TSM 6.2 library replacement

2014-03-20 Thread D'Antonio III, Vincent E (N-Aerotek)
Good Morning, We replaced a library and I went through and deleted the libr, paths and drives then defined them all again. This went fine, but when I ran checkin libv it is ending to fast and successful but didn't add anything. I even tried to audit the library and still not seeing any tapes.

Re: TSM 6.2 library replacement

2014-03-20 Thread Nick Laflamme
Check the path to your library device; it sounds like that's the wrong device, or it's not working correctly. When you look at the new library directly, are the tapes there and in storage slots, not input slots? HTH, Nick On Thursday, March 20, 2014, D'Antonio III, Vincent E (N-Aerotek) < vincen

Setting up NDMP with TSM 6.1.4.5

2014-03-20 Thread Leonard, Matthew
Hi, I running TSM 6.1.4.5 and I'm looking to backup CIFS shares running from an EMC VNXe. Can someone provide me with Step-by-step instructions for setting up NDMP from scratch within TSM? I'm using a VTL and have one library defined. What are the steps to setup NDMP within Tivoli and how d

Re: Setting up NDMP with TSM 6.1.4.5

2014-03-20 Thread Angela Robertson
Hi, For TSM 6.1, the setting up NDMP instructions are available online at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.srv.doc%2Fr_ndmp.html . Angela Angela Robertson IBM Software Group Durham

Re: TSM for VE and "monthly fulls"

2014-03-20 Thread Rob Edwards
John, In TSM 6.4 this behavior was changed so that we do not always reset the CBT on full backups. This was done, in part, to allow out of band full backups to be done to a different node / server without interrupting the incremental chain of the primary backup. Are you seeing this issue with 6.4

LAN-free to disk

2014-03-20 Thread Loon, EJ van (SPLXM) - KLM
Hi guys! I read in several IBM documents lines like "TSM also supports some configurations with LAN-free to disk-based storage pools" and "... If you are implementing one of TSM's supported LAN-free to disk solutions..." but I cannot find any details about these "supported configurations". I know

Re: LAN-free to disk

2014-03-20 Thread Joerg Pohlmann
Eric, you can use GPFS. Joerg - Original Message - From: "EJ van Loon (SPLXM) - KLM" To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 7:58:31 AM Subject: [ADSM-L] LAN-free to disk Hi guys! I read in several IBM documents lines like "TSM also supports some configurations with LA

Re: TSM for VE and "monthly fulls"

2014-03-20 Thread John Monahan
I was told as long as I kept the mode as IFINCR it would not reset CBT info before I started, but it did. This was on TSM for VE 6.4, VMWare 5.1, and a 6.3.3 server. Perhaps there is another way that would work without resetting CBT. If so, please share. I did onetime IFINCR backups to a new da

TSM for VE: recommended VSwitch configuration?

2014-03-20 Thread Matthew McGeary
I've searched quite a bit and can't seem to find any guidelines on the following: 1) VMWare VSwitch configuration to maximize throughput for VM backups/restores 2) Expected throughput using 10Gb adapters We are in a situation at the moment where mass backups work quite well and are very fast: as

Re: TSM for VE: recommended VSwitch configuration?

2014-03-20 Thread Ryder, Michael S
Hi Matthew Can you tell us some more about your infrastructure? What kind of disk storage network are you using? iSCSI? FC? block-data? NAS? Are your stated rates for image backups, or file-level incremental? What version of TSM are you using? Best regards, Mike, x7942 RMD IT Client Servi

Re: TSM for VE: recommended VSwitch configuration?

2014-03-20 Thread Matthew McGeary
Sure thing: 1) The VMWare environment is connected via 8Gb fibre to an EMC VNX 5700 and uses mostly tiered storage pools (SSD-SAS), The TSM server is connected to a V7000 via fibre as well. The TSM database is on SSD and the storage pools are on 84 NL-SAS disks in a RAID6 extent pool provided by

Re: TSM for VE: recommended VSwitch configuration?

2014-03-20 Thread Ryder, Michael S
Great SORRY -- I forgot to ask - where is your proxy? physical or VM? is your proxy/datamover reading VMs via FC or ethernet? Is the TSM server a VM or physical? Offhand I would say those rates aren't horrible, much depends on the distribution of file sizes, and number of files you are backing

Re: TSM for VE: recommended VSwitch configuration?

2014-03-20 Thread Matthew McGeary
The datamover is virtual and uses hotadd or nbd for transport. All backup traffic runs over the network as a result. Image backups to TSM run anywhere from 150-200 MB/s. Our nightly backup traffic typically peaks at 350-400 MB/s. Matthew McGeary Technical Specialist PotashCorp - Saskatoon 306.9

Re: TSM for VE: recommended VSwitch configuration?

2014-03-20 Thread Ryder, Michael S
That's a nice setup. My preference would be to use a physical proxy, and read them from the SAN, to lessen impact to your VMs and their shared infrastructure. You might tinker with that. Are you partitioning your VM traffic across those 10Gb connections, with dedicated channels for VMotion, back

Re: Setting up NDMP with TSM 6.1.4.5

2014-03-20 Thread Gee, Norman
There is also this http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27041348 Using Tivoli Storage Manager to Backup Network Attached Storage This STE will: Provide an overview of the Network Storage (NAS) backup environment. It will also cover configuration details for Network Data Management P

Re: LAN-free to disk

2014-03-20 Thread Angela Robertson
There is an article in the TSM wiki re: using LAN-free with TSM VE: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Storage%20Manager/page/Recommendations%20for%20Using%20LAN-free%20with%20Tivoli%20Storage%20Manager%20for%20Virtual%20Environments There's also info

Moving the TSM DB2 database (AIX)

2014-03-20 Thread Roger Deschner
Now that TSM V5 is gone from our shop and we're all TSM V6.2, it's time to move some things around. Such as the TSM DB2 database. The manual says to do a full database backup and restore. That could take days of downtime with our 150-300GB databases, and a lot of angst, so that is not really accept