Space reclamation.

Hi. Can i make the TSM Server stop any space reclamation between tapes when the disk storage pools reaches its high limit, so it can migrate it to tapes ? what happens now is that nodes backups are delayed because of tape reclamation, Any help appreciated. Thanks. Marco. begin:vcard n:Supin

Re: Core dump on Solaris

Hi Marco! You're great!! This worked! As soon as I deleted /etc/adsm dsm worked again! Thank you VERY much!!! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Marco Supino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 13:09 To: Loon, E.J. va

ACSLS Timeouts

Hello, I have a problem at the moment; We have an ACSLS library. Whenever we do tape offsiting using DRM, the move drm * wherestate=mountable tostate=vault fails, because the tapes are left in the library cap / io station for longer than 10 mins. ACSLS returns the following; 04/19/01 14:10:

Re: Performance Problem TSM 3.7.40 on Win NT

Hi Gerold several hints about your creeping server : - split your ONLY dbvol (10 gig) into several smaller volumes on differents disks - backup your DB more regularly (you will loose 650 MB of DB data in case of crash !) - Win NT 4 prefers TCPWINDOWSSIZE = 48 (16*3) rather than 63 - If your DB

Re: TDP for Oracle

Hi *SM'er I have tried to find someone at TIVOLI who take care of such requests. But I had no success. Maybe this can be a platform: We need TSM for Linux ( S.u.S.E.) with reiserfs Kernel 2.4 TDP for Oracle on this Linux TDP for SAP/R3 with Oracle on this Linux On Thursday 19 April 2001 21

AW: ? BUFPOOLSIZE limit under TSM4.1 / NT

Hallo, Result from this and some offline responds: there seem not to be any limitation on BufPoolSize on *SM Server on NT starting with v 3.7, except for real free RAM size (practical limit) or except for free virtual memory size (theoretical limit). So all NT folks with small Cache Hit ratio

Re: Performance Problem TSM 3.7.40 on Win NT

> the Performance of my TSM-Server is very bad. > System: Compaq Proliant 3000 / PIII 600 MHz / 1GB RAM / WinNT=20 > 4.0 (SP5) In addition to the other excellent suggestions, you may want to upgrade your Service Pack level to something more modern, unless you have a specific reason to hold back.

Re: Backup Set generation

>Examples of supported media devices are: tape, CD-ROM drives, >removable disk drives like JAZ drives and ZIP drives. Advisory on Iomega Jaz (if not also Zip) technology... I got into Jaz a few years ago, and was delighted with the convenience of the high-capacity removable cartridge, and the nea

ANR0102E

I am getting this error frequently on one of my two TSM servers. Both servers are TSM 4.7.3 on NT SP6. Does anyone know what this error means and more importantly how to resolve it? Thanks. TSM Server Error: Server: ADSM_NYC ANR0102E imbkins.c(2010): Error 1 inserting row in table 'Backup.Objects

Re: ANR0102E

ANR0102E Source file(line number): Error error code inserting row in table "table name". Explanation: An internal error has occurred in an attempt to add data to a server database table. This message always accompanies another error message and provides more detail about that error. System Actio

Re: ANR0102E

Thanks. I read that in the messages manual also. Does that mean that need to take the server off line to do a DB audit or is something a little less vexing in order? Seth Forgosh -Original Message- From: Gisbert Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 9:19 AM To:

mixing tapes in a 3575 library

Hi all, we have a 3575 library where only a few scratchtapes are left. Checking out tapes from a longtime archive or moving clients to an other server is not possible. The library is completely filled with 5 GB Magstar B-Format tapes. To gain more space i now want to checkout scratchtapes and rep

TDP for ORacle 8i for SUN solaris 2.7 64 bits

Can Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle support Oracle 8i (64 bits) on SUN Solaris 2.7 ? Thanks Shen Ou E_mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ACSLS Timeouts

Try changing the server option "AcsTimeoutX" to 100 We sometimes have ejects sitting in the cap for 10 to 11 hours before operators have a chance to remove them. Robert Burton Open System Storage Analyst Royal Bank of Canada 315 Front St West Toronto, On, M5V 3A4 416-348-3849 email: [E

Re: mixing tapes in a 3575 library

I have a 3575-L32 with 6 C-XL tape drives. If you have the C-XL drives then you can use the C-XL tapes (Red tab) intermixed with Blue and Green tabs. We have both Red & Blue with no problem. The EST. Capacity has no effect on how much data is placed on tape. Tape always writes till it reac

