VCB Documentation?

Hi, Does anyone know any good documentation how to setup and design a VCB/TSM backup? I search around on IBM website and did only find a really small redbook about it. :( Best Regards Christian Svensson Cell: +46-70-325 1577 E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se Skype: cristie.christian.svens

the purpose of "file" device class

Hi, What is actually the different between a disk pool and a file pool? Both are based on disks and the latter behaves sequentially like tapes. What makes necessary to have these two types of pools in TSM? Couldn't IBM eliminate one of them and say that there is only one disk-based pool? Thanks

Re: the purpose of "file" device class

On 21/09, Mehdi Salehi wrote: > Hi, > What is actually the different between a disk pool and a file pool? Both are > based on disks and the latter behaves sequentially like tapes. What makes > necessary to have these two types of pools in TSM? Couldn't IBM eliminate > one of them and say that there

ANR8214E Session open with xx.xx.xx.xx failed due to connection refusal

All, We have a node that is failing nightly with the error: "ANR8214E Session open with xx.xx.xx.xx failed due to connection refusal" (this error is seen on the tivoli server) I see nothing in the error log or the sched log. I can, however, initiate a backup manually from the client node and it

Server systemstate restore

Error during restore of Windows systemstate Any ideas what causes this. We are in the process of restoring a server, the C: drive was restored first then an attempt was made to restore the system state. We also have copy of the systemstate produced via NTBACKUP. 09/21/2009 07:59:00 ANS5250E An un

Re: ANR8214E Session open with xx.xx.xx.xx failed due to connection refusal

Your posting doesn't specify the manner in which scheduling is configured on that client. If it is CAD-based, have a look at the dsmwebcl.log for problem indications. Beyond that, see that message number in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts for other causes we've seen. Richard Sims

Re: Server systemstate restore

Go to the URL in my sig (which you should have bookmarked) and try a search. The VSS_E_INVALID_XML_DOCUMENT is a good place to start. :-) Best regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development Level 3 Team Lead Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/H

Re: VCB Documentation?

You'll find good planning info and detailed setup instructions in the TSM 5.4-5.5 Technical Guide redbook, SG24-7447, chapter 24. Download from www.redbooks.ibm.com. Note however that it only covers the TSM 5.5 functions, which did not fully support fullvm backups. The 6.1 client includes support

Re: Server systemstate restore

Oddly we ran into something very similar last week. Check for the existence of patch KB940349. This is a VSS patch that changes the format of the XML that VSS uses. The target OS will need it installed if the source did. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [m

Re: VCB Documentation?

On 21 sep 2009, at 15:57, Wanda Prather wrote: You'll find good planning info and detailed setup instructions in the TSM 5.4-5.5 Technical Guide redbook, SG24-7447, chapter 24. Download from www.redbooks.ibm.com. speaking of redbooks, has anybody heard of the 6.1 redbook? I know there was an

Re: the purpose of "file" device class

Disk Based (Random access) lets you have several sessions all sending data to it. This removes the need to queue backups like all the competitors. But it will fragment as data expires and there is no defrag for random access. File devices (Sequential access) do also fragment over time, just like

Re: the purpose of "file" device class

Thanks so much

Re: the purpose of "file" device class

Just to be uber-picky, FILE volumes now do allow multiple sessions/processes to read/write concurrently to a single FILE volume from TSM 5.5 onwards (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/topic/com.ibm.itsmms munn.doc/anrsgd5515.htm#wq28). The big picture as I've read it is that I

Re: the purpose of "file" device class

During Oxford 2005, IBM stated that the File Device Class is the strategic data structure. One can see this in action with the dedup functionality in V6. Our products use DISK for cachepool usually deployed on JBOD arranged FAST disk (SAS or FC at 15K) as the initial target for client backups,

Re: the purpose of "file" device class

I resisted including this, because only one session can actually write to the volume, but many can read from it. This is mainly for restore performance. It still doesn't address the queueing issue. For sequential files, multi-session write access would introduce multi-plexed data streams. I much

Re: ANR8214E Session open with xx.xx.xx.xx failed due to connection refusal

It looks like problem with correct node parameters in TSM server. Of course you can change HL and LL address in node definition, but often in doesn't help. Try to change in dsm.opt option to schedmode polling and run "shot" backup (sel c:\autoexec.bat) using clientaction. After backup successful co

Re: RHEL5-2.6.18.96 - Lin_tape 1.24-Sandiscovery wont work

I don't know but . . . I was just looking at the lin_tape downloads and there is a lin_tape-1.27.0-1.src.rpm.bin dated 09/03/2009. David >>> janecb01 9/17/2009 3:42 PM >>> Hi, I have compiled the latest Lin_tape and installed lin_taped on my Linux RHEL5 server.. I am using a Netapp Nearsto

RPFiles are not being deleted

Greetings, We are running TSM 5.4.3.0 on a bunch of remote Windows TSM servers. Every day running their run of the Daily processing, they do a "PREPARE DEVCL=MDCTSM02_CLASS" to send their prepare output to another TSM server called "mdctsm02", which is in a distant city. This city is the DR sit

Re: the purpose of "file" device class

Hi, What is the technical limitation of DISK in which something like reclamation is no possible? We have filesystem fragmentation (in OS), FILE reclamation but nothing for DISK pools. Why?