Re: StorageTek L700E library & TSM question

[HEMPSTEAD, Tim]

Wayne,

Its hard to tell as our L700 is windowless as its upgraded to have no
windows but lots of slots etc. From what I remember from last time I did
things with it onsite instead of remotely it did not inventory the CAP when
the tapes were entered into it and the CAP closed.  The silo only looked at
the CAP once we executed the checkin command with the bulk switch.

You could try using lbtest to produce an inventory of the library (with TSM
down) to see if that picks up anything in the CAP area which would indicate
if the library/lb0 device was picking up the CAP ok.

Regards

Tim

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From: Spearman, Wayne [mailto:wmspearman@;NOVANTHEALTH.ORG]
Sent: 05 November 2002 15:46
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Hi Tim,
Thanks for the reply. At your next opportunity could you confirm whether the
robot inventories the CAP when you insert a tape in it and whether this is
done before the checkin command is issued?

You help is greatly appreciated,
Wayne

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From: HEMPSTEAD, Tim [mailto:Tim.HEMPSTEAD@;READING.SEMA.SLB.COM]
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We have a L700 with TSM on AIX and we just put the tapes in the CAPs and
then do a checkin from bulk and then reply to the request as per normal.
Incidentally we also had major problems with our L700 like Robin has had
below.  I don't know if it would help but you could try redefining the
library device (lb0) and see if recreating that makes any difference.

Tim


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From: Robin Sharpe [mailto:Robin_Sharpe@;BERLEX.COM]
Sent: 05 November 2002 15:16
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Sounds like there is something wrong with your library.  We have an HP
20/700, which is a rebadged STK L700.  I'm pretty sure the robot does look
at the CAP when we put tapes in without being prompted by TSM.  We
definitely see tapes in there on the web interface, and checkins work as
expected.  Do you have one CAP or two?  We have two, and it always goes to
CAP B (the one on the right) first, for everything.  We have another 20/700
at our west coast location, and they have had lots of problems with it...
mostly robot/barcode related.  Many parts were replaced.  They went
back-level in firmware to match us.  They finally got it stable, but it
required many months and intensive involvement of HP "top gun" CE.  We
started with TSM 4.1 & upgraded to 5.1 on HP-UX server, and the 20/700
worked fone on both (there were new drivers in 5.1 for HP-UX).

Robin Sharpe
Berlex Labs



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Hi All,
We have a new STK L700e LTO tape library attached to a new AIX TSM server.
We are not running ACLS on the library. I can't get the library to accept
tapes via the Cartridge Access Point (CAP). We open the door, place a tape
in the slot, close the door, and run the checkin command specifying BULK.
The process ends in a failure. The robot never looks at the CAP.

When we put the tape in the CAP, the robot never inventories the CAP. I find
this odd as our IBM 3494 tape libraries always check the CAP when the door
is opened to see what has happened. STK support says their library doesn't
do this. STK support says TSM has to tell the robot to go check the CAP. I
can't find anything in the TSM books that supports this. The STK web GUI
never shows tapes in the CAP either.

Can anyone help with this dilemma?

Thanks,

Wayne Spearman
Information Technology - Software Systems Engineer
Novant Health - Central Services
Charlotte, NC
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Re: Volume not available?

[Henrik Wahlstedt]

I agree. And a restart of TSM as Bob suggested can also solve the problem.

Yesterday i got this message 'ANR8442E CHECKOUT LIBVOLUME: Volume 000141 in
library STK9710 is currently in use.' There were no processes, mounts or
sessions but I still couldn´t checkout my volume before i restarted TSM?
Annoying..
I know TSM have problems with canceling sessions/processes which tends to
pend a long time, but they still show up in actlog, or?

Besides that, how can I audit a volume if i cant mount it?

//Henrik




   

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I have seen this happen once (long time ago) I did not get an answer from
IBM as to what caused the problem.  However the following steps did fix the
problem:

1. check the tape out of the library with remove=no option.
2. Open up the library and put the tape in the recovery slot.
3. Check the tape back into the library.

I just checked my notes.  The only reason that the tape was checked out
with
the remove=no option was that a regular checkout  failed.  I do not have
anything in my notes as to why we put the tape in the recovery slot vs. the
I/O station.

I hope this helps in your situation.

Jim

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I'm getting "ANR1229W Volume 700270 cannot be backed up - volume is
offline or access mode is "unavailable" or "destroyed" " messages for a
volume.  A "q libvol 3494 700270"  reports the volume is in the library.
 A "q vol 700270 f=d" reports access=read/write and status=filling.  The
tape is not already mounted on a drive when the error occus.  So in what
sense is this tape unavailable or destroyed and how do I convince TSM to
use the tape.

David





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Re: Client Scheduler stopping/ TSM 5.1.5.1

[Gianluca Mariani1]

my feeling is that Resource Timeout will not change the situation.it should
help in giving insight in the lock status.
I am seeing this elsewhere but we have not yet found out the culprit. at
least in EMEA.
one workaround with the NT scheduler is to use AT commands to stop/start it
remotely if you can do that. some people on the forum will smile now
because it will remind them of things alredy seen... ;-)



Cordiali saluti
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A short update to everyone watching the TSM 5.1.5.1 posts. I've been asked
twice to change Resource Timeout value, which is now 100. Most of the
missed
backups I was having are gone but support still wants me to monitor for the
lock I was seeing and then run a bunch of commands to gather info if I can.
Unfortunately backups are so late I've just had it. It's not that I don't
want to help, it's just so late I'm tired.

As for the missed backups I am seeing now, I can tell it's because the
schedule service is stopped. Since I don't have access to these computers I
can't start it, don't know if it stopped on its own, or if someone
purposefully stopped it. Are there any issues related to the Scheduler
service stopping with certain levels of TSM client on WIN2K or NT?

I'm also seeing a failed report on what looks like a completed backup. The
data is there, the session tries to connect to the server and none are
available and an entry in the client log as failed. ANS1512E Scheduled
event
BLAH-BLAH failed. Return code=12. After the 15 minute window it retries and
sends the data to the server because this time it got a connection and it
returns the next scheduled backup.

Geoff Gill
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Client Schedules won't work

[Bill Dourado]

Hi ,

I am in the process of upgrading my NT clients from 4.1.1.0
to 4.2.3.1 as a fix for daylight saving problem.

My TSM Server is  4.1.4.1

I cannot get scheduled backups for 4.2.3.1 clients to run successfully ,
4.1.1.0 clients work OK as always.

Error MSG:
"ANR2716E Schedule prompter was not able to contact client D411."
(Stopping & starting TSM services on the client gets the schedule to run)

Here is D411 dsm.opt file :-

PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE
TCPSERVERADDRESSadsm1.alstec.com

ERRORLOGRETENTION   7 D
TCPCLIENTADDRESSlocalhost
SCHEDMODE PROMPTED
SCHEDLOGRETENTION   7D

All my 4.1.1.0 clients use SCHEDMODE PROMPTED & PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE

I am still battling the "daylight saving problem" so any help will be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Re: Troubleshooting performance issues

[Zlatko Krastev/ACIT]

---> TCPWindowsize 64512

TSM Reference Manual:
"TCPWINDOWSIZE
Specifies, in kilobytes, the amount of receive data that can be buffered
at one time on a TCP/IP connection.
...
3. A window size larger than the buffer space on the network adapter might
degrade throughput due to resending packets that were lost on the adapter.
"
Try "tcpwindowsize 256" instead

---> 3 IDE drives

Is the DB on separate drive? How many volumes ?!?! What is the drive and
what is the DB cache hit ratio?
IDE drives perform terrible if you issue more than one operation against
them - commands are queued in the device driver or controller but the
drive is executing them one-by-one. If you have master+slave drive on same
IDE channel - one drive have to wait until the other finishes its
operation and frees the IDE bus.
Do yourself a favour - buy one or two SCSI drives. It is a server on the
end.

---> 3 drives.  OS - DB - LOG

Your network is 100 Mb/s (~= 10 MB/s). The drives in 3583 are LTO, right
(15MB/s). You wrote 3 drives (and small diskpool or no at all) - so you
are attempting to backup direct to tape? Thus your network is unable to
feed the beast quickly enough and LTO has to stop-rewind back-start.
Usually under such circumstances you not only are wearing out to drive but
also are getting 1-3 MB/s (or less) tape-write rate.

---> Network data transfer rate:  570.67 KB/sec

It might be worth to check the network (preferably after paying attention
to above remarks). The TSM server is 100+Full+NoAuto but what about the
client nodes, switch(es)?

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






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I have some major performance issues during archive operations.  I also
have bad performance durning backups, but the backup window is large so
they complete without any problems.  I can't seem to put my finger on the
bottleneck and was wondering if someone had a document to recommend when
looking for performance issues?

Here is the scenario:

TSM 4.2.2.10 server on W2K (SP2)
3 IDE drives.  OS - DB - LOG
100 Mbs/Full Duplex (not auto)
LTO 3583 SCSI attached to the server
Server Options:
CommTimeOut 60
IdleTimeOut 30
BufPoolSize 81920
LogPoolSize 512
TxnGroupMax 256
MoveBatchSize 256
MoveSizeThresh 500
UseLargeBuffers Yes
NOBUFPREfetch No
AuditStorage Yes
SELFTUNEBUFpool Yes
SELFTUNETXNsize Yes
TCPWindowsize 64512
TCPNoDelay Yes

There are 10 clients running 4.2.2.x (mostly 4.2.2.0).  I have not set any
performance settings in the DSM.OPTs.  The servers have less than 10 GB of
data each.  I have 5 of them archiving to tape at the same time and they
are all running very slowly:

05-11-2002 01:29:29   ANE4952I (Session: 5848, Node: HY-ORAPED-2000) Total

   number of objects inspected:  102,322
05-11-2002 01:29:29   ANE4953I (Session: 5848, Node: HY-ORAPED-2000) Total

   number of objects archived:86,989
05-11-2002 01:29:29   ANE4961I (Session: 5848, Node: HY-ORAPED-2000) Total

   number of bytes transferred: 6.46 Go
05-11-2002 01:29:29   ANE4963I (Session: 5848, Node: HY-ORAPED-2000)  Data

   transfer time:11,875.56 sec
05-11-2002 01:29:29   ANE4966I (Session: 5848, Node: HY-ORAPED-2000)
Network
   data transfer rate:  570.67 KB/sec
05-11-2002 01:29:29   ANE4967I (Session: 5848, Node: HY-ORAPED-2000)
Aggregate
   data transfer rate:511.71 KB/sec
05-11-2002 01:29:29   ANE4968I (Session: 5848, Node: HY-ORAPED-2000)
Objects
   compressed by:0%
05-11-2002 01:29:29   ANE4964I (Session: 5848, Node: HY-ORAPED-2000)
Elapsed
   processing time:03:40:43

This was the fast one, I also have this W2K client:

05-11-2002 07:25:34   ANE4952I (Session: 5906, Node: HY-OSRV-2000)  Total
number
   of objects inspected:8,424
05-11-2002 07:25:34   ANE4953I (Session: 5906, Node: HY-OSRV-2000)  Total
number
   of objects archived: 8,364
05-11-2002 07:25:34   ANE4961I (Session: 5906, Node: HY-OSRV-2000)  Total
number
   of bytes transferred: 2.76 Go
05-11-2002 07:25:34   ANE4963I (Session: 5906, Node: HY-OSRV-2000)  Data

   transfer time:2,871.55 sec
05-11-2002 07:25:34   ANE4966I (Session: 5906, Node: HY-OSRV-2000) Network
data
   transfer rate:1,008.95 KB/sec
05-11-2002 07:25:34   ANE4967I (Session: 5906, Node: HY-OSRV-2000)
Aggregate
   data transfer rate: 97.15 KB/sec
05-11-2002 07:25:34   ANE4968I (Session: 5906, Node: HY-OSRV-2000) Objects

   compressed by:0%
05-11-2002 07:25

Re: A headachy question!TSM language is not the same as my OS language.

