Hi Friends,
I have a bit of problem with the dbbackup trigger. I have define it properly
but it is not activated. When i check the q status, it says that "Database
Backup Trigger : Disabled". How can I changed that to enable?
regards
Ameerul
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Kai Hintze wrote:
>
> How do I tell ADSM that a tape is bad and should never be used again?
>
> I assume that I check it out, but what status do I give it so that
> ADSM never tries to use it again? Or is there another command entirely
> to destroy a volume?
>From the SoHK (School of Hard Knocks)
Daoud Shariff wrote:
> ADSM Guru's:
>
> We are in the process of rebuilding a Wide Node in an 8 WN/2F SP. The SP is already
>an ADSM Client, with one Node being the ADSM Server. I believe the install images
>are on the ADSM Server, but they do not coincide with the 'Installing the Clients'
>m
I am still on ADSM 3.1 with OS/390. I have found variants of this query
impossible to
run during normal hours, when other users (online business) seem to think
they are
more important than mere housekeeping functions.
Running out of hours, my query (select node_name from volumeusage where
stgpoo
ADSM Guru's:
We are in the process of rebuilding a Wide Node in an 8 WN/2F SP. The SP is already an
ADSM Client, with one Node being the ADSM Server. I believe the install images are on
the ADSM Server, but they do not coincide with the 'Installing the Clients' manual.
What would be the best
Hi Friends,
Need urgent help. I'm quite new with this. Earlier our engineer has put in
some tapes to the 3570 tape library. Now the tapes has been used up and I
need to add a few more tapes to the library . There are still more bays to
put in.
I'm not sure how to do it but this was my steps :
1.
I do not believe so, I think you will need to do the age-old
import/export procedure.
--
Joshua S. Bassi
IBM Certified - AIX Support, HACMP,
Enterprise Disk(Shark)& Tape Solutions
Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM
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>Yes, I have run an Expire Inventory, but it does not say anything about
>backupsets. Only backups, archives, database y recovery plan.
Maria - Thanks for verifying. That's most peculiar, making it seem like
something got left out of development of your 3.7.3 server.
I just thought to h
Yes, I have run an Expire Inventory, but it does not say anything about
backupsets.
Only backups, archives, database y recovery plan.
Thanks
Maria
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From: Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: RV:
Check for message ANR1341I in the Activity Log. Based on the times in our
log, it appears to be an hourly check that is done.
Eg. Tape becomes pending on Oct 25 at 12:05, becomes Scratch on Nov 1 at
12:54 - reuse delay set to 7 days.
Tim Rushforth
City of Winnipeg
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-Origi
Thanks Richard, and you're right - that would have been easier in this
situation, but the main intent of my question was to find out a bit more
about the inner workings of the TSM server.
Is this one of those "done everyday at midnight" tasks, like pruning the
activity log, or is there some way t
> We generate the backupset with retention=15 but the version
> generated in October 1 is still there.
Just to clarify... In your posting you don't mention if you've done
an Expire Inventory, which is how the backup set actually goes away,
like other storage pool objects. Have you done an Expir
I'm little puzzled by 'The life of the archives are have nothing to do with
updates to the original files. ' stmt. pls explain..
How do i know which ones to checkout and will i be able to restore if i ever
need to ?
Thanks
-Original Message-
From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can not find any apar with backupset as argument
Can somebody from tivoli shed some light on this problem
Is somebody using backupsets with tapes?g
Thanks in advance for any help.
Regards
Maria
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From: James Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: T
Thanks for the clarification. I have delved through the manuals and
found the necessary information. I was apprehensive of granting any
administrator privileges to my ADSM server, but can live with granting
the "client access privilege" to the necessary nodes/admin ids.
The info was not in my A
Hi:
Since you can checkout any volume there is no reason you can't keep archives offsite.
The life of the archives are have nothing to do with updates to the original files.
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/02/00 03:40PM >>>
-How can i set up archivals and store the tapes offsite instead of within
the L
-How can i set up archivals and store the tapes offsite instead of within
the Library?
