Ron,
Thank you for the references and your advice. I will read the documentation
carefully and consider whether the reward is worth the possible complications.
Maybe not.
Best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University
On Mar 4, 2014, at 2:37 PM, Ron Delaware wrote:
> Keith,
>
> you
clone --to create a new TSM server?
If that is a straight forward process it might save us time in a
deadline-driven hardware upgrade.
If this is well documented somewhere, kindly refer me to that.
With my thanks,
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University
and cycles.
Best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University
ing something?
Thank you,
Keith Arbogast
edup ratio on the VTL will be
adversely affected. We write those backups to physical tape.
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University
m the deduplication process. After that I
deleted the volumes because I need the LDEVs back for another purpose.
Best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University
do.
Best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
Jim,
Re: "I found I had to run 'audit licenses' to update the occupancy values. I
have no idea why this would be the case."
One always has to run 'audit lic' to update the auditoccupancy table.
Keith
pt. After 'dsmc sched' was restarted on these clients, their
next backups ran normally.
No Windows servers on any version of the TSM client had this problem. No Linux
clients on other releases than 6.3 had this problem. No Linux clients running
dsmcad instead of 'dsmc sched' had this problem.
Best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University
retire some servers that were already moribund. There
are about a dozen V5 clients left, but most of them belong to the 'Unix Support
Group' who can roll with the punches.
Best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
ating system. ..Databases
that were created with server V6.2 server define DB2 9.7 tablespaces with
reclaimable space enabled."
Best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University
Can one detect from the TSM server whether client-level encryption is set on or
off for each backup node? Inquiring security admins want to know.
With my thanks and best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University
We ask client admins to compress their data if they are encrypting it, since
encrypted data cannot be compressed by tape drives. It's important to note that
certain file types don't compress well, and to exclude them with
exclude.compress statements.
Keith
e way
to do it?
Thank you,
Keith Arbogast
Ian,
The Technote says, "When predefining volumes, the Tivoli Storage Manager server
will use all of the volumes in one directory before using the volumes in
another directory."
Here is the example:
7) Sort list of empty volumes alphabetically: List appears as
c:\.BFS
c:\
This question came up again here. If a TSM admin with system authorization
knows the client password for a certain TSM node, what keeps him from restoring
files from that node to another server of his choosing?
Sorry to resuscitate this old horse.
With many thanks,
Keith
When client backups are being deduplicated by the TSM server, does the audit
occupancy table show "reporting occupancy" or physical space occupied by client
data? Reporting occupancy is the space a client's data would occupy if it were
not in a deduplicated pool. The Occupancy table shows "Rep
E06 drives won't write E06 formatted data to a tape that has already been
written to in E05 format. But, once the device driver is updated, the E06
drives will write E06 format to scratch tapes without a re-label.
With my thanks,
Keith
Robert,
Thank you, I just did. We're on 6.2.2 also. I'll update the thread when they
respond.
Best wishes,
Keith
Robert et al;
Will updating the device class make the new drives write files to tapes in E06
format which have previously been formatted and written to in E05 format?
Filling volumes would then have a mixture of E05 and E06 formats. Will TSM do
that? Are the device drivers, or what not, smart e
; the just
checked-out tapes.
Or, is there a simpler, more efficient way to do this? Would new storage pools
help in the transition?
With my thanks,
Keith Arbogast
reporting scripts
> to check what backed up etc.
>
> Anyway, I guess I say all that to say I prefer the generic TSM Node name
> approach.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Ray
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On
tances had host-specific
names.
I would be glad to hear if I have missed the point somewhere in absorbing the
TSMVE documentation.
With best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
of backup
instances.
Thank you,
Keith Arbogast
HI Andrew et al;
Thank you for helping with that. I had not made the mental adjustment that
something in a TSM query could be case-sensitive. I have now.
Best wishes,
Keith
I'm in syntax purgatory trying to get output from "query volume" on a
devclass=file storage pool. If I add the reported volume name as an argument,
'No match' is returned to the query. If I omit the Volume name, and append
'deviceclass=file' or 'stg=', with format=detailed, normal output
is ret
Zoltan,
I run 'reconcile volumes < virtual volume devclass_name > fix=yes' once a month.
Our TSM servers are both running version 6.2.2.2, and reconcile finds hundreds
of invalid volumes each time it runs. Others' experience may be different. In
our situation, I should have opened a PMR long ag
Zoltan,
Try running reconcile volumes from both ends. When we do that, it deletes a
surprising quantity of orphan virtual volumes.