AW: ANR0102E

.. looks like a problem ... Look for oldest database backup you have and try to remember yourself whether it is older than your ANR0102E problem. If yes, keep this database backup safe. Backup your DB and related configuration files, toggle your db off-line, adn perform either audit db fix=ye

Extremely Slow Archives TSM 3.7.4

Since upgrading to TSM 3.7.4 running on AIX 4.3.2, the archive process of an AIX box (the only thing we archive) has become extremely slow. It starts out o.k. but then starts crawling to the point that only 4-5 gig has been archived in about 3 - 4 hours. We have spoken with support 3 times, r

Re: ACSLS Timeouts

I know this .. login to ACSLS unit as acssa issue following commands : --ACSLS 5.3.0-- 0, 0, 2, 0 online in use MED245 DLT7000 0, 0, 2, 1 online available DLT7000 0, 0, 2, 2 onl

LICENSING QUESTION

Hello Everyone !!! Question...I have 50 licenses for clientsmy question is how do I remove clients from being licensed?? Nodes that have been deleted are showing up as being licensed. Thanks much, Joyce

Re: LICENSING QUESTION

Hi Joyce, If you have more defined licenses than purchased and ... want to be clean with IBM, just remove the nodelock file in the server's bin directory and Re-register the correct number you need. rv > -Message d'origine- > De : Joyce Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Envoyé : vendre

Re: ANR0102E

Seth, We have found that the error is often associated with a specific tape volume, and will occur when you try to WRITE to the tape during migration or reclamation. We have resolved it by identifying the tape concerned and marking it readonly - you may need to do some experiments to find it, th

Re: ANR0102E

Dave, Thanks for the reply. The error seems to have come immediately after a node began backing up. Subsequently, I also found the following message in the activity log. Any ideas? ANRD tb.c(2872): >>ERROR Database Page Format: Invalid sibling for page 114495, left sibling = 0. Set

Re: ACSLS Timeouts

Where i can define this options in dsmserv.opt ? or is it in ACSLA? shekhar "Burton, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 04/20/2001 08:47:18 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAI

out of sequence

hello tsm guru's, Has anyone got experience with this kind of messages that we are receiving during the restore of a NT server: 04/19/2001 15:24:02 The 907148th code was found to be out of sequence. The code (282) was greater than (258), the next available slot in the string table. 04/19/2001 15

redirecting output

Hello all, I am trying to redirect the output of a server command script to a file and have been unable to do so. I'm getting: ANR2020E QUERY DRMEDIA: Invalid parameter - > and ANR2020E QUERY DRMEDIA: Invalid parameter - |, depending on which character I try. This is in the help file if you "help

Re: redirecting output

Hi Geoff, under the dsmc> or adsm>, simply use the '>' redirection char You can also use the -output param with dsmadmc dsmadmc -id=admin -pass=xxx -output=/tmp/foo.log 'q proc' hope this helps rv > -Message d'origine- > De : Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Envoyé : ve

Bootable CDs for Bare Metal Restore

Has anyone tried to make bootable CDs with the adsm client on it to do bare metal restores? Specifically I was wondering about Solaris, but it seems making bootable CDs for solaris is a pain. Theoretically, a Linux for sparc CD (Think there a

Re: redirecting output

try putting spaces around it. ie, in dsmadmc, "q this >that" fails; "q this > that" works. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 9:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: redirecting output He

Re: ACSLS Timeouts

dsmserv.opt -Original Message- From: Shekhar Dhotre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ACSLS Timeouts Where i can define this options in dsmserv.opt ? or is it in ACSLA? shekhar "Burton, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: redirecting output

Hi Geoff, Both of these work for me: >From the interactive Admin CLI: tsm: SS2_ADSM_GROUP_SERVER>q drmedia > x.out Output of command redirected to file 'X.OUT' >From an OS command prompt, batch mode: C:\TSM\baclient>dsmadmc -id=nnn -pa=xxx -tcps=ss2 q drmedia > x.out Regards, Andy

Re: ACSLS Timeouts

Thankyou. Do you have problems determining if the library is in trouble? IE: will it wait several hours before notifying TSM if there is a library error? Could this be a problem unless the TSM servers are being constantly monitored by hand? Matt. ___ Matthew Warren

Re: out of sequence

Yep, send me direct "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" what is your tsm server (hardware) what storage does it use Dwight -Original Message- From: Leijnse, Finn F SSI-ISES-21 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 8:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: out of sequence hello tsm guru'