If files are never updated, are they still active forever regardless of
policies..
Let me know
Thanks
When we want to "start from scratch", we rename the client's filespaces on
the ADSM server.
(to something like filespacename-OLD)
The next time the client backs up, it will back up everything again.
When you are happy with what is going on, the ADSM administrator can just
delete the OLD filespace
Is it possible to take a TSM DB Backup created on one platform (mainframe
for example), and then restore that TSM DB Backup on a different platform
(AIX for example)?
Could this be used to migrate from one TSM server to another rather then
exporting all the client data?
My guess is no.. but Id
AIX has the dsmc backup/archive command line, as does Novell. NT has
the command line dsmc and the qui dsm as does AIX. The dsmadmc is the
admin command line in AIX.
The display in the Novell http gui looks the same as the dsm in NT, and
NT does not require the administrator account.
I guess I
Dan - A previously explored area. See www.adsm.org, search on
"netbackup": numerous entries there.
Yes but all backup/archive clients running on dsmcad require a user to log in
as. I just tried on AIX and it works the same way.
Quoting Tom Melton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> This is not the admin client, this is the backup/archive client.
>
> -Tom
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/02/00 12:42PM >>>
> Wh
We are currently trying to decide between using Veritas Netbackup and Tvioli
Management System (ADSM).
Does anyone know of pros or cons of using one over the other? If you don't
know about the other product, is there anything that you have experienced
that made you wish you had chosen a differen
We use the internal 8mm drive; since we need a librarian for the DRM pool,
they just make daily rounds, so the OS mksysb tape goes offsite along with
the daily DRM pulls.
On the subject of Solaris, all OS CD's are bootable, so it's not such a
stretch to use that to get started with a TSM restore
Thank you and John Naylor for the feedback. That is kinda what I suspected.
I have passed this information on to the owners of this server.
Richard Sims
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Sent by: cc:
>In the past (at version 3.1.2) whenever I needed to force pending volumes
>to scratch, I would temporarily set the REUSEDELAY to 0 for the
>corresponding storage pool and run an EXPIRE INVENTORY.
Just do a Delete Volume on the empty, pending volume - much easier.
Richard Sims, BU
>I have a Netware 5.1 with the *SM client that is attempting to use the
>http gui for backup and restores, and it appears to require an
>administrator account on the ADSM server.
Yes, see the description of the Register Node server command, which
describes this. That is, when Register Node is do
Hello everyone.
In the past (at version 3.1.2) whenever I needed to force pending volumes
to scratch, I would temporarily set the REUSEDELAY to 0 for the
corresponding storage pool and run an EXPIRE INVENTORY.
Recently I needed to do this on a 3.7.2 server and it didn't work. I had
to leave the
>But if someone types 'ps -ef' command, the whole command line will show up
>and he can see the password. This happens on Solaris system; on AIX, the
>'secrete' will not be shown.
Yes, but what are the relative *SM client levels?
The client is supposed to blank the password, but various level
This is not the admin client, this is the backup/archive client.
-Tom
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/02/00 12:42PM >>>
Why not create an account that only has rights to that one client node?
This is
not just related to Netware as all the dsmcad clients operate this way
as far as
I know.
Quoting Tom
Why not create an account that only has rights to that one client node? This is
not just related to Netware as all the dsmcad clients operate this way as far as
I know.
Quoting Tom Melton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I have a Netware 5.1 with the *SM client that is attempting to use the
> http gui fo
To my knowledge, TSM is multi-threaded and allows the OS to control the thread
processing.
Glen
-- Gail Riley wrote... --
If I understand your questions correctly -
We are running AIX 4.3.3 and TSM 3.7.3 on an H70 with four processors and
not having any problems.
I would guess that
I have a Netware 5.1 with the *SM client that is attempting to use the
http gui for backup and restores, and it appears to require an
administrator account on the ADSM server. The command line interface
works fine, without the administrator account on the ADSM server. Does
anyone else have this
Thanks Joshua, Serge and Nick;
The "Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle for UNIX Installation and User's
Guide Version 2 Release 1"
(SH26-4112-00) says the 'passwordaccess' MUST set to 'PROMPT' on page 20! Do
you think that is wrong? Actually we have two different option files and do
as Serge said
Sure...delete the file space on your TSM server and let it rip!
