stk library too.
To find what volumes to send offsite from the copypool I made a
batch job that runs the update volume command -

upd vol * access=offsite wherestg=9840copy whereacc=readw
wherest=full,filling

This changes the status and lists what volumes it changed.   You can
capture the output and turn it into eject commands.

For the dbb volumes I just have the operator browse the volumehistory file.
If you want to automate this try a select from the volumehistory table.

Hope this helps,

--
Bill Colwell
C. S. Draper Lab
Cambridge Ma.

At 04:39 PM 3/13/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi All.
>
>we are actually in the in the process of migrating the TSM-Servers from
>OS/390 to  Windows NT.
>
>On OS/390,  the vault management was done by CA1 and  in house written
>programs.
>With  NT it seems, that this is not so simple.
>
>Our environment is:
>
>TSM 4.2.1.7 Server on NT, in the moment without DRM
>EDT-DistibuTAPE 6.4.0 from Gresham Enterprice Software
>STK Library Station 4.0   (Software from STK)
>STK 9840 Fibre Channel Drives in a STK Powderhorn Silo on Mainframe OS/390
>
>The TSM-Server and the Drives are connected to SAN.
>
>Backup and restores in this environment runs fine.
>
>What  i'm looking for, is a solution how we can managed and control the
>transfer from COPYPOOL-Tapes and DB -BACKUP-Tapes
>from ONSITE to OFFSITE location and back to ONSITE after the tapes are
>empty.
>
>Further, how can we determine the tapes that must go OFFSITE (Copypool and
>TSM - Database Backup Tapes)
>and later if  the tapes are empty go back to STKs Powderhorn.
>
>Your expirence and help are greatly appreciated
>
>Kind Regards
>
>Arthur Hundhammer
>Linde AG Munich
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>.

SANergy in TSM 5.1 not a pre-req

[Cindy Bogle]

SANergy is not a prerequisite to TSM V5.1.


You wrote:

> H...Another item I will have to purchase from Tivoli. im sure my
company
> will love me now.

  I heard last week that SANergy will be part of TSM, starting with TSM
5.1,
  which will be announced April 9th.

  Cheers,
  Henk (who can't wait)

--
Cindy Bogle
IBM Tivoli Storage Software Development

Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously

[ARhoads]

Only problem there is that your large restore will be single threaded (until
5.1 -- maybe).

Steffan
- Original Message -
From: "Bill Boyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously


> Sounds like a mangement nightmare! (no offense intended)
>
> Why not just specify a RESOURCEUTILIZATION > 2 in the DSM.OPT file and
> update the nodes' MAXNUMMP value accordingly to get multiple backup
streams.
> The way I understand it and have seen it on Windows boxes, TSM will start
a
> backup session for each drive..resource depending.
>
> Bill
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> ARhoads
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:21 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously
>
>
> William,
>
> I've configured multiple clients, each with its own DSM.OPT and unique
> NODENAME and separate INCLUDE_EXCLUDE files so each node backed-up a
unique
> portion of the file systems.
>
> Steffan
> - Original Message -
> From: "Sascha Askani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 3:01 AM
> Subject: Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously
>
>
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "William SO Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 6:41 AM
> > Subject: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously
> >
> >
> > > Based on my understanding, TSM does not support simultaneously write
to
> > > multiple tape, i.e. I want to write to multiple tapes during backup.
If
> I
> > > want to work around this limitation, can I do the followings :
> > >
> > > Install another instance on the TSM server.  Configure the new TSM
> server
> > > to backup the same set of files.  Start the backup at once for this
two
> > TSM
> > > servers.  So one TSM server will backup to one drive, the other will
> > backup
> > > the next drive.
> >
> > Wouldn't just do setting MAXRESOURCEUTIL on the client to a higher value
> > accomplish the same ?
> > Correct me if I'm wrong.
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> > Sascha

Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously

[Bill Smoldt]

Although it is very easy to start a dsmc restore  for each
filesystem and do parallel restores today.

Bill Smoldt
STORServer, Inc.

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
ARhoads
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:57 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously


Only problem there is that your large restore will be single threaded (until
5.1 -- maybe).

Steffan
- Original Message -
From: "Bill Boyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously


> Sounds like a mangement nightmare! (no offense intended)
>
> Why not just specify a RESOURCEUTILIZATION > 2 in the DSM.OPT file and
> update the nodes' MAXNUMMP value accordingly to get multiple backup
streams.
> The way I understand it and have seen it on Windows boxes, TSM will start
a
> backup session for each drive..resource depending.
>
> Bill
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> ARhoads
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:21 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously
>
>
> William,
>
> I've configured multiple clients, each with its own DSM.OPT and unique
> NODENAME and separate INCLUDE_EXCLUDE files so each node backed-up a
unique
> portion of the file systems.
>
> Steffan
> - Original Message -
> From: "Sascha Askani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 3:01 AM
> Subject: Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously
>
>
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "William SO Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 6:41 AM
> > Subject: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously
> >
> >
> > > Based on my understanding, TSM does not support simultaneously write
to
> > > multiple tape, i.e. I want to write to multiple tapes during backup.
If
> I
> > > want to work around this limitation, can I do the followings :
> > >
> > > Install another instance on the TSM server.  Configure the new TSM
> server
> > > to backup the same set of files.  Start the backup at once for this
two
> > TSM
> > > servers.  So one TSM server will backup to one drive, the other will
> > backup
> > > the next drive.
> >
> > Wouldn't just do setting MAXRESOURCEUTIL on the client to a higher value
> > accomplish the same ?
> > Correct me if I'm wrong.
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> > Sascha

Re: Retrieving archives from directory that became to be a mount point.

[Thomas Denier]

> I have problem with retrieving archives from directory that became to be
> a mount point. I can see my files when I use "QUERY ARCHIVE" command
> like this:

I think the TSM client is parsing your file specification, picking out the
part that would be a file system name under the current configuration, and
asking the TSM server to find the file in the inventory of backups from
that file system. I think you need to use braces to force TSM to use the
file system name that applied when the files were archived. As best I can
tell from your posting, /opt/support was a subdirectory within the /opt
file system when the archive was done, and has since become a file system
in its own right. If that is the case, specifying

{/opt}/support/IMAGUI-100901.tar.Z

should enable the TSM server to find the file. I am fairly sure this was
once documented, but I have been unable to find any reference to this use
of braces in the current manuals. I am surprised that even Tivoli could
think it was improving its documentation by deleting this information or
making it impossible to find.

