Re: Reconstruction of aggregates

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

 Stephan,

You wrote :

> I'm not sure if you were on the Technical Exchange this week on TSM
Disk Only solutions > but there are reasons not to use large disk pools
alone.  There were also some tips on > how best to setup storage pools
using file device classes.
> I will send you a pdf of the Technical Excahnge directly.

I unfortunately could not participate to this Technical Exchange, but
would be interrested by this PDF document. Is there some place where I
could download it ? 
Thanks in advance !
Regards.

Arnaud 


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TSM_User
Sent: Thursday, 09 December, 2004 05:53
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Reconstruction of aggregates

A "NEXT" storage pool can only be a sequential access storage pool. So
you can not migrate back to the disk pool once you have migrated to the
file device class pool.

You could try migrating to the file device class pool with one very
large file.  Then run a move data on that file with the reconstruct=yes
parm which will reclaim the aggregates on the move.

I'm not sure if you were on the Technical Exchange this week on TSM Disk
Only solutions but there are reasons not to use large disk pools alone.
There were also some tips on how best to setup storage pools using file
device classes.

I will send you a pdf of the Technical Excahnge directly.

Stefan Holzwarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We plan to move TSM from MVS to Windows2003 using only disk storage at 2
CX700 storage systems.

At the moment we discuss whether to use disk and/or file pools.

Since disk is much easier to handle and to use we look for a mechanism
to address the aggregates problem on disk only.

The idea is to have a kind of reclamation pool of type file to handle
the
problem:
Large Disk pool --- move vol > Small File pool with immediate
reclamation ---> migration by high/lo watermark --> back to large disk
pool

The problem now is to have an idea of what disk volumes should be moved.
I do not know any statistic that shows me which volumes should be
reorganized.

Any idea?

Kind regards
Stefan Holzwarth


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ANR0480W Connection with client severed

[Danesh Sheikh]

We run TSM on a Windows server to backup various operating systems i.e
Linux servers,Tru64 Unix servers and Windows. On the TSM server we are
running version 5.1.5. On the client we run TSM verison is 5.1.5.

I'll start with our Linux server (Red Hat version) known as PHOBOS. In
the activity log the TSM backup of Phobos failed and reported the
following messages:-

08-12-2004 18:50:22   ANR0406I Session 18740 started for node PHOBOS
(Linux86)
   (Tcp/Ip 158.94.254.53(-29100)).

08-12-2004 19:14:07   ANR0480W Session 18740 for node PHOBOS (Linux86)

   terminated - connection with client severed.

08-12-2004 19:14:08   ANR0406I Session 18807 started for node PHOBOS
(Linux86)
   (Tcp/Ip 158.94.254.53(-28744)).

08-12-2004 19:14:08   ANR0484W Session 18807 for node PHOBOS (Linux86)

   terminated - protocol violation detected.

08-12-2004 19:14:09   ANR0406I Session 18808 started for node PHOBOS
(Linux86)
   (Tcp/Ip 158.94.254.53(-28743)).

08-12-2004 19:14:10   ANR0484W Session 18808 for node PHOBOS (Linux86)

   terminated - protocol violation detected.

08-12-2004 19:14:10   ANR0406I Session 18809 started for node PHOBOS
(Linux86)
   (Tcp/Ip 158.94.254.53(-28741)).

08-12-2004 19:14:10   ANR2579E Schedule OASIS in domain MIS_SERVERS for
node
   PHOBOS failed (return code 12).

08-12-2004 19:14:10   ANR0403I Session 18809 ended for node PHOBOS
(Linux86).
08-12-2004 19:14:11   ANR0406I Session 18810 started for node PHOBOS
(Linux86


In the DSMSCHED.LOG on Phobos the following error was received:-

08-12-2004 19:06:25 Total number of bytes transferred: 108.99 MB
08-12-2004 19:06:25 Data transfer time:   20.74 sec
08-12-2004 19:06:25 Network data transfer rate:5,380.44 KB/sec
08-12-2004 19:06:25 Aggregate data transfer rate: 78.20 KB/sec
08-12-2004 19:06:25 Objects compressed by:0%
08-12-2004 19:06:25 Elapsed processing time:   00:23:47
08-12-2004 19:06:25 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END
08-12-2004 19:06:25 ANS1026E Session rejected: Communications protocol
error

08-12-2004 19:06:25 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END OASIS 08-12-2004 18:30:00
08-12-2004 19:06:25 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'OASIS' failed.  Return
code = 12.
08-12-2004 19:06:25 Sending results for scheduled event 'OASIS'.
08-12-2004 19:06:25 Session established with server MDXUTSM: Windows
08-12-2004 19:06:25   Server Version 5, Release 1, Level 5.0
08-12-2004 19:06:25   Server date/time: 08-12-2004 19:14:10  Last
access: 08-12-


Can anyone please assist me and find a solution to get our TSM backups
working. The ANR0840W does not happen everytime and varies from day to
day.
Thanks.
Dan..


























Please can anyone advise me how I can get TSM backups to work without
the following errors:-
"ANR0480W Connection with client severed". Our TSM server is a Windows
server and we backup systems running Linux,Tru64 Unix, and Windows on
them. On our Linux server the error does not happen everytime only once
in a while but on our Exchange Servers running Windows the error occurs
more often. We use TDP for Exchange to backup our Exchange Servers.

Re: Reconstruction of aggregates

[Cory Heikel]

Arnaud,

If you find where to download this, lease send me the address. I would
like to gt a copy as well.

Thank you,

Cory

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>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/9/2004 3:05:21 AM >>>
 Stephan,

You wrote :

> I'm not sure if you were on the Technical Exchange this week on TSM
Disk Only solutions > but there are reasons not to use large disk
pools
alone.  There were also some tips on > how best to setup storage pools
using file device classes.
> I will send you a pdf of the Technical Excahnge directly.

I unfortunately could not participate to this Technical Exchange, but
would be interrested by this PDF document. Is there some place where I
could download it ?
Thanks in advance !
Regards.

Arnaud


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
TSM_User
Sent: Thursday, 09 December, 2004 05:53
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Reconstruction of aggregates

A "NEXT" storage pool can only be a sequential access storage pool. So
you can not migrate back to the disk pool once you have migrated to
the
file device class pool.

You could try migrating to the file device class pool with one very
large file.  Then run a move data on that file with the
reconstruct=yes
parm which will reclaim the aggregates on the move.

I'm not sure if you were on the Technical Exchange this week on TSM
Disk
Only solutions but there are reasons not to use large disk pools
alone.
There were also some tips on how best to setup storage pools using
file
device classes.

I will send you a pdf of the Technical Excahnge directly.

