Is anyone going to the IBM Storage conference in Las Vegas the week of the
20th? How good have these been in the past?
Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
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There are c and d drive on my client system..
I don't have to backup c drive totally.
I would like to backup only d:\abc..
How should I change dsm.opt file??
Thanks in advance..
Hello Everyone!
I have a TSM 4.1.2 server.with an AIX 4.1.2 client.
When the backup starts...it saves a file..sends the messages to the
activity log that one file was inspected and one file backed up.then.it
disconnects..starts a new session...and sends anothe
I just called IBM Level 1 ( dial-a-pray ) and asked for advice
about migrating a user population from a 3466-C00
with TSM 3.7.2. to a 3466-C01 with TSM 4.1.x.
ANd essentially the answer was:
"good luck, we won't help you,
unless you want to pay our consultants more money.
(P.S
In regards to the earlier question regarding backing up millions of small
files, one option brought up was doing an image backup.
What platforms support an image backup? Looks to me like windows doesn t (so
for an NT box this isn t a viable option).
What happens to files that are in use by appli
On the backend everything is high-performance.
The customer is using a 4-way RS6K, 3 FDDI
networks, several Magstar E-series tape drives,
etc. What I am interested in is the actual
agent itself, what kind of throughput is reachable.
For simplicity sake, let's assume that the NT
Domino server is a
Here are some AIX ksh commands, adapt as needed:
to get a list of tapes to remove:
dsmadmc -id=query -password=query q actlog begint=08:00 endt=08:40 | grep -i "from
slot" | sed "s/ / /g" | sed "s/ / /g" | sort -t" " +9 -n >$OUTPUT_FILE
To get a list of tapes to retrieve:
dsmadmc -id=query
>Can anybody tell me how to go back to regular mode
>once I have been in digest mode?
To change your subscription to a daily digest of all postings for the
send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the mail body containing the
text: set adsm-l DIGEST
To change back to r
I have 3.7.4 with 3575 library. Yes, this is "normal" when audit
corrects problems. If you run again you will probably see no
problems. You get the "loading in drive to read label" if there
is no tape in slot now but *SM thought there was or if there is
a problem with the label - I have had one
All,
Can anybody tell me how to go back to regular mode
once I have been in digest mode? I have looked all
over but can't find the command to do it?
Thank you,
--
Joshua S. Bassi
Independent Consultant
IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark
Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM
Cell (408)&(831)
While there are certainly performance differences between backup apps, the
biggest differences are in your hardware and network. Generally, the slow
point is the drive but other aspects of your data flow may be the slow
point. Using ethernet? How fast? What kind of drives? How much competition
for
All,
What type of performance can one expect to get when
backing up a large Lotus Domino environment under
NT using the TDP for Domino agent?
My customer is running TSM 3.7 on an AIX server
and is thinking about replacing the BackupExec
Domino solution with TSM and would like to know
what others
I am in the situation where I am a contactor working for IBM. There is a
dedicated purchase person in Atlanta who handles our purchases and I need
to touch base with her to find out if there is a toe to be stepped on. I
have contacted Tivoli and asked them if there is the potential that the
datab
From a vendor. The first time or two we went through vendor
for replacements. Then they said we could go directly to
IBM and save a step, so we have.
David Longo
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Did you buy your tapes directly from IBM or from another vendor?
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What version of atape and atldd are you running?
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From: Mauro Jr, Frank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 1:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 3494 Tape Library
I have a 3494 tape library which is connected through a "brocade switch" to
an A
I have a 3494 tape library which is connected through a "brocade switch" to
an AIX 4.3.3 server. The tape library is also used by our mainframe.
I was able to define the tape library and drives to the TSM but when I try
to label or read a tape I get the following error message:
ANR8311E A
Kelli, It doesn't look like you got the ANR0104 from running audit library.
It appears you audited the library as a result of the error deleting the
row from the table noted. Once the audit completed, it looks like
everything is fine with the audit likely resolving the issue in your table.
George
When using the wildcard "*" in a script code it as "\*". This allows the AIX
script to recognize the "*" as a character.