Re: AIX client fails direct to tape backup

[Prather, Wanda]

Great!  Some days I get lucky!

BTW, it's still the case that when you register a node via the admin command
line, maxnummp defaults to 1; when you register via the admin browser the
default is 2.

So if there are other people besides you doing client registration, you may
want to put that command in a script that runs every now and then to keep
them set straight.




-Original Message-
From: Tab Trepagnier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 5:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AIX client fails direct to tape backup


Wanda,

BINGO!

I found the count of MaxNumMP on clients to be either 0, 2, or 999.  I have
*never* set that value so I guess it was introduced randomly by an upgrade
(probably from ADSM 3.1 to TSM 4.1).

I used the command you recommended to set them all to 1, and the failing
nodes worked OK.  Both versions.

Tonight I'm trying direct-to-tape backups of the large clients that write
into the LTO.  The smaller clients talk to an 800 MB disk pool of 20 x 40
MB volumes.  Should be interesting...

Thanks again.

Tab







"Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 03/11/2002
11:42:07 AM

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

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


To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:  Re: AIX client fails direct to tape backup


I think it was introduced in the 3.7 server.

Depends on server level, not client level though; I've still got some WinNT
clients running 3.1.0.6, and they have MAXNUMMP set (although as I recall
there was an issue when I first moved to that server level, that clients
which had NEVER had their MAXNUMMP set, would not behave as they should by
default, until I set it explicitly; or clients that had MAXNUMMP that
defaulted to 0 didn't behave the same as ones that were explicitly set to
0,
or something like that.  Anyway, I can't check now, because I remember I
did
a global update node * maxnummp=1 to clean it all up.

But that was a long time and several sever version ago.  Just thought I
would mention it...



-Original Message-
From: Tab Trepagnier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 3:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AIX client fails direct to tape backup


Wanda,

My clients are set to their defaults.

Also, wasn't that feature introduced after V 3.1?

Thanks.

Tab

Re: Taperotation form onsinte to offsite and back

[ARhoads]

Arthur,

If you have the DRM option it is all controlled by the MOVE DRMedia command
using the wherestate and tostate options.

Otherwise you have to script or develop a manual procedure for handling this
function.

Steffan
- Original Message -
From: "Arthur Hundhammer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 7:39 AM
Subject: Taperotation form onsinte to offsite and back


> Hi All.
>
> we are actually in the in the process of migrating the TSM-Servers from
> OS/390 to  Windows NT.
>
> On OS/390,  the vault management was done by CA1 and  in house written
> programs.
> With  NT it seems, that this is not so simple.
>
> Our environment is:
>
> TSM 4.2.1.7 Server on NT, in the moment without DRM
> EDT-DistibuTAPE 6.4.0 from Gresham Enterprice Software
> STK Library Station 4.0   (Software from STK)
> STK 9840 Fibre Channel Drives in a STK Powderhorn Silo on Mainframe OS/390
>
> The TSM-Server and the Drives are connected to SAN.
>
> Backup and restores in this environment runs fine.
>
> What  i'm looking for, is a solution how we can managed and control the
> transfer from COPYPOOL-Tapes and DB -BACKUP-Tapes
> from ONSITE to OFFSITE location and back to ONSITE after the tapes are
> empty.
>
> Further, how can we determine the tapes that must go OFFSITE (Copypool and
> TSM - Database Backup Tapes)
> and later if  the tapes are empty go back to STKs Powderhorn.
>
> Your expirence and help are greatly appreciated
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Arthur Hundhammer
> Linde AG Munich
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> .

Re: Subfile Backup

[Prather, Wanda]

There is also a white paper that is worthwhile:

http://www.tivoli.com/products/documents/whitepapers/index.html

The title is
"Tivoli Storage Manager-Adaptive Sub-file Differencing and Encryption for
Mobile and Remote Clients (Posted 02/13/01)"

-Original Message-
From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 11:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Subfile Backup


Look here:
http://www.tivoli.com/support/public/Prodman/public_manuals/td/StorageManage
rClient4.2.1.html

There are a number of options, what you want is the Windows client.

-Original Message-
From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 6:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Subfile Backup


Could someone point me to the docs or a short tutorial on subfile backups.
>From what little I've seen, I don't quite understand what they are for in
the grand TSM scheme of things.

Re: Backup systemobjects

[Prather, Wanda]

We are runing TSM 4.1.3 on AIX 4.3.3, 400 Win2K Pro clients.

With the clients at 4.2.0, backup of SYSTEMOBJECTs is working fine, I've
done bare metal restores successfully.


-Original Message-
From: Ochs, Duane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Backup systemobjects


Good morning,
 I am running TSM 4.1 on AIX 4.3.3 with NT clients running 4.1. We will be
migrating to Win2K some time this year and I will need to backup system
objects. So far,  want I can determine is that my server will need to be at
4.2 as well as my clients. Has anybody completed this migration already ?
Where there any problems I can try to eliminate before the install ? I am
researching all the patches to both AIX and TSM, but some upgrade experience
would be greatly appreciated.

Duane Ochs
Quad/Graphics Inc.
414.566.2375

Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously

[Bill Boyer]

Not necessarily. Just start multiple restore sessions. Do a DSMC RESTORE
command for each drive. You may run into tape contention if files from
different filespaces are on the same tape. You could also co-locate based on
filespace to reduce the tape contention. How often do you do these kinds of
large restores? Is it worth the management of mutliple node-names and
include-excludes for each server based on how often you restore? If there
are requirements for this type of speed on restore, maybe directing those
servers to a separate storage pool that is co-located?

I'm not trying to pick apart your backup strategy, just trying to understand
it. There may come a time where I have a client with these same needs and
the information in this thread would come in handy.

Bill

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
ARhoads
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 12:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously


Only problem there is that your large restore will be single threaded (until
5.1 -- maybe).