Keith
Remco and Stefan,
Thank you for your interesting replies.
Best wishes,
Keithy
Library, or between
the Library Manager and the Library?
With many thanks,
Keith Arbogast
. So
we do not use drive-based encryption, and tell our customers to use
client-based encryption, specifying 'encryptkey save'.
I cannot guarantee that TSM will never lose an application managed encryption
key. Am I missing something?
With my thanks,
Keith Arbogast
I thought a setup step was required on the 3584 to: [+] Library / Logical
Libraries / Modify Encryption Method / Application-Managed
Yes/No?
Keith
David,
We have done that. Please send me your full e-mail address. We tried something,
but it bounced. We need more hints.
Thank you,
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University
My age is a closely guarded secret, until days like this.
K.
Is there a way a TSM client admin can preview what an incremental backup is
going to do? That is, without copying the new/changed files to a storage pool?
Someone here would like to do that. The only ideas I could offer were 'query
inclexcl' and comparing the timestamps on files and directories
For what it's worth, we run 6.2.2.2 on RHEL5, and have had no trouble with
macros.
Keith
Jim,
Thanks for the new idea. I'll have to ponder that one.
Best wishes,
Keith
Wanda,
Thank you. It's helpful to know you have been doing that routinely.
Best wishes,
Keith
of intermediate
duration.
Since this technique depends on Randomization working as well with long
Schedule Durations as with shorter, does anyone have experience with Durations
of four hours or more? Did it go alright?
Any reactions to these ideas would be gratefully accepted.
With my tha
"They are reclaimed the same as physical volumes. Just like physical volumes,
they need to be 100% empty before they return space and can be reused.
The reclamation process will move the data off eligible volumes (volumes under
the reclamation threshhold) in order to make them 100% empty."
-
Joerg,
The nut of the problem, if I have this right, is that virtual volumes aren't
reclaimed the same way as physical volumes. They have to be 100% reclaimable
before they return any space. Their pct_utilization does go down, but the empty
space in them is locked until they are completely empty
Shawn,
Your mention of the 50 GB MAXCAP on the device class was a jolt. Ours is 1 TB,
and I see that could be exacerbating the problem. The bigger virtual volumes
are, the more space they lock and the greater chance they contain active files,
which results in longer lifespans for them.
What r
My specific problem is with a tape pool that is a target for virtual volumes
created by a remote TSM server. The number of cartridges in use by the pool
goes up and up, at a faster rate than the data growth on the remote server. I
suspect there are many virtual volumes in the target pool with no
Sorry. Move data does send volumes to 'scratch'. In the case of virtual
volumes they are not reused.
Keith
Jim,
You must mean FULL rather than FILLING, and PENDING rather than SCRATCH,
yes/no?
Thanks again,
Keith
'move data' on a
virtual volume recover empty space like it does on a physical cartridge? Or,
does the empty space get moved too?
Move data is not an efficacious solution to this problem. Is there a better one?
With my thanks,
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University
Neil and Steve et al;
I appreciate your comments, though I am not the seer that dreamed of this.
...
The intention behind it could be to share tape drives without using a Library
Manager, and to add TSM servers without buying more hardware. Our TSM server
databases and boot disk are on the SAN.
Andy,
I omitted from my original problem statement that the TSM servers on virtual
machines would have primary pools on disk, just no primary pools on tape.
Client backups would be written to the disk pools, then copied to the two copy
pools.
The total backup workload would not be reduced, bu
I should clarify that client backups would be written to primary pools on disk.
So, my subject line is misleading. There would be primary pools on disk, but
no primary pools on tape.
Hope that clears up any confusion I created in the way I stated my question.
Thank you,
Ketih
would restore files come from? How would that be managed?
Our TSM license is based on TB in primary storage, so extra licenses are not a
factor.
Please, don't be shy.