[Zlatko Krastev/ACIT]

Try to do "export LANG=en_US" before starting dsmadmc/dsmc. I have no idea 
how is the Chinese keyboard layout but in our Bulgarian (Cyrillic) there 
is a way to switch between cyrillic/latin alphabets. Check what happens 
when Alt-LeftShift & Alt-RightShift is pressed (do not use right Alt/AltGr 
key).

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






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Hi all;
I had installed a TSM server and client in my RS/6000(my operation system 
is AIX 4.3.3),and my  system language is Chinese GBK not use english,but 
my TSM is english edtion,now when I try to use this client communicate 
with my RS/6000 TSM server,  the client don¡®t display the user ID ,when I 
input the user ID and the password the password proclaimed in writing,and 
the server feedback the password error.What should I do now?


fenglimian
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Re: Troubleshooting performance issues

[Gianluca Mariani1]

try also:


BufPoolSize 81920 --> set to 10% of RAM
UseLargeBuffers Yes ---> set to NO
MoveBatchSize 256 ---> set to 1000

for the rest Zlatko said it all, especially about the tapes. maybe you can
run an instr_client_detail trace to take a look at where the bottleneck
might be.
what about client options?

Cordiali saluti
Gianluca Mariani
Tivoli TSM Global Response Team, Roma
Via Sciangai 53, Roma
 phones : +39(0)659664598
   +393351270554 (mobile)
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---> TCPWindowsize 64512

TSM Reference Manual:
"TCPWINDOWSIZE
Specifies, in kilobytes, the amount of receive data that can be buffered
at one time on a TCP/IP connection.
...
3. A window size larger than the buffer space on the network adapter might
degrade throughput due to resending packets that were lost on the adapter.
"
Try "tcpwindowsize 256" instead

---> 3 IDE drives

Is the DB on separate drive? How many volumes ?!?! What is the drive and
what is the DB cache hit ratio?
IDE drives perform terrible if you issue more than one operation against
them - commands are queued in the device driver or controller but the
drive is executing them one-by-one. If you have master+slave drive on same
IDE channel - one drive have to wait until the other finishes its
operation and frees the IDE bus.
Do yourself a favour - buy one or two SCSI drives. It is a server on the
end.

---> 3 drives.  OS - DB - LOG

Your network is 100 Mb/s (~= 10 MB/s). The drives in 3583 are LTO, right
(15MB/s). You wrote 3 drives (and small diskpool or no at all) - so you
are attempting to backup direct to tape? Thus your network is unable to
feed the beast quickly enough and LTO has to stop-rewind back-start.
Usually under such circumstances you not only are wearing out to drive but
also are getting 1-3 MB/s (or less) tape-write rate.

---> Network data transfer rate:  570.67 KB/sec

It might be worth to check the network (preferably after paying attention
to above remarks). The TSM server is 100+Full+NoAuto but what about the
client nodes, switch(es)?

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






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I have some major performance issues during archive operations.  I also
have bad performance durning backups, but the backup window is large so
they complete without any problems.  I can't seem to put my finger on the
bottleneck and was wondering if someone had a document to recommend when
looking for performance issues?

Here is the scenario:

TSM 4.2.2.10 server on W2K (SP2)
3 IDE drives.  OS - DB - LOG
100 Mbs/Full Duplex (not auto)
LTO 3583 SCSI attached to the server
Server Options:
CommTimeOut 60
IdleTimeOut 30
BufPoolSize 81920
LogPoolSize 512
TxnGroupMax 256
MoveBatchSize 256
MoveSizeThresh 500
UseLargeBuffers Yes
NOBUFPREfetch No
AuditStorage Yes
SELFTUNEBUFpool Yes
SELFTUNETXNsize Yes
TCPWindowsize 64512
TCPNoDelay Yes

There are 10 clients running 4.2.2.x (mostly 4.2.2.0).  I have not set any
performance settings in the DSM.OPTs.  The servers have less than 10 GB of
data each.  I have 5 of them archiving to tape at the same time and they
are all running very slowly:

05-11-2002 01:29:29   ANE4952I (Session: 5848, Node: HY-ORAPED-2000) Total

   number of objects inspected:  102,322
05-11-2002 01:29:29   ANE4953I (Session: 5848, Node: HY-ORAPED-2000) Total

   number of objects archived:86,989
05-11-2002 01:29:29   ANE4961I (Session: 5848, Node: HY-ORAPED-2000) Total

   number of bytes transferred: 6.46 Go
05-11-2002 01:29:29   ANE4963I (Session: 5848, Node: HY-ORAPED-2000)  Data

   transfer time:11,875.56 sec
05-11-2002 01:29:29   ANE4966I (Session: 5848, Node: HY-ORAPED-2000)
Network
   data transfer rate:  570.67 KB/sec
05-11-2002 01:29:29   ANE4967I (Session: 5848, Node: HY-ORAPED-2000)
Aggregate
  

Re: Troubleshooting performance issues

[Michael Kindermann]

hello,

the reason for slow backup or archiving is in my expierience mostly a
mismatch in switchport speed. On the other hand i had very backupperformance after
there had been a   new virusscan engine installed. In this case the W2k
Servers show no influence but the 4.0 NT Servers did. In this case the CPU-Usage
is up to 100%. So may have a look at applications which are in conflict with
your TSM-Clients.

regards

M.Kindermann
Wuerzburg/Germany
> try also:
>
>
> BufPoolSize 81920 --> set to 10% of RAM
> UseLargeBuffers Yes ---> set to NO
> MoveBatchSize 256 ---> set to 1000
>
> for the rest Zlatko said it all, especially about the tapes. maybe you can
> run an instr_client_detail trace to take a look at where the bottleneck
> might be.
> what about client options?
>
> Cordiali saluti
> Gianluca Mariani
> Tivoli TSM Global Response Team, Roma
> Via Sciangai 53, Roma
>  phones : +39(0)659664598
>+393351270554 (mobile)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>

>
> "The people of Krikkit,are, well, you know, they're just a bunch of real
> sweet guys, you know, who just happen to want to kill everybody. Hell, I
> feel the same way some mornings..."
>
>
>
>  Zlatko
>  Krastev/ACIT
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>   Stor Manager"
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> ---> TCPWindowsize 64512
>
> TSM Reference Manual:
> "TCPWINDOWSIZE
> Specifies, in kilobytes, the amount of receive data that can be buffered
> at one time on a TCP/IP connection.
> ...
> 3. A window size larger than the buffer space on the network adapter might
> degrade throughput due to resending packets that were lost on the adapter.
> "
> Try "tcpwindowsize 256" instead
>
> ---> 3 IDE drives
>
> Is the DB on separate drive? How many volumes ?!?! What is the drive and
> what is the DB cache hit ratio?
> IDE drives perform terrible if you issue more than one operation against
> them - commands are queued in the device driver or controller but the
> drive is executing them one-by-one. If you have master+slave drive on same
> IDE channel - one drive have to wait until the other finishes its
> operation and frees the IDE bus.
> Do yourself a favour - buy one or two SCSI drives. It is a server on the
> end.
>
> ---> 3 drives.  OS - DB - LOG
>
> Your network is 100 Mb/s (~= 10 MB/s). The drives in 3583 are LTO, right
> (15MB/s). You wrote 3 drives (and small diskpool or no at all) - so you
> are attempting to backup direct to tape? Thus your network is unable to
> feed the beast quickly enough and LTO has to stop-rewind back-start.
> Usually under such circumstances you not only are wearing out to drive but
> also are getting 1-3 MB/s (or less) tape-write rate.
>
> ---> Network data transfer rate:  570.67 KB/sec
>
> It might be worth to check the network (preferably after paying attention
> to above remarks). The TSM server is 100+Full+NoAuto but what about the
> client nodes, switch(es)?
>
> Zlatko Krastev
> IT Consultant
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Etienne Brodeur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> I have some major performance issues during archive operations.  I also
> have bad performance durning backups, but the backup window is large so
> they complete without any problems.  I can't seem to put my finger on the
> bottleneck and was wondering if someone had a document to recommend when
> looking for performance issues?
>
> Here is the scenario:
>
> TSM 4.2.2.10 server on W2K (SP2)
> 3 IDE drives.  OS - DB - LOG
> 100 Mbs/Full Duplex (not auto)
> LTO 3583 SCSI attached to the server
> Server Options:
> CommTimeOut 60
> IdleTimeOut 30
> BufPoolSize 81920
> LogPoolSize 512
> TxnGroupMax 256
> MoveBatchSize 256
> MoveSizeThresh 500
> UseLargeBuffers Yes
> NOBUFPREfetch No
> AuditStorage Yes
> SELFTUNEBUFpool Yes
> SELFTUNETXNsize Yes
> TCPWindowsize 64512
> TCPNoDelay Yes
>
> There are 10 clients running 4.2.2.x (mostly 4.2.2.0).  I have not set any
> performance settings in the DSM.OPTs.  The servers have less than 10 GB of
> data each.  I have 5 of them archiving to tape at the same time and they
> are all running very slowly:
>
> 05-11-2002 01:29:29   ANE4952I (Session: 5848, Node: HY-ORAPED-2000) Total
>
> 

TEST

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Backing up remote filesystems

[Charles F. Fisher]

I've got a user who wants to back up an NFS mounted filesystem from an
SGI box.  He's using the 4.2.2 client, the server is at 4.2.2. He can back
the filesystem up manually, but it does not back up at when the backup is
run by the scheduler.  I'm missing something he needs to set; what do I need
to do?

Thanks.
Chuck Fisher
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Re: Backing up remote filesystems

[Frost, Dave]

The default domain for unix is all-local.In order to backup nfs mounts,
they need to be specified in a domain statement:

A statement like this should do the trick:

domain   all-local   /nfs_mnt1/nfs_mnt2

Of course if you  don't want _any_ of the host, take out the all-local.

Regards

Dave
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I've got a user who wants to back up an NFS mounted filesystem from an
SGI box.  He's using the 4.2.2 client, the server is at 4.2.2. He can back
the filesystem up manually, but it does not back up at when the backup is
run by the scheduler.  I'm missing something he needs to set; what do I
need
to do?

Thanks.
Chuck Fisher
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Diskpool volume mirroring

[Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM]

Hi *SM-ers!
Our AIX guys have added 6 SSA disk to our TSM server for mirroring and now I
want to add them to TSM.
However, I cannot find a way to define a mirror volume for diskpool volumes.
Now my guess is that TSM mirroring is only available for database and log
volumes and not for diskpool volumes. I'm I right?
If so, the only alternative is using AIX mirroring for diskpool volumes?
Thanks in advance for any reply!
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


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Re: Client Schedules won't work

[Olli]

Hi Bill,

which IP Adress does TSM try to contact if you get the ANR Message.
Does it really try to contact the correct host?

