On 10/23/2015 3:18 PM, David Ehresman wrote:
On AIX, can I put dsm.sys in a directory other than the ba install directory?
If so, how do I point to it?
su
cd /[installdirectory]
ln -s /[yourlocaldirectory]/dsm.sys
ln -s /[yourlocaldirectory]/dsm.opt
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Martha,
!!Maybe your volumes are *not* really empty: retry with...
Query CONtent [volname] FOLLOWLinks=Yes[especially for deduplicated
content]
See Help Query CONtent for details ... including default: FOLLOWLinks=No
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On
Login as TSM/DB2 instance owner to run db2start: [see 4th message line from
failure below]
ANR0151W Database manager fails to start. For more information about the
failure, issue the
db2start command.
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On 10/22/2014 11:00 AM
Sergio and Wanda,
Thanks for your posts! I opened PMR 10702,L6Q,000 a couple weeks ago
for slow performance [recently completely fell off the cliff!] with our
SRV3 TSM
v6.3.4.200 service that *was* successfully doing client+server deduplication
for 72TB BackupDedup STGpool on NetApp FC [soon to b
Seeking your experienced advice or reasoned opinion:
We have a TSMv5.5.7 service with very fragmented 500GB DB @ 76% utilized
but only 8% reduceable. As soon as possible we will start TSMv5->v6
migration to new 1200GB DB and 200GB Log. Another TSMv6 service with
800GB DB @ ~50% utilized perfor
Open a "dsmadmc -console" window to see what happens on your TSM service
while you try to do the restore, or use "Query ACTlog"... to capture the
results
after the fact. Perhaps you need to do "UPDate Volume ... ACCess=READWrite"
because some became UNAVailable while their LIBVolume(s) where inac
IBM/Tivoli,
? What TSM client for Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) ?
? When will it be available ?
We have HIPPA backup requirements for new computers running Mac OS X 10.8.
Thanks in advance for your prompt assistance.
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Is your new library from SpectraLogic? If so,
perhaps library is doing MLM pre-scan/autodiscovery of 2000 tapes.
Takes a long. time to pre-scan 2000 tapes.
Pre-scan process dominates library processing until it completes.
You can turn that off under Config/MLM or stop it u
Steve, does this command also list your empty volumes:
q v stg=exosatapool stat=emp acc=reado,unav
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jim.o...@yale.edu
On 12/22/2011 4:23 AM, Copper, Steve wrote:
...
My question is: Why is this migration process creating scratch volumes
in my filesystems when I have 666 (not made up,cu
On 2/9/2011 9:30 AM, Richard Rhodes wrote:
We will be shortly be helping with a DataDomain (DD)
installation, and we are looking for how best to move
the primary pool from the old tape pool to the DD.
The DD will be used as a NAS device via a file type pool.
2) use migration
chg DISK nextpo
Are you running a simple TSMv6 Library Manager (LM) service?
I am trying to configure a minimal TSMv6.2 LM service and wondering,
what are minimal workable TSMv6.2 DB, Log, and Archlog allocations?
We're running an active TSMv5.5 LM service under AIX6.1 for some years now
using <1GB each for DB
I want to change/rename the user that owns a TSM v6 service.
Is there an easy way to do that, or do we need to (un&re)install?
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?Are you: doing TSM backups to iSCSI disk/tape? w/10GE? w/TSM6.?
Scanning ADSM-L archives, actual TSM experience w/iSCSI seems scarce!
Recently, Gary Bowers recommends "DirectIO No" in dsmserv.opt w/ iSCSI,
and in 2007 Ben Bullock had iSCSI poor performance (w/o that setting?)
Most other iSCSI
If your LibMgr TSM v5.5.4 / v5.5.4.1 is busy, you probably have
APAR IC65967 causing many unnecessary tape mount failures
w/ ANR9730W errors @ LM TSM and ANR1401W errors @ LC TSM.
After being plagued for the last month with these failures
[failing GENerate BackupSets and other long running proces
I use this variant: [?equivalent to M.Green's?]
select node_name, reg_time from nodes-
where days(current_timestamp)-days(reg_time)>30
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Michael Green wrote:
Try this:
select node_name, reg_time from nodes where
cast((current
Lindsay Morris wrote:
Right, we did some magic on the dsmc client...
