An old trick I used for many years:
to investigate a "problem" filesystem, do a "find" in that filesystem.
If the find dies, tsm definitly will die.
I'll bet your find will die, and that's why your backup will die/hang or
whatever also. A find will do a filestat on all files/dirs, actually the sa
ncetown,
> on the tip of Cape Cod, only later moving on to Plymouth)
Cheers,
Henk ten Have in the Lincoln state (where I landed at Chicago, on the tip
of Lake Michigan, only later moved on to Champaign.)
> If anyone here has an inroad to whomever administers this mailing list,
> an intervention would be most welcome.
Richard?
Cheers,
Henk ten Have (a typical "Calling a Richard"...;)
> We should ask IBM to publish new Redbook.
>
> "TSM for Executives"
You mean "TSM for Dummies".
Cheers,
Henk ten Have
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te_date) < (days(current_date)-14)
Runs for a couple of seconds and gives you a list of FILLING tapes not used in
14 days. And then you decide on which tapes you like to run a MOVE DATA.
Cheers,
Henk ten Have ("Izze Zimpel")
er to buy some tapes
and send them offline.
Cheers,
Henk ten Have (back after one year)
ptember).
Thanks to all of you who have been a great help to me in all those
years. Have a good one!
Cheers,
Henk ten Have
On 14-Mar-03 Nicolas Savva wrote:
> Any ideas for a command script that will take a full backup of db on 3590
> tape
"Command script" is a little bit overdone, just make an admin schedule:
backup db devclass="3590" type=full
Cheers,
Henk ten Have
On 12-Mar-03 Michelle Wiedeman wrote:
> a big kiss for u all!
Hmm...I'm to late now with a good advise I guess;-)
Cheers,
Henk ten Have
lume ID: yy Volume Name: 'volume_name'.
If yes, you can try a "audit vol 'volume_name' fix=yes".
If not, try a "auditdb". (How big is your database?).
And if yes or no, always call your local Support immediatly, these errors
are damn serious
is deleted the last 5 days.;-)
See "expiration runs, deletion not done" I posted last Monday.
Cheers,
Henk ten Have.
>Henk - Possibly: You could do a Select search on your Backups or Archives
> tables for that OBJECT_ID, to identify the filespace object involved,
>and perhaps via Contents determine what tape volume it is on, then do an
>Audit Volume Fix=Yes ?
Richard, I know which filespace is involved (i.
f his list.
Number of examined object is now nearly 4 million, my guess is that at least
3 million should be deleted.
Not to mention that we will ran out of tapes pretty soon....
Cheers,
Henk ten Have (completely clueless and not amused)
**
> **
> *
> * $$4233 Fixes delivered in patch 4.2.3.3
> *
> **
> **
> ...
> IC35420 TSM SERVER CORE DUMPS WHEN EBUSY IS RETURNED AFTER AN ATTEMPT
> TO UNSET CONDITION VARIABLE IN PKDESTROYCONDITION()
> ...
>
> Cheers,
>
D AFTER AN ATTEMPT
TO UNSET CONDITION VARIABLE IN PKDESTROYCONDITION()
...
Cheers,
Henk ten Have (asap to TSM 4.2.3.3)
7838S Server operation terminated.
01/15/2003 02:14:49 ANR7833S Server thread 1 terminated in response to program
abort.
01/15/2003 02:14:49 ANR7833S Server thread 2 terminated in response to program
abort.
..
Anyone seen this before?
Cheers,
Hen
On 18-Dec-02 Remeta, Mark wrote:
> Well that makes me think of a old saying,
>
> Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he will
> eat for a life time...
Very nice. As we say in Holland: "If a cow can catch a rabbit".
>> > From: Remco Post [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
st to answer in private :-(
I still don't have any clue WHY he is unable to *receive* messages from the
list.
Cheers,
Henk ten Have
mentation violation when
attempting to acquire an idle mount point. (solved in 4.2.1.9)
Btw, we ran now TSM server 4.2.3.1 without any problems (knock knock on wood).
Cheers,
Henk ten Have.
bunch
of tapes every full, from scratch until full, and then Util is 100%.