Stefan Holzwarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We plan to move TSM from MVS to Windows2003 using only disk storage at
2
CX700 storage systems.

At the moment we discuss whether to use disk and/or file pools.

Since disk is much easier to handle and to use we look for a mechanism
to address the aggregates problem on disk only.

The idea is to have a kind of reclamation pool of type file to handle
the
problem:
Large Disk pool --- move vol > Small File pool with immediate
reclamation ---> migration by high/lo watermark --> back to large disk
pool

The problem now is to have an idea of what disk volumes should be
moved.
I do not know any statistic that shows me which volumes should be
reorganized.

Any idea?

Kind regards
Stefan Holzwarth


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United Linux

[Paul van Dongen]

Hello everybody,
 
I have to answer a question of a possible customer who wants to use
TSM to backup some servers to a Intel machine running United Linux. The
clients will be United Linux on Intel, Netware 6.5, W2K and iSeries
running SLES 8 and RedHat AS 3.0. I've read the READMEs and found that
TSM will work with all of these. But the customer also wants Lan-free
for the United Linux machines, and I didn't find anything on the 5.2.3
storage agent being comptible with UnitedLinux 1.0.
Someone had this before?
 


Paul Gondim van Dongen 
MCSE 
IBM Certified Deployment Professional -- Tivoli Storage Manager V5.2 
VANguard - Value Added Network guardians 
http://www.vanguard-it.com.br   
+55 81 3419-8094 

 

Re: ANR0480W Connection with client severed

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Danesh Sheikh
>We run TSM on a Windows server to backup various operating 
>systems i.e Linux servers,Tru64 Unix servers and Windows. On 
>the TSM server we are running version 5.1.5. On the client we 
>run TSM verison is 5.1.5.
>
>08-12-2004 18:50:22   ANR0406I Session 18740 started for node PHOBOS
>(Linux86)
>   (Tcp/Ip 158.94.254.53(-29100)).
>
>08-12-2004 19:14:07   ANR0480W Session 18740 for node PHOBOS (Linux86)
>
>   terminated - connection with client severed.
>
>08-12-2004 19:14:08   ANR0406I Session 18807 started for node PHOBOS
>(Linux86)
>   (Tcp/Ip 158.94.254.53(-28744)).
>
>08-12-2004 19:14:08   ANR0484W Session 18807 for node PHOBOS (Linux86)
>
>   terminated - protocol violation detected.
>

This is most likely not a TSM issue. You've got communication problems
between the client and server; I would suggest reviewing your network
setups with your comm personnel, particularly in the realm of
speed/duplex settings.

--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Berbee Information Networks
Office 262.521.5627  

RMT vs MT block sizes

[Dameon White]

Does anyone know where or if you can change the block size for the mt devices?  
Via smit or chdev I can change the rmt devices, but no matter what I set the 
rmt device block size to the mt devices are built with a 1024 block size.

tsmserver:/=>lsattr -El rmt0
block_size 64 BLOCK size (0=variable length)True
delay  45 Set delay after a FAILED command  True
density_set_1  0  DENSITY setting #1True
density_set_2  0  DENSITY setting #2True
extfm  yesUse EXTENDED file marks   True
location  Location LabelTrue
lun_id 0x1Logical Unit Number IDFals
e
mode   yesUse DEVICE BUFFERS during writes  True
node_name  0x10068d02efc0 FC Node Name  Fals
e
res_supportno RESERVE/RELEASE support   True
ret_error  no RETURN error on tape change or reset  True
rwtimeout  144Set timeout for the READ or WRITE command True
scsi_id0x110efSCSI ID   Fals
e
var_block_size 0  BLOCK SIZE for variable length supportTrue
ww_name0x10068d02efc0 FC World Wide NameFals
e

tsmserver:/=>lsattr -El mt0
FCPORT_ID  0x110efFC Port ID  True
LUNMAP_ID  0x1Mapped LUN ID of the device True
PRODUCT_ID DLT7000Product ID of the deviceFalse
WW_NAME0x10068d02efc0 WW Name of the Port False
block_size 1024   Block Size  True

Thanks
DW

Re: RMT vs MT block sizes

[Richard Sims]

On Dec 9, 2004, at 9:21 AM, Dameon White wrote:
Does anyone know where or if you can change the block size for the mt
devices?  Via smit or chdev I can change the rmt devices, but no
matter what I set the rmt device block size to the mt devices are
built with a 1024 block size. ...
If you are talking about the context of TSM usage of tape drives: it
sets
the sizes itself, in conjunction with the appropriate device driver.
See IBM site Technote 1167281.
   Richard Sims

Question About Tapes In Lib as Private - But No History / Data On them

[Hart, Charles]

We have found a strange situation with Tapes in our library I'm hoping that 
some one could clarify what we are seeing...


Libvol Info : States its Provate but no data - Its in the Library
tsm: MSPSTG5>q libvol 3494lib1 i01448   
   

Library Name Volume Name Status Owner  Last Use  
HomeDevice
 
Element Type  
 --- -- -- - 
--- --
3494LIB1 I01448  Private
   


Q vol States that TSM DB 
tsm: MSPSTG5>q vol I01448 f=d
ANR2034E QUERY VOLUME: No match found using this criteria.
ANS8001I Return code 11.

I looked in the volume history file and did a grep for I01448 and its not 
there, we also verified that the library and tape vol categories matched... .  
Can I assume that this tape can be Scratch? (I can make scratch by checkout / 
chekin process. We are also wondering how this may have happened... If the data 
was expired it should go prom private to scratch... right?  

Any confirmation would be great, because we could regain many tapes.  

Thanks a bunch!!

Re: Question About Tapes In Lib as Private - But No History / Data On them

[Curtis Stewart]

I've seen the same thing, with versions of *DSM as far back as 3.7. Do a q
contents on the volume to see what's in there. I've just leaned to live
with and work around it.

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"Hart, Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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12/09/2004 08:58 AM
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To
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Subject
Question About Tapes In Lib as Private - But No History / Data On them






We have found a strange situation with Tapes in our library I'm hoping
that some one could clarify what we are seeing...


Libvol Info : States its Provate but no data - Its in the Library
tsm: MSPSTG5>q libvol 3494lib1 i01448

Library Name Volume Name Status Owner  Last Use
HomeDevice
   Element Type
 --- -- -- -
--- --
3494LIB1 I01448  Private


Q vol States that TSM DB
tsm: MSPSTG5>q vol I01448 f=d
ANR2034E QUERY VOLUME: No match found using this criteria.
ANS8001I Return code 11.

I looked in the volume history file and did a grep for I01448 and its not
there, we also verified that the library and tape vol categories
matched... .  Can I assume that this tape can be Scratch? (I can make
scratch by checkout / chekin process. We are also wondering how this may
have happened... If the data was expired it should go prom private to
scratch... right?