But I see this question here repeatedly: "how can I list all of my backup
files?"
And the answer is always "Don't do that, or tread carefully" like Richard
just said.
...
So why are people wanting to do this?
Hey, you lurkers w
Yale uses Panasus PanFS, a massive parallel storage system, to store research
data generated from HPC clusters. In considering feasibility to backup PanFS
using TSM,
we are concerned about whether TSM is appropriate to backup and restore:
1. very large volumes,
2. deep subdirectory hierarch
Our Windows Systems group prefers to use MS DPM for Exchange and Sharepoint
backup and recovery. If your site is doing the same, we would like to talk
with you about Best Practices for TSM backup of MS DPM and what you have
learned.
Please reply to...
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I believe Paul meant to say:
Nodes not assigned to a specific collocation group are treated as if *each*
is in *its* own private collocation group (i.e., collocation by node.)
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Paul Zarnowski wrote:
Nodes not assigned to a specific collocation group are treated as if they
wer
TSM Support,
We have a new BackupL3R STGpool w/ 10 new LTO3 volumes explicitly defined.
Despite having Est.Capacity=400G defined for the LTO3R DEVclass, the
empty (available) STGpool and Volumes incorrectly show Est.Capacity=0.0 M
Volumes with STATus=PENDing similarly incorrectly show Est.Capac
I am trying to force NDMP LAN-free backups to keep the same tape mounted
and serially reuse it when a NetApp filer needs to write multiple backups.
We have just implemented our first NDMP LAN-free backups w/ TSM v5.5.1.1,
w/ a single NetApp filer backing up 16 VirtualFS from nightly snapshots,
e.
't have a 5.5 to test, but I would try the construct:
... LIKE CONCAT($1, '%')
and see if that is accepted.
Richard Sims
On Jul 13, 2008, at 7:48 AM, James R Owen wrote:
After TSM v5.5.1 upgrade, the following command syntax is invalid:
select...where...like
After TSM v5.5.1 upgrade, the following command syntax is invalid:
select...where...like '$1%'
This syntax was accepted in TSM scripts through TSM v5.5.0.3,
but our local scripts are broken after the upgrade.
Maybe I'm just too tired; is there a more appropriate technique to
concatenate $
We are currently running an efix dsmserv v5.5.0.3 + testfix for IC56999.
IBM level 2 support told us that v5.5.1 will be delayed about 2 weeks
in order to include the fix for IC56999. That's very good decision:
IC56999 was a severe performance problem for a busy UNIX TSM service!
Backup performan
WinNT4 BAclient v5.1.6.0 works OK w/ AIX 5.3 TSMservice v5.5.0.3.
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Evans, Bill wrote:
Yep, this is what we are planning on trying. I'll update if not
successful.
Thank you,
Bill Evans
Research Computing Support
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
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In case someone might be interested to take and reuse...
Yale University recently decommissioned 4 * IBM 3494 tape libraries
and will recycle them for scrap metal before June 30th, unless some
other institution would like to take and reuse them. The libraries
and 3590 drives were maintained by I
Orville,
Can you clarify exactly what is the problem with multiple TSM service instances
running from a shared dsmserv binary? AFAIK, IBM/Tivoli does not suggest to
copy and run a separate executable for each TSM instance. We have not seen any
problems sharing the same executable among sever
ain(s) specifying ACTIVEDESTINATION=
3. Issue COPY ACTIVEDATA
This process incrementaly copies node's active data, so it can be
restarted if needed. HSM migrated and archived data is not copied in
the active data pool!
Maria Ilieva
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W. Curtis Preston
Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
VP Data
Roger,
You certainly want to get a "best guess" list of likely priority#1 restores.