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From: "Hyde, Don (CC-LAN Services)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:57 AM
Subject: Novell 4.1 forced full backup
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for the seeming simplici
>we protect our AIX rootvg using mksysb tapes on a daily rotation;
AIX mksysb dailly rotation ? how you are doing this? using DLT`(from tivoli)
or 4mm or 8mm tape drive attched to RS/6000 box?
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us" on 11/01/2000 06:55:32 PM
Please respond to "[EMAIL PR
Thank You
I'm sure that's it. The previous command was a "select status, count(*) as
"Tape Count" from libvolumes where LIBRARY_NAME = 'LIB3' group by status",
and we are running a older version here.
Dave T
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From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday,
Hi,
Is there a way to query the server to get the exact
request sent by the client. I would like to find out
exactly what is the scope of a backup, restore,
archive, and retrieve. If a backup has occured, I
would like to query whether it was an incremental and
whether parameters were passed with
Zoltan,
I think you are seeing quota limits for this user being breached here
Even though it is a backup ADSM still wants update access and its that which is
triggering the quota limit.
So get the user to tidy up or raise the quota.,
"Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/02/2000 04
I am implementing TSM 4.1 on a Win2000 server. I would like to use the
userexit event option but the sample c program in the admin guide
appendix c is not quite right. Does anyone else have a running userexit
for this server platform and could I please get a copy?
--
Steve Bennett, (907) 465-578
>1) delete the existing filespaces off the *SM server, but that would
>leave you in jeopardy in the event you lose a disk on the NetWare box
>and hadn't yet backed up the client,
Or use Rename Filespace to keep the old one for a while.
Alternately, if you can rename the volume whose contents you
I have 3.7.2 clients backing up to a 3.1.2.54 MVS
server. When I query the activity log for backup
status, ANE4959I reports 8 failures. When I look in
the activity log for the failures, I can only find 7.
When I review the client dsmerror.log file, I found
the eighth failure. ANS4037E, file cha
Hmm, Mark
Sounds like a bug.
I have not run this recently but Larry is at the same TSM as me and his ran ok
My sql when I did run it under 3.1 was
/* NUMBER OF TAPES USED BY NODE */
/* NB. THIS IS LONG RUNNING, TAKES 40 MINS. HIGH CPU COMMAND */
SELECT NODE_NAME,COUNT(DISTINCT VOLUME_NAME) AS "#
Mark - Offhand I don't see any APARs relating to your SQL query, so maybe
you can isolate what the problem might be by using a spectral
approach, doing selects from simple "select * from volumeusage", with
increasing complexity through to your problem select statement.
It may be the Group B
Look into your Unix Limits values, particularly Filesize.
If you are running a Unix system, it is essential that you
understand the Limits values.
Richard Sims, BU
You didn't tell us your server level, but this might be the
"select ... group by" problem (APAR IY07006) fixed in 3.7.
Hi all,
I have defined a extra copypool named copypoolextra other than tapepool and
copypool ,
i want to set 360 days retension on this copypool , what is the command or
reference Book ?
Thnaks in advance
> Hi all
>
> can I use the command EXPORT SERVER to create tapes that contain all
> information and data, including the database od a Tivoli server. Is it
> afterwards possible that an "empty" server after a disaster can be fully
> restored with the IMPORT SERVER command?
In principle, this is wo
To answer your questions, adsm database is as follows:
Available Assigned Maximum MaximumPage Total Used
Pct Max.
Space Capacity Extension ReductionSizeUsable Pages
Util Pct
(MB) (MB) (MB) (MB) (bytes)
Pages Util
- --
You can:
1) delete the existing filespaces off the *SM server, but that would
leave you in jeopardy in the event you lose a disk on the NetWare box
and hadn't yet backed up the client,
2) have your *SM admin change the copy mode to absolute. That tells
*SM to backup eligible files even if they h
Can anyone give me a further explaination what is going on and what to do
with this:
ANE4025E (Session: 4917, Node: SEARCH.VCU.EDU) Error processing
'/u3/logs/vcu-logs/2000/April/2000_03.log': file exceeds user or system
file limit
***
The
Hi David!