Steffan
- Original Message -
From: "Bill Boyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously


> Sounds like a mangement nightmare! (no offense intended)
>
> Why not just specify a RESOURCEUTILIZATION > 2 in the DSM.OPT file and
> update the nodes' MAXNUMMP value accordingly to get multiple backup
streams.
> The way I understand it and have seen it on Windows boxes, TSM will start
a
> backup session for each drive..resource depending.
>
> Bill
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> ARhoads
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:21 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously
>
>
> William,
>
> I've configured multiple clients, each with its own DSM.OPT and unique
> NODENAME and separate INCLUDE_EXCLUDE files so each node backed-up a
unique
> portion of the file systems.
>
> Steffan
> - Original Message -
> From: "Sascha Askani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 3:01 AM
> Subject: Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously
>
>
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "William SO Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 6:41 AM
> > Subject: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously
> >
> >
> > > Based on my understanding, TSM does not support simultaneously write
to
> > > multiple tape, i.e. I want to write to multiple tapes during backup.
If
> I
> > > want to work around this limitation, can I do the followings :
> > >
> > > Install another instance on the TSM server.  Configure the new TSM
> server
> > > to backup the same set of files.  Start the backup at once for this
two
> > TSM
> > > servers.  So one TSM server will backup to one drive, the other will
> > backup
> > > the next drive.
> >
> > Wouldn't just do setting MAXRESOURCEUTIL on the client to a higher value
> > accomplish the same ?
> > Correct me if I'm wrong.
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> > Sascha

Re: Taperotation form onsinte to offsite and back

[Bill Boyer]

Yes, but he's OS/390. TSM on OS/390 does not control tape volume movement.
That is handled by the tape management system installed on OS/390, like
CA-1, CA-TLMS, or IBM's DfsmsRMM. Also on OS/390 there is no library or
drives defined. You define up the DEVCLASS with a unit name parameter of the
device type that OS/390 allocation will give you.

He's also running a STK library, which has it's own tape management software
(HSC).

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.
"Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield." - ??


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
ARhoads
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 12:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Taperotation form onsinte to offsite and back


Arthur,

If you have the DRM option it is all controlled by the MOVE DRMedia command
using the wherestate and tostate options.

Otherwise you have to script or develop a manual procedure for handling this
function.

Steffan
- Original Message -
From: "Arthur Hundhammer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 7:39 AM
Subject: Taperotation form onsinte to offsite and back


> Hi All.
>
> we are actually in the in the process of migrating the TSM-Servers from
> OS/390 to  Windows NT.
>
> On OS/390,  the vault management was done by CA1 and  in house written
> programs.
> With  NT it seems, that this is not so simple.
>
> Our environment is:
>
> TSM 4.2.1.7 Server on NT, in the moment without DRM
> EDT-DistibuTAPE 6.4.0 from Gresham Enterprice Software
> STK Library Station 4.0   (Software from STK)
> STK 9840 Fibre Channel Drives in a STK Powderhorn Silo on Mainframe OS/390
>
> The TSM-Server and the Drives are connected to SAN.
>
> Backup and restores in this environment runs fine.
>
> What  i'm looking for, is a solution how we can managed and control the
> transfer from COPYPOOL-Tapes and DB -BACKUP-Tapes
> from ONSITE to OFFSITE location and back to ONSITE after the tapes are
> empty.
>
> Further, how can we determine the tapes that must go OFFSITE (Copypool and
> TSM - Database Backup Tapes)
> and later if  the tapes are empty go back to STKs Powderhorn.
>
> Your expirence and help are greatly appreciated
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Arthur Hundhammer
> Linde AG Munich
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> .

TSM User Group for Baltimore, Washington DC, Northern VA meets Ma rch 27...

[Prather, Wanda]

TSMUG is the Tivoli Storage Manager User Group for Baltimore, Washington DC,
and Northern Virginia. Please join us at our next meeting on Wednesday,
March 27, featuring Lindsay Morris of ADSM-L fame!

**
Performance Tuning Without the Blindfold
Mr. Lindsay Morris, Applied System Design
For Tivoli Storage Manager users who want to boost performance: the problem
of measuring the various pieces of the system is difficult, but not
impossible. But what then? How should you proceed after you have the data?
Come see a structured process for improving the performance of your TSM
server site, presuming the data is freely available. With Servergraph/TSM to
collect data and visually display performance over time, you can visualize
performance trends and bottlenecks. Compare output from several different
TSM sites, and find practical solutions, from basic tuning parameters to
non-standard techniques made possible only by detailed data analysis.

**
Many of you know Lindsay through his contributions to the ADSM-L Listserver;
Lindsay is a long-time contributor, TSM expert, and CEO of Applied System
Design.
After the feature presentation we will hold our famous TSM ROUNDTABLE, where
you can ask your questions and share your experiences with other ADSM/TSM
users (yes, there are still some ADSM folks out there!).
Our host for this meeting is Kyle Kinzer at the Fairfax County Government
Center in Fairfax, Va. (Thanks Kyle!)
Meeting details & registration information below. .
PLEASE FORWARD this message to anyone you know who is interested in Tivoli
Storage Manager.
+++
When & Where:
March 27, 2002
08:30am - 12:30pm
Conference Room 8
Fairfax County Government Center
+++
Registration:
Attendance is free and everyone is welcome.  However, YOU MUST REGISTER in
advance in order to attend.
To register, just send email
to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
subject:  Registration for March 27
The cutoff date for registration is Friday March 22.  Directions will be
e-mailed to everyone who registers.  Business Partners are welcome to
register and attend, as long as you identify yourself as such.
+++
Program:

Performance Tuning Without the Blindfold - Lindsay Morris, Applied Systems
Design
TSM Round Table: What's up at YOUR TSM site? -
Ask your questions and share your experiences, good and bad!
Bring your questions for discussion with other TSM users.

+++
Directions:
Fairfax County Government Center is very convenient. It is right down 66
from 495. The address is:
12000 Government Center Pkwy
Fairfax, VA 22035
You can look up the address and driving instructions on your favorite map
site, or the user group web site:
http://www.jasi.com/TSMUG/Meeting_Information/meeting_information.html
 +++
Refreshments:
We will not be serving coffee at this meeting, but we will have the
requisite donut table. And there is a cafeteria on site (serving
**Starbucks** coffee!) where you can obtain your favorite form of morning
caffeine!
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Questions?
If you have questions please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously

[ARhoads]

except for all of the contention for tapes...
- Original Message -
From: "Bill Smoldt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously


> Although it is very easy to start a dsmc restore  for each
> filesystem and do parallel restores today.
>
> Bill Smoldt
> STORServer, Inc.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> ARhoads
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:57 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously
>
>
> Only problem there is that your large restore will be single threaded
(until
> 5.1 -- maybe).
>
> Steffan
> - Original Message -
> From: "Bill Boyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:33 AM
> Subject: Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously
>
>
> > Sounds like a mangement nightmare! (no offense intended)
> >
> > Why not just specify a RESOURCEUTILIZATION > 2 in the DSM.OPT file and
> > update the nodes' MAXNUMMP value accordingly to get multiple backup
> streams.
> > The way I understand it and have seen it on Windows boxes, TSM will
start
> a
> > backup session for each drive..resource depending.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > ARhoads
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:21 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously
> >
> >
> > William,
> >
> > I've configured multiple clients, each with its own DSM.OPT and unique
> > NODENAME and separate INCLUDE_EXCLUDE files so each node backed-up a
> unique
> > portion of the file systems.
> >
> > Steffan
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Sascha Askani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 3:01 AM
> > Subject: Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously
> >
> >
> > > - Original Message -
> > > From: "William SO Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 6:41 AM
> > > Subject: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously
> > >
> > >
> > > > Based on my understanding, TSM does not support simultaneously write
> to
> > > > multiple tape, i.e. I want to write to multiple tapes during backup.
> If
> > I
> > > > want to work around this limitation, can I do the followings :
> > > >
> > > > Install another instance on the TSM server.  Configure the new TSM
> > server
> > > > to backup the same set of files.  Start the backup at once for this
> two
> > > TSM
> > > > servers.  So one TSM server will backup to one drive, the other will
> > > backup
> > > > the next drive.
> > >
> > > Wouldn't just do setting MAXRESOURCEUTIL on the client to a higher
value
> > > accomplish the same ?
> > > Correct me if I'm wrong.
> > >
> > > Greetings
> > >
> > > Sascha

Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously

[asr]

=> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:33:03 -0800, ARhoads <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> except for all of the contention for tapes...


We're colocating by filespace in those situations where we'd care about that.

- Allen S. Rout

Re: Taperotation form onsinte to offsite and back

[Prather, Wanda]

Is your library defined to TSM as TYPE=SCSI or TYPE=ACS?

-Original Message-
From: Arthur Hundhammer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Taperotation form onsinte to offsite and back


Hi All.

we are actually in the in the process of migrating the TSM-Servers from
OS/390 to  Windows NT.

On OS/390,  the vault management was done by CA1 and  in house written
programs.
With  NT it seems, that this is not so simple.

Our environment is:

TSM 4.2.1.7 Server on NT, in the moment without DRM
EDT-DistibuTAPE 6.4.0 from Gresham Enterprice Software
STK Library Station 4.0   (Software from STK)
STK 9840 Fibre Channel Drives in a STK Powderhorn Silo on Mainframe OS/390

The TSM-Server and the Drives are connected to SAN.

Backup and restores in this environment runs fine.

What  i'm looking for, is a solution how we can managed and control the
transfer from COPYPOOL-Tapes and DB -BACKUP-Tapes
from ONSITE to OFFSITE location and back to ONSITE after the tapes are
empty.

Further, how can we determine the tapes that must go OFFSITE (Copypool and
TSM - Database Backup Tapes)
and later if  the tapes are empty go back to STKs Powderhorn.

Your expirence and help are greatly appreciated

Kind Regards

Arthur Hundhammer
Linde AG Munich

[EMAIL PROTECTED]
.

TSM Administrators in Iowa or surrounding area

[Miller, Ryan]

How many TSM administrators or users on this list are located in Iowa or surrounding 
area?  The reason I ask, is that I may be interested in starting a TSM user group for 
our area.  It would give us all a chance to explore TSM together and work through 
issues.  Please respond to me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thanks!

Ryan Miller
Tivoli Certified Consultant
Tivoli Storage Manager V4.1

[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

IT Systems Associate
Principal Financial
515-235-5665
measure twice..cut once!

checkin volumes for import

[Martin, Jon R.]

Hello,

I am on TSM v3.7.2

I am using the following export data. "EXPORT NODE domains=solaris
filedata=backupactive devclass=3570 scratch=yes
usedvolumelist=/tmp/solexport.out"

My question is on checking the volumes in to restore this data at a later
date.  Would I use "checkin libvolume search=bulk status=private
checklabel=yes"

Then I would issue the 'import node' command specifying the volumes in the
order they were used.

Does that sound correct?

Also, since the export contains data for 10 servers does the first volume
act as table of contents?  If I do an import node for a specific node will
the server read only the necessary volumes, or will it need to read every
single volume to find files matching the node/filespace desciption I
requested?

Thanks,

Jon Martin

Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously

[Thomas A. La Porte]

dsmadmc -id=admin -pa=admin upd stg POOLNAME collocate=filespace

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, ARhoads wrote:

>except for all of the contention for tapes...
>- Original Message -
>From: "Bill Smoldt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:08 AM
>Subject: Re: Backup to multiple tape simultaneously
>
>
>> Although it is very easy to start a dsmc restore  for each
>> filesystem and do parallel restores today.
>>
>> Bill Smoldt
>> STORServer, Inc.

Reporting Packages

[Pearson, Dave]

Afternoon all,

I'm curious, what type of reporting package, if any, are you using? I know
there is the  Tivoli® Decision Support. What other packages are there? and
if you use it how do you like it? How do you like Tivoli Decision Support?
Thanks for your help.

Dave Pearson
IS Production support Analyst
System and Network Service
Snohomish County PUD # 1

>  

Re: Reporting Packages

[William Rosette]

Check out Servergraph, Cost and what you get seem to be the best.  When my
Sups decide on footing the bill we will get.  You can get a trial 30 day
which we have and Lindsay Morris is showing it in Washington on a previous
E-mail.  We valued between Servergraph, CA's Bright Stor, and TSM's TDS.


   
  
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Afternoon all,

I'm curious, what type of reporting package, if any, are you using? I know
there is the  Tivoli® Decision Support. What other packages are there? and
if you use it how do you like it? How do you like Tivoli Decision Support?
Thanks for your help.

Dave Pearson
IS Production support Analyst
System and Network Service
Snohomish County PUD # 1

>

policy for reclamation of copy storage pool tapes

[Tim Brown]

 just checking on what policy some of you use for space reclamation
on storage copy pool tapes

Tim Brown
Systems Specialist
Information Systems
Central Hudson Gas & Electric
tel: 845-486-5643
fax: 845-586-5921

Re: policy for reclamation of copy storage pool tapes

[George Lesho]

We reclaim on a daily basis for a finite period of time (in our admin day,
it comes after expiration takes place). We do this
by resetting the thresholds on the storage pools to 55 percent. When the
period of reclamation is done, we reset the threshold to 100 percent. We do
the reset using a script that we run from a tool called Maestro but it
could also be done
with a TSM admin schedule but Maestro allows for dependencies; in this case
expiration completes sucessfully.