If your tapes really are mostly uncollocated, you will probably experience lots
of
tape volume contention when you attempt to use MAXPRocess > 1 or to run multiple
simultaneous restore, move nodedata, or export no
Look *out*! There might be *D A N G E R* ahead [or maybe not;*]
[there's a smiley for you, Mark S:-), and SomeMoreS @ the bottom]
After consolidating tape library management at a new TSM service
[moved from two production TSM backup services a few days before
Charlotte announced IBM's RedPaper
Zoltan,
Look again at that APAR doc:
IBM - IC54107: TSM ANR8833E DURING CHECKIN LIBVOL FOR SOME VOLUMES
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC54107
My reading is that APAR IC54107 affects only TSM 5.3 and 5.4.
If correct, that is why it is not listed as an APAR fixed in TSM 5.5.
So
Curtis, If you had read the context more carefully, you would see that
Richard's "skimpy" comment referred *not* to the TSM 5.4 enhancements
but rather to IBM/Tivoli's documentation of those enhancements:
>>Is there any documentation on that ??
I found the "lipstick on a pig" analogy inap
Keith,
I can't speak about 10Gb, but we use fibre-extended 1Gb ethernets between
our A & B data centers. TSM clients @ A backup over the 1Gb network to
a TSM service @ B. Their backups are stored on disks and tapes @ B.
Similarly TSM clients @ B backup to a TSM service @ A. Works well for us.
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Allen,
Good news:
Your I/O is "LAN-free" because your 3292 drives are FC connected.
Bad news:
For LAN-free backups, the TSM StgAgent drives the tape I/O.
For tape-tape reclamation the TSM Server drives the tape I/O.
All of the I/O is going through and driven by the host server
subject to its bu
Happy New Year to All!
@Yale, we will do several conversions soon/later during 2007:
email: from U.Washington IMAP servers to Cyrus IMAP servers.
tapes: from 3494 w/ 3590 drives to 3584 w/ LTO2-3 and/or 3592's.
TSM:from server 5.2.3 to 5.3.4, and then to 5.4?
Andy, et al.
[Is anyone out there using RESOURCEUTILZATION n w/ n > 10 ??]
Andy Raibeck's presentation @ Oxford's 2001 TSM Symposium
http://tsm-symposium.oucs.ox.ac.uk/2001/papers/
Raibeck.APeekUnderTheHood.PDF
includes this table showing what will result from setting:
RESOURCEUT
#x27;t
think a 5.3 client would work on a 5.1 server (though I could be wrong).
Farren
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Farren,
Is there some reason that you can't upgrade to the latest Mac TSM
client: 5.3.2.?
All/most of our OSX backup complaints were fixed with Mac TSM client
5.3.2.0.
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Farren Minns wrote:
Many thanks Richard
I have opened a PMR with IBM anyway and sent
[Hey:
If you're really in a hurry, skip to the next page, and see <(@)>,
but you might miss some fun(ny, perhaps even useful?) stuff!]
I just accidentally discovered [!much to my surprise!] that...
The underscore "_" character is the SQL SELECT standard "wildcard"
to match "any single characte
ay 20, 2005, at 5:47 PM, James R Owen wrote:
Andy, et al.
I have no solution, but found your email thread as I'm looking to solve
exactly the same problem. It's a tough nut to crack!
We have 6 tapes in a shared 3584 w/ exactly that problematic status:
The Library Mgr TSM's VolH
Andy, et al.
I have no solution, but found your email thread as I'm looking to solve
exactly the same problem. It's a tough nut to crack!
We have 6 tapes in a shared 3584 w/ exactly that problematic status:
The Library Mgr TSM's VolHistory shows tape as PRIVATE,REMOTE owned by other
TSM, but the o
Hi all,
Are you using a Nexsan ATABeast or EqualLogic PS200 or similar
box of disks for TSM STGpool space?? If so, we would like to talk
with you about your experiences. We are now considering moving
40TB of TSM backups from 3590E tapes to sequential files on one/more
of these boxes (or perhaps o
How do you protect LTO media shipped offsite to Iron Mountain?
We currently ship all backupsets offsite to Iron Mountain
on 3590 J cartridges w/ no noticeable problems; we just pack
as many tapes as will fit tightly into one of Iron Mountain's
metal shipping cases.