Well, anyway, it's Monday
Cheers,
Henk ten Have.
ize of the tape as Estimated Capacity.
Cheers,
Henk ten Have
of SUCCESS at 18:10:25.
Cheers,
Henk ten Have
On 12-Nov-02 Luis Nevarez wrote:
> The Tivoli manuals are now listed under Library on the left Nav bar..
> These manuals are still available for free to Tivoli users.
>
> http://submit.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/tdprodlist.html
"Netscape is unable to locate blablabla....."
s still a little bit tricky
(ok, we use it now for more then 7 years), we prefere MIGREQUIRESBkup YES,
which is the default also.
> Quite confused,
Not anymore, I hope...
Cheers,
Henk ten Have.
opinion is, TSM server administrator
> should plan one (at least) or two "audit db" a year.
That will cost you then one (at least) or two times 50 hours every year.
Cheers,
Henk ten Have (we never had to do a audit db ever, which is now 7 years,
and like to keep it that way)
tells me about client support for
> Solaris 9.
Tivoli (Freddy Saldena) told me at the SHARE that a Solaris 9 client is
released when TSM 5.1.15 is released, probably Oct. '02.
I don't have a clue why it isn't released now.
Cheers,
Henk ten Have.
solved in 4.2.1.13 (AIX).
Cheers,
Henk ten Have.
s of course and a waste of bandwith.
Cheers,
Henk ten Have (who wonders who's is attending the next SHARE)
Wayne,
> Can anyone help me with a select query that will tell me how much data I've
> backed up in the last 24 hours?
select sum(cast(bytes/1024/1024/1024 as decimal(6,3))) "Total GB Backup" -
from summary where start_time>=current_timestamp - 1 day and activity='BACKUP'
Cheers,
Henk ten Have
from occupancy" and you know
exactly how many object you have.
My guess is you have 17230769 objects....well, between 16 an 17 million...
Cheers,
Henk ten Have.
>> I based the increase in DB size on the "600k of database space per object
> stored by TSM" rule.
> If I remember it correctly, it's 600 bytes, not 600Kb.
Divide your db-size by the number of files and you will see that it
will be between 300 and 350 bytes.
Cheers,
ink it's "not quick and dirty"...;-) :
ANR2963W This SQL query may produce a very large result table, or may
require a significant amount of time to compute.
And yes, it take some time, but the result is ok.
Cheers,
Henk ten Have.
.
>
> acsdir="/opt/tivoli/tsm/devices/bin"
> echo "Starting ACSLS daemon."
> cd $acsdir
> ./rc.acs_ssi quiet $* || "ACSLS Server (\"$acsdir\") error.. Aborting."
Or put it into the /etc/inittab:
autoacs:2:once:/usr/tivoli/tsm/devices/bin/rc.acs_s
I couldn't find an APAR that describes what we have been seeing
on our 4.2.1.11 (AIX 4.3.3) server during the last few weeks
so I was wondering if we have discovered new bug.
First we got this message in the activity log:
06/09/02 10:39:38 ANR1229W Volume 000591 cannot be backed up - volume i
On 16-Apr-02 Francisco Molero wrote:
> lock node * , doesn't work
No, but DISABLE SESSIONS does work.
Cheers,
Henk ten Have
> My 80% full 25gb FULL DB backup takes 1hr 20 minutes on 9672-x57 going to a
> 9840 tape.
Our 72% full 56Gbyte FULL DB backup takes 1hr to 3590/3494 (SCSI attached)
and to 9840/9310 (Fiber attached).
Cheers,
Henk ten Have.
run an online database audit, but the (I know, it's an
> undocumented one) command AUDIT DB FIX=YES gives me the following response:
>
> ANR2000E Unknown command - AUDIT DB.
> ANS8001I Return code 2.
>
> Has the online audit been removed from the 4.2 code
It's better to remove command's that won't work...;-)
Cheers,
Henk ten Have.
sreekumar,
> Is that the only cause that you upgraded your server from 4.1.x to 4.2.x ?
Yes. 4.1.4.1 was very unstable and there was no higher version available,
so we decided to upgrade to 4.2.1.4.
> Pls give your TSM setup details .