Thank you,
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University
Hi Gary,
I used the Server Upgrade Guide as a task list, and did the 'Scenario 2: Same
system, network method'. I took the defaults everywhere except for the
instance name and such as. I did ask Support about the location of the instance
directory, and, if I recall correctly, was told it can be
Skylar and Zoltan,
Thank you both,
Keith
We are upgrading two TSM 5.5.4.3 servers on RHEL 5 to TSM 6.2.2.0 soon. In the
event that one of the upgrades has to be backed out, will server-to-server
communications work normally between a V5.5 TSM server and a V6.2 server? If
someone has actually been doing that for a period of time, I w
Eric,
This may not apply to your case, but in hopes that it does... We had orphan
entries in our database that were confined to storage records. I believe TSM
Support was able to discern that from the error messages we were seeing in the
Activity Log. That allowed us to do the audit on the st
Correction: the INSERTDB step took 10 hours, 8 minutes. The EXTRACTDB step
took 2 hours 8 minutes.
Liberal egg on face,
Keith
The fix for this problem, under Redhat Linux follows: I don't know whether
these remedies apply to other OS.
Contrary to the "Server Upgrade Guide" run the extractdb step as root, not as
the instance owner.
Before starting the extractdb step, set the environment variable DSMSERV_DIR to
/opt/t
performing action ActivateDatabase.
ANR0162W Supplemental database diagnostic information: -1031:**No State
Information Available (76)**:-1031 (**No Other Information Available (96)**).
On Nov 19, 2010, at 9:55 AM, Keith Arbogast wrote:
> I am running the extractdb step to migrate from TSM
I am running the extractdb step to migrate from TSM 5.5 to TSM 6.2.2.0. The
errors below were written to extract.out early in the extractdb process.
Should I stop the extractdb to fix this, or let it run? No other messages have
been written to extract.out.
If I should stop, what's the best
My thanks to all who shared their advice. It has been an outpouring of
knowledge and experience.
Best wishes,
Keith
John,
Thank you for those details. It sounds doable.
When I return private volumes to the 3584, I run 'checkin libv library_name
volume_name search=bulk checklabel=yes. Then; update volume volume_name
access=readw.
If I'm misunderstanding something, please let me know.
Best wishes,
Keith
We are running TSM 5.5.4.3 on RHEL 5.5. Our tape library is a 3584 with ALMS
and twelve 3592-E05 drives.
Expiration and reclamation are not producing enough scratch tapes to stay ahead
of their usage, so our scratch tape supply is dwindling (#18). More tapes are
on the way, but only 15 empty
Yann,
The client admin doesn't want to delete the whole filespace in question, which
is all I could do. The short story is that he backed up a NAS's ~snapshot
files by mistake. I believe the set of remedies in this case is limited to
user executed deletes which have more flexibility than mine
This issue also affects the 6.2.1.0 client. I received the note below from a
client admin. His is a LinuxX86 node running TSM 6.2.1.0. Has this been fixed
in a later client?
Thank you,
Keith
--
dsmc segfaults on startup:
[r...@i136 ~]# dsmc sched
Segmentatio
Bill,
Thank you very much.
Keith
Is there a backup delete syntax that avoids the Y/N prompt after examining all
the files to be deleted? A customer has millions of files to delete, and it can
be hours before the Y/N prompt appears. He is doing the deletes with this
syntax, from the command line. Is there a faster, better way? H
I'm having a bad memory day. How does a client admin monitor the progress of a
restore run from the command line? Are messages written to a TSM client log
during a restore?
Thank you,
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University
#x27;Missed') or
(status='Failed' and result=12)
NODE_NAME STATUS
-- --
I135Missed
JTRAIN3 Failed
BL-CHEM-ISOMissed
Thank you,
Keith Arbogast
lient Manuals for details:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r2/topic/com.ibm.itsm.client.doc/r_cmd_bkupsystemstate.html
Best wishes to all,
Keith Arbogast
WITH DEFAULT SYSTEM
STATE WRITERS ON WIN 7 AND 2008 R2 MAY GET FULL SYSTEM STATE BACKUPS"
The Activity Log says it is 'Performing a full', see below. What am I missing?
Thank you,
Keith Arbogast
tsm: TSMBL01>q node iu-uits-crmat2 f=d
No
indicated that error was a
thing of the past.
Thank you,
Keith Arbogast
Wanda and Remco,
My sincere thanks to you both.
Keith
a standalone TSM server to a Library Client, I
would be grateful to hear of it. If this idea looks like Swiss cheese, and
smells like Limburger I would like to know that too.
With my thanks and best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University
Thomas,
You may have run into this APAR,
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC62990
Look in tsm_upgrade. log. It may indicate the upgradedb had completed then
hung. This APAR is fixed in 5.5.5
Best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
,
Files
Backed Up: 0, Bytes Backed Up: 0,
Unreadable
Files: 0, Unreadable Bytes: 0. Current
Physical
File (bytes): None
Best wishes,
Keith
The server has 16 processors and 128 GB ram.