In mosty cases the BUF011 indicates a full recovery log. Check it's current
size and decide if it should be enlarged.
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
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From: Tomblin, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 17:03
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tried it2 minutes. we're at 3.7.2
tsm: BACKUP>volumeusage where stgpool_name='NT3590BACK' group by node_name order
by Numvols desc
ANR2000E Unknown command - VOLUMEUSAGE.
ANS8001I Return code 2.
tsm: BACKUP>select node_name, count (distinct volume_name) as Numvols from volum
How serious is this error? Everything appeared normal after restarting the
ADSM server.
Dave T
11/02/2000 07:09:45 ANR0207E Page address mismatch detected on database
volume
G:\DB\VOL04-PRI.DSM, logical page 1702913 (physical
page
130305); actual:
Hi,
Sorry for the seeming simplicity of this question. We have been getting
good incremental backups through the command line scheduler. We have been
running these backups in parallel with existing production backups with
Cheyenne Arcserve. We are going to throw away the Arcserve and want to m
We're also getting ready to upgrade our tape libraries from DLT4000 to 8000.
Looking through this list's archives, it seems like the 8000s have had
problems working with ADSM. Have these problems been resolved with TSM?
Would we be better off going with a 7000? We're running TSM ver. 3.7.3.6 on
Hi Anna,
There was a problem with ADSM 3.1.0.7 in a Cluster and the Password Access
Generate option. Whe installing the service the registry password entry was
erased. It should be solved in 3.1.0.8 but there was also a workaround (APAR
IC24196)
The Workaround is:
1. stop scheduler serv
Are you sure you really need to recover?
There will only be the one "full" backup for each client
You should only consider this if you have lost versions that you really need to
get back.
If this is the case maybe you need to think about your number of versions
Bizzini Paolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED
TSM with the addition of The Kernel Group's product
Bare Metal Restore can restore Sun Solaris from scratch.
Even a Solaris machine that uses Veritas Volume Manager.
Other supported platforms are AIX, HPUX and Windows NT.
The backups of the OS are incremental so you don't have
a huge OS image file
Yes in theory "export server filedata=all" would do what you want.
However unless you are talking small ADSM server this is going to take forever
Werner Nussbaumer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/02/2000 02:37:02 PM
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROT
Good idea to read the doc, but shortly:
RMAN does not backup online redo logs, only archived redo logs.
RMAN never backs up software, administrative scripts, init files, or
password files.
With the mountpoints, and directories setup, as well as restorations of
those items mentioned above, RMAN s
I would use "passwordaccess generate", but have a separate stanza in the
dsm.sys file to control the parameters that pertain to your oracle specific
backup. You need to have a separate dsm.opt file (so
-optfile=dsmoracle.opt could be used) in which the servername will be
different than that of th
Bizzini - Regarding your full 3575 library:
If you can't add more tapes as is, consider using Move Media to temporarily
(at least) make space for additional tapes by taking out some old ones.
Beyond that, see if any filespaces are useless and can be deleted to
make space in your library; or reduc
David,
What version of TDP for Exchange are you running?
Make sure you have version 1.1.1.01.
Then, make sure you are logged into an account that has
the correct permissions to do backup and restore...
(This is probably causing the unknown Exchange API
error message.)
You cannot restore a direc
Mark,
Couple of suggestions.
1) How full is your database, sql queries use free space in the database as a
work area.
2) Run as a batch job, then you can just cancel the session if it is using too
much resource, and or taking too long.
Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/02/2000 02:45:05 PM
Hi all
can I use the command EXPORT SERVER to create tapes that contain all
information and data, including the database od a Tivoli server. Is it
afterwards possible that an "empty" server after a disaster can be fully
restored with the IMPORT SERVER command?