Try removing the TCPCLIENTADDRESS Option or set it to the correct
ip address. (Localhost usually means 127.0.0.1 and will tell TSM the
wrong Adress)

Olli

Bill Dourado wrote:

Hi ,

I am in the process of upgrading my NT clients from 4.1.1.0
to 4.2.3.1 as a fix for daylight saving problem.

My TSM Server is  4.1.4.1

I cannot get scheduled backups for 4.2.3.1 clients to run successfully ,
4.1.1.0 clients work OK as always.

Error MSG:
"ANR2716E Schedule prompter was not able to contact client D411."
(Stopping & starting TSM services on the client gets the schedule to run)

Here is D411 dsm.opt file :-

PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE
TCPSERVERADDRESSadsm1.alstec.com

ERRORLOGRETENTION   7 D
TCPCLIENTADDRESSlocalhost
SCHEDMODE PROMPTED
SCHEDLOGRETENTION   7D

All my 4.1.1.0 clients use SCHEDMODE PROMPTED & PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE

I am still battling the "daylight saving problem" so any help will be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Bill Dourado


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Re: Diskpool volume mirroring

[Karel Bos]

You are right. TSM mirroring is only for DB and Log. If you need mirroring
on diskpool you have to turn to hardware mirroring. Keep in mind, the data
is (in most cases) on the client, on copypool and tapepool. So you are
mirroring for just a few hours of possible dataloss.

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Verzonden: woensdag 6 november 2002 15:07
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Onderwerp: Diskpool volume mirroring


Hi *SM-ers!
Our AIX guys have added 6 SSA disk to our TSM server for mirroring and now I
want to add them to TSM.
However, I cannot find a way to define a mirror volume for diskpool volumes.
Now my guess is that TSM mirroring is only available for database and log
volumes and not for diskpool volumes. I'm I right?
If so, the only alternative is using AIX mirroring for diskpool volumes?
Thanks in advance for any reply!
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


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Re: Diskpool volume mirroring

[Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM]

Hi Karel!
You are right, but our diskpool is large enough to hold a complete backup
cycle. So a lot of data is at least a day old.
I know that TSM backups up the lost data again, but this is not true of data
backed up by the TDP clients. For Oracle for instance, you will have to tell
the RMAN recovery catalog that previous backed up data is gone.
I have had a disk crash a few months ago and it took me an hour to produce
the list of TDP files which were lost. It took our DBA's a day or so to get
the recovery catalog in sync again.
That's why we are going to mirror the diskpool.
Thanks for your answer!
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


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From: Karel Bos [mailto:Karel.Bos@;NUON.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 15:19
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Diskpool volume mirroring


You are right. TSM mirroring is only for DB and Log. If you need mirroring
on diskpool you have to turn to hardware mirroring. Keep in mind, the data
is (in most cases) on the client, on copypool and tapepool. So you are
mirroring for just a few hours of possible dataloss.

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Verzonden: woensdag 6 november 2002 15:07
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: Diskpool volume mirroring


Hi *SM-ers!
Our AIX guys have added 6 SSA disk to our TSM server for mirroring and now I
want to add them to TSM.
However, I cannot find a way to define a mirror volume for diskpool volumes.
Now my guess is that TSM mirroring is only available for database and log
volumes and not for diskpool volumes. I'm I right?
If so, the only alternative is using AIX mirroring for diskpool volumes?
Thanks in advance for any reply!
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


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Re: Client Schedules won't work

[Bill Dourado]

Olli

You are right,   by changing TCPCLIENTADDRESS(DSM.OPT file)  to "client
node name" or its
IP address fixes the problem

Bill Dourado





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Stor Manager"






Hi Bill,

which IP Adress does TSM try to contact if you get the ANR Message.
Does it really try to contact the correct host?

Try removing the TCPCLIENTADDRESS Option or set it to the correct
ip address. (Localhost usually means 127.0.0.1 and will tell TSM the
wrong Adress)

Olli

Bill Dourado wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> I am in the process of upgrading my NT clients from 4.1.1.0
> to 4.2.3.1 as a fix for daylight saving problem.
>
> My TSM Server is  4.1.4.1
>
> I cannot get scheduled backups for 4.2.3.1 clients to run successfully ,
> 4.1.1.0 clients work OK as always.
>
> Error MSG:
> "ANR2716E Schedule prompter was not able to contact client D411."
> (Stopping & starting TSM services on the client gets the schedule to run)
>
> Here is D411 dsm.opt file :-
>
> PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE
> TCPSERVERADDRESSadsm1.alstec.com
>
> ERRORLOGRETENTION   7 D
> TCPCLIENTADDRESSlocalhost
> SCHEDMODE PROMPTED
> SCHEDLOGRETENTION   7D
>
> All my 4.1.1.0 clients use SCHEDMODE PROMPTED & PASSWORDACCESS
GENERATE
>
> I am still battling the "daylight saving problem" so any help will be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bill Dourado
>
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Re: Help on DB2 restore USE TSM

[Bill Boyer]

That's all configured and working. I'm trying to verify the whole process by
doing a restore and rollforward. The backups and log archives are flowing
with no problems.

When I run the RESTORE DB command, I see the sessions with the TSM server,
but I don't see any that go into MediaW state for a tape mount. The RESTORE
DB command comes back with successful. When I issue the ROLLFORWARD DB
command it says OK, but when I ROLLFORWARD DB TMD QUERY STATUS, it's just
sitting there with a status of "DB Pending".

I don't understand why the sessions don't ask for the tape, but the restore
says it worked. Right now my DB is sitting in a rollforward pending state
and not available. Good thing it's a test DB and instance, huh?

Is there anyone out there that has successfully done DB2 backups AND
RESTORES using TSM?

Bill

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@;VM.MARIST.EDU]On Behalf Of
fenglimian
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 8:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help on DB2 restore USE TSM


Hi,Bill Boyer,
  If you want to rollforward ,you need set you database configuration
LOGRETAIN ON or UEREXIT ON,and you should compile "db2uext2.cadsm(you can
rename it db2uext2.c)",this file locate in path sqllib/samples/c.,then move
it to path sqllib/adm.





>Anyone out there able to help me on a DB2 restore?
>
>WHen I do the RESTORE DB USE TSM TAKEN ON , and I know that the
>backup for this is on tape, I don't see the tape mount, but the restore
>completes successfully..or so it says. I see sessions starting/stopping for
>the instance, but I don't see any call for tape media.
>
>Then when I try to ROLLFORWARD, it sit there in a "DB pending" state.
>
>Can someone help me here? Or point me to a list?
>
>Bill Boyer
>DSS, Inc.

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Re: Fun with a bulk door on a tape library

[Joe Pendergast]

Congratulations, I know somewhat where you are.  Life changed greatly when we
added the 12slot door to our 3583 nine months ago.
My checkin script (written in kornshell for AIX) does some different thing than
you have listed.

For the most part when I changed my script to "search=bulk", I was not prepared
for the system "request"ing me to load the bulk i/o door.  With some kornshell
magic, I was able to query the requests and issue a "reply" that would allow the
checkin process to complete without my help.

My script does the following functions: (with the help of DRM)

1)  unmount any idle tapes that have not timed out.
2)  "label" any new tapes that have not been previously used.  Previously used
tapes would result in a warning message.
3) checkin all tapes attempting to scratch them.  Any copy pool tapes that are
not in onsite retrieve status will result in a warning message
4) checkin all remaining tapes in the bulk loader with status private
(search=yes)
5) checkin all tapes that exist in the library to the status of private.
(search-yes)  This is just in case some tape was placed manually or somehow
checked out erroneously)
6) This step is tricky, so I will list the select.  The step selects any tape in
the library that is in a courierretreive or vaultretrieve status and stores them
in a variable.
"SELECT LIBVOLUMES.VOLUME_NAME FROM DRMEDIA DRMEDIA, LIBVOLUMES LIBVOLUMES \
WHERE DRMEDIA.VOLUME_NAME = LIBVOLUMES.VOLUME_NAME AND \
((DRMEDIA.STATE='COURIERRETRIEVE') OR (DRMEDIA.STATE='VAULTRETRIEVE'))"
7) Issue move drmedia to the selected volumes changing them to onsiteretrieve.
This will scratch them since they are checked in.
8) Next I select any tape that is in the library as private with "last.use"
empty.  These are usually old backupsets or db backups
9) issue an update volume to the tapes from the previous step changing them to
scratch status.

This process takes care of 99% of the tapes I place in the library.  I review
the library daily to confirm that all volumes are in the correct status.
Occasionally, someone will insert a tape before it expires, so I just check them
back out manually.

The checkout process is much easier.  I just added "remove=bulk" and the process
works great.

PS.  If you require the AIX checkout script, place $10 with your request in an
email to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (just kidding about the $10).  Please
send your request personally (not in a reply), because I am sure everyone does
not want to see messages saying "send it to me too"





"Coats, Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/05/2002 05:12:24 PM

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

To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: Joseph Pendergast/Corona/Watson)

Subject:  Fun with a bulk door on a tape library



Whoopee!  Just got an upgrade to my tape library (IBM 3583).  Put in some
more slots, tape drives and a bulk loader door.  The door now has 12 slots
in it, up from 1.

I have tried some things, but I know there are come command shortcuts for
using the bulk loader door efficiently.
What I need to do is to be able to:

1. Checking copypool and old database backup tapes back into the library.

2. Checkout copypool and database backup tapes to be sent offsite.

Currently I use
   checkin libv   stat=scr
  or checkin libv   stat=pri
   checkout libv  

And I assume that all I need to do is put
   checkin libv  stat=scr search=bulk
  or checkin libv   stat=pri search=bulk
   checkout libv   rec=bulk

The one for checking in with stat=pri seems wrong somehow.
Hints or suggestions on 'proper' use of a bulk door?

Other than just getting the syntax down and working my objective is to:
1. In the morning, have my database backup tape and all copypool tapes in
   my library to be put into the bulk door.
2. Load the bulk door with the incoming database backup tape and returning
   copypool tapes (ready for reuse), and have everything update and put away
   properly.

My environment is WinNT 4.0 with TSM 4.1.3 in the process of moving to
(upgrading)
Win2K Server with TSM 4.2 (can't go further because I still have Novell
4.1.1 clients).

TIA ... Jack

Re: Diskpool volume mirroring

[Karel Bos]

Hi Eric,

We use caching for that reason on our diskpool.

Gr,

Karel

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Van: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:Eric-van.Loon@;KLM.COM]
Verzonden: woensdag 6 november 2002 15:33
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: Re: Diskpool volume mirroring


Hi Karel!
You are right, but our diskpool is large enough to hold a complete backup
cycle. So a lot of data is at least a day old.
I know that TSM backups up the lost data again, but this is not true of data
backed up by the TDP clients. For Oracle for instance, you will have to tell
the RMAN recovery catalog that previous backed up data is gone.
I have had a disk crash a few months ago and it took me an hour to produce
the list of TDP files which were lost. It took our DBA's a day or so to get
the recovery catalog in sync again.
That's why we are going to mirror the diskpool.
Thanks for your answer!
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


-Original Message-
From: Karel Bos [mailto:Karel.Bos@;NUON.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 15:19
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Diskpool volume mirroring


You are right. TSM mirroring is only for DB and Log. If you need mirroring
on diskpool you have to turn to hardware mirroring. Keep in mind, the data
is (in most cases) on the client, on copypool and tapepool. So you are
mirroring for just a few hours of possible dataloss.