> From Michael Green: "Have you actually configured queue depth...?"
No, we haven't. It is set at the default of '16'. It can be as high as
256. The HBA's are HP FC1242SR, which are re-branded QLogic QLE2462.
All best wishes,
Keith
Allen,
Thank you for that bit of advice. It was just what I needed. The
question of how small to make the TSM volumes was on my mind.
Our disk pools are on Hitachi AMS2300 SAS drives. We have use of six
2 TB LUNs. One volume group is defined per LUN, then 14 TSM volumes
per VG at 125 GB. The TSM
Robert,
Thank you. It is a mix of Windows and Linux clients. And, we impose
a cloptset on all clients that includes a dirmc that writes to disk.
Best wishes,
Keith
like sweeping sand back into the ocean. We are always eager to
learn of a better broom.
I'll redefine smaller, more plentiful TSM volumes for this pool, and
see if that keeps the sand out of my socks.
With my thanks and best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
this condition in TSMManager and
the Pct Mediawait field, and all during the same period of the night.
All tape drives would have been busy during this time, writing offsite
backups of disk pools at our other data center.
With hopeful best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
.
With my thanks,
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University
Wanda,
Thank you for your reply. It got me on the right track to find the
problem.
Best wishes,
Keith
server is at Linux
version 5.5.4.1.
What circumstances could be causing this? I am baffled. The primary
disk pool is not hitting HighMig, and it wouldn't migrate to
SPACEMGPOOL if it were.
Thank you,
Keith Arbogast
Zoltan,
We use 'dsnlookup no' in dsmserv.opt. When a client ip number changes
the Activity Log reports it, but does not stop the backup.
Best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
ral of our
major backup partners have already released VADP integrated backup
products and we expect most of the major backup partners to have VADP
integrated backup software by the upcoming feature release of the
vSphere platform in 2010."
Best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University
best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University
library. Could someone provide the missing
information, please?
tsm: TSMIN01>def path tsmin01 3584-01 srct=serv autod=y destt=libr
devi=/dev/IBMchanger0
ANR8418E DEFINE PATH: An I/O error occurred while accessing library
3584-01.
ANS8001I Return code 15.
Thank you,
Keith Arbogast
ANE4964I (Session: 20869, Node: ESDBD10)
Elapsed
processing time:00:00:17
(SESSION: 20869)
What is special about NFS mounts or NAS devices that might be
resulting in this behavior?
Best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
c/adsm.inclexcl"
Exclude All /.../core "/etc/adsm.inclexcl"
No DFS include/exclude statements defined.
If I have left out an essential piece of the puzzle please let me
know. I will be glad to provide it. If someone has any insights
into binding a management class to a NFS mounted NAS device on Linux I
would most grateful to receive them.
Best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University
7;s client options file. Otherwise, it's a simple solution.
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University
Zoltan et al;
I am receiving mail from ADSM-L again. Are you receiving mail from
ADSM-L now also?
Thank you,
Keith Arbogast
be quickly fixed.
Best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
Correction: TSM Support says this APAR will be fixed, Deo volente, in
5.5.5.
Best wishes,
Keith
the hang occurs, one doesn't know
whether UPGRADEDB is doing something needed, or not. In the meantime a
Production system is out of service.
Best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
"That should be the SCSI Command Descriptor Block.
Invalid content suggests the possibility of the wrong device driver in
effect."
Richard,
Thank you. Deleting and redefining the paths and drives fixed that.
Best wishes,
Keith
Hi Christian,
I forgot to explain my question. I meant to be asking whether others
had experienced UPGRADEDB running long during a 5.3.0.0 to 5.5.4.1
upgrade. I lost heart, and opened a Service Request.
Best wishes,
Keith
ves, and that ran successfully. I
have found no other abnormal conditions.
A core file was created when I started the rpm installation. It did
not grow during the next 3 1/2 hours. The core file has not yet been
analyzed. If something comes of that I will post it to this thread.
Best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
.
Best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
The answer to this question, in our case, is 'No'. I found a core
file in /opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin that was created when the upgradedb
began, and now have a sev 1 service request open.
Keith
seconds or minutes?
Thank you,
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University
Hi Andy,
Thank you. The cause of those numbers is now clear.
Best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
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