Re: redirecting output

Here is something I learned with the client under aix when running into redirect problems... Within a ksh script, to get dsmc to NOT treat the ">" as part of the parameters I had to stick an "eval" at the front of my line... when the interpreter interpreted the line, it broke off all my redirect s

WIndows NT Disaster Recovery

Hi , First I apologies to pop this question again on the list as it is discussed 'n 'number of times . But after digging through adsm.org ,I did not found anything ..that is related to my problem. The procedure Given by "Wanda Prather " to recover Windows NT server at Coderelief

Re: Presentations

>Instead of reinventing the wheel I was wondering >if any of you have any neat PowerPoint or other presentations that I may be >able to reuse or get some information from. Always keep in mind the wealth of info from the Oxford ADSM/TSM Symposiums. The upcoming one is announced at URL http://ADSM-

Re: Total Active bytes for client

>Does an export include all files or just active versions. It's governed by what you ask for, via FILEData, as in requesting BACKUPActive. Richard Sims, BU

Re: Total Active bytes for client

ALLA(ctive) adsm > help export node .-FILEData--=--None-. >-+---+- '-FILEData--=--+-ALl--+-' +-None-+ +-ARchive--+ +-Backup---+ +-B

Re: Total Active bytes for client

Does an export include all files or just active versions. I want to know just the amount of data for active versions. Thanks JD >Hi Jane >You can certainly write a big SQL statement. >You can also see that if you use the following command >adsm > EXPORT NODE foo PREVIEW=YES FILED=ALLA >rv

Re: Presentations

I believe I still have on my computer at home a one year old Power Point presentation from Tivoli. I will look and if so email it directly to you. David B. Longo System Administrator Health First, Inc. 3300 Fiske Blvd. Rockledge, FL 32955-4305 PH 321.434.5536 Pager 321.634.8230 Fax:3

redirect output(Update)

Here is the problem(UPDATE), maybe I wasn't clear enough. Yes I can run a query or whatever and have the output redirected to a file if I run it from a command prompt. I am having problems trying to run it from a TSM server command script with the administrative command scheduler kicking it off.

TDP for Oracle

hi Geoff, We are looking into it. Thanks for the suggestion. regards, Thiha >What about Linux? Is there plans for TDP for Oracle on Linux? >This would be extremely useful, especially since Linux is now a >tier one platform for Oracle. >hi Geoff, > >We don't have it planned in the near future

Re: Extremely Slow Archives TSM 3.7.4

Hi Kelli, Do you have any symbolic links added on AIX client? If yes, try using archsyml=no in option file. What is client code level you are running? If you are not running latest client, you can upgrade it to 4.1.2.Lastly try running archive from command line client with every filespace. You mi

Re: dbbackup tapes expiration

3) Yep... run the infamous SELECT query to find volumeusage for the node and storage pool you're going to restore (*or* just create a backupset & restore from it?), empty sufficient slots (use MOVE MEDIA DAYS=nn), then MOVE MEDIA & CHECKIN the volumes (as PRIvate) before starting the restore. Co

Re: redirect output(Update)

You know, you can also say": q drmedia ... CMDFILE=/tmp/checkout.txt CMD=&VOL&NL which makes a nice one-volume-per-line files suitable for input to other scripts. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Friday, Apri

Re: redirect output(Update)

Geoff, I had the same pb, under AIX (TSM 3.7) do NOT put a space after your '>' if your command if defined in an admin schedule Here is one of my schedules DEF SCH NT NT_DMZ_INCR_DAILY - DESC="Incremental backup for NT server behind FW" ACT=C - OBJ="C:\TSM\SCRIPTS\save_nt.cmd >

LTO Performance

I have not been monitoring the list for a while, so forgive me if I ask something that has been covered previously... We recently upgraded our 3466 model A01 with two 3575 tape libraries to a 3466 model C01 with a 3584 tape library. We also upgraded from ADSM 3.1.1 to TSM 4.1. I have begun to n

Re: LTO Performance

At 01:19 PM 4/20/2001 -0400, Weeks, Debbie wrote: >Does anyone out there have any similar experience? We do have support from >both Tivoli and IBM hardware support, any suggestions on who to call first? Try running a tar, or some other non-TSM application, to the LTO tape to see if the poor perf

Re: LTO Performance

To get the best performance from LTO drives, you need to be able to feed them lots of data, very quickly. The test with TAR will help show where the problem is. I've used TSM 4.1 to backup my TSM DB and I got great thruput - mine where attached to a SAN - the disk was also SAN attacahed. When I