-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:Eric-van.Loon@;KLM.COM]
Verzonden: woensdag 6 november 2002 15:07
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: Diskpool volume mirroring


Hi *SM-ers!
Our AIX guys have added 6 SSA disk to our TSM server for mirroring and now I
want to add them to TSM.
However, I cannot find a way to define a mirror volume for diskpool volumes.
Now my guess is that TSM mirroring is only available for database and log
volumes and not for diskpool volumes. I'm I right?
If so, the only alternative is using AIX mirroring for diskpool volumes?
Thanks in advance for any reply!
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


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Re: Volume not available?

[David E Ehresman]

>Are any of your drives offline?  Do you have any drives available?
What
>happens when you do an audit vol 700270 fix=yes?
>

No dirves offline.  Lots of drives available.  The audit vol fails with
a "ANR2321W Audit volume process terminated for volume 700270 - storage
media inaccessible "

David

Re: Diskpool volume mirroring

[Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM]

Hi Karel!
But when you disk crashes, your data is gone too, cached or not. That is if
you haven't been able to backup you storage pool before the crash occurs.
Also, TSM caching has it's performance penalty...
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


-Original Message-
From: Karel Bos [mailto:Karel.Bos@;NUON.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 16:07
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Diskpool volume mirroring


Hi Eric,

We use caching for that reason on our diskpool.

Gr,

Karel

-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:Eric-van.Loon@;KLM.COM]
Verzonden: woensdag 6 november 2002 15:33
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: Re: Diskpool volume mirroring


Hi Karel!
You are right, but our diskpool is large enough to hold a complete backup
cycle. So a lot of data is at least a day old.
I know that TSM backups up the lost data again, but this is not true of data
backed up by the TDP clients. For Oracle for instance, you will have to tell
the RMAN recovery catalog that previous backed up data is gone.
I have had a disk crash a few months ago and it took me an hour to produce
the list of TDP files which were lost. It took our DBA's a day or so to get
the recovery catalog in sync again.
That's why we are going to mirror the diskpool.
Thanks for your answer!
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


-Original Message-
From: Karel Bos [mailto:Karel.Bos@;NUON.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 15:19
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Diskpool volume mirroring


You are right. TSM mirroring is only for DB and Log. If you need mirroring
on diskpool you have to turn to hardware mirroring. Keep in mind, the data
is (in most cases) on the client, on copypool and tapepool. So you are
mirroring for just a few hours of possible dataloss.

-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:Eric-van.Loon@;KLM.COM]
Verzonden: woensdag 6 november 2002 15:07
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: Diskpool volume mirroring


Hi *SM-ers!
Our AIX guys have added 6 SSA disk to our TSM server for mirroring and now I
want to add them to TSM.
However, I cannot find a way to define a mirror volume for diskpool volumes.
Now my guess is that TSM mirroring is only available for database and log
volumes and not for diskpool volumes. I'm I right?
If so, the only alternative is using AIX mirroring for diskpool volumes?
Thanks in advance for any reply!
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


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Re: Disk pool volume mirroring

[Karel Bos]

Hi Eric,

Yep, and if there is a fire and your copy tapes aren't in the bunker yet
and so on. It is just a matter of how safe you want to be. Performance isn't
a issue, not that we could find out. We turn cashing on and of and back on,
without finding the famous performance degradation we heart of. Must be out
there, somewhere.

-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:Eric-van.Loon@;KLM.COM]
Verzonden: woensdag 6 november 2002 16:13
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: Re: Diskpool volume mirroring


Hi Karel!
But when you disk crashes, your data is gone too, cached or not. That is if
you haven't been able to backup you storage pool before the crash occurs.
Also, TSM caching has it's performance penalty...
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


-Original Message-
From: Karel Bos [mailto:Karel.Bos@;NUON.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 16:07
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Diskpool volume mirroring


Hi Eric,

We use caching for that reason on our diskpool.

Gr,

Karel

-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:Eric-van.Loon@;KLM.COM]
Verzonden: woensdag 6 november 2002 15:33
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: Re: Diskpool volume mirroring


Hi Karel!
You are right, but our diskpool is large enough to hold a complete backup
cycle. So a lot of data is at least a day old.
I know that TSM backups up the lost data again, but this is not true of data
backed up by the TDP clients. For Oracle for instance, you will have to tell
the RMAN recovery catalog that previous backed up data is gone.
I have had a disk crash a few months ago and it took me an hour to produce
the list of TDP files which were lost. It took our DBA's a day or so to get
the recovery catalog in sync again.
That's why we are going to mirror the diskpool.
Thanks for your answer!
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


-Original Message-
From: Karel Bos [mailto:Karel.Bos@;NUON.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 15:19
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Diskpool volume mirroring


You are right. TSM mirroring is only for DB and Log. If you need mirroring
on diskpool you have to turn to hardware mirroring. Keep in mind, the data
is (in most cases) on the client, on copypool and tapepool. So you are
mirroring for just a few hours of possible dataloss.

-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:Eric-van.Loon@;KLM.COM]
Verzonden: woensdag 6 november 2002 15:07
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: Diskpool volume mirroring


Hi *SM-ers!
Our AIX guys have added 6 SSA disk to our TSM server for mirroring and now I
want to add them to TSM.
However, I cannot find a way to define a mirror volume for diskpool volumes.
Now my guess is that TSM mirroring is only available for database and log
volumes and not for diskpool volumes. I'm I right?
If so, the only alternative is using AIX mirroring for diskpool volumes?
Thanks in advance for any reply!
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


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mutiple backup paths for TDP R/3 to one server

[Van Ruler, Ruud R SITI-ITDSES64]

Hi

When I try to use multiple backup paths for TDP R/3, I receive the following
error message when trying to connect to the same TSM server on two different
Network Adapters:
BKI1214E: TSM Error: 'Server not found in configuration file.'
configurations:
root@pat0110 # more dsm.sys
* MEGACENTER dsm.sys file  V 1.0.01 03/09/2001

Servername RYSAP330gb2
  COMMmethodTCPip
  TCPPort   1500
  TCPServeraddress  172.16.11.14
  TCPWindowsize 640*#Gb
  TCPBuffsize   512 *#Gb
  TCPnodelayyes *#Gb
  TXNBYTELIMIT  125600
  schedmode prompted
  schedlogretention 5
  schedlogname  /local/etc/adsm/schedule_log
  inclexcl  /local/etc/adsm/inclexcl/inclexcl
* passwordaccess generate
  revokeremoteaccess none
  compressionyes

Servername RYSAP330gb1
  COMMmethodTCPip
  TCPPort   1500
  TCPServeraddress  172.16.0.11
  TCPWindowsize 640*#Gb
  TCPBuffsize   512 *#Gb



more initP71.utl.brbackup :

#**

SERVER  RYSAP330gb2# Servername
  SESSIONS1  # Max sessions
  PASSWORDREQUIREDYES  # Use a password
  ADSMNODE   PAT0110   # Tivoli Storage Manager
Nodename
  BRBACKUPMGTCLASSdb_online_1 db_offline_1 fs_backup_1
  BRARCHIVEMGTCLASS   archivelog_1
# USE_AT  0 1 2 3 4 5 6   # Days for backup

SERVER  RYSAP330gb1# Servername
  SESSIONS1   # Max sessions
  PASSWORDREQUIREDYES  # Use a password
  ADSMNODE   PAT0110   # Tivoli Storage Manager
Nodename
  BRBACKUPMGTCLASSdb_online_1 db_offline_1 fs_backup_1
  BRARCHIVEMGTCLASS   archivelog_1

If ever possible what should I do or change or .. ???
thanks.

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ITDSES-6 Technical Information and Links page: http://pat0006/shell.htm
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Safe to backup DB while client backups running?

[Matt Simpson]

We're trying, usually in vain, to get our TSM environment under
control. We have daily scripts that perform backups of our database,
one onsite and one offsite.  The scripts check to see if any backup
sessions are active, and if they are, they reschedule themselves to
try again in 10 minutes.

It's getting more and more difficult to find any time during the day
when backups aren't running. We keep spreading backup schedules out
to try to get stuff to run successfully.  Our offsite tapes are
supposed to be sent offsite by 8 AM, but sometimes they're not
getting completed until mid-afternoon.

Ideally, I know it would be safer to backup the database when it's
not being updated by backup processes. But it seems like there's no
way we're going to be able to reach Nirvana.  If I want my DB backups
to run at any kind of predictable time, it looks like we're going to
have to allow them to run while client backups are running.  Am I
setting myself up for major trouble if I do that?

Actually, I'm not 100% sure it's not already happening.  I know we
don't start the database backup if any client backup sessions are
active.  But I'm not sure if there's anything in place that prevents
a client backup from starting after the DB backup starts.  If that's
true, are we just wasting time spinning our wheels waiting for a
window when no backups are running to start the DB backup?
--


Matt Simpson --  OS/390 Support
219 McVey Hall  -- (859) 257-2900 x300
University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506

mainframe --   An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete
companies serving billions of obsolete customers and making huge obsolete
profits for their obsolete shareholders.  And this year's run twice as fast
as last year's.

Re: Automating RMAN Backup Through TSM

[Christy Wu, T.F.]

Brian,

I did all steps in the TDPO setup guide. As to the libobk.a, I've linked it
to /usr/lib/libobk.a which in turn pointing to the library file of TSM.

Chris

- Original Message -
From: "Brian Dade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: Automating RMAN Backup Through TSM


> Hello Christy,
>
> This sounds like an error that I had prior to getting my backup to save to
> tape.  Have you verified that you're using the correct library file,
> libobk.a ?
>
> Brian
>
>
>
>
> "Christy Wu, T.F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 10/30/2002
> 10:48:58 PM
>
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cc:
>
> Subject:Re: Automating RMAN Backup Through TSM
>
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> I have similar setup to your but unfortunately not able to get the rman
> backup to tape. I tried to isolate the problem without TSM by simply using
> rman to backup to an internal 4mm tape drive but get an error that unable
> to
> initialize the subsystem (SBT) layer. Is there any configuration need to
be
> specified in using the tape device?
>
> Bypass the TSM and use the native rman command to backup to an internal
4mm
> tape drive, I used following:
> rman target / nocatalog
> > run {
> > allocate channel t1 type 'sbt_tape';
> > backup tablespace tools;
> > }
>
> I expect the command to backup to tape, but it failed with the error I
> stated above. Any configuration I need to do with 'sbt_tape' under Oracle?
> Hope you can give me some hints here. Thanks.
>
>
> Chris
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Brian Dade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:13 AM
> Subject: Automating RMAN Backup Through TSM
>
>
> > Hi All:
> >
> > I'm currently running my TDP for Oracle backup manually from a UNIX
> prompt.
> > I'd like to automate this through TSM.  I 'm confused.  Has anyone
> > automated this process?  If so, I'd like to hear some suggestions or
> > recommendations on setting it up.
> >
> > OS:  AIX 4.3.3
> > TSM:  4.2.1.10
> > TDP:  2.2.1
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brian
> >
>

Re: Disk pool volume mirroring

[Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM]

Hi Karel!
As a matter of fact I don't have copy tapes in the bunker, they are written
to a copy library in another building.
I'm not implementing mirroring to be safe, we just don't want the hassle of
recovering the failed disk. Like I mentioned before, it took a considerable
amount of time for several people to get RMAN in sync again.
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


-Original Message-
From: Karel Bos [mailto:Karel.Bos@;NUON.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 16:33
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Disk pool volume mirroring


Hi Eric,

Yep, and if there is a fire and your copy tapes aren't in the bunker yet
and so on. It is just a matter of how safe you want to be. Performance isn't
a issue, not that we could find out. We turn cashing on and of and back on,
without finding the famous performance degradation we heart of. Must be out
there, somewhere.