George Lesho
System/Storage Admin
AFC Enterprises



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 just checking on what policy some of you use for space reclamation
on storage copy pool tapes

Tim Brown
Systems Specialist
Information Systems
Central Hudson Gas & Electric
tel: 845-486-5643
fax: 845-586-5921

Re: TSM 5.1

[PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)]

Can we say its safe to upgrade when the product arrives.
Since I ma not shure for patches on the way !
I am planning for this upgrade but want to be careful.
Balanand

-Original Message-
From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM 5.1


Built in EXPORT/IMPORT in a single command without an intermediate tape.

-Original Message-
From: Joseph Dawes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 2:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM 5.1


what is move nodedata?



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#2 is not the panacea that it sounds like.  The dual writes to the
copypool's happens during session data transfer to disk pool - thus, you
must have a tape drive per session doing the dual write.

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On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Richard L. Rhodes wrote:

> We had a meeting with IBM last week where they described some of the
> new features of 5.1 - coming within a few weeks.
>
> 1)  multi session restore
> 2)  simultaneous writes to copy pools (more than one)
> 3)  a "move nodedata" command
> 4)  lan-free backup/restore (I thought it already had this)
> 5)  hpux lan-free
>

NFS MOUNTS

[Adams, Mark]

We ran into a problem with NFS mounts on one our clients.
The NFS server went down and when the client tried to backup it just hung.

My question is why does TSM back up NFS by default with no real way to turn
it off.

What can we do to not look at the NFS mounts.

I have tried different exclude statements, but to no avail.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

TSM server 3.7.4
Client 3.7.2.15

Mark Adams
Systems Programmer
CSG Systems, Inc.

Re: NFS MOUNTS

[Robert Clark]

Switch to soft NFS mounts.

Robert Clark
 The Regence Group
Storage Administrator
  503-220-4743



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We ran into a problem with NFS mounts on one our clients.
The NFS server went down and when the client tried to backup it just hung.

My question is why does TSM back up NFS by default with no real way to turn
it off.

What can we do to not look at the NFS mounts.

I have tried different exclude statements, but to no avail.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

TSM server 3.7.4
Client 3.7.2.15

Mark Adams
Systems Programmer
CSG Systems, Inc.



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HELP with TSM and SAN

[Eliza Lau]

We are looking into getting a SAN.  The more books I read about using TSM
to back it up the more confused I am.  I hope someone can answer my questions,
and there are surely more to come.

1.  In the Readbook "Using TSM in a SAN Environment" (from 12/2000, probably
out of date), it states that LAN-free backup can only backup TDP for
Exchange and TDP for SAP R/3 clients  (p.42).  Is this still true?  If
so, will support for the TSM B/A client be available in the future,
maybe TSM 5.1?

2.  LAN-free backup can only back up to tapes, but I can run SANergy to
back up to a file then migrate to tapes.  Someone mentioned that
SANergy cannot use AIX as the server.  Can anyone explain?  Does this
mean SANergy cannot use AIX as the MDC or with this setup you cannot
backup to a AIX server?
We run TSM server on AIX.  Can I run SANergy MDC on another Win2000
box that serves the disk storage pool to the TSM AIX server and migrate
to a 3494 tape pool?  The Win2000 SANergy MDC, AIX TSM server, and 3494
will all be on the SAN.

3.  The IBM salesrep recommends partitioning the 3494 so 2 tape drives will
be connected to the SAN while the remaining 4 drives will not.  Those 4
drives will be available to all the clients that are not on the SAN.
Why can't we just connect all 6 drives to the SAN?  Non-SAN Clients
can still get to them through the AIX TSM server.  Right?
Can Non-SAN clients backup to a non-SAN disk storage pool then
migrate to the SAN attached tape drives via the TSM server, i.e. the way
it is now?

4.  Serverless backup can only be done with SANergy.

5.  Does the "server" in serverless backup mean the Exchange server
and not the TSM server?  This is the impression I get from the redbook.
Serverless backup moves the Exchange data from SAN attached disks to
the tape drives, bypassing the Exchange server. Right?

server: TSM 4.1.3 on AIX 4.3.3 (will be TSM 4.2.1.9 soon, very soon)
SAN clients: Exchange on Win2000, AIX, SUN
non-SAN clients: Wins 2000/NT/98/95, SUN, AIX, Macs, Linux
3494 with 6 FC tape drives connected to the TSM server.


Eliza Lau
Virginia Tech Computing Center
1700 Pratt Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24060
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NFS MOUNTS

[David Longo]

TSM by default DOES NOT backup NFS mounts.  You have to specifically
tell it to with the DOMAIN statement in dsm.opt or dsm.sys, depending
on your platform.  What platform is this?

Maybe there is a CLOPSET set on the server to back it up?

David Longo

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/13/02 04:43PM >>>
We ran into a problem with NFS mounts on one our clients.
The NFS server went down and when the client tried to backup it just hung.

My question is why does TSM back up NFS by default with no real way to turn
it off.

What can we do to not look at the NFS mounts.

I have tried different exclude statements, but to no avail.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

TSM server 3.7.4
Client 3.7.2.15

Mark Adams
Systems Programmer
CSG Systems, Inc.



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Re: HELP with TSM and SAN

[Adolph Kahan]

1. LAN FREE B/A is available with the Storage Agent in TSM 4.2

2. SANergy MDC cannot run on AIX - WIN2k, WINNT, Solaris, Red Hat and
SuSe.

3. The non-SAN clients can backup to a SAN or non-SAN disk pool. The TSM
server writes to the disk pool, the client does not. If the TSM server
has access to the SAN then I would have all of the 3494 tapes attached
to the SAN. Partitioning the library is not required. All of my clients
with 3494 libraries and SAN, have all of the drives on the SAN.

4. Server Free backup will require the use of a San Data Gateway - this
is a hardware box- The current box available from IBM is a 2108-G07.

5. Server Free means both the TSM Server and the Client are not doing
i/o to the disk or tape for backup purposes. This comes with TSM 5.1.
Initially this will be very limited in the clients that are supported
and the TSM server platform.

Adolph Kahan


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
Eliza Lau
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 5:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HELP with TSM and SAN

We are looking into getting a SAN.  The more books I read about using
TSM
to back it up the more confused I am.  I hope someone can answer my
questions,
and there are surely more to come.

1.  In the Readbook "Using TSM in a SAN Environment" (from 12/2000,
probably
out of date), it states that LAN-free backup can only backup TDP for
Exchange and TDP for SAP R/3 clients  (p.42).  Is this still true?
If
so, will support for the TSM B/A client be available in the future,
maybe TSM 5.1?