Frank Mauro
Liberty Mutual
Backup and Recovery Services
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603.245.3207
> -Original Message-
> From: Fred Johanson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent:
Fred,
It looks like the shell is eating your quotes. You might try
cmd=\"checkin libvol tsmlib &vol devt=3590 stat=scratch\"
Alex
-Original Message-
From: Fred Johanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 10:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Move DRM que
>The script that produced to log i appended was:
>
>dsmadmc -id=admin -password=password move drm UC* wherest=vaultretrieve
>tost=onsiteretrieve cmdf=/var/adm/dsm/drmcmd.dsm cmd="checkin libvol tsmlib
>&vol devt=3590 stat=scratch"
Fred - Your first posting said you are running Korn shell.
Greetings all,
We have around 1,300 Windows 2K/NT clients, mostly just workstations, with
3 to 4 Gig to backup each. We have experienced problems with the Central
Scheduler Service stopping, and not being able to trace the precise cause.
Some people recommend that Windows users re-boot on a reg
We were having a problem with 4.1.2 on nt, which support said had to do with
permissions. ON the failing machines you would see a message in the log file
about a failure to back up the registry. Upgrading to 4.2.0 resolved that
problem
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mai
The script that produced to log i appended was:
dsmadmc -id=admin -password=password move drm UC* wherest=vaultretrieve
tost=onsiteretrieve cmdf=/var/adm/dsm/drmcmd.dsm cmd="checkin libvol tsmlib
&vol devt=3590 stat=scratch"
The manual has "move drm * etc" but experience shows that the command
p
What do your scripts look like? I have scripts that work
-Original Message-
From: Fred Johanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 10:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Move DRM question
I'm trying to get DRM commands installed for operations staff. The desi
The following error was reported in the actlog while performing an audit (with the
checklabel=barcode parm). We are on TSM V 3.7.4 running on AIX 4.3.2. Has anyone
seen this before? We also found a tape (Magstar 3570 C Format) in another slot that
was extremely damaged. You couldn't even se
I'm trying to get DRM commands installed for operations staff. The desired
method is for an operator to issue a command from the console which is a
local script, in this case copied straight out of the TSM
documentation. The server is running AIX 4.3.3 and the script is Korn-shell.
This is what
From what you wrote, it sounds like you are waiting till one point in
the day to do steps 1 and 2 all at once. I do them during the day.
I have about 120 clients with 250 - 300 GB a day, mostly backed up
during a 12 hour period. I have a AIX cron job that runs every 30
minutes and starts 2 proc
You will need to first put on 4.1.0.0 which will require the install CD.
If you have support for your product you can call tivoli support and they
will send you the 4.1 install pack.
I just did my first AIX 3.7 to 4.1.4.0, had to make the pit stop at 4.1.0.0
Dwight
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Fro
Keep in mind the following things about backupsets. A generate backupset
command copies all the 'Active' versions of the file systems specified. It
does not copy any of the 'Inactive' versions. It does
not copy any of archive data either.
The 'Active' versions after a full incremental represent
Hello,
Currently our backup strategy for the TSM Servers is as follows on a
daily basis.
1. Backup 'diskpool' to 'copypool'
2. Backup 'tapepool' to 'copypool'
3. Full back up of DB
From what I understand this is the most bullet proof method.
However we are at edge of our tape li
Hi, Richard. That was a piece of information that I didn't include. That's
funny, seeing as how it's the crux of the problem. Sorry about that.
What I am experiencing on my fileserver is that 3 million files (75%) have
last access times that coincide with the backup window. Only about 50,000
I've been looking at the readme for Server Version 4.1.4.0 for Windows.
I'm not sure of what's required to upgrade from Version 3.7
The Readme states that to upgrade from a previous 4.X version prior to 4.1.3
you first need to uninstall the previous version. Text of readme follows:
***
My problem is the vast number of support groups across client machines...
getting them to do things :-/
Yes, I know looking at the support matrix we currently see things such as a
TSM 4.1 server works with TSM 3.7, 4.1, & 4.2 clients.