-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:Eric-van.Loon@;KLM.COM]
Verzonden: woensdag 6 november 2002 16:13
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: Re: Diskpool volume mirroring


Hi Karel!
But when you disk crashes, your data is gone too, cached or not. That is if
you haven't been able to backup you storage pool before the crash occurs.
Also, TSM caching has it's performance penalty...
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


-Original Message-
From: Karel Bos [mailto:Karel.Bos@;NUON.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 16:07
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Diskpool volume mirroring


Hi Eric,

We use caching for that reason on our diskpool.

Gr,

Karel

-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:Eric-van.Loon@;KLM.COM]
Verzonden: woensdag 6 november 2002 15:33
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: Re: Diskpool volume mirroring


Hi Karel!
You are right, but our diskpool is large enough to hold a complete backup
cycle. So a lot of data is at least a day old.
I know that TSM backups up the lost data again, but this is not true of data
backed up by the TDP clients. For Oracle for instance, you will have to tell
the RMAN recovery catalog that previous backed up data is gone.
I have had a disk crash a few months ago and it took me an hour to produce
the list of TDP files which were lost. It took our DBA's a day or so to get
the recovery catalog in sync again.
That's why we are going to mirror the diskpool.
Thanks for your answer!
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


-Original Message-
From: Karel Bos [mailto:Karel.Bos@;NUON.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 15:19
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Diskpool volume mirroring


You are right. TSM mirroring is only for DB and Log. If you need mirroring
on diskpool you have to turn to hardware mirroring. Keep in mind, the data
is (in most cases) on the client, on copypool and tapepool. So you are
mirroring for just a few hours of possible dataloss.

-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:Eric-van.Loon@;KLM.COM]
Verzonden: woensdag 6 november 2002 15:07
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: Diskpool volume mirroring


Hi *SM-ers!
Our AIX guys have added 6 SSA disk to our TSM server for mirroring and now I
want to add them to TSM.
However, I cannot find a way to define a mirror volume for diskpool volumes.
Now my guess is that TSM mirroring is only available for database and log
volumes and not for diskpool volumes. I'm I right?
If so, the only alternative is using AIX mirroring for diskpool volumes?
Thanks in advance for any reply!
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


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Re: Dell PV136T and general Media Management

[Thomas Denier]

> - Coming back to my original problem, I would like to free space on my
> tapes. A bunch of rather large media files has been moved across a couple
> of servers, and has been backupped on each, which is a total waste.
>
> Is there a method to selectively delete backups of files on the tapes?
> These files have been part of ordinary incremental daily backups, and now
> use up space worth a couple of my tapes I,d rather have them deleted - how?

If the offending files are segregated into different filespaces than any
of the files you want to keep, you can use 'delete filespace' commands.

You can create zero byte dummy files with the same names as the offending
files. You can than run enough selective backups of the dummy files to get
the real files deleted on the basis of the verexists setting in the
relevant backup copy group.

Re: Volume not available?

[David E Ehresman]

>1. check the tape out of the library with remove=no option.
>2. Open up the library and put the tape in the recovery slot.
>3. Check the tape back into the library.
>

I had already tried a checkout remove=yes followed by a checkin and
that had not helped.  I tried your way but I am still getting the
ANR1144W.

David

Re: mutiple backup paths for TDP R/3 to one server

[PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI)]

Put the hostname and IP in etc/hosts and try again.
If u have DNS entry use nslookup server name to see that its properly
registered.

Balanand Pinni
SBC Services Inc.
Work:314-206-5911
Pager:1-800-451-6897
Email ID :[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] e.mail pager





-Original Message-
From: Van Ruler, Ruud R SITI-ITDSES64 [mailto:ruud.vanruler@;SHELL.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 9:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: mutiple backup paths for TDP R/3 to one server


Hi

When I try to use multiple backup paths for TDP R/3, I receive the following
error message when trying to connect to the same TSM server on two different
Network Adapters:
BKI1214E: TSM Error: 'Server not found in configuration file.'
configurations:
root@pat0110 # more dsm.sys
* MEGACENTER dsm.sys file  V 1.0.01 03/09/2001

Servername RYSAP330gb2
  COMMmethodTCPip
  TCPPort   1500
  TCPServeraddress  172.16.11.14
  TCPWindowsize 640*#Gb
  TCPBuffsize   512 *#Gb
  TCPnodelayyes *#Gb
  TXNBYTELIMIT  125600
  schedmode prompted
  schedlogretention 5
  schedlogname  /local/etc/adsm/schedule_log
  inclexcl  /local/etc/adsm/inclexcl/inclexcl
* passwordaccess generate
  revokeremoteaccess none
  compressionyes

Servername RYSAP330gb1
  COMMmethodTCPip
  TCPPort   1500
  TCPServeraddress  172.16.0.11
  TCPWindowsize 640*#Gb
  TCPBuffsize   512 *#Gb



more initP71.utl.brbackup :

#**

SERVER  RYSAP330gb2# Servername
  SESSIONS1  # Max sessions
  PASSWORDREQUIREDYES  # Use a password
  ADSMNODE   PAT0110   # Tivoli Storage Manager
Nodename
  BRBACKUPMGTCLASSdb_online_1 db_offline_1 fs_backup_1
  BRARCHIVEMGTCLASS   archivelog_1
# USE_AT  0 1 2 3 4 5 6   # Days for backup

SERVER  RYSAP330gb1# Servername
  SESSIONS1   # Max sessions
  PASSWORDREQUIREDYES  # Use a password
  ADSMNODE   PAT0110   # Tivoli Storage Manager
Nodename
  BRBACKUPMGTCLASSdb_online_1 db_offline_1 fs_backup_1
  BRARCHIVEMGTCLASS   archivelog_1

If ever possible what should I do or change or .. ???
thanks.

Ruud van Ruler, Shell Information Technology International B.V.   - DSES-64
ITDSES-6 Technical Information and Links page: http://pat0006/shell.htm
Room 1A/G03
Dokter van Zeelandstraat 1, 2285 BD Leidschendam NL
Tel : +31 (0)70 - 3034644, Fax 4011, Mobile +31 (0)6-55127646
Email Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: activity log turning on help in TSM (Tivoli storage manager) 5.1?

[Thomas Denier]

> Any ideas how to turn activity log on so that activity log file generated in
> Tivoli Storage Manager.  When I set the location for the activity log
> through client GUI, the log file not generated after backup.

There are two common pitfalls in this area.

The log file defined in the client options file is only for use by the
client scheduler process or service. Backups started by other means are
not supposed to use that log.

The client scheduler process or service only reads the options file
or files during initialization. The process or service must be
stopped and restarted after options file changes.

Re: Diskpool volume mirroring

[Cook, Dwight E]

Good reason for IBM ESS Storage ;-)

for diskpool volume mirroring just use AIX mirroring...

Dwight



-Original Message-
From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:Eric-van.Loon@;KLM.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 8:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Diskpool volume mirroring


Hi *SM-ers!
Our AIX guys have added 6 SSA disk to our TSM server for mirroring and now I
want to add them to TSM.
However, I cannot find a way to define a mirror volume for diskpool volumes.
Now my guess is that TSM mirroring is only available for database and log
volumes and not for diskpool volumes. I'm I right?
If so, the only alternative is using AIX mirroring for diskpool volumes?
Thanks in advance for any reply!
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


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Re: Backing up remote filesystems

[Stef Coene]

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 14:16, Charles F. Fisher wrote:
> I've got a user who wants to back up an NFS mounted filesystem from an
> SGI box.  He's using the 4.2.2 client, the server is at 4.2.2. He can back
> the filesystem up manually, but it does not back up at when the backup is
> run by the scheduler.  I'm missing something he needs to set; what do I
> need to do?
I had the same issue.  You have to add an extra domain parameter in the client 
option file.  I don't remember the setting, but I think it was "domain 
all-nfs"


Stef

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Safe to backup DB while c

[Sam Sheppard]

 Top of message 
>>--> 11-06-02  09:06  S.SHEPPARD (SHS)Safe to backup DB while c

I have never heard of or seen any restrictions or problems with backing
up the DB while backups are running.

Sam Sheppard
San Diego Data Processing Corp.
(858)-581-9668
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>>--> 11-06-02  07:48  ..NETMAIL (001) Safe to backup DB while c
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:40:17 -0500
From: "Matt Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Safe to backup DB while client backups running?
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
_Top_of_Message_

We're trying, usually in vain, to get our TSM environment under
control. We have daily scripts that perform backups of our database,
one onsite and one offsite.  The scripts check to see if any backup
sessions are active, and if they are, they reschedule themselves to
try again in 10 minutes.

It's getting more and more difficult to find any time during the day
when backups aren't running. We keep spreading backup schedules out
to try to get stuff to run successfully.  Our offsite tapes are
supposed to be sent offsite by 8 AM, but sometimes they're not
getting completed until mid-afternoon.

Ideally, I know it would be safer to backup the database when it's
not being updated by backup processes. But it seems like there's no
way we're going to be able to reach Nirvana.  If I want my DB backups
to run at any kind of predictable time, it looks like we're going to
have to allow them to run while client backups are running.  Am I
setting myself up for major trouble if I do that?

Actually, I'm not 100% sure it's not already happening.  I know we
don't start the database backup if any client backup sessions are
active.  But I'm not sure if there's anything in place that prevents
a client backup from starting after the DB backup starts.  If that's
true, are we just wasting time spinning our wheels waiting for a
window when no backups are running to start the DB backup?
--


Matt Simpson --  OS/390 Support
219 McVey Hall  -- (859) 257-2900 x300
University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506

mainframe --   An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete
companies serving billions of obsolete customers and making huge obsolete
profits for their obsolete shareholders.  And this year's run twice as fast
as last year's.

---`

Re: Client Scheduler stopping/ TSM 5.1.5.1

[Joel Fuhrman]

re: missed backups because schedule service is stopped

I have this problem.  The most cases occur because the service fails to
start after a reboot.  There are other cases where it stops for no apparent
reason.  I've modified the recovery property for the scheduler service to
restart the service.  This has reduced the number of occurances but they
still occur.

