Dealing with defunct filespaces.

2007-07-12 Thread Stuart Lamble
Hi all. Whilst investigating something else, we discovered a number of nodes that have old filespaces still stored within TSM - eg: Node Name: (node name) Filespace Name: /data Hexadecimal Filespace Name:

Re: Cannot write to Tape (ANR8302E)

2007-07-12 Thread hshahizul
Thanks. Tapes were label during checkin. Few scratch tape also available. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Clark Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 6:02 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Cannot write to Tape (ANR8302E

Re: HSM practical limit?

2007-07-12 Thread Richard Sims
Paul - Speaking from experience running HSM on AIX JFS for many years: Applied to a file system, HSM turns it into the slowest you've ever experienced, even on the fastest RS/6000 and disk systems. Traversing it for an incremental backup is very painful. Sizing an HSM file system is a challenge:

Re: separation of copypool tapes

2007-07-12 Thread Richard Sims
On Jul 12, 2007, at 3:14 PM, Haberstroh, Debbie (IT) wrote: Deleting all of my copypool volumes could be a problem since I am only moving half of the tapepool data and have over 600 copypool tapes. I will need to find a better way to remove the data. Thanks for the answer about the data still b

Re: Cannot write to Tape (ANR8302E)

2007-07-12 Thread Robert Clark
Were the tapes labeled at checkin? On Thursday, July 12, 2007, at 06:02AM, "hshahizul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Tsmer, > > > >I have install a new TSM Server 5.3.2 on Windows 2000. > >Tape library IBM 3583 having 2 libraries and 4 drives. > >Library connected to TSM Server via HBA card throu

Re: TSM and Windows Cluster Environment

2007-07-12 Thread Wanda Prather
WOW!! I always wondered if it wasn't possible to do this without the failover. Thanks! > We deal with enough Windows clusters that we have developed a batch file > to > run on each potential failover host of a vnode within the cluster, to get > the services set up (you still need to manually conf

Re: separation of copypool tapes

2007-07-12 Thread Haberstroh, Debbie (IT)
Excellent, thanks. If I try to move nodedata before the new diskpool is in place, which would have migrated off to the new tapepool, will the node have issues after it's backup when it tries to migrate data to the tapepool I am moving it off of? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: TSM and Windows Cluster Environment

2007-07-12 Thread Robben Leaf
We deal with enough Windows clusters that we have developed a batch file to run on each potential failover host of a vnode within the cluster, to get the services set up (you still need to manually configure the cluster services that will control the local Windows services - I haven't scripted that

Re: separation of copypool tapes

2007-07-12 Thread Andy Huebner
When we move single nodes to balance the pools, we run this query to locate tapes with the moved node's data and delete them a few at a time allowing backup storage pool to recreate the tapes with the correct data. select distinct volume_name from volumeusage where stgpool_name = 'Copy_Pool' and n

Re: separation of copypool tapes

2007-07-12 Thread Haberstroh, Debbie (IT)
Deleting all of my copypool volumes could be a problem since I am only moving half of the tapepool data and have over 600 copypool tapes. I will need to find a better way to remove the data. Thanks for the answer about the data still being there, I wasn't sure how that would work. -Origina

HSM practical limit?

2007-07-12 Thread Paul Zarnowski
We're considering using HSM for storing large object-size files. I'm curious if folks using HSM have comments on what the practical object limit is for one HSM-managed filesystem. I.e., how many objects can you have in one HSM-managed filesystem before you start running into problems? If it mat

Re: separation of copypool tapes

2007-07-12 Thread Andy Huebner
When we rearranged our tape pools, we did a move node. We did not look for a way to move the tape because we where changing tape technology. Recreating the copy pool is easy; a backup storage pool to a new copy pool will work fine. Beware that the data will remain in the old copy pool, to fix thi

separation of copypool tapes

2007-07-12 Thread Haberstroh, Debbie (IT)
We have a large database, 170Gb and are proposing to our customer that it be separated into multiple servers. Unfortunately when the system was designed, more than half of the nodes were directed to the same tapepool and copypool. The tapepool is collocated by node, the copypool is not. Befor

NY TSM User Group Meeting Announcement

2007-07-12 Thread Connor, Jeffrey P.
Hello! The next NY TSM User Group meeting is Thursday July 19th from 10:00-4:30 at National Grid in Syracuse NY. If you are interested in attending, please go to http://www.tivoli-ug.org/ and register as a member of our group and as an attendee for the meeting on 07/19. Or email Jeff Connor a

TDP DOMINO for E-mail missing backup

2007-07-12 Thread Frank Tsao, email is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We are experiencing missing backup for TDP DOMINO on Lotus notes E-mail. Does anyone had similar experiences/fixes? We are running DOMINO 6.5.5, TDP for DOMINO 5.3.0.0 and with NT 2000 operating system. Thanks. Frank Tsao [EMAIL PROTECTED] PAX 25803, 626-302-5803 FAX 626-302-7131