Any confirmation would be great, because we could regain many tapes.

Thanks a bunch!!

TSM best Practices for tape drives using FC

[Timothy Hughes]

I read in a the Tivoli guide (A brief Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage
Manager Architecture)
under Tape Drives  (best practices)

Where it say's Carefully consider card and bus throughput when attaching
tape
drives to systems most protocal/tape combinations can accommodate 2-3
tape,
drives per card? We would like to use more than say 10 12 or more
but not to cause issues.

We are Using 3590-H1A's (soon to upgraded to 3592's) which
would  could change the amout of tape drives we use.

We are using FC connections (the HBA's that are attached to the tape
drives are 1GB but are piped in at 2GB.

3590's Assumed speed  39 (GB/HR)
3592's  Assumed speed 112 (GB/HR)


Thanks for any replies!

All thoughts are welcome!

Re: Question About Tapes In Lib as Private - But No History / Data On them

[Richard Sims]

On Dec 9, 2004, at 9:58 AM, Hart, Charles wrote:
...We are also wondering how this may have happened...
The definitive source of info on this is the Activity Log.
Customers should make sure they are retaining the log long
enough to cover such research needs.
  Richard Sims

Re: Question About Tapes In Lib as Private - But No History / Data On them

[fred johanson]

This has appeared several times here.  Again, I append, with credit to Paul
Seay, a script to identify all volumes:
select volume_name from libvolumes where
 status='Private' and libvolumes.volume_name
 not in (select volume_name from volumes) and
 libvolumes.volume_name not in (select
 volume_name from volhistory where type in
 ('BACKUPFULL','BACKUPINCR','DBSNAPSHOT','EXPO-
 RT'))

At 09:07 AM 12/9/2004 -0600, you wrote:
I've seen the same thing, with versions of *DSM as far back as 3.7. Do a q
contents on the volume to see what's in there. I've just leaned to live
with and work around it.
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"Hart, Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
12/09/2004 08:58 AM
Please respond to
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc
Subject
Question About Tapes In Lib as Private - But No History / Data On them


We have found a strange situation with Tapes in our library I'm hoping
that some one could clarify what we are seeing...
Libvol Info : States its Provate but no data - Its in the Library
tsm: MSPSTG5>q libvol 3494lib1 i01448
Library Name Volume Name Status Owner  Last Use
HomeDevice
   Element Type
 --- -- -- -
--- --
3494LIB1 I01448  Private
Q vol States that TSM DB
tsm: MSPSTG5>q vol I01448 f=d
ANR2034E QUERY VOLUME: No match found using this criteria.
ANS8001I Return code 11.
I looked in the volume history file and did a grep for I01448 and its not
there, we also verified that the library and tape vol categories
matched... .  Can I assume that this tape can be Scratch? (I can make
scratch by checkout / chekin process. We are also wondering how this may
have happened... If the data was expired it should go prom private to
scratch... right?
Any confirmation would be great, because we could regain many tapes.
Thanks a bunch!!
Fred Johanson
ITSM Administrator
University of Chicago
773-702-8464

Re: Question About Tapes In Lib as Private - But No History / Data On them

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Hart, Charles
>We have found a strange situation with Tapes in our library 
>I'm hoping that some one could clarify what we are seeing...
>
>tsm: MSPSTG5>q libvol 3494lib1 i01448  
>3494LIB1 I01448  Private   
>
>Q vol States that TSM DB
>tsm: MSPSTG5>q vol I01448 f=d
>ANR2034E QUERY VOLUME: No match found using this criteria.

You have had a glitch with your library that has caused TSM to move an
empty scratch tape into the 'private' category without putting data on
it. This could have been caused by technical difficulties, or by someone
checking in a scratch tape with status=private (instead of
status=scratch).

Run

upd libv 3494lib1 I01448 status=scratch

If it is truly an empty tape (doesn't belong to a storage pool, and
isn't a db backup tape), it'll flip to scratch status.

--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Berbee Information Networks
Office 262.521.5627  

Newbie having NetWare issues

[Emeric, Mitchell]

Hi. I just set up a Novell 5.1 server with SP7. Followed the following
steps to install DSMC Client on server...

 

1.  TSM Desktop Client disc version 5.1.5
2.  mounted CD as volume
3.  loaded NWConfig > Product Options > Install a product not listed
4.  path chosen LCD742001:\TSMCLI\NTW
5.  installation program executed, chose default option plus web
client
6.  after installation completed, issued "search add
SYS:\TIVOLI\TSM\CLIENT\BA" command
7.  verified search path
8.  when attempting to load DSMC.NLM the following output
displays...SERVER 5.00-918: Loader cannot find public symbol:
NetDBgethostbyname for module DSMC.NLM  Error processing External
Records. Module DSMC.NLM NOT loaded.

 

Anyone out there can point me in the right direction?

 

Mitchell Emeric CNA CNE

LAN Administrator

Mercy Hospital of Miami

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Migrate to Linux

[Christian Svensson]

Hi Everyone,

I got an ITSM Server 5.2.2.0 running on my Windows 2000 Server.

But now will change the old hardware with new hardware and because we want to 
get out as much as possible from our servers so we are going to install our new 
ITSM Server 5.2.3 on Linux Red Hat Enterprise Edt 3

I get my ITSM Server to work.

But how do I get my database back from Windows to Linux include all my tapes?

Is that possible to do?

 

Med Vänliga Hälsningar / Best Regards
Christian Svensson
Senior Software Engineer 

Cristie Data Products
 Europe Cell : +46-(0)70-325 15 77
 US Cell : (415) 420-1210
 US CBMR Support : +1-866-TEC-CBMR
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LTO2 cleaning options

[David Benigni]

Hello,

Within tivoli the cleaning frequency option can be specified as
"asneeded" does any one know if the TSM can handle the "asneeded' option
with LTO2 drives?  Here are the system specs:

TSM : 5.2.3.1
OS : Windows 2000 Server (with IBM LTO2 drivers)
Library : Qualstar TLS8433

TIA,

Dave

Re: Newbie having NetWare issues

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Emeric, Mitchell
>Hi. I just set up a Novell 5.1 server with SP7. Followed the 
>following steps to install DSMC Client on server...
>
>1.  TSM Desktop Client disc version 5.1.5
>2.  mounted CD as volume
>3.  loaded NWConfig > Product Options > Install a product 
>not listed
>4.  path chosen LCD742001:\TSMCLI\NTW
>5.  installation program executed, chose default option plus web
>client
>6.  after installation completed, issued "search add
>SYS:\TIVOLI\TSM\CLIENT\BA" command
>7.  verified search path
>8.  when attempting to load DSMC.NLM the following output
>displays...SERVER 5.00-918: Loader cannot find public symbol:
>NetDBgethostbyname for module DSMC.NLM  Error processing External
>Records. Module DSMC.NLM NOT loaded.