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote:

> A short update to everyone watching the TSM 5.1.5.1 posts. I've been asked
> twice to change Resource Timeout value, which is now 100. Most of the missed
> backups I was having are gone but support still wants me to monitor for the
> lock I was seeing and then run a bunch of commands to gather info if I can.
> Unfortunately backups are so late I've just had it. It's not that I don't
> want to help, it's just so late I'm tired.
>
> As for the missed backups I am seeing now, I can tell it's because the
> schedule service is stopped. Since I don't have access to these computers I
> can't start it, don't know if it stopped on its own, or if someone
> purposefully stopped it. Are there any issues related to the Scheduler
> service stopping with certain levels of TSM client on WIN2K or NT?
>
> I'm also seeing a failed report on what looks like a completed backup. The
> data is there, the session tries to connect to the server and none are
> available and an entry in the client log as failed. ANS1512E Scheduled event
> BLAH-BLAH failed. Return code=12. After the 15 minute window it retries and
> sends the data to the server because this time it got a connection and it
> returns the next scheduled backup.
>
> Geoff Gill
> TSM Administrator
> NT Systems Support Engineer
> SAIC
> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Phone:  (858) 826-4062
> Pager:   (877) 905-7154
>

TSM for Mail with Lotus Domino R6 on Linux platform.

[Keith L. Huff]

We are currently using TSM v.4.2.2 with the TSM server on OS/390 R2.10.
For our messaging platform we use Lotus Domino R6 running on Linux
Intel-based servers.  In order to get a good backup, we are currently
shutting down Domino, using TSM to backup all the files, and starting
Domino back up again.

We are looking at using TSM for Mail (
http://www.tivoli.com/products/index/storage-mgr-mail/) and are wondering
if anyone else on the list is using it with Domino (any version) and what
their experiences have been.

According to the "platforms" page (
http://www.tivoli.com/products/index/storage-mgr-mail/platforms.html),
Linux is not listed as a supported host operating system.  Has anyone heard
if this is a possibility for the future?

Thanks.
Keith Huff
Workers Compensation Fund

Re: Safe to backup DB while c

[David Longo]

In fact there are some sites that have no window to do backup DB
with nothing else happening.

David Longo

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/06/02 12:08PM >>>
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>>--> 11-06-02  09:06  S.SHEPPARD (SHS)Safe to backup DB while
c

I have never heard of or seen any restrictions or problems with
backing
up the DB while backups are running.

Sam Sheppard
San Diego Data Processing Corp.
(858)-581-9668
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c
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:40:17 -0500
From: "Matt Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Safe to backup DB while client backups running?
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
_Top_of_Message_

We're trying, usually in vain, to get our TSM environment under
control. We have daily scripts that perform backups of our database,
one onsite and one offsite.  The scripts check to see if any backup
sessions are active, and if they are, they reschedule themselves to
try again in 10 minutes.

It's getting more and more difficult to find any time during the day
when backups aren't running. We keep spreading backup schedules out
to try to get stuff to run successfully.  Our offsite tapes are
supposed to be sent offsite by 8 AM, but sometimes they're not
getting completed until mid-afternoon.

Ideally, I know it would be safer to backup the database when it's
not being updated by backup processes. But it seems like there's no
way we're going to be able to reach Nirvana.  If I want my DB backups
to run at any kind of predictable time, it looks like we're going to
have to allow them to run while client backups are running.  Am I
setting myself up for major trouble if I do that?

Actually, I'm not 100% sure it's not already happening.  I know we
don't start the database backup if any client backup sessions are
active.  But I'm not sure if there's anything in place that prevents
a client backup from starting after the DB backup starts.  If that's
true, are we just wasting time spinning our wheels waiting for a
window when no backups are running to start the DB backup?
--


Matt Simpson --  OS/390 Support
219 McVey Hall  -- (859) 257-2900 x300
University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506

mainframe --   An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete
companies serving billions of obsolete customers and making huge
obsolete
profits for their obsolete shareholders.  And this year's run twice as
fast
as last year's.

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Lotus Notes- Restore mail file with space?

[Zig Zag]

Good after noon,

Has anyone ever ran accross this situation?

Have a mail file with what appears to be a space(maybe 4) in it?

Tried the "unsupported" dsmnotes q contents command, no luck to many lines to dig
thru.

Node Name   Filespace   FSID Platform Filespace Is Files- Capacity   Pct
Name  Typepace(MB)  Util
Unicode?
--- ---   - -  -
MS163   /ms163/-1398 AIX  API:LotusNo105.8  93.3
 data/mail-Notes FS
 4/its
 0001.nsf

HOW DO U RESTORE THAT?

I tried the "" '' \ * "*" '*' options every which way to Rome, no luck :(

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

AIX 4.3.3
TSM V3.1 0.6  <- Yes I know, light years behind, don't blame me.
TDP  OLD connect agent
DOMINO R5  This is what happens when people upgrade with out consulting me first.

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Re: TSM for Mail with Lotus Domino R6 on Linux platform.

[Del Hoobler]

Keith,

The new version of ITSM for Mail
Data Protection for Lotus Domino,
version 5.1.5 supports Domino R6 on Linux.

Data Protection for Domino 5.1.5 supports
Turbo Linux 6.0, Red Hat 7.1, 7.2, and SuSE 7.2
but Domino R6 only supports RedHat 7.2 and SuSe 8.0.

So, for Domino R6 on Linux, Data Protection for
Domino 5.1.5 is supported on RedHat 7.2 and SuSe 8.0.

Thanks,

Del



Del Hoobler
IBM Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

- Never cut what can be untied.
- Commit yourself to constant improvement.

==

We are currently using TSM v.4.2.2 with the TSM server on OS/390 R2.10.
For our messaging platform we use Lotus Domino R6 running on Linux
Intel-based servers.  In order to get a good backup, we are currently
shutting down Domino, using TSM to backup all the files, and starting
Domino back up again.

We are looking at using TSM for Mail (
http://www.tivoli.com/products/index/storage-mgr-mail/) and are wondering
if anyone else on the list is using it with Domino (any version) and what
their experiences have been.

According to the "platforms" page (
http://www.tivoli.com/products/index/storage-mgr-mail/platforms.html),
Linux is not listed as a supported host operating system.  Has anyone heard
if this is a possibility for the future?

TSM version 5

[Luciano Ariceto]

Hi

I would like to know about TSM version 5 (good or bad things). Nowadays we
are running version 4.1 and we are planning move to v5. If you have any
comments or experince about it I will appreciate.

Thanks a advanced

Luciano Ariceto
Technical Support
International Paper do Brasil Ltda.

Re: activity log turning on help in TSM (Tivoli storage manager) 5.1?

[murali ramaswamy]

Hi

(1)So how do I schedule a backup task to run using client GUI?
(2) what query to make for getting backup job start time, end time
amount backed up, number of files/directories backed up, backup
status(if successful or not), reason if not backed up, throughput

Thanks
-murali







From: Thomas Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: activity log turning on help in TSM (Tivoli storage manager)
5.1?
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 11:03:58 -0500

> Any ideas how to turn activity log on so that activity log file
generated in
> Tivoli Storage Manager.  When I set the location for the activity log
> through client GUI, the log file not generated after backup.

There are two common pitfalls in this area.

The log file defined in the client options file is only for use by the
client scheduler process or service. Backups started by other means are
not supposed to use that log.

The client scheduler process or service only reads the options file
or files during initialization. The process or service must be
stopped and restarted after options file changes.



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Re: Dell PV136T and general Media Management

[Bill Boyer]

Instead of doing multiple backups of 0-byte files, what we do is assign them
to a management class that doesn't retain anything. We've created a ZERO
managment class as:
 Versions Data Exists: 1
Versions Data Deleted: 0
Retain Extra Versions: 0
  Retain Only Version: 0

Then we perform a 2-part process:

Step1: Using an INCLUDE on the client(s) assign the files to the ZERO
management class. This will rebind all files to ZERO.

Step2: After the next EXPIRE INVENTORY process (now there will only be the
active copy of the file(s) left..) we change the INCLUDE to an EXCLUDE. The
client will then inactivate the files and the next EXPIRE INVENTORY will
remove the only remaing copy. (VERDELETED=0).

Takes a couple days/cycles, but at the end all the backed up copies are
gone.

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@;VM.MARIST.EDU]On Behalf Of
Thomas Denier
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:58 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dell PV136T and general Media Management


> - Coming back to my original problem, I would like to free space on my
> tapes. A bunch of rather large media files has been moved across a couple
> of servers, and has been backupped on each, which is a total waste.
>
> Is there a method to selectively delete backups of files on the tapes?
> These files have been part of ordinary incremental daily backups, and now
> use up space worth a couple of my tapes I,d rather have them deleted -
how?

If the offending files are segregated into different filespaces than any
of the files you want to keep, you can use 'delete filespace' commands.

You can create zero byte dummy files with the same names as the offending
files. You can than run enough selective backups of the dummy files to get
the real files deleted on the basis of the verexists setting in the
relevant backup copy group.

Re: Safe to backup DB while c

[John Wright]

DB backups seems to work ok and I have run them alongside clients
sessions. This how I understand it works, similar to and Oracle backup
really.

The DB backup seems to 'freeze' database activity even if client sessions
are active and generates its image to backup. While the database activity
is frozen and the database backup running the transactions generated by
the client are written to the Logvolumes instead of Database volumes. When
the backup complete these Log volume transactions are sync'd back binto
the database.

Some considerations to here are that your DB backup  is out of date as
soon as it completes if it backed up while clients were active.
Should you need to recover your DB you will be losing data straight away.
Roll forward recovery mode may be an option here plus the various ways of
running incrementals etc so you could look into that option.

You must have sufficient recovery log space available to take all the
client transactions whilst the backup is running. You can monitor how much
log is used between dbbackups by reset log consumption statistics.



John







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I have never heard of or seen any restrictions or problems with backing
up the DB while backups are running.

Sam Sheppard
San Diego Data Processing Corp.
(858)-581-9668
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>>--> 11-06-02  07:48  ..NETMAIL (001) Safe to backup DB while c
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:40:17 -0500
From: "Matt Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Safe to backup DB while client backups running?
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
_Top_of_Message_

We're trying, usually in vain, to get our TSM environment under
control. We have daily scripts that perform backups of our database,
one onsite and one offsite.  The scripts check to see if any backup
sessions are active, and if they are, they reschedule themselves to
try again in 10 minutes.

It's getting more and more difficult to find any time during the day
when backups aren't running. We keep spreading backup schedules out
to try to get stuff to run successfully.  Our offsite tapes are
supposed to be sent offsite by 8 AM, but sometimes they're not
getting completed until mid-afternoon.

Ideally, I know it would be safer to backup the database when it's
not being updated by backup processes. But it seems like there's no
way we're going to be able to reach Nirvana.  If I want my DB backups
to run at any kind of predictable time, it looks like we're going to
have to allow them to run while client backups are running.  Am I
setting myself up for major trouble if I do that?

Actually, I'm not 100% sure it's not already happening.  I know we
don't start the database backup if any client backup sessions are
active.  But I'm not sure if there's anything in place that prevents
a client backup from starting after the DB backup starts.  If that's
true, are we just wasting time spinning our wheels waiting for a
window when no backups are running to start the DB backup?
--


Matt Simpson --  OS/390 Support
219 McVey Hall  -- (859) 257-2900 x300
University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506

mainframe --   An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete
companies serving billions of obsolete customers and making huge obsolete
profits for their obsolete shareholders.  And this year's run twice as
fast
as last year's.

---`

Re: TSM version 5

[bbullock]

We are in the process of moving our 8 TSM servers from the
"very-stable,I-never-wanna-change" Version 4.1.4.0, to the
"it-scares-me-to-death-to-change" Version 5.