What kind of setup details do you like to know?
>
ting to acquire an idle mount point.
Solved in 4.2.1.9.
Cheers,
Henk ten Have.
ediatly to 4.2.1.X.
We'r now on 4.2.1.11 and our server is now running quite well.
Cheers,
Henk ten Have.
On 22-Mar-02 Günter Essers wrote:
> So: when will TSM 4.2 for AIX be available and shipped?
September 2001.
Cheers,
Henk.
On 13-Mar-02 Cindy Bogle wrote:
> SANergy is not a prerequisite to TSM V5.1.
But my question was: "Is it included in TSM V5.1?",
and if yes, "Is it SANergy 3.1?".
Cheers,
Henk.
John,
> Anyone know anything about this or have any suggestions on how to get this
> AIX client to successfully backup instead of spending so much time checking
> each file? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
We did have such problems a long time ago. Every (AIX) user can screw up your
> for the TSM server downloads/fixes page. Had been unable to get to the
> Tivoli pages for a day or two.
That's why I never use those Webpages for downloading
Cheers,
Henk.
Campbell:
> Henk, thanks. ..please identify where I can get this 4.2.1.9 code and
> README's?
service.boulder.ibm.com, which you can find in one of your (old)
README's, also a couple of mirror sites.
> I can only see 4.2.1.7 AIX server code on the Tivoli Websites.
I never use the T
"tsmadmin account for Excaliber Business Solutions" aka Campbell wrote:
> Have received coredumps (third one in the last month) with dsmserv down
> situations. In dsmserv.err appears the following:
>
> 03/12/2002 03:12:22 ANR7834S Thread 293 (tid 12577) terminating on signal
> 11 (S
> egmentatio
Steffan,
> I don't know what TSM 5.1 will bring but for now you have to either use
> Robot/Save (3rd party) or BRMS. Robot/Save will require enough local disk
> space to backup the system to disk before it send it to TSM (you might be
> able to do some break-down but we couldn't see a way on t
Hi Miles,
> Having used both flat files for dumps and SQL-back track, I prefer to use
> files. What I mean is I dump the database to files first, then backup the
> files to TSM.
>
> This is what I do:
[ knip ]
> Then just do a 'dsmc inc' to backup the files.
Ok, point taken.
> The perfo
> That's it, alright! That APAR was from ADSM 2.1 closed in July
> 1997!! I guess the fix is on the "back burner".
I know it's not Friday, but this is even funnier then all the
"I'm not here" in about 8 languages;-)
Cheers,
Henk.
Does anyone has experience with Sybase and TSM?
I know there exists SQL-BackTrack for Sybase, but that seems to me
quite expensive.
Cheers,
Henk ten Have
I wrote:
> Does anyone has experience, i.e. right now, in using TSM for AS/400
> backup's? Is there a simple way to do that and what is the performance?
Last week I heard there will be a AS/400 backupclient in TSM 5.1.
Is that true Tivoli guru's?
Cheers,
Henk ten Have.
On 08-Mar-02 Joe Cascanette wrote:
> H...Another item I will have to purchase from Tivoli. im sure my company
> will love me now.
I heard last week that SANergy will be part of TSM, starting with TSM 5.1,
which will be announced April 9th.
Cheers,
Henk (who can't wait)
> I would like to have a copy, too.
I DON'T like to have a copy and I DON't wanne know
who would like to have a copy..
Cheers,
Henk (and I also DON'T like to know who is "out of the office")
Daniel,
> We have a AS/400 backing up to TSM (NSM) and 3583. It works perfect, but
> the IBM guys had to set up the AS/400.
Any idea what the IBM guys "did set up"? I don't suppose it's something
magic?
Cheers,
Henk ten Have.
ironment. Someday
> when we upgrade and have a 3494 library we try to add the AS/400s to TSM
> again, but this time backing up through Fibre.
Last question: how do you backup your AS/400 machines now and how is the
performance?
Cheers,
Henk ten Have.
Does anyone has experience, i.e. right now, in using TSM for AS/400
backup's? Is there a simple way to do that and what is the performance?