Please, *please*, folks. Use the online resources that are easily
available, and described in detail in the TSM FAQ (posted in this list
monthly, and findable in the mailing list archives at search.adsm.org).

Go to the IBM site, put the string NetDBgethostbyname in the search text
box. The first entry listed in the resultant web page describes the
problem exactly.

--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Berbee Information Networks
Office 262.521.5627  

LANFree Oracle TDP with shared memory

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

We are having issues with TDP using TCP/IP to
communicate with the Storage Agent. It has
been suggested to switch to shared memory.

Does anyone have experience and any recommendations
or "gotchas" using shared memory instead of TCP/IP?


Thanks,
Fred

Oracle: 9.2.0.4
TSM/StorageAgent: 5.1.7.2
TDP: 5.2
AIX: 5.2 ml04

Re: LANFree Oracle TDP with shared memory

[Rob Jones]

I will be out the office from Wednesday, December the 8th thru Friday, December 
the 10th.

Re: Migrate to Linux

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Christian Svensson
>I got an ITSM Server 5.2.2.0 running on my Windows 2000 Server.
>
>But now will change the old hardware with new hardware and 
>because we want to get out as much as possible from our 
>servers so we are going to install our new ITSM Server 5.2.3 
>on Linux Red Hat Enterprise Edt 3
>
>I get my ITSM Server to work.
>
>But how do I get my database back from Windows to Linux 
>include all my tapes?

Not directly. The filesystem structures of Windows and Linux do not
allow you to move the database volumes, or restore a db backup from one
OS to another.

If you're getting a new tape library, the best answer is to put the new
server online and perform all new operations with the new server. After
a few months of expiration, you can then export your remaining node
information from the old server to the new server.

If you're not getting a new tape library, this will be a headache. You
really should hire yourself a TSM engineer; what you're proposing will
not be easy.

--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Berbee Information Networks
Office 262.521.5627  

Re: LANFree Oracle TDP with shared memory

[Patrick Miller]

Did you start having problems after upgrading to AIX 5.2 ml4 ?

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 11:34 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LANFree Oracle TDP with shared memory


We are having issues with TDP using TCP/IP to
communicate with the Storage Agent. It has
been suggested to switch to shared memory.

Does anyone have experience and any recommendations
or "gotchas" using shared memory instead of TCP/IP?


Thanks,
Fred

Oracle: 9.2.0.4
TSM/StorageAgent: 5.1.7.2
TDP: 5.2
AIX: 5.2 ml04

AW: Migrate to Linux

[Peter Sternecker]

If have old and new servers up and running, 

look at the 'export/import' tools (Server, Policydomains, Nodes, with or 
without Data) 
with Version 5.x.y - servers you can export/import direct from server-old to 
server-new.

Runs fine.

Peter Sternecker
R+V Allgemeine Versicherung AG
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> Hi Everyone,
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> I got an ITSM Server 5.2.2.0 running on my Windows 2000 Server.
> 
> But now will change the old hardware with new hardware and 
> because we want to get out as much as possible from our 
> servers so we are going to install our new ITSM Server 5.2.3 
> on Linux Red Hat Enterprise Edt 3
> 
> I get my ITSM Server to work.
> 
> But how do I get my database back from Windows to Linux 
> include all my tapes?
> 
> Is that possible to do?
> 
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> 
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Re: Question About Tapes In Lib as Private - But No History / Data On them

[Hart, Charles]

Thank you all for your Responses!!!  Again its much appreciated... I query the 
contents, try the select statement provided in a previous response and based on 
results hopefully be able to return them to scratch.

Thanks Again!

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Stapleton, Mark
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 9:57 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Question About Tapes In Lib as Private - But No History /
Data On them


From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Hart, Charles
>We have found a strange situation with Tapes in our library 
>I'm hoping that some one could clarify what we are seeing...
>
>tsm: MSPSTG5>q libvol 3494lib1 i01448  
>3494LIB1 I01448  Private   
>
>Q vol States that TSM DB
>tsm: MSPSTG5>q vol I01448 f=d
>ANR2034E QUERY VOLUME: No match found using this criteria.

You have had a glitch with your library that has caused TSM to move an
empty scratch tape into the 'private' category without putting data on
it. This could have been caused by technical difficulties, or by someone
checking in a scratch tape with status=private (instead of
status=scratch).

Run

upd libv 3494lib1 I01448 status=scratch

If it is truly an empty tape (doesn't belong to a storage pool, and
isn't a db backup tape), it'll flip to scratch status.

--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Berbee Information Networks
Office 262.521.5627  

Is there a way to check past backup totals

[Timothy Hughes]

Hello all,


Is There a way for me to find out the total GB that I
have been backing up each night say for the last week or two?
or even the past couple of days a select query perhaps?

I would like to increase my disk pool and would like
to check each nights backup say for the last couple days
or more.

TSM version 5.2.3.5
AIX 5.2

Thanks for any help!

Re: Is there a way to check past backup totals

[Curtis Stewart]

$1 and $2 are parameters you pass when you run the script. Adjust the
numbers to fit what you want to see.

 select nodes.domain_name,summary.activity,sum(cast(summary.bytes/1-
  024/1024/1024 as decimal(6,2))) as GB from nodes, summary  where
  (end_time between current_timestamp - $1 hours and
  current_timestamp - $2 hours) and (activity='BACKUP' or
  activity='RESTORE' or activity='ARCHIVE' or activity='RETRIEVE')
  and ((nodes.node_name=summary.entity)) group by
  domain_name,summary.activity order by activity,domain_name asc


Here's the output from one of my servers using 24 48

tsm: MSPTSM01COL>run query_past_activity_by_domain 48 24

DOMAIN_NAMEACTIVITY   GB
-- --
-
HP-COL ARCHIVE 33.86
AIX-COLBACKUP 70.33
BRMS   BACKUP 89.12
DOMINO BACKUP 8.87
HP-COL BACKUP 185.04
NT2-COLBACKUP 4.05
SUN-COLBACKUP 8.60
DOMINO RESTORE 11.35
AIX-COLRETRIEVE 0.52
ANR1462I RUN: Command script QUERY_PAST_ACTIVITY_BY_DOMAIN completed
successfully.

tsm: MSPTSM01COL>

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Hello all,


Is There a way for me to find out the total GB that I
have been backing up each night say for the last week or two?
or even the past couple of days a select query perhaps?

I would like to increase my disk pool and would like
to check each nights backup say for the last couple days
or more.