FYI, we have 8 TSM servers running on AIX 4.3.3 ML10, ~800 clients
(NT, AIX, Solaris, Linux & VMS) running with TSM client levels anywhere from
2.1 to 5.1, with the majority of them at version 4.1 and 4.2.

We are being "motivated" to move to a newer version so we're on a
supported version and because there are new features that our NT admins want
to exploit.

So, my logic went like this:
4.2.* - Way to buggy, not ~even~ going to go there.
5.1.0.0 - First version, too buggy.
5.1.5.0 - Seems to re-introduce previously fixed bugs.
5.1.1.6 - I don't like to install patches (as opposed to maintenance
levels) unless I encounter a bug.

So, that lead me to install 5.1.1.0 on my TSM servers.

I'm rolling out the "4.1.4.0 to 5.1.1.0 upgrade" gradually, just in
case I encounter a big gotcha. As of today, I have upgraded 5 of the 8
servers,(doing about 1/week).

Things seem to be good so far. I'm keeping an eye on the "SYSTEM
OBJECTS" on the NT hosts, but they seem to be stable and not growing any
larger, (but I'm going to keep an eye on that one). Also, the clients don't
seem to be reporting any more errors than usual. No errors on the "expire
inventory" that I can see.

I'm kinda thinking that I dodged a bullet and it won't be as painful
as I thought this was going to be. It's quiet... perhaps a little ~too~
quiet... (roll scary music... queue scary bug...) ;-)

Once we are comfortable with the TSM servers at 5.1.1.0, we will
start to upgrade the client software.

Ben



-Original Message-
From: Luciano Ariceto [mailto:Luciano.Ariceto@;IPAPERBR.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 4:28 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM version 5


Hi

I would like to know about TSM version 5 (good or bad things). Nowadays we
are running version 4.1 and we are planning move to v5. If you have any
comments or experince about it I will appreciate.

Thanks a advanced

Luciano Ariceto
Technical Support
International Paper do Brasil Ltda.

Re: TSM version 5

[Pearson, Dave]

Hi all,

I called Tivoli Support and asked them which is the most SAFEST, less BUGGY
verion to go to.  They said 5.1.1.0.  That where we are going to upgrade
too.

DavePearson

> -Original Message-
> From: bbullock [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 11:31 AM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:  Re: TSM version 5
>
> We are in the process of moving our 8 TSM servers from the
> "very-stable,I-never-wanna-change" Version 4.1.4.0, to the
> "it-scares-me-to-death-to-change" Version 5.
>
> FYI, we have 8 TSM servers running on AIX 4.3.3 ML10, ~800 clients
> (NT, AIX, Solaris, Linux & VMS) running with TSM client levels anywhere
> from
> 2.1 to 5.1, with the majority of them at version 4.1 and 4.2.
>
> We are being "motivated" to move to a newer version so we're on a
> supported version and because there are new features that our NT admins
> want
> to exploit.
>
> So, my logic went like this:
> 4.2.* - Way to buggy, not ~even~ going to go there.
> 5.1.0.0 - First version, too buggy.
> 5.1.5.0 - Seems to re-introduce previously fixed bugs.
> 5.1.1.6 - I don't like to install patches (as opposed to
> maintenance
> levels) unless I encounter a bug.
>
> So, that lead me to install 5.1.1.0 on my TSM servers.
>
> I'm rolling out the "4.1.4.0 to 5.1.1.0 upgrade" gradually, just
> in
> case I encounter a big gotcha. As of today, I have upgraded 5 of the 8
> servers,(doing about 1/week).
>
> Things seem to be good so far. I'm keeping an eye on the "SYSTEM
> OBJECTS" on the NT hosts, but they seem to be stable and not growing any
> larger, (but I'm going to keep an eye on that one). Also, the clients
> don't
> seem to be reporting any more errors than usual. No errors on the "expire
> inventory" that I can see.
>
> I'm kinda thinking that I dodged a bullet and it won't be as
> painful
> as I thought this was going to be. It's quiet... perhaps a little ~too~
> quiet... (roll scary music... queue scary bug...) ;-)
>
> Once we are comfortable with the TSM servers at 5.1.1.0, we will
> start to upgrade the client software.
>
> Ben
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Luciano Ariceto [mailto:Luciano.Ariceto@;IPAPERBR.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 4:28 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: TSM version 5
>
>
> Hi
>
> I would like to know about TSM version 5 (good or bad things). Nowadays we
> are running version 4.1 and we are planning move to v5. If you have any
> comments or experince about it I will appreciate.
>
> Thanks a advanced
>
> Luciano Ariceto
> Technical Support
> International Paper do Brasil Ltda.

Re: IBM WEB once more interested ...

[Zlatko Krastev/ACIT]

The funny part is that 31.03.2001 is valid. We've cut 31-st March only 
from this year somehow.
But if you disable Javascript then 29 February 2002 will become valid :-) 
even 30-th and 31-st !! ,-)

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






Tomá? Hrouda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Good joke :-)))

Tom

(See attached "IBM WEB1.gif")

Re: volumes inaccessible

[Matt Simpson]

I've lost the messages that were discussing it, but some people were
discussing a problem similar to one we've been having, where some
volumes mysteriously become "inaccessible".
I searched on IBMLink, and found several APARs describing this
problem. IBMese is sometimes hard to read, so I haven't quite figured
out what releases this problem exists in, or where it gets fixed, but
it's a known problem and the circumvention is to restart the TSM
server.

Reference APARs PQ61907, PQ55669 IC32821 IC32822 IC32823 IC32824
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219 McVey Hall  -- (859) 257-2900 x300
University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506

mainframe --   An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete
companies serving billions of obsolete customers and making huge obsolete
profits for their obsolete shareholders.  And this year's run twice as fast
as last year's.

Re: Safe to backup DB while client backups running?

[Zlatko Krastev/ACIT]

Can we think again from idea/design/code reuse point of view. Most of us
know how the client is performing backup - first it creates list of files
to backup and then starts transferring them. So lets think in same manner
about (I)TSM DB - it first creates list of DB pages to be backed up and
the last completed transaction in the log. Later all those pages are sent
somewhere and log is cleared up to that last transaction.

Now back to filesystem backup - we can ask ourselves what to do if were
unable to find a window without file activity. Answer is
backup-whatever-enters-in-this-session and the rest (modified during
current backup session) will be backed up in the next scan. Again making a
parallel to TSM DB - all *transactions* completed before DB backup is
started will be noted and backed up. All transactions in progress and
everything happening during/after DB backup will be in the log (of course
if roll-forward is enabled) and will be backed up next time.

On the end - if you are not satisfied with level of protection regular
(daily) file backups provide you should go to some high-availability
solution. This might be two disk subsystems in separate sites with each
write synchronously performed to both (ESS with PPRC or XRC for example).
Same analogy - if you need to protect *each* backup (completed
transaction) in TSM you should have some (very) high-available hardware
for DB and Log.
But this would be a solution at Disaster Recovery Tier 5 or Tier 6. Not
every company/organisation needs it (and is ready to pay its price).

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






Matt Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:Safe to backup DB while client backups running?


We're trying, usually in vain, to get our TSM environment under
control. We have daily scripts that perform backups of our database,
one onsite and one offsite.  The scripts check to see if any backup
sessions are active, and if they are, they reschedule themselves to
try again in 10 minutes.

It's getting more and more difficult to find any time during the day
when backups aren't running. We keep spreading backup schedules out
to try to get stuff to run successfully.  Our offsite tapes are
supposed to be sent offsite by 8 AM, but sometimes they're not
getting completed until mid-afternoon.

Ideally, I know it would be safer to backup the database when it's
not being updated by backup processes. But it seems like there's no
way we're going to be able to reach Nirvana.  If I want my DB backups
to run at any kind of predictable time, it looks like we're going to
have to allow them to run while client backups are running.  Am I
setting myself up for major trouble if I do that?

Actually, I'm not 100% sure it's not already happening.  I know we
don't start the database backup if any client backup sessions are
active.  But I'm not sure if there's anything in place that prevents
a client backup from starting after the DB backup starts.  If that's
true, are we just wasting time spinning our wheels waiting for a
window when no backups are running to start the DB backup?
--


Matt Simpson --  OS/390 Support
219 McVey Hall  -- (859) 257-2900 x300
University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506

mainframe --   An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete
companies serving billions of obsolete customers and making huge obsolete
profits for their obsolete shareholders.  And this year's run twice as
fast
as last year's.

Re: System Object / Mgmt. Classes / Policy Sets / Backup Groups - - Wh at's the best way??

[Zlatko Krastev/ACIT]

Todd,

may I correct you. In TSM it is called "rebinding":
- you have several backups made using one class (be it default or not)
- somehow (dsm.sys/dsm.opt, optionset) you change include/exclude list and
a object (in TSM terms - file, TDP stream, SystemObject, etc.) is now
bound to another class
- TSM server on first backup after the change "re-binds" ALL versions
(retro-active) of that object
- on next expiration new class' vere/verd/rete/reto settings are honoured

Example 1:
previous class was with 60 days retention, new class is with 7 days (as in
Kevin's case):
- system objects back to 60 days ago
- after Wanda's suggested change system object is rebound
- next expiration ought to remove all system objects older than 7 days
(disclaimer: on version without System Object expiration bug)

Example 2:
old class with 5 versions, new class with 12 versions
- 5 versions are kept and each 6-th old is expired
- a file is rebound to new class
- new backup will notify server about rebind and will create 6-th version
- until 7 new versions are backed up (for total of 12) no version will be
expired despite the fact the oldest versions were created when limit was
only 5.

I hope this helps

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






Todd Lundstedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Groups - - Wh
at's the best way??


Correct me if I am wrong, but this will only change the management class
for the backups after the changes are made.  All of the other
systemobjects
that exist in the database that are managed by the old management class
will be retained for their 60 days.  In order to facilitate the move to
the
new management class, you will want to rename the systemobject filespace
on
each server (for instance, systemobject.old), then perform your backups
for
8-9 days, making sure the new systemobject only has data stored for 7
days,
and only in the new management class.  Then, it will be safe to delete
systemobject.old, and recover that database space prior to your upgrade.
Todd



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Hi Kevin,

Most people have only 2 policy sets for each policy domain - the acitve
and
the inactive one.
I suggest you make a new management class:

*   In the NOCODOM policy domain, create a new management class, for
example call it SYSOBJ_MAN
*   Edit the BACKUP COPY GROUP for that new management class to set
your
retention to 7 instead of 60.
*   ACTIVATE the policy set for that domain; that makes the changed
version active.
*   Pick a Win2K client in the NOCODOM domain to test.
*   In the dsm.opt file of that client, put an include statement to
cause TSM to bind the systemobject to the new management class:
  include.systemobject SYSOBJ_MAN

*   Start the backup client and backup the system object
*   Now pretend you are going to restore the system object:
start the client
click RESTORE
expand SYSTEM OBJECT
click on one of the components (like registry)
scroll to the right, you should see the time and
management
class of the last backup
if it says SYSOBJ_MAN instead of DEFAULT, it's working
*   Now you have to figure out how you are going to make this happen
on
ALL the clients in the NOCODOM domain.
*   You can either use sneakernet and add this to the dsm.opt file of
all the affected clients, or
create a clientoptionset on the server with this include statement
(certainly easier to do!)