Cheers,
Henk ten Have (heard bad stories about BMRS and ADSM V3 API)
On 17-Feb-02 Jack Magill wrote:
> Where can I find documentation on the lbtest utility?
I never found any documentation (on AIX).
But at least lbtest works.
Cheers,
Henk ten Have.
On 08-Feb-02 Lisa Cabanas wrote:
> He hasn't retired. Has he been de-listed???
>
> Inquiring minds want to know
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 10:09:46 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FW: Richard Sims.. (was HOWTO: TSM Server Quickinst
>I'm not t
On 08-Feb-02 Jim Kirkman wrote:
> Does anyone know what's happened to Richard? Hopefully something good,
> like retirement!
I emailed him a month ago and asked him where he was / what he was
doing. Still the same he told me, but he had problems reaching this
list (I think for at least 5 mon
answer....;-)
Cheers,
Henk ten Have.
On 19-Dec-01 Karel Bos wrote:
> 12/19/2001 15:07:52 ANR0871E Cannot find file space name for node 85, file
> space 1073741823.
This is an old problem and fixed in 4.1.4.
> How can I see which node node 85 is and what filespace 1073741823?
You can't.
Cheers,
Henk ten Have
On 31-Oct-01 Jim Kirkman wrote:
> We have seen this exact same scenario with 4.1.4 on OS390 2.10. Backups, q
> proc,
> and expiration working, DB backup and dr move cmds invoked but never ran,
> admin
> sessions 'frozen' and processes cancelling but never going away. It's only
> happened once, but
I wrote:
> If any bad comes out of this, just let me know too.
Well, it didn't take 24 hours. This morning my server was "frozen". Simple
queries like q mo, q vol, q libvol or q dr never give any result.
q se (which worked) showed a lot of "frozen" admin session, wait time
zer
>According to the information in apar IC30965 the licensing problem is
supposed to be fixed in 4.2.1.6.
* RECOMMENDATION: Apply fixing PTF when available. When the
* fix is applied you may need to first delete
* the nodelock file then "touch" the nodelock
*
On 30-Oct-01 Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote:
> I brought the server up at almost the time backup disk was supposed to kick
> off but noticed no processes running. I did a quick check of the log and saw
> these messages. Looks like maybe things tried to kick off before the server
> was truly available for
On 30-Oct-01 Suad Musovich wrote:
> You are both dyslexic 4.2.1.6
Hmm...like TSM you mean?
Anyway, running 4.2.1.6 now for 4 hours, I must admit, we don't see any
"mount failed" anymorebut we see now a complete new set of _wonderful_
messages:
ANRD asvolmnt.c(519): ThreadId<51> Moun
On 30-Oct-01 Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-IS/CIS wrote:
> Andy,
> do you mean 4.1.2.16 and not 4.1.2.6 ?
Nope. 4.1.2.6 is now available:
service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/server/AIX/4.2
.1.6
Cheers,
Henk (upgrading right now)
On 29-Oct-01 Joel Fuhrman wrote:
> I don't know if this works for server message, but it might suppress the
> ANR2841W messages:
>
>disable event console ANR2841W
No, that doesn't work for server messages:
Server events may not be disabled for the activity log receiver (ANR1829E).
Cheers,
He
On 25-Oct-01 Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote:
> I contacted Tivoli today regarding the PMR I have open. I don't know if this
> affects all platforms but on AIX 4.3.3 with TSM 4.2.1 about every 3 days I
> can count of a core dump of TSM, last night was the latest. According to
We had 2 crashes last wee
On 23-Oct-01 Bill Mansfield wrote:
> I heard second-hand that the license registration bug wasn't going to be
> fixed until TSM 5.x. Can anyone out there confirm?
I hope not. Last 24 hours we had again > 10 ANR2841W messages.
And another thing I noticed about v4.2.1 AIX, our server becomes s
On 23-Oct-01 ORNESS wrote:
> Tivoli told me that an APAR is opened but you can work with your server NOT
> IN COMPLIANCE...
Except that I think your server becomes slower and slower every minut. Maybe the
fact that we'r doing mayor HSM-filesystem restore's from one box to another box
in a SAN cau
On 22-Oct-01 Neil Schofield wrote:
> The fact that others are experiencing identical problems at least gives me
> some hope of a resolution.