2.  LAN-free backup can only back up to tapes, but I can run SANergy to
back up to a file then migrate to tapes.  Someone mentioned that
SANergy cannot use AIX as the server.  Can anyone explain?  Does
this
mean SANergy cannot use AIX as the MDC or with this setup you cannot
backup to a AIX server?
We run TSM server on AIX.  Can I run SANergy MDC on another Win2000
box that serves the disk storage pool to the TSM AIX server and
migrate
to a 3494 tape pool?  The Win2000 SANergy MDC, AIX TSM server, and
3494
will all be on the SAN.

3.  The IBM salesrep recommends partitioning the 3494 so 2 tape drives
will
be connected to the SAN while the remaining 4 drives will not.
Those 4
drives will be available to all the clients that are not on the SAN.
Why can't we just connect all 6 drives to the SAN?  Non-SAN Clients
can still get to them through the AIX TSM server.  Right?
Can Non-SAN clients backup to a non-SAN disk storage pool then
migrate to the SAN attached tape drives via the TSM server, i.e. the
way
it is now?

4.  Serverless backup can only be done with SANergy.

5.  Does the "server" in serverless backup mean the Exchange server
and not the TSM server?  This is the impression I get from the
redbook.
Serverless backup moves the Exchange data from SAN attached disks to
the tape drives, bypassing the Exchange server. Right?

server: TSM 4.1.3 on AIX 4.3.3 (will be TSM 4.2.1.9 soon, very soon)
SAN clients: Exchange on Win2000, AIX, SUN
non-SAN clients: Wins 2000/NT/98/95, SUN, AIX, Macs, Linux
3494 with 6 FC tape drives connected to the TSM server.


Eliza Lau
Virginia Tech Computing Center
1700 Pratt Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24060
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JFS2, GPFS, HSM and TSM 5.1

[John Bremer]

Greetings,

At the recent SHARE we saw the TSM roadmap update for 5.1.  In extended
platform support it was said that HSM on 64-bit AIX would be available.

Does anyone know if greater than 1 TeraByte files would be supported on HSM
with TSM 5.1 on AIX?

Thank you.

John Bremer

TDP for Lotus Domino transaction logging

[Clive Johnson]

Hi,
We are currently running TDP for lotus Domino version 1.1.2.0 on NT4 that is running 
Domino 5.08.

We have enabled transaction logging on the domino server using archival logging. The 
backup and roll over of the transaction logs  seems to be working fine. I have 
restored a database and not made it active without errors. (dbname.nsf.dad)
But when I try and apply the logs to the database through the command prompt or the 
TDP GUI I receive an error: "DbMarkCorrupt" and further down "Recovery Manager: Error 
from Logging Subsystem"

Does anyone have any ideas or come across this before.

Thanks
Clive



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tdpsqlc query error: ACO0261I

[Allan Kelly]

Our DBAs are getting the following error when issuing "tdpsqlc query tsm
pubs" using the TDP SQL 2.2.0.01 CLI:

ACO0261I There are no backups for the server named PC1162\meta\.

client is TDP SQL 2.2.0.01 with SQL 7 running on Windows 2000 Pro
server is TSM 4.1.3.0 on NT 4.0

Any ideas what might be causing this?

Thanks.

Allan Kelly.

Overland Data Neo LXN4000 Tape library

[Marc D. Taylor]

Hello Fellow SM'ers:

Is there anyone out there using the Neo LXN4000 tape library?  If so what
are your thoughts and impressions (Speed, cost, reliability, service, etc)?

Thanks in advance.

Marc Taylor

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Re: Reorg your database

[David Smith]

Michael,

I ran the db unload to a file device class.  I set the max capacity to a
value greater than the database size so that it only ran to one volume.  I
did have trouble on 4.1.2 when it reached the EOV of the first file volume.

Havn't tried it to a disk (random access) device.

Regards,

David Smith
AIX Administrator
Corporate Express Australia


-Original Message-
From: Michael, Monte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 14 March 2002 2:26 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Reorg your database


Dave,

Can you unload the TSM database to a disk volume? I have always unloaded to
a 3590 tape drive.  Disk would be much faster..

Monte

-Original Message-
From: David Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 4:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Reorg your database


Mark,

I've just unloaded/loaded our TSM 4.1.5 database to fix performance
problems.  Our 18GB database shrank to 11GB and a 'query archive' that used
to run for over an hour now takes 10 seconds.  It took 4 hours to dump (to a
fileclass volume) and 2 hours to load on an RS/6000 6M1 but it was mostly
I/O so I don't think the speed of the machine helped all that much.

I did have a failure running it on 4.1.2 server as it locked up when
changing from one file volume to another.  I updated to 4.1.5 and made the
fileclass max volume size 20GB.  The unload then ran fine to the one file
volume.

Regards,

David Smith
AIX Administrator
Corporate Express Australia


-Original Message-
From: Mark Hayden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 13 March 2002 7:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Reorg your database


Hello, I have been checking into and reading e-mails from here regarding
reorganizing your database. It sounds like this should be done every so
often. We have some problems that I believe this may fix, but am a little
bit nervous and have not done so. My question is ( for people who have ran
this) How has it worked for you and do you run this as a procedure, or only
when you think the DB is fragmented or in need. Maybe how difficult is the
procedure, and any do's and don'ts..Thanks for your help!

Thanks, Mark Hayden
Network Administrator
E-Mail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: policy for reclamation of copy storage pool tapes

[Gabriel Wiley]

50%

It's all up to you, and how many tapes you have laying around.
How paranoid are you of a disaster and how long do you want to be @ the
hotsite waiting for all those tapes mounts to restore the data ...

Gabriel C. Wiley
ADSM/TSM Administrator
AIX Support
Phone 1-614-308-6709
Pager  1-877-489-2867
Fax  1-614-308-6637
Cell   1-740-972-6441

Siempre Hay Esperanza




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  Manager"





 just checking on what policy some of you use for space reclamation
on storage copy pool tapes

Tim Brown
Systems Specialist
Information Systems
Central Hudson Gas & Electric
tel: 845-486-5643
fax: 845-586-5921

Re: TSM 5.1

[Seay, Paul]

TSM 5.1 will probably be the most tested release ever delivered by Tivoli;
however, I would still be careful about installing it at GA.  I would test
it internally a lot with a similar configuration to production if I
installed it early, but we will see if any of the Beta testing sites have
any feedback.