Re: Backup Storage Pool Issue

2007-07-12 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:50:25 -0500, Andrew Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Is this really a good answer? I know it's "working as designed", as > IBM is sometimes fond of saying. TSM knows whats on what tapes. It > seems like, unless the processing required to do it would be > substantial

Re: TSM and Windows Cluster Environment

2007-07-12 Thread Bos, Karel
Hi, Yep, we and others have. What are the problems you are running into? Installing ITSM clients in a cluster is described in the ITSM client documentation. Regards, Karel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Mochnaczewski S

TSM and Windows Cluster Environment

2007-07-12 Thread Richard Mochnaczewski
Hi *, Has anyone successfully implemented TSM in a Windows Cluster environment ? We are running into various problems when trying to configure the TSM client on certain servers in the cluster and IBM is not being very helpful. TSM Server : 5.3.3.0 running on AIX 5.2 ML9 Rich

Re: Backup Storage Pool Issue

2007-07-12 Thread Andrew Carlson
Is this really a good answer? I know it's "working as designed", as IBM is sometimes fond of saying. TSM knows whats on what tapes. It seems like, unless the processing required to do it would be substantial, TSM could split the processes so this doesn't occur, at least as often. With non-coll

Re: SATA disk?

2007-07-12 Thread Ian-IT Smith
Fortunately the disk storage pools on TSM have a larger block size which is much more suited to throughput. Again the RAID type and read cache available will have an effect on this. But as Allen says, you will see the performance ceiling much quicker on SATA than FC, as random IO will have to come

Cannot add server to TSMReporter

2007-07-12 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi *SM-ers! I'm trying to add a new TSM server to the TSM Operational Reporter, but when I right-click the tree, the "Add a New TSM Server" option is grayed out... Does anybody know what could be causing this? Thank you very much in advance! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

Re: SATA disk?

2007-07-12 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:32:27 -0500, Andy Huebner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > To me it is not the incoming, but the outgoing that is the greatest > concern. If the next pool is physical tape, be sure you have enough > speed to keep up with your tape drives. If the disks cannot keep up > with t

Re: SATA disk?

2007-07-12 Thread Johnny Lea
My potential setup with this TSM server is to add a single Dell MD1000 with 15 750GB SATA drives. I'm currently using all SCSI disk (12TB) and an LTO3 library. No problems yet. I'm just needing more primary storage. The MD1000 does have the option for SAS drives but only in 300 GB drives. I

Library server getting confused about tape status?

2007-07-12 Thread Allen S. Rout
I've been seeing series of messages like these in my library manager log. 07/11/07 06:59:40 ANR8945W Scratch volume mount failed T00142. (SESSION: 125022) 07/11/07 06:59:40 ANR8381E 3592 volume T00142 could not be mounted in drive DRIVE2 (/dev/rmt6). (SESSION: 125022) 07/11/07 06:5

Re: Backup Storage Pool Issue

2007-07-12 Thread Richard Sims
Charles - See IBM Technote 1208545.

Backup Storage Pool Issue

2007-07-12 Thread Welton, Charles
Hello: I have two "backup stgpools" running and one of them is waiting for the tape being used by the other. I have seen this error before and it will resolve itself eventually when the first one finishes, and the second one gets the tape it is waiting for. But it does cause a delay. I thought

Cannot write to Tape (ANR8302E)

2007-07-12 Thread hshahizul
Hi Tsmer, I have install a new TSM Server 5.3.2 on Windows 2000. Tape library IBM 3583 having 2 libraries and 4 drives. Library connected to TSM Server via HBA card through SAN Switch. Driver for Tape Drive and Medium changer has been installed and can been seen via Device manager Librar

Re: SATA disk?

2007-07-12 Thread Lawrence Clark
In our situation we plan on putting primary storage pools on SATA, keeping copypools on cartridge because of the constraint that copypools behave like virtual volumes. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/12/2007 9:32 AM >>> To me it is not the incoming, but the outgoing that is the greatest concern. If the

Re: SATA disk?

2007-07-12 Thread Andy Huebner
To me it is not the incoming, but the outgoing that is the greatest concern. If the next pool is physical tape, be sure you have enough speed to keep up with your tape drives. If the disks cannot keep up with the physical tape drives then performance will not be acceptable. Since many VTLs use AT

AW: SATA disk?

2007-07-12 Thread Salak Juraj
To get good random access (and sustained read/write) performance be sure to have command queuing (either TCQ or NCQ) - available, - configured and - working on all components used: Disk, controller and driver. The latest is particulary an issue with XP. Still, similar 15 kRPM SCSI raid wil

Command line backup Estimate

2007-07-12 Thread Douglas Currell
The TSM client Backup-Archive GUI provides a button to estimate the time needed for backup. Thus far I have not been able to determine how to do this from the dsmc command line. Any ideas? Thank you.. - Ask a question on any topic and get answers from re

Re: SATA disk?

2007-07-12 Thread Ian-IT Smith
Hi I have been doing some extensive testing on the entire disk storage pool question. The first question, is what is the feed? i.e. how many network connections does the TSM Server have. I am assuming all your larger systems are likely to go LAN FREE direct to tape. Also, what volume are you back