You mean, we all end up in the same madhouse?
Last night we get the following message:
ANS1030E System ran out of memory. Process ended, which means:
"...
On 22-Oct-01 Magura, Curtis wrote:
> Well Have to say we are running at 4.2.1.0 on AIX 4.3.3 and a smaller
> Win2K box. The AIX box has a 3494 and 3590 drives. We did not see any of the
> problems mentioned.
You are a lucky person;-)
But try a "select volume_name from libvolumes where s
On 22-Oct-01 Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote:
> For all those who are thinking of upgrading to 4.2.1, my opinion is don't. I
> have been up on it for 10 days and have already experienced 3 crashes. I
> also have a tape problem that I'm told was supposed to have been fixed. I
> have 2 PMR's open, both at
I wrote:
> I have some (strange) tape problems, for example with tape 000401 (AIX
> 4.3.3.0,
> TSM server 4.1.4.1, 3494/3590E:
Last night we also get dozens of "No drives are currently available in library"
and "Mount request denied for volume" messages. The problem was that
volume 000401 was st
On 03-Oct-01 Patricia LeBlanc wrote:
> Is your tape in an 'unavailable' status???
Nope. Just read/write status.
Cheers,
Henk.
I have some (strange) tape problems, for example with tape 000401 (AIX 4.3.3.0,
TSM server 4.1.4.1, 3494/3590E:
Problems with accessing some tapes, for example 000401:
10/03/01 08:21:57 ANR0406I Session 2438 started for node ISIS-S315 (AIX)
(Tcp/Ip 145.100.17.2(4289)).
1
, could you please
contact me?
- Does anyone know what I need to do to make this possible?
Btw, our PowderHorn is also used by two SGI machines (Origin 2000 and 3800).
Cheers,
Henk ten Have.
Does anyone in this field use Tivoli SANergy?
If so, can you please tell me in what kind of environment?
Thanks in advance,
Henk ten Have.
On 07-Feb-01 Michael Jung wrote:
> The manual says that it is compatible to:
>Red Hat 6.1, 6.2, 7.0
>SUSE 6.3, 6.4
>Turbo Linux 6.0
>Caldera Linux 2.3
The manual also says: "Linux86" (Linux for intel 80x86 family processor).
My question is: does this client also w
Reinhard,
> With the new client software and after rebooting the machine, the situation
> has not changed. Files to be backed up are still recalled.
This behavior was also 'available' in version 3.x (forgot the level, I try to
forget HSM-problems I find as soon as possible.)
> Anyway,
>>"q vol HO1302" shows it's in primary tape pool
>>"q libvol 3494 HO1302" said no match found
>>"mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qV -VHO1302" shows
I don't know which level ADSM you'r running, but we had exactly the same
problems with adsm 3.1.2.55 (AIX 4.2.1, Atape 5.0.2.0, atldd 4.0.1.0):
volumes are "not
OLUME doesn't give any clue".
>Alessio Prodon
> (Proud to use adsm on AIX )
If hope your are kidding
Cheers,
Henk ten Have.
e see this before and/or has any clue?
Cheers,
Henk ten Have.
On 11-Sep-00 Richard Cowen wrote:
> I just finished an "dsmserv auditdb fix=no."
> db = 52gb 82% occupied. sum(num_files) = 100,000,000.
> AIX 4.3.2, 4x112Mhz high node, 1GB memory, SSA disks.
> TSM 3.7.3.6.
> No other significant processes running on that node.
> Time = 4 days, 12 hours.
So,
> My apologies when I sound negative, but why should be bother to test/try-out
> out the TSM 4.1 client, when the distribution package is placed on the FTP
> server untested? This does not give me a good feeling! I think I speak for a
Erik, this isn't something new, I'm afraid. I have seen unte
On 28-Jul-00 James W. Doll wrote:
> My German is weak, but was a auto reply, that he is out of the office.
My German isn't weak, but I hate out of the office messages on a malinglist.
Also in English or Dutch btw.
Cheers,
Henk (in August 4 weeks out of the office, but nobody will see th
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