-Original Message-
From: PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 4:08 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM 5.1


Can we say its safe to upgrade when the product arrives.
Since I ma not shure for patches on the way !
I am planning for this upgrade but want to be careful.
Balanand

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From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:30 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM 5.1


Built in EXPORT/IMPORT in a single command without an intermediate tape.

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Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 2:19 PM
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Subject: Re: TSM 5.1


what is move nodedata?



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#2 is not the panacea that it sounds like.  The dual writes to the
copypool's happens during session data transfer to disk pool - thus, you
must have a tape drive per session doing the dual write.

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On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Richard L. Rhodes wrote:

> We had a meeting with IBM last week where they described some of the
> new features of 5.1 - coming within a few weeks.
>
> 1)  multi session restore
> 2)  simultaneous writes to copy pools (more than one)
> 3)  a "move nodedata" command
> 4)  lan-free backup/restore (I thought it already had this)
> 5)  hpux lan-free
>

Re: NFS MOUNTS

[Gabriel Wiley]

What OS ??


This taken from admin guide for AIX pg 221:

Nfstimeout
The nfstimeout option specifies the number of seconds the server
waits for a status system call on an NFS file system before it times out.
You can use this option to mitigate the default behavior of status
calls on NFS file systems. For example, if an NFS file system is
stale, a status system call will be timed out by NFS (softmounted) or
hang the process (hardmounted).
When the value of this option is changed to a value other than zero,
a new (child) process is created to issue the status system call. The
new process is timed out by the main (parent) process and the
operation can continue.
Note: The server can also define this option.
Options File
Place this option in the client system options file (dsm.sys) within a
server stanza or the client options file (dsm.opt).
Syntax
NFSTIMEout number Õ
Parameters
number
Specifies the number of seconds the server waits for a status
system call on an NFS file system before timing out. The default
is 0 seconds.
Examples
Options file:
nfstimeout 10
Command line:
-nfstimeout=10

Good luck~

Gabriel C. Wiley
ADSM/TSM Administrator
AIX Support
Phone 1-614-308-6709
Pager  1-877-489-2867
Fax  1-614-308-6637
Cell   1-740-972-6441

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TSM by default DOES NOT backup NFS mounts.  You have to specifically
tell it to with the DOMAIN statement in dsm.opt or dsm.sys, depending
on your platform.  What platform is this?

Maybe there is a CLOPSET set on the server to back it up?

David Longo

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/13/02 04:43PM >>>
We ran into a problem with NFS mounts on one our clients.
The NFS server went down and when the client tried to backup it just hung.

My question is why does TSM back up NFS by default with no real way to turn
it off.

What can we do to not look at the NFS mounts.

I have tried different exclude statements, but to no avail.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

TSM server 3.7.4
Client 3.7.2.15

Mark Adams
Systems Programmer
CSG Systems, Inc.



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virtual volumes?

[Wholey, Joseph (TGA\\MLOL)]

I could really use some help on this one...

TSMv4.1.3 server on S/390
TSMv4.1.5 server on AIX-RS/6000

I set up server to server communications.  All works well.
I set up virtual volumes from the TSM RS/6000 to the TSM S/390 server.  All looked 
well until I noticed that the utilization on the tape pool I thought I was writing to 
never changed.  Upon further
investigation, I noticed I was writing to a disk pool.  Can't figure out how it's 
happening.
e.g. I direct data (backup db type=full dev=vvol) to the device class vvol, which of 
course is devtype server, it's going to a storage pool that writes to disk.  
Unfortunately, this is not how I set
this up.  I suspect it has something to do with my copygroup or mgmtclass... here's 
the output of 4 queries... I know it's quite a bit to look at, but I'd appreciate if 
someone could shed some light
on this one.  I'm a little confused.

tsm: ADSM-ML-WSTP>q mgmtclass virtual-vols virtual-policy vv-default f=d

Policy Domain Name: VIRTUAL-VOLS
   Policy Set Name: VIRTUAL-POLICY
   Mgmt Class Name: VV-DEFAULT
  Default Mgmt Class ?: Yes
   Description: vldb data
Space Management Technique: None
   Auto-Migrate on Non-Use: 0
Migration Requires Backup?: Yes
 Migration Destination: SPACEMGPOOL
Last Update by (administrator): TGADSJW
 Last Update Date/Time: 03/13/2002 15:20:11
  Managing profile:

**
**
tsm: ADSM-ML-WSTP>q co virtual-vols virtual-policy f=d

Policy Domain Name: VIRTUAL-VOLS
   Policy Set Name: VIRTUAL-POLICY
   Mgmt Class Name: VV-DEFAULT
   Copy Group Name: STANDARD
   Copy Group Type: Backup
  Versions Data Exists: 2
 Versions Data Deleted: 1
 Retain Extra Versions: 30
   Retain Only Version: 60
 Copy Mode: Modified
Copy Serialization: Shared Static
Copy Frequency: 0
  Copy Destination: VLDB-POOL
Last Update by (administrator): TGADSJW
 Last Update Date/Time: 11/14/2001 11:22:08
  Managing profile:

**
tsm: ADSM-ML-WSTP>q stg vldb-pool f=d

   Storage Pool Name: VLDB-POOL
   Storage Pool Type: Primary
   Device Class Name: WATL2BFS
 Estimated Capacity (MB): 0.0
Pct Util: 0.0
Pct Migr: 0.0
 Pct Logical: 100.0
High Mig Pct: 90
 Low Mig Pct: 70
 Migration Delay: 0
  Migration Continue: Yes
 Migration Processes:
   Next Storage Pool:
Reclaim Storage Pool:
  Maximum Size Threshold: No Limit
  Access: Read/Write
 Description: VLDB data stored at West Street
   Overflow Location:
   Cache Migrated Files?:
  Collocate?: No
   Reclamation Threshold: 60
 Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed: 9,999
   Delay Period for Volume Reuse: 0 Day(s)
  Migration in Progress?: No
Amount Migrated (MB): 0.00
Elapsed Migration Time (seconds): 0
Reclamation in Progress?: No
 Volume Being Migrated/Reclaimed:
  Last Update by (administrator): TGADSJW
   Last Update Date/Time: 03/08/2002 10:38:48
**
**
tsm: ADSM-ML-WSTP>q devclass watl2bfs f=d
 Device Class Name: WATL2BFS
Device Access Strategy: Sequential
Storage Pool Count: 3
Last Update by (administrator): TGADSBJ
 Last Update Date/Time: 01/29/2001 10:48:05
   Device Type: 3590
 Maximum Capacity (MB):
   Estimated Capacity (MB): 61,440.0
   Dataset Name Prefix: ADSM
   Mount Limit: 6
 Mount Retention (min): 5
Label Type: IBMSL
   Expiration Date: 2155365
  Mount Wait (min): 60
 Unit Name: WATL2
Volser:
   Compression: No
Protection: No
 Retention:
   Server Name:
  Retry Period:
Retry Interval:

Re: tdpsqlc query error: ACO0261I

[Del Hoobler]

> Our DBAs are getting the following error when issuing "tdpsqlc query tsm
> pubs" using the TDP SQL 2.2.0.01 CLI:
>
> ACO0261I There are no backups for the server named PC1162\meta\.
>
> client is TDP SQL 2.2.0.01 with SQL 7 running on Windows 2000 Pro
> server is TSM 4.1.3.0 on NT 4.0
>
> Any ideas what might be causing this?