TSM version 5.2.3.5
AIX 5.2

Thanks for any help!

Re: Is there a way to check past backup totals

[Terry McColgan]

TSM Operational reporting should do the trick - only runs on a Win client
though - t

-Original Message-
From: Timothy Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 1:08 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Is there a way to check past backup totals


Hello all,


Is There a way for me to find out the total GB that I
have been backing up each night say for the last week or two?
or even the past couple of days a select query perhaps?

I would like to increase my disk pool and would like
to check each nights backup say for the last couple days
or more.

TSM version 5.2.3.5
AIX 5.2

Thanks for any help!

Re: Is there a way to check past backup totals

[Steve Bennett]

Here is one I use that creates the following output:
Q_BU_SIZE 10
ENTITY Elapsed TimeAvg Obj Avg Bytes  Session Count
-- - - --- ---
ADBACKUP   00:05:29   1938 251.417 Mb   9
ADJNU1 00:02:04   2032 373.676 Mb   9
ADROOT 00:05:38   1972 251.563 Mb   9
BILLE  00:10:20   2034 171.406 Mb   7
BLADE1 00:03:46   2048 439.144 Mb   9
BLADE2 00:02:14 23 39.365 Mb9
DALPJPH00:00:15 78 23.708 Mb9
DALPKPH00:05:29  9 10.205 Mb9
script is:
//
/* Script that reports all the objects that are */
/* backed up for all nodes  */
//
set sqlmathmode round
set sqldatetimeformat eur
select entity, substr(cast(avg(end_time-start_time) as varchar(17)),3,8)
as "Elapsed Time", -
cast(avg(affected) as decimal(7,0)) as "Avg Obj", -
  case -
when avg(bytes) > 1073741824 then -
 cast(cast(avg(bytes)/1073741824 as decimal(7,3)) as
varchar(24))||' Gb' -
when avg(bytes) > 1048576 then -
 cast(cast(avg(bytes)/1048576 as decimal(7,3)) as
varchar(24))||' Mb' -
when avg(bytes) > 1024 then -
 cast(cast(avg(bytes)/1024 as decimal(7,3)) as varchar(24))||'
Kb' -
else cast(cast(avg(bytes) as decimal(7,3)) as varchar(24)) -
  end as "Avg Bytes", -
  count(*) as "Session Count" -
  from summary -
  where activity='BACKUP' and -
/* affected>0 and - */
 days(current_timestamp)-days(start_time) < $1 -
 and successful='YES' -
  group by entity
//
select entity, substr(cast(avg(end_time-start_time) as varchar(17)),3,8)
as "Elapsed Time", -
cast(avg(affected) as decimal(7,0)) as "Avg Obj", -
  case -
when avg(bytes) > 1073741824 then -
 cast(cast(avg(bytes)/1073741824 as decimal(7,3)) as
varchar(24))||' Gb' -
when avg(bytes) > 1048576 then -
 cast(cast(avg(bytes)/1048576 as decimal(7,3)) as
varchar(24))||' Mb' -
when avg(bytes) > 1024 then -
 cast(cast(avg(bytes)/1024 as decimal(7,3)) as varchar(24))||'
Kb' -
else cast(cast(avg(bytes) as decimal(7,3)) as varchar(24)) -
  end as "Avg Bytes", -
  count(*) as "Session Count" -
  from summary -
  where activity='BACKUP' and -
/* affected>0 and - */
 days(current_timestamp)-days(start_time) < $1 -
 and successful='YES' -
  group by entity -
  order by "Elapsed Time" desc

Timothy Hughes wrote:
Hello all,
Is There a way for me to find out the total GB that I
have been backing up each night say for the last week or two?
or even the past couple of days a select query perhaps?
I would like to increase my disk pool and would like
to check each nights backup say for the last couple days
or more.
TSM version 5.2.3.5
AIX 5.2
Thanks for any help!
--
Steve Bennett, (907) 465-5783
State of Alaska, Enterprise Technology Services, Technical Services Section

Re: Question About Tapes In Lib as Private - But No History / Data On them - Update

[Hart, Charles]

Here's what we found in the actlog... So we have verified no contents, changed 
to scratch and reworet the label!  Sweet!

12/06/04   04:44:21  ANR8778W Scratch volume I01623 changed to Private 
Status  
  to prevent re-access. (SESSION: 8826, PROCESS: 634)   
   
12/06/04   04:45:19  ANR8778W Scratch volume I01624 changed to Private 
Status  
  to prevent re-access. (SESSION: 8826, PROCESS: 634)   
   
12/06/04   04:46:32  ANR8778W Scratch volume I01625 changed to Private 
Status  
  to prevent re-access. (SESSION: 8826, PROCESS: 634)   
   
12/06/04   04:47:45  ANR8778W Scratch volume I01626 changed to Private 
Status  



tsm: MSPSTG5>h 8778
---

ANR8778W Scratch volume volume name changed to Private Status to prevent
re-access.

Explanation: The scratch volume encountered an error during mount processing
that makes it unusable. The status of the volume is changed to private so
that it is not selected for future scratch mounts. (Although the status has
become private, it is not defined to a storage pool.)

System Action: Processing continues with another scratch volume.

User Response: See previous error messages to determine the cause of the
mount failure, and correct the problem. If the problem is a mislabeled
volume or unreadable label, relabel the scratch volume using the dsmlabel
utility with the "-overwrite" option. If the volume is missing from its home
slot, issue the AUDIT LIBRARY command against the library. If the volume has
lost or corrupted VCR-data, relabel the volume. (This reinitializes the
VCR-data by writing to the volume update the status of the volume to scratch
by using the UPDATE LIBVOL command.




LABEL libvol 3494lib1 I00545 checkin=scratch overwrite=yes devt=3592




-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Stapleton, Mark
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 9:57 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Question About Tapes In Lib as Private - But No History /
Data On them


From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Hart, Charles
>We have found a strange situation with Tapes in our library 
>I'm hoping that some one could clarify what we are seeing...
>
>tsm: MSPSTG5>q libvol 3494lib1 i01448  
>3494LIB1 I01448  Private   
>
>Q vol States that TSM DB
>tsm: MSPSTG5>q vol I01448 f=d
>ANR2034E QUERY VOLUME: No match found using this criteria.

You have had a glitch with your library that has caused TSM to move an
empty scratch tape into the 'private' category without putting data on
it. This could have been caused by technical difficulties, or by someone
checking in a scratch tape with status=private (instead of
status=scratch).

Run

upd libv 3494lib1 I01448 status=scratch

If it is truly an empty tape (doesn't belong to a storage pool, and
isn't a db backup tape), it'll flip to scratch status.