We've been told that LTO cartridg
We're looking for experienced advice considering whether to
a)upgrade our 3590 E1A drives to H1A drives and reuse
our aging 3590 tapes for net gain of 50% more tape space
b)discard 3494 and 3590 technology and replace w/ LTO-2 or
LTO-3 drives and media, expandin
Recently, the AIX 5.1 host for our busiest TSM 5.2.3.0 service,
has been running at 100% CPU for most of the night, some mornings
and even into some afternoons. We have discovered a few of our
clients (using inappropriate network settings, typically Auto-Dectect
instead of matching the network swi
To other TSM sites w/ substantial investment in 3590 technology:
We are again trying to figure out what to do for additional TSM tape
capacity. We currently have two IBM 3494 ATL's (each w/ six 3590E1A
SCSI-connected drives and ~2000 tapes in each) for primary STGpools.
We also have two IBM 3584
Hi Linux TSM Sys.Admins!
None of you responded to my previous query, so I'm trying again.
We are considering to use RedHat EL 3.0 on IA32/64 platform
(rather than AIX on p-series) to host an additional I/O intensive
TSM service (to split our current service and handle half of future
growth.) We
?Can Linux (or Win?) replace AIX for hosting an I/O intensive TSM service?
After scanning the past year's ADSM-L postings including Linux in the subject
I have the impression that a few people are playing with Linux hosting a TSM
service, but real I/O intensive TSM services are still mainly hosted
Rob,
Like David said, etc...
During SQL-BT setup, you should have created a MC for SQL-BT backups
w/ Backup CopyGroup w/ VerExists=1 VerDeleted=0 RetExtra=0 RetOnly=0.
SQL-BT incorporates datime values in its TSM backup filenames so that
each backup filename is unique; if you setup SQL-BT to keep 1
Gretchen, et al.
We have been working with IBM level 2 support on this same problem.
We discovered it while trying to delete a SYSTEM OBJECT filespace,
but the problem first appears during the SYSTEM OBJECT backups.
We currently have 3 errors recurring nightly:
tsm: ITS>q act begind=-1 se=.c(
05/
Andy,
Is it possible to specify a mgmtclass for "SYSTEM OBJECT" sysfiles?
We have tested and successfully implemented
exclude.systemobject sysfiles
for 350 Win2K/XP clients [no active/inactive sysfile backups remain
for these clients], but we have an additional 650 Win2k/XP clients
that ar
??? Do you have experience w/ or plans for replacing 3590E with LTO tapes
for a busy enterprise TSM backup service? Is LTO performance OK ???
We expect to double business for one of our TSM services over next 4 years.
Last year, for space and cost savings, future enhancements, etc...
My coworker says there's a known problem with Norton AV 7.5 and TSM 4.2
that can cause the TSM scheduler to stop; could that be your problem?
Check w/ Tivoli Support.
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Andrew Raibeck wrote:
>
> You should contact IBM support if you are having this kind of prob
Dwight,
You thought correctly: specify domain in dsm.opt, not in dsm.sys!
But, the default domain is "all_local" fs, so normally
one doesn't need to specify domain... anyway!
Perhaps your automatic backups are not being run by a priviledged user
or you have some client schedule(s) that include a
Andy,
Would you please update us again on the issue of mirroring vs RAID for TSM
log and database volumes. Looking back in the ADSM-L logs, I believe your
most recent recommendation (June, 1998) was to continue using TSM mirroring
w/ Sequential Writes to protect against "partial page writes" whic
Do you remember the "continuous" cloth toweling that once was dispensed
"one area per pull" for wiping hands, etc. in the public toilet & lavatory
facilities of American bus, train, and gas stations? (Yeah, I'm over 50...)
Who knows? Suppose the janitor doesn't have a clean roll, so he recycles
Try: dsmc incremental -subdir=yes /tmp/sumpin/
That works w/ AIX 4.3.2 & ADSM client v3.1.0.7!
Is the TSM client v4.1.x "Broken, As Designed"?
Richard Sims wrote:
>
> >We have a situation where we need to backup /tmp/sumpin and
> >can't get this overridden no matter what we do with include state
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