Re: LTO Performance

>We recently upgraded our 3466 model A01 with two 3575 tape libraries to a >3466 model C01 with a 3584 tape library. We also upgraded from ADSM 3.1.1 >to TSM 4.1. I have begun to notice that our tape operations are taking >significantly longer than they did before. ... Debbie - I think many of

Re: LTO Performance

Debbie, One of the things that may be misleading by doing a tar test is the read performance of the disk that the tar file is on. You can use the dd command with if=/dev/zero to stream null characters from memory to the device. Example dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rmt1 bs=1024 count=1000 This will

Re: redirect output(Update)

What you might want to do instead is move drmedia * wherest=mo remove=yes tostate=courier source=dbsnapshot cmd="&vol" cmdfile=/tmp/checkout.txt That way it will write to your checkout.txt each volume name as it processes it. -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: LTO performance

Thanks for all your tips. I will contact my CE to see if we have the latest microcode update (we just installed the device in late February). I ran the test suggested as follows: timex dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rmt1 bs=1024 count=1000 The result was real 21.06 seconds. This falls way short of w

Re: LTO Performance

I have noticed replies related to the LTO. But also noticed that you changed "everything at once" or so it seems below. I've seen comments from some people that did "just" the *SM upgrade you did and saw performance problems of various kinds. Have you looked at areas other than LTO? I'm par

Re: LTO performance

>timex dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rmt1 bs=1024 count=1000 > >The result was real 21.06 seconds. This falls way short of what I would >expect when the advertised sustained transfer rate is supposed to be >15MB/sec native (30MB/sec compressed). ... Debbie - That indeed sounds poor. As Nathan suggest

Re: LTO Performance

We didn't migrate from our old 3466 to the new one. We installed the new 3466 as an additional system and we will get rid of the old one when all of the data we have stored on it has expired. It is not worth very much, so we really don't mind having it sit around for a while. So, it really wasn

Re: LTO performance

I am going to contact my CE so that he can come and take a serious look at this. I had realized that performance was poor, but not really how poor until I ran that command. We had trouble with the SCSI adapter once before, so he can take another look at that. These 6 tape drives are all we have

Re: 3466 w/3575 and LTO Libraries

When it came time to abandon our two (2) 7337-DLT changers (15 slots) we got IBM to 'downgrade' us from a C10 to a C00 and then we went out and talked to a company called "IBM" and bought a 3494 to attach to our *(now)* C00. Sigh ... the only problem was our CE. He wasn't happy and kept standing

Re: LTO performance

>timex dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rmt1 bs=1024 count=1000 > >The result was real 21.06 seconds. This falls way short of what I would >expect when the advertised sustained transfer rate is supposed to be >15MB/sec native (30MB/sec compressed). ... 1K seems like a very small block size. Did you try o

Need small/cheap library with at least 2 tape drives.

I'm hearing about a number of sites upgrading from smaller libraries to larger: if anyone has a surplus library for sale please provide me the particulars. I need one for development work so it doesn't have to be big just low in price :-> Vendor support is not a requirement. Thanks, Steffan

ADSM server

What database configuration is anyone using for a single ADSM instance that is handling for than 300 full size clients (not PC size with 1-1000 Gigs per client and 10,000 to 2,000,000 files per client)? I am currently running 300 clients on one database instance with 2 SSA arrays and I would like

Why diskdirs pools

Forgive my naiveness but why one need to take the backup of dirs on disk pools, I read that it makes restores efficiently, but when you dirs pool is copied to tape to offisite, and then when you try to restore it from tape, then having a struture on one tape and restoring data from other tape is n

Presentations

Hello fellow *SMers I have been tasked with giving a series of presentation on the workings of Backups, particularly TSM. Instead of reinventing the wheel I was wondering if any of you have any neat PowerPoint or other presentations that I may be able to reuse or get some information from. I ha

Total Active bytes for client

Is there a select statement that somebody out there has already written that outputs the total bytes of active files a node has under TSM Management. Thanks ___ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/

Re: Total Active bytes for client

Hi Jane You can certainly write a big SQL statement. You can also see that if you use the following command adsm > EXPORT NODE foo PREVIEW=YES FILED=ALLA rv > -Message d'origine- > De : Jane Doe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Envoyé : vendredi 20 avril 2001 17:20 > À : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ACSLS Timeouts

no, if the library fails, you will get the failure messages in the activity log. -Original Message- From: Warren, Matthew James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 10:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ACSLS Timeouts Thankyou. Do you have problems determining