--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Berbee Information Networks
Office 262.521.5627  

Re: Is there a way to check past backup totals

[Stef Coene]

On Thursday 09 December 2004 19:08, Timothy Hughes wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
> Is There a way for me to find out the total GB that I
> have been backing up each night say for the last week or two?
> or even the past couple of days a select query perhaps?
>
> I would like to increase my disk pool and would like
> to check each nights backup say for the last couple days
> or more.
If you create offsite tapes, you can check the output of the backups stgp 
command to find the total gb backuped that night.

Stef

-- 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 "Using Linux as bandwidth manager"
     http://www.docum.org/

Re: TSM best Practices for tape drives using FC

[David Nicholson]

I have (2) TSM servers on AIX (H50 and H70) with 2GB FC adapter. I have
(15) 3590 and 6 (3580) tape drives hanging off a single adapter from each
server.  I'm sure in a lab somewhere that my single adapter could be shown
to be a bottleneck when trying to stream data to all those
drives...however in the real world that I happen to live in I rarely see
the an adapter pushing more than 130mb.  Not sure I would recommend this
as best practice, but I have no real complaints.
I will say that location of the adapters can make a significant difference
in the throughput. For instance, sharing a given bus with GigE, SSA, and
FC tape is going to introduce a bottleneck at the bus...just something to
keep in mind.  Some time ago I relocated the FC adapter to a different bus
and immediately saw 40% improvement in the throughput of the adapter.


David R. Nicholson

Re: TSM best Practices for tape drives using FC

[Timothy Hughes]

Thanks David,

One thing I forgot to mention is that our TSM servers are now attached
to a (IBM p670).

David Nicholson wrote:

> I have (2) TSM servers on AIX (H50 and H70) with 2GB FC adapter. I have
> (15) 3590 and 6 (3580) tape drives hanging off a single adapter from each
> server.  I'm sure in a lab somewhere that my single adapter could be shown
> to be a bottleneck when trying to stream data to all those
> drives...however in the real world that I happen to live in I rarely see
> the an adapter pushing more than 130mb.  Not sure I would recommend this
> as best practice, but I have no real complaints.
> I will say that location of the adapters can make a significant difference
> in the throughput. For instance, sharing a given bus with GigE, SSA, and
> FC tape is going to introduce a bottleneck at the bus...just something to
> keep in mind.  Some time ago I relocated the FC adapter to a different bus
> and immediately saw 40% improvement in the throughput of the adapter.
>
> David R. Nicholson

Re: Is there a way to check past backup totals

[Timothy Hughes]

Thanks

Curtis,Terry, Steve and Stef for your replies!

Terry, I have operational reporting but it only covers a
24hr period. So I can check last nights total, but what if I want it
to check say the previous nights GB total. Or the night before or each
night of last weeks backup total GB. Can I configure it to show
the past?

Thanks again!

Curtis Stewart wrote:

> $1 and $2 are parameters you pass when you run the script. Adjust the
> numbers to fit what you want to see.
>
>  select nodes.domain_name,summary.activity,sum(cast(summary.bytes/1-
>   024/1024/1024 as decimal(6,2))) as GB from nodes, summary  where
>   (end_time between current_timestamp - $1 hours and
>   current_timestamp - $2 hours) and (activity='BACKUP' or
>   activity='RESTORE' or activity='ARCHIVE' or activity='RETRIEVE')
>   and ((nodes.node_name=summary.entity)) group by
>   domain_name,summary.activity order by activity,domain_name asc
>
> Here's the output from one of my servers using 24 48
>
> tsm: MSPTSM01COL>run query_past_activity_by_domain 48 24
>
> DOMAIN_NAMEACTIVITY   GB
> -- --
> -
> HP-COL ARCHIVE 33.86
> AIX-COLBACKUP 70.33
> BRMS   BACKUP 89.12
> DOMINO BACKUP 8.87
> HP-COL BACKUP 185.04
> NT2-COLBACKUP 4.05
> SUN-COLBACKUP 8.60
> DOMINO RESTORE 11.35
> AIX-COLRETRIEVE 0.52
> ANR1462I RUN: Command script QUERY_PAST_ACTIVITY_BY_DOMAIN completed
> successfully.
>
> tsm: MSPTSM01COL>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Timothy Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 12/09/2004 12:08 PM
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>
> Hello all,
>
> Is There a way for me to find out the total GB that I
> have been backing up each night say for the last week or two?
> or even the past couple of days a select query perhaps?
>
> I would like to increase my disk pool and would like
> to check each nights backup say for the last couple days
> or more.
>
> TSM version 5.2.3.5
> AIX 5.2
>
> Thanks for any help!

Re: Question About Tapes In Lib as Private - But No History / Data On them - Update

[Richard Sims]

On Dec 9, 2004, at 1:26 PM, Hart, Charles wrote:
Here's what we found in the actlog... So we have verified no contents,
changed to scratch and reworet the label!  Sweet!
12/06/04   04:44:21  ANR8778W Scratch volume I01623 changed to
Private Status
  to prevent re-access. (SESSION: 8826,
PROCESS: 634)
...
In the context of those 8778 messages you should see causal messages,
most likely relating to I/O errors on the tape...which may be a problem
tape, dirty drive head, or the like.  From the ADSM QuickFacts entry
for Private:
A tape will be forced to Private status when there is an I/O
failure on a Scratch volume, as *SM sets it to Private to keep
from thrashing on the scratch mount.  Look in the Activity Log
   for the message "8778W Scratch vol ... changed to Private Status
to prevent re-access".
 Richard Sims

Re: Is there a way to check past backup totals

[Curtis Stewart]

"Can I configure it to show the past?"

If you put it on a box running IIS you can send the reports to a directory
and keep multiple versions. Or, you can do what I do and just have the
report sent to you via e-mail. Then keep as many versions as you want.


[EMAIL PROTECTED]

image restore with incrementals using flash copy

[Paul Zarnowski]

We are attempting to design a backup/restore solution that covers a few
different restore scenarios.  One of them has a low RTO (restore time
objective).  We are considering using a combination of image backups in
concert with file-level incrementals.  This would allow us to perform an
image restore, followed by a file-level incremental restore to bring the
restored image forward in time to the latest file-level incremental backup.
(e.g., Sunday:Image+Incr, Mon:Incr, Tue:Incr, Wed:Incr, Thu:Incr, etc etc)
In order to perform the image backups, we would have to use some sort of
instant image (i.e., Flash Copy) to quickly create a static copy of the
Unix filesystem that we could then create an image backup of.  We would do
this infrequently (weekly).  The question that I have is this:
If we keep the latest Flash Copy around (on disk, forget about TSM), could
we then bring that image forward in time using TSM's incremental
backups.  I.e., use the hardware-based image, instead of restoring it from
TSM.  It would be nice if this were possible, but I don't think TSM allows
this - I think it requires that the base-level image come from TSM.
Thanks in advance.
..Paul
--
Paul Zarnowski Ph: 607-255-4757
719 Rhodes Hall, Cornell UniversityFx: 607-255-8521
Ithaca, NY 14853-3801  Em: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TSM best Practices for tape drives using FC

[Kauffman, Tom]

The short answer is that you can't get there from anywhere. The slightly
longer answer is that this becomes an exercise in moving the bottlenecks
and choke points around.