-Original Message

Re: Co-location

[Zlatko Krastev/ACIT]

---> We turned on co-location on the onsite tape pool a couple of weeks ago,
because we just started using the SQL TDP, and the doc recommended
colocation.  We turned it back off this morning, because we were running
out of tapes and had a lot of them that were only 5% full.

There is another very simple solution - set a reasonable MaxScratch on the
tape pool (total # of your tapes - copypool tapes - DB backup volumes).
This would result "partial" collocation - data for each node will tend to
stay on minimum number of volumes but you will have more than one node's
data on single volume.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






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At 3:53 PM -0400 10/21/02, Thach, Kevin said:
>The person that installed our environment basically set up 6 Policy
Domains:
>Colodom, Exchange, Lanfree, MSSQL, Nocodom, and Oracle.
>
>99% of the clients are in the Nocodom (non-collocated) domain, which has
one
>policy set, and one management class which has one backup copy group with
>retention policies set to NOLIMIT, 3, 60, 60.

This is away from the topic of Kevin's question, but his background
info led to a question that we're looking at right now.

We currently have one big disk pool for all our backups, which
migrates to one tape pool, which we copy to another tape pool for
offsite.

We turned on co-location on the onsite tape pool a couple of weeks
ago, because we just started using the SQL TDP, and the doc
recommended colocation.  We turned it back off this morning, because
we were running out of tapes and had a lot of them that were only 5%
full.

We would like to do what Kevin says he's doing: specify colocation
for a small number of our clients and leave it off for a bunch of
them.  But, if I understand correctly, colocation isn't specified
directly in the management  class.  It's specified on the tape
storage pool definition. So specifying colocation for some  clients
but not all would require multiple tape storage pools, which wouldn't
really be a problem.  But it looks like that would also require
multiple disk storage pools, because, as far as I can tell, the only
way to get a client into a different tape pool is to have it in a
different disk pool.

We'd really like to avoid carving up our disk space into more smaller
pools.  But, as far as I can tell, that's the only way to use
colocation selectively.  Am I missing something, or is that the way
it works?
--


Matt Simpson --  OS/390 Support
219 McVey Hall  -- (859) 257-2900 x300
University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506

mainframe --   An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete
companies serving billions of obsolete customers and making huge obsolete
profits for their obsolete shareholders.  And this year's run twice as
fast
as last year's.

Re: IBM WEB once more interested ...

[David le Blanc]

Quoting Tomá¹ Hrouda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

March 31st was cancelled for political reasons.

> Good joke :-)))
> 
> Tom
> 
> (See attached "IBM WEB1.gif")


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[Baldenegro, Raymond - Perot]

I'm kind of new at TSM but, is there a script that can tell me what pool
each node is going  to?

Raymond Baldenegro
Analyst
CHW Enterprise Storage Management
perotsystems
3033 N 3rd Ave.
Phoenix, Az 85013
Fax (602) 798-5310
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SQL Statement

[Baldenegro, Raymond - Perot]

I have an immediate need to create a list of all my registered nodes and
the storage pool(s) each node backs up to. I know almost nothing about
creating an SQL statement so if anyone can assist, I would appreciate it
very much.


Raymond Baldenegro
Analyst
CHW Enterprise Storage Management
perotsystems

Re: TSM for Mail with Lotus Domino R6 on Linux platform.

[Greg Redell]

We are running an R5 environment on Win2K using TDP for Domino 1.1.2 and it
is working great.  No downtime for backups.  Just make sure to read the
manual on the policy settings, the sample scripts that come with TDP work
very well.

Greg Redell
Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Co.
Phone: 314-525-5877
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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We are currently using TSM v.4.2.2 with the TSM server on OS/390 R2.10.
For our messaging platform we use Lotus Domino R6 running on Linux
Intel-based servers.  In order to get a good backup, we are currently
shutting down Domino, using TSM to backup all the files, and starting
Domino back up again.

We are looking at using TSM for Mail (
http://www.tivoli.com/products/index/storage-mgr-mail/) and are wondering
if anyone else on the list is using it with Domino (any version) and what
their experiences have been.

According to the "platforms" page (
http://www.tivoli.com/products/index/storage-mgr-mail/platforms.html),
Linux is not listed as a supported host operating system.  Has anyone heard
if this is a possibility for the future?

Thanks.
Keith Huff
Workers Compensation Fund

Re: Volume not available?

[Seay, Paul]

David,
I have run into a problem with SAN clients where this can happen.  Looks
like it takes a bounce of the server to recover.  The problem appears to
happen if you shutdown a SAN agent and a drive still has a tape mounted for
it and a thread gets reused that did not get cleaned up properly.

If you are not using a SAN client check the status of the volume. By doing a
q volume xx f=d and seeing if it is unavailable.  Just update to
READWRITE or READONLY and you will be fine.  I typically do a READONLY and
do a move data command to make sure the data is good on the tape unless I
know exactly the condition that caused the tape to go unavailable.  The most
common is a dismount failure.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180


-Original Message-
From: David E Ehresman [mailto:deehre01@;LOUISVILLE.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:13 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Volume not available?


>Are any of your drives offline?  Do you have any drives available?
What
>happens when you do an audit vol 700270 fix=yes?
>

No dirves offline.  Lots of drives available.  The audit vol fails with a
"ANR2321W Audit volume process terminated for volume 700270 - storage media
inaccessible "

David

Re: Data rebinding to non-default management class.

[David Fosdike]

Thanks very much - it worked very well.  One further question:

Without doing another full backup, how can we change the management class of
previously backed up objects?  We need to reduce the size of a collocated
copy pool but can't move the objects off the collocated pool because they
are still bound to a class that specifies that pool and its predecessors.
Consequently we have tapes in both our collocated and non-collacated copy
pools with objects from the same node.  We've tried doing a MOVE DATA
tapevol STG=non-collocated-pool but it won't work.
We assume this is because of the management class to which these objects are
bound - hence my question.

Thanks for any help.
-Original Message-
From: Mark Stapleton [mailto:stapleto@;BERBEE.COM]
Sent: Monday, 4 November 2002 9:57 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Data rebinding to non-default management class.


From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@;VM.MARIST.EDU]On Behalf Of
David Fosdike
> We created two new MCs in POLICYSET STANDARD
> 1. STANDARD_NC to backup to diskpool DISKPOOL_NC
> 2. STREAMING_NC to backup to sequential pool LTOPOOL_NC
>
> We validated the policyset and activated it.
>
> We scheduled a backup for a server which should have used the default MC -
> no overrides were specified in DSM.OPT or in the client option set. It
> started to rebind and then failed because there was no space in pool
> LTOPOOL_NC.

Unless you declare a DIRMC (directory management class), all directory
entries will bind to the management class with the longest duration. If one
of your new management classes has durations longer than your default
mgmtclass, all directory entries will rebind to the new class.

--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Certified TSM consultant
Certified AIX system engineer
MCSE

Re: Help on DB2 restore USE TSM

[asr]

=> On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 09:43:44 -0500, Bill Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> That's all configured and working. I'm trying to verify the whole process by
> doing a restore and rollforward. The backups and log archives are flowing
> with no problems.

> When I run the RESTORE DB command, I see the sessions with the TSM server,
> but I don't see any that go into MediaW state for a tape mount. The RESTORE
> DB command comes back with successful. When I issue the ROLLFORWARD DB
> command it says OK, but when I ROLLFORWARD DB TMD QUERY STATUS, it's just
> sitting there with a status of "DB Pending".

> I don't understand why the sessions don't ask for the tape, but the restore
> says it worked. Right now my DB is sitting in a rollforward pending state
> and not available. Good thing it's a test DB and instance, huh?

> Is there anyone out there that has successfully done DB2 backups AND
> RESTORES using TSM?


I've done DB/2 backups and restores to move databases before; I'll be doing
rollforward recovery experimentation tomorrow, as a matter of fact.

For me the major hurdle was really figuring out where the configuration was
happening.  The brainstorm (obvious in retrospect) was that you have to set
the environment correctly in the shell that _STARTS_ the database.

The environment of the shell running the backup command is nearly irrelevant.


- Allen S. Rout

Re: SQL statement

[Joerg Pohlmann]

Raymond, there are different aspects to your question:

1. If your question is "where will the data go if my node were to back
up/archive/space manage something" is almost impossible to answer with
select statements. It depends on the design of your TSM environment -
which management classes are available, which ones will be used by
assigning them via include statements at the client, what option sets you
have and what their include statement assignments are for these management
classes.

2. If your question is "where MIGHT the data go if my node were to back
up/archive/space manage something" then all you need to look at are the
space management destinations, the backup copy group destinations, and the
archive copy group destinations for the management classes in the policy
domain in which the node resides.

3. If your question is "which storage pools contain data for my node",
then the answer is produced by a q occupancy  command which
tells you where data for the node in question is located.

Joerg Pohlmann
604-535-0452

Re: SQL Statement

[Seay, Paul]

The issue is a node connects to a policy domain that connects to a
management class and in the management class is the copy group, but the
decision as to what management class is used in the policy domain is a
client include/exclude or a clientopt decision unless the default management
class is used.

You can get a list of storage pools that each client could be using by doing
the following:

select distinct node_name, destination from nodes n, bu_copygroups b where
n.domain_name=b.domain_name and set_name='ACTIVE'

To get what is being used by what you would have to go against the contents
table and determine the volume storage pool from the volumes table.  The
time to run that select will take forever on a system like mine.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180


-Original Message-
From: Baldenegro, Raymond - Perot [mailto:rbalden@;CHW.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 6:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SQL Statement


I have an immediate need to create a list of all my registered nodes and the
storage pool(s) each node backs up to. I know almost nothing about creating
an SQL statement so if anyone can assist, I would appreciate it very much.


Raymond Baldenegro
Analyst
CHW Enterprise Storage Management
perotsystems

Re: Diskpool volume mirroring

[Mark Stapleton]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@;VM.MARIST.EDU]On Behalf Of
> Our AIX guys have added 6 SSA disk to our TSM server for
> mirroring and now I want to add them to TSM.
> However, I cannot find a way to define a mirror volume for diskpool
volumes.
> Now my guess is that TSM mirroring is only available for database and log
> volumes and not for diskpool volumes. I'm I right?
> If so, the only alternative is using AIX mirroring for diskpool volumes?

You're better off with OS-level mirroring in AIX anyway; it's stable and
fast.

However, I still don't see the reason to mirror the diskpool volumes. First,
it eats into disk I/O performance. Second, in most environments, backups to
disk happen overnight, and diskpool to offsite pool backup and diskpool to
primary pool migration both happen first thing in the morning. This
arrangement allows for a very small window of vulnerability, and keeps you
from eating a big chunk of disk for the mirror.

--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Certified TSM consultant
Certified AIX system engineer
MCSE

Re: activity log turning on help in TSM (Tivoli storage manager) 5.1?

[Mark Stapleton]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@;VM.MARIST.EDU]On Behalf Of
murali ramaswamy
> (1)So how do I schedule a backup task to run using client GUI?
> (2) what query to make for getting backup job start time, end time
> amount backed up, number of files/directories backed up, backup
> status(if successful or not), reason if not backed up, throughput

1) You don't. You use the CLI.

--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Certified TSM consultant
Certified AIX system engineer
MCSE