Allan,

This isn't much information to go by.
Are you certain that there have been backups
for that SQL server... i.e. SQL server "PC1162"?

Do you have SQLSERVER overrides specified
in your tdpsql.cfg file that could be
throwing the query off?

What does the TSM server command:

 QUERY FILESPACE nodename *

show for your TDP for SQL node?
What server name is specified in the filespace name?

Thanks,

Del



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IBM Corporation
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- Leave everything a little better than you found it.
- Smile a lot: it costs nothing and is beyond price.

Re: TDP for Lotus Domino transaction logging

[Del Hoobler]

> Hi,
> We are currently running TDP for lotus Domino version 1.1.2.0 on NT4 that
is running Domino 5.08.
>
> We have enabled transaction logging on the domino server using archival
logging. The backup and roll over of
> the transaction logs  seems to be working fine. I have restored a
database and not made it active without
>errors. (dbname.nsf.dad)
> But when I try and apply the logs to the database through the command
prompt or the TDP GUI I receive an
> error: "DbMarkCorrupt" and further down "Recovery Manager: Error from
Logging Subsystem"
>
> Does anyone have any ideas or come across this before.

Clive,

Yes.  We have seen this before.  In some cases
it was caused by an apply logs to a database
that was over its quota... and in other cases
it was caused by and actual corrupted database.

But we would need a trace to diagnose this further.
Please call IBM support so we can get a trace
of the failure.

Thanks,

Del



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IBM Corporation
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Re: Reorg your database

[Seay, Paul]

The database is blocked at 4K.  I doubt what you are saying is true.
Simply, the database disk will never run at 33MB/sec.  It really depends on
how your tape and disk are configured.

-Original Message-
From: Michael, Monte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:26 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Reorg your database


Dave,

Can you unload the TSM database to a disk volume? I have always unloaded to
a 3590 tape drive.  Disk would be much faster..

Monte

-Original Message-
From: David Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 4:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Reorg your database


Mark,

I've just unloaded/loaded our TSM 4.1.5 database to fix performance
problems.  Our 18GB database shrank to 11GB and a 'query archive' that used
to run for over an hour now takes 10 seconds.  It took 4 hours to dump (to a
fileclass volume) and 2 hours to load on an RS/6000 6M1 but it was mostly
I/O so I don't think the speed of the machine helped all that much.

I did have a failure running it on 4.1.2 server as it locked up when
changing from one file volume to another.  I updated to 4.1.5 and made the
fileclass max volume size 20GB.  The unload then ran fine to the one file
volume.

Regards,

David Smith
AIX Administrator
Corporate Express Australia
67-77 Epsom Rd Sydney NSW
PH 02 93350318 or 0412 258 208



-Original Message-
From: Mark Hayden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 13 March 2002 7:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Reorg your database


Hello, I have been checking into and reading e-mails from here regarding
reorganizing your database. It sounds like this should be done every so
often. We have some problems that I believe this may fix, but am a little
bit nervous and have not done so. My question is ( for people who have ran
this) How has it worked for you and do you run this as a procedure, or only
when you think the DB is fragmented or in need. Maybe how difficult is the
procedure, and any do's and don'ts..Thanks for your help!

Thanks, Mark Hayden
Network Administrator
E-Mail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reorg your database

[David Smith]

Paul,

Where do you get the figure 33MB/sec?

11000MB / 7200sec = 1.53MB/sec

Regards,

David Smith
AIX Administrator
Corporate Express Australia

-Original Message-
From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 14 March 2002 3:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Reorg your database

The database is blocked at 4K.  I doubt what you are saying is true.
Simply, the database disk will never run at 33MB/sec.  It really depends on
how your tape and disk are configured.

-Original Message-
From: Michael, Monte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:26 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Reorg your database


Dave,

Can you unload the TSM database to a disk volume? I have always unloaded to
a 3590 tape drive.  Disk would be much faster..

Monte

-Original Message-
From: David Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 4:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Reorg your database


Mark,

I've just unloaded/loaded our TSM 4.1.5 database to fix performance
problems.  Our 18GB database shrank to 11GB and a 'query archive' that used
to run for over an hour now takes 10 seconds.  It took 4 hours to dump (to a
fileclass volume) and 2 hours to load on an RS/6000 6M1 but it was mostly
I/O so I don't think the speed of the machine helped all that much.

I did have a failure running it on 4.1.2 server as it locked up when
changing from one file volume to another.  I updated to 4.1.5 and made the
fileclass max volume size 20GB.  The unload then ran fine to the one file
volume.

Regards,

David Smith
AIX Administrator
Corporate Express Australia
67-77 Epsom Rd Sydney NSW
PH 02 93350318 or 0412 258 208



-Original Message-
From: Mark Hayden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 13 March 2002 7:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Reorg your database


Hello, I have been checking into and reading e-mails from here regarding
reorganizing your database. It sounds like this should be done every so
often. We have some problems that I believe this may fix, but am a little
bit nervous and have not done so. My question is ( for people who have ran
this) How has it worked for you and do you run this as a procedure, or only
when you think the DB is fragmented or in need. Maybe how difficult is the
procedure, and any do's and don'ts..Thanks for your help!

Thanks, Mark Hayden
Network Administrator
E-Mail:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Taperotation form onsinte to offsite and back

[Arthur Hundhammer]

Hi Wanda,

the library and device classes was defined with the commands below:

define library DTS09-LIB1 libtype=external -
externalmanager='c:\program files\GES\EDT\bin\elm.exe

define devclass tapedevc devtype=ecartridge format=9840C library=DTS09-LIB1
mountlimit=3  -
mountwait=60 mountretention=0 prefix=tp2a10 estcapacity=19g