The IBM documentation on the 6228 fiber card (200 Mbyte or 2 Gbit) in
the Subsystem Device Driver manual indicates that one card can saturate
a PCI bus - so make sure that each 6228 card is on it's own dedicated
bus. This is implied in other placement guides, but the SDD manual is
explicit.

Now -- in my case I have LTO-2 drives (30 MB per second transfer rate,
"higher if the data is compressable"). I'm getting 5.2 to 1 compression
on Oracle backups. Um . . . 156 MB/Second anyone? One drive per fiber
per bus - 10 drives - 10 PCI buses; three buses per I/O drawer in the
Pseries (prior to the 550 and above). 

Starting to look a bit pricey. Now, add in gigabit ethernet interfaces
to feed the drives (at no more than two to the bus). But the Gig
ethernet will limit my maximum throughput to 100 MB/second by definition
-- so I can now do two drives per fiber . . . And if I'm not running 10
Ethernet interfaces (bottleneck!) I can hang more tape drives per fiber
. . .

To add to the fun, again on IBM Pseries (AIX or Linux, your choice) the
RIO cable that interfaces between the CPU drawer and the I/O Drawer(s)
is rated at 1 GigaByte per second. Supposedly, the 2 GB/sec RIO
interface will be coming out next year.

So -- it's a bit of a crap shoot. Until the hardware supports direct I/O
from card to card without CPU/system memory involvement (S/390 channel
program, anyone?) you won't come close to theoretical (marketing)
numbers.

Put the number of drives that seems 'reasonable' or 'works' on one fiber
-- I've got five per fiber at the host right now - host PCI bus
limitation - and will be dropping to three per fiber next year with the
hardware swaps I've got coming. No more than one fiber adapter per PCI
bus, or two per PCI-X bus; preferably with no other adapters on the bus.
And check for bottlenecks. Mine is currently the network overhead on my
primary Oracle DB server -- I can max out all 4 cpus during the 2.5 hour
backup. I'm looking at better network design and SAN backup for next
year.

If you're still awake -- I hope this helped put things into perspective.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Timothy Hughes
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 10:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM best Practices for tape drives using FC

I read in a the Tivoli guide (A brief Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage
Manager Architecture)
under Tape Drives  (best practices)

Where it say's Carefully consider card and bus throughput when attaching
tape
drives to systems most protocal/tape combinations can accommodate 2-3
tape,
drives per card? We would like to use more than say 10 12 or more
but not to cause issues.

We are Using 3590-H1A's (soon to upgraded to 3592's) which
would  could change the amout of tape drives we use.

We are using FC connections (the HBA's that are attached to the tape
drives are 1GB but are piped in at 2GB.

3590's Assumed speed  39 (GB/HR)
3592's  Assumed speed 112 (GB/HR)


Thanks for any replies!

All thoughts are welcome!

Re: image restore with incrementals using flash copy

[Andrew Raibeck]

Wouldn't this work?

   dsmc restore x:\ -subdir=yes -fromdate=mm/dd/ -fromtime=hh:mm:ss
-replace=all

where -fromdate and and -fromtime are the date/time that the image was
taken.

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

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

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/09/2004
13:14:55:

> We are attempting to design a backup/restore solution that covers a few
> different restore scenarios.  One of them has a low RTO (restore time
> objective).  We are considering using a combination of image backups in
> concert with file-level incrementals.  This would allow us to perform an
> image restore, followed by a file-level incremental restore to bring the
> restored image forward in time to the latest file-level incremental
backup.
>
> (e.g., Sunday:Image+Incr, Mon:Incr, Tue:Incr, Wed:Incr, Thu:Incr, etc
etc)
>
> In order to perform the image backups, we would have to use some sort of
> instant image (i.e., Flash Copy) to quickly create a static copy of the
> Unix filesystem that we could then create an image backup of.  We would
do
> this infrequently (weekly).  The question that I have is this:
>
> If we keep the latest Flash Copy around (on disk, forget about TSM),
could
> we then bring that image forward in time using TSM's incremental
> backups.  I.e., use the hardware-based image, instead of restoring it
from
> TSM.  It would be nice if this were possible, but I don't think TSM
allows
> this - I think it requires that the base-level image come from TSM.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ..Paul
>
>
> --
> Paul Zarnowski Ph: 607-255-4757
> 719 Rhodes Hall, Cornell UniversityFx: 607-255-8521
> Ithaca, NY 14853-3801  Em: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TSM best Practices for tape drives using FC

[Steve Harris]

Well said Tom,

Also add into the mix your san environment.  eg host is on one switch but disk 
and  multiple tape drives are connected into a second san switch, but there is 
only one inter switch link.

We do make things complex, don't we?

Regards

Steve.

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/12/2004 6:18:01 >>>
The short answer is that you can't get there from anywhere. The slightly
longer answer is that this becomes an exercise in moving the bottlenecks
and choke points around.

The IBM documentation on the 6228 fiber card (200 Mbyte or 2 Gbit) in
the Subsystem Device Driver manual indicates that one card can saturate
a PCI bus - so make sure that each 6228 card is on it's own dedicated
bus. This is implied in other placement guides, but the SDD manual is
explicit.

Now -- in my case I have LTO-2 drives (30 MB per second transfer rate,
"higher if the data is compressable"). I'm getting 5.2 to 1 compression
on Oracle backups. Um . . . 156 MB/Second anyone? One drive per fiber
per bus - 10 drives - 10 PCI buses; three buses per I/O drawer in the
Pseries (prior to the 550 and above). 

Starting to look a bit pricey. Now, add in gigabit ethernet interfaces
to feed the drives (at no more than two to the bus). But the Gig
ethernet will limit my maximum throughput to 100 MB/second by definition
-- so I can now do two drives per fiber . . . And if I'm not running 10
Ethernet interfaces (bottleneck!) I can hang more tape drives per fiber
. . .

To add to the fun, again on IBM Pseries (AIX or Linux, your choice) the
RIO cable that interfaces between the CPU drawer and the I/O Drawer(s)
is rated at 1 GigaByte per second. Supposedly, the 2 GB/sec RIO
interface will be coming out next year.