I'm thinking about the making a statement that I can NOT allo
>Further problem is that our volume-history and
>activity-log only covers 2 weeks so in my opinion
>there is no easy way to check for tapes to be reused
>or for tapes with storage data.
Perhaps you have a backup of the volhist backup file as
specified on your VOLUMEHistory server option, which
yo
You probably had reclamations running that freed up these tapes.
They would be in a DRM state of vaultr unless someone had moved
them past that. If they are truly scratch, there is no way to see what
they were. If you do both a "q vol" and a "q drm" for each of
these tapes and get nothing, then
OK since I just went through this I would suggest that anyone that is on
current maintance for 4.X contact thier IBM inside sales rep to verify this
information but here is what I was directed to do.
Send and email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following information:
Company name:
Address:
contac
Hello, I have been experiencing a couple problems with our Novell clients
that I'm wondering if you experts can help me with. First, my environment is
Server: OS/390 4.1.0.0, Novell v4.2 and Novell Client 4.1.2.13.
Problem number one deals with the schedule log. DSMC SCHED is constantly
getting l
Yesterday I found 95 tapes in our offsite-location,
which don't belong to any storage-pools.
Normally the only two ways that a tape gets to the
offsite-location is, that it's a copy-storage pool
from our tape-pool, or it's a dbbackup-tape.
In our DRM-Environment there is a setting, which takes
c
Seems that there is an include/exclude statement in
your dsm.opt file, which is denying any other
volume-backups than c:\ or d:\
Another possibility could be, that ther is a
server-side client-option setting which excludes this
two drives.
Run the command "Q CLOPTSET" on the adsm/tsm
commandline
L&g
does anyone have a procedure , script for billing clients ??
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Hello ,
does anyone know if TSM V4.2 is available for OS/390 ?
Regards
Petr Prerost
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Rename the filespace it is associated with "rename filespace" . Run a
backup. Wait the number of days you need to be able to access the data from
that filespace. Use "delete fi" to delete the data.
Jeff Bach
Home Office Open Systems Engineering
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
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The maximum number of total threads is a limit in ADSM. "show threads" will
return this number. When is approaching 500, you will have application
issues. When a server is busy, a thread seems to be used by each of the
following: each database and log volume, a storage pool volume being written
>Seems that there is an include/exclude statement in
>your dsm.opt file, which is denying any other
>volume-backups than c:\ or d:\
>
>Another possibility could be, that ther is a
>server-side client-option setting which excludes this
>two drives.
>
>Run the command "Q CLOPTSET" on the adsm/tsm
>c
>Is there a preferred max number of simultaneous backup session? I now
>backup about 20 server at a time during one session but I notice that some
>have "recv wait" status if I do a "q sess". I thought TSM was multi
>threaded and would backup all of them at once. I have a gig card in the tsm
>s
check to see that in your opt file you have the DOMAIN option correctly
entered.
domain c: d: e: g:
or i think
domain all-local works too.
ant
-Original Message-
From: Ofer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 1 August 2001 22:18
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: don't backup new
>Hi, everybody. We're experiencing a situation where the Last Access times
>on the fileserver are updated for a huge number of files, about half the
>data on the server.
Alex - I'm not aware of any platform on which the Last Access times
are *not* updated by TSM in any Backup/Archive oper
>does anybody know, if there is a 'Performance Tuning Guide' for TSM 4.x
Unfortunately, no. A big gap in the product documentation.
Richard Sims, BU
>My problem is that the schedule don't backup the new drives. It's still
>backing up only the C: and D: drive.
See yesterday's postings regarding permissions. Some notes I have:
The simplest cause would be that the backup was attempted via the
scheduler and it was not restarted
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Hi all,
I backing up an NT box for about a year now. recently we installed a new
drives on that box.
E: and G:.
My problem is that the schedule don't backup the new drives. It's still
backing up only the C: and D: drive.
I am using the same schedule to back up that machine.
the schedule is with
Hi,
I have droped my oracle instance but forgott to delete the rman backups first.
Now i can no longer run rman to delete the obsolete backups.
Is there any other way to delete the entries from the rman catalog AND tell TSM to
delete the files also ??
Thanks
Andreas Wizemann
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