Thanks for any help,
Regards
Werner
Unfortunately, I was sick during last week and just come back to work only
today and noticed the info about the Daylight Saving Time Problem.
Our TSM server has run out of database space (that is not a big problem and
I have already solved) and filled the 3575 library with "Private" tapes
because
Hello,
We are currently running TSM Version 3, Release 7, Level 3.6 on OS/390.
We upgraded from version 3.1. On the 3.1 version I used to run a select
command to show me how many tapes each node was using. Here is the
select
command:
select node_name, count (distinct volume_name) as Numvols from
Hi Anna !!
In your dsm.opt, and dsm.sys How do you define the, password access ??
I think you define password access generate. And then you for first access entry
the passwd and the client save it in NT registry .
Good Luck !!!
Alessio Prodon
Anna Maria Caramiello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> il 02
Hello, everyone
I'm facing a strange problem on scheduling a backup on
a NT cluster:
My software is :
ADSM Server v. 3.1.2.50
ADSM client V. 3.1.0.7
I've defined for each node two Scheduler services, one
for the local drives the other for the shared disks.
Then I've defined the latest services to
We are trying to restore a mailbox on the Exchange server. I have
looked all the documentation I can find and I'm stumped on the problem we
are having.
Here's the situation, the live server is WinNT 4.0 SP5 running
Exchange 5.5 SP3. We are trying to restore the data to another temp
If the backupset has been deleted and the entry is still in the volume
history, then that is a bug. You should check and see if there is an apar
open for this problem.
James Thompson
>From: Stefan Holzwarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAI
If this is a duplicate, I apologize. I had mail turned off while I was away
and forgot to turn it back on.
Receiving the following msg when trying to start the client scheduler or
querying the schedule:
/usr/lpp/Tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin>dsmc q schedule
ANS0113E NLInit: Message repository
'/usr/l
Hi all,
as far as I know, does TSM do not have the capability to share tape drives
among multiple TSM servers when the "shared" library is controlled by
StorageTek's ACSLS at least up to version 3.7.3. Are there any experience
with TSM 4.1.1?
Thanks for your comments.
Mit freundlichem Gruß / k
I am doing testing with the TSM client for a similar problem. SMS2 causes
ADSM to Dr. Watson when backing up the registry (NT4 SP6a). Once I remove
the registry backup from the Opt file, it completed successfully. After
trouble shooting with Microsoft, they were unable to find the cause in thei
Hi,
I am looking for estimates of how long the unload/reload process of a TSM
database takes
We are OS390, TSM 3.7.20.0
The database is 15.2 gigabytes(83.9% occupied of 18.1gb) 8 logical volumes
Has anybody been there, done it, got the figures.
I am looking for a nice warm feeling. I cannot
According to the 4.1 Technical Guide (sg246110.pdf) both 3590 and 8mm as
well as 4mm, DLT, and 3570, are supported on NT 4.0 and on Win2K for restore
from backupsets. All these devices use the OS driver support rather than a
TSM driver.
Glen
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From: Ishmael Isaacs [mailto
I need help in the use of backupsets.
The documentation says that after the days defined in the retention period
the backupset is deleted.
In my customer this does not happen.
We generate the backupset with retention=15 but the version generated in
October 1 is still there.
We have manually delete
Also check that ADSM is not being constrained for CPU on the lpar where it
resides.
"Shalev, Jonathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/02/2000 08:42:52 AM
Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: John Naylor/HAV/SSE)
Subject: Re: Export
We have the same problem with the retension parameter. The feature seems not
to work as expected.
Since we used only backupsets on DASD's we had no problems with tapes...
Our environment : TSM 3.7.3.6 on MVS
With regards
Stefan Holzwarth
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
> Von: Maria Paz Gimen
This is a guess, but you can investigate it.
Look at the cache hit pct in "q db f=d". If it is less than 98% you should
increase the BUFPOOLSIZE (in dsmserv.opt on AIX, not sure about OS/390; you
need to restart the *SM server after changing the file).
We had 80% hits on one of our servers, increa
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