So -- it's a bit of a crap shoot. Until the hardware supports direct I/O
from card to card without CPU/system memory involvement (S/390 channel
program, anyone?) you won't come close to theoretical (marketing)
numbers.

Put the number of drives that seems 'reasonable' or 'works' on one fiber
-- I've got five per fiber at the host right now - host PCI bus
limitation - and will be dropping to three per fiber next year with the
hardware swaps I've got coming. No more than one fiber adapter per PCI
bus, or two per PCI-X bus; preferably with no other adapters on the bus.
And check for bottlenecks. Mine is currently the network overhead on my
primary Oracle DB server -- I can max out all 4 cpus during the 2.5 hour
backup. I'm looking at better network design and SAN backup for next
year.

If you're still awake -- I hope this helped put things into perspective.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Timothy Hughes
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 10:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Subject: TSM best Practices for tape drives using FC

I read in a the Tivoli guide (A brief Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage
Manager Architecture)
under Tape Drives  (best practices)

Where it say's Carefully consider card and bus throughput when attaching
tape
drives to systems most protocal/tape combinations can accommodate 2-3
tape,
drives per card? We would like to use more than say 10 12 or more
but not to cause issues.

We are Using 3590-H1A's (soon to upgraded to 3592's) which
would  could change the amout of tape drives we use.

We are using FC connections (the HBA's that are attached to the tape
drives are 1GB but are piped in at 2GB.

3590's Assumed speed  39 (GB/HR)
3592's  Assumed speed 112 (GB/HR)


Thanks for any replies!

All thoughts are welcome!



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use of preallocated files in disk stgpool using devtype of file

[Steve Bennett]

We are supplementing our existing ATL with a 6TB SATA. Clients will
continue to backup directly to the TSM server's local SCSI disk which
will get migrated to the SATA stgpool which will migrate to the ATL.
Since our W2K TSM server is limited to 2TB file systems we will be
allocating 3 filesystems for the 6TB of space. Because of the single
path issue when using dynamically allocated scratch volumes in the SATA
pool I intend to define the pool with maxscratch of 0 and preallocate
all the the vols with the dsmfmt command and then define all the vols to
the SATA pool. So far so good.
In the case of dynamically allocated vols TSM allocates and then
increments the size of the vol as needed up to the max size specified.
When no longer needed the vol is then deleted so the space can be reused.
When using predefined 20GB vols will TSM append to the end of the vol if
it is not completely full just as it does for tape vols or does it go to
the next available volume in scratch status? I suspect and hope the
answer is the latter but what's the real answer?
TIA
--
Steve Bennett, (907) 465-5783
State of Alaska, Enterprise Technology Services, Technical Services Section

Re: use of preallocated files in disk stgpool using devtype of file

[Lloyd Dieter]

I'm quite certain that it does the former...although I don't have any hard
evidence to support that.  As I understand it, volumes for devclass=file
are treated pretty much like tape volumes.  If there's room at the "end",
and your collocation settings allow it, I think it appends to the volume.

Interesting question...I'll have to experiment & see.

-Lloyd


On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:33:54 -0900
Steve Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote thusly:

> We are supplementing our existing ATL with a 6TB SATA. Clients will
> continue to backup directly to the TSM server's local SCSI disk which
> will get migrated to the SATA stgpool which will migrate to the ATL.
>
> Since our W2K TSM server is limited to 2TB file systems we will be
> allocating 3 filesystems for the 6TB of space. Because of the single
> path issue when using dynamically allocated scratch volumes in the SATA
> pool I intend to define the pool with maxscratch of 0 and preallocate
> all the the vols with the dsmfmt command and then define all the vols to
> the SATA pool. So far so good.
>
> In the case of dynamically allocated vols TSM allocates and then
> increments the size of the vol as needed up to the max size specified.
> When no longer needed the vol is then deleted so the space can be
> reused.
>
> When using predefined 20GB vols will TSM append to the end of the vol if
> it is not completely full just as it does for tape vols or does it go to
> the next available volume in scratch status? I suspect and hope the
> answer is the latter but what's the real answer?
>
> TIA
>
> --
>
> Steve Bennett, (907) 465-5783
> State of Alaska, Enterprise Technology Services, Technical Services
> Section


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Schedule is error on Linux

[nghiatd]

Hi,

I install TSM ver 5.1.5 server on Win2K and TSM ver5.1.5 client  on Linux. I 
can backup data manual and access through Web client. But I got error message 
following when I used schedule :

cuGetAuthResult: Authorization failed. Result code: 2

ANS3004E Session for user RMQG_LINUX terminated - invalid password entered

I log on account root and excuted  "nohup dsmc schedule 2> /dev/null &" 
command. And there is "passwordaccess generate" option in dsm.sys  

Pls help me to fix it,

Thanks a lot,

Nghiatd

Re: Is there a way to check past backup totals

[Stapleton, Mark]

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
Behalf Of Timothy Hughes
>Is There a way for me to find out the total GB that I have 
>been backing up each night say for the last week or two?
>or even the past couple of days a select query perhaps?
>
>I would like to increase my disk pool and would like to check 
>each nights backup say for the last couple days or more.

Do you have TSM accounting turned on? If so, you've got a
comma-delimited file that contains daily backup/archive stats broken
down by node. The file is called dsmaccnt.log.

Pull up your TSM administrator's guide and search for "dsmaccnt.log".

--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Berbee Information Networks
Office 262.521.5627  

Re: Is there a way to check past backup totals

[john stephens]

Here is one  select statement that will give you the last 7 days summary in
MB.


 select entity, cast(sum(examined) as integer)as "Objects_Examined",
cast(sum(failed) as decimal(18,0)) as "Objects_Failed", cast(sum(bytes) as
decimal(18,0)) as "Bytes_Backed_up", cast(sum(affected) as integer) as
"Objects_Backed_up", cast((1-(cast(sum(failed) as decimal(18,3))/
sum(affected)))*100 as decimal(8,2)) as "% Success" from summary where
start_time >= current_timestamp - 7 day and activity='BACKUP' group by
entity


Hope this helps

John Stephens
STORServer,Inc

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Stapleton, Mark
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 11:00 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Is there a way to check past backup totals

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Timothy Hughes
>Is There a way for me to find out the total GB that I have been backing
>up each night say for the last week or two?
>or even the past couple of days a select query perhaps?
>
>I would like to increase my disk pool and would like to check each
>nights backup say for the last couple days or more.

Do you have TSM accounting turned on? If so, you've got a comma-delimited
file that contains daily backup/archive stats broken down by node. The file
is called dsmaccnt.log.

Pull up your TSM administrator's guide and search for "dsmaccnt.log".

--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Berbee Information Networks
Office 262.521.5627