e.
I'm dismayed that the people directing development have left the
command line clients as lame as they are. It's embarassing to
the product.
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e a time-based facility in the client (e.g., Unix cron) perform
multiple 'dsmc i ...' commands.
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use K cartridges in a 3590B drive?
If this just started happening, look for media, microcode, hardware,
device driver, or other changes in your environment to incite this.
You may have to confer with your hardware support people.
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>We are using the TSM4.1 W2K client with an ADSM 3.1 server...
...which is an unsupported mix, hence you can expect problems.
See http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/compatibility.html
>The client now starts 2 sessions, the data flows on one, the control
>information flows on the other.
Perhaps inspired by the FTP protocol (RFC 959)?
e far more valuable.
For perspective: I just got stats from the 3494 Service menu,
View Usage... Gripper 1: 119711 Gripper 2: 4834
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sh tape, and compare the numbers.
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reassign them. You might want to run the
'find' command with the -nouser option and see if there are any
such files, to supplement the problem resolution with that info.
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nds
reflected. Make sure that /dev is writable only by user root and group
system, which limits the culprits. Assure that your root file system is not
running out of space. Look for unusual logins around that time: you could
have someone maliciously deleting things.
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trieve
accommodations in the upgrade, by all means report the problem
to Tivoli Support. The clients should function properly, and
that includes performance.
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>Here is what I am typing to try to get one file restored from the
>backup set:
>
>TSM>restore backupset bksettape.43448461 sourcefilespec c:
> \winnt\cookies\mm2048.dat
Notice in the manual that the word "sourcefilespec" is in
italics. If you refer to the front of the manual, in
Conventions Use
situation indicates
that your Recovery Log is either too small for the level of your
current server activities, or some unusual load spike occurred.
I'd recommend adding a volume to your Recovery Log, preferably
TSM-mirrored.
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lent of the disk starting to spin. Then, without delay, I
copied off the viable data.
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"Think different." - Apple
>...the backup fails with "out-of-sequence" verb error. ...
Raminder - I presume you mean message ANR0444W, which would identify the
type of verb. Type Confirm has been seen when the client
system is short on memory.
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you
could use the 'dd' command.
Whereas this label problem is probably pervasive in your library,
you should attend to the rest of the tapes before they have
detachment problems. Note that you can also do a database query
at the 3494 Operator Station to determine the volsers of tapes
curr
could do DELete FIlespace if you know that
the tapes all contain the data for a filespace you no longer want, to
avoid having to delete its volumes individually.
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he entirety of the media. I had to do this a while ago with 3480s we
were surrendering. I used the tapeutil command's "erase" function, which took
care of it nicely.
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option.
If not, then I would report it.
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d move both portions to a new volume.
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t command line program
does not get them; or enter the brace-encoded filespec under the interactive
mode of the command line client. If that doesn't work, then it would seem
like a client defect.
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ccept them as being in Insert category.
Again, there may be a very good reason for the current state of the tapes, so
take your time in pursuing the mystery.
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ser.
Another method would be to use set-uid permissions on executable files;
but that is fraught with security issues, and is better avoided.
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ing imposed by the
operating system administrator.
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>Any suggestions on where to look now or
>what to change to ensure we use all of the 2.3 GB on the 3490E technology?
Corrie - Please post your Devclass Format specification plus OS type
and ADSM/TSM server level, to give us more perspective.
thanks, Richard Sims, BU
try it on, but I seem to
recall from prior log inspection that the cleaning cartridges show up
there.)
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for the backup set to be used at the PC, though I don't have the
experience to say exactly what must prevail.
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>Why does the TSM servers wants first the 20028 tape...
Probably to deal with a file that spanned volumes.
This is reflected in the Contents table where the Segment
number is not 1/1.
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>Could anyone tell me where I can find the device configuration worksheet
>with the drive element numbers for the Qualstar 412300 library ?
You can get there from the software web page:
http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/adsercli.htm
which leads to:
http://www.tivoli.com/support/storag
d from storage pools, rather than the TSM
database as is the case with the AIX directories - and thus tape mounts.
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nt one of the facets
which would attract customers of all kinds to the TSM product.
Limited thinking produces limited results.
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n attest to
it being exceptional. It makes Windows look sick.) Given the likelihood of OS
X proliferating to platforms beyond the PowerPC, there is certainly a business
case for Tivoli to treat this incarnation of the Mac operating system more
seriously.
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tore them;
otherwise not.
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est to disable
sessions and processes in the mean time, to prevent a mass
of data from going into the Recovery Log.
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th your licenses.
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the drive is
configured for. You could adjust this yourself, I believe, in the
CE Options Menu, under Drv Features; but you may want to have the CEs
come back and correct the problem. In any case, you can compare the
configuration of the one problem drive with the config of the others
to see what
> Can I backup NT Machines with TSM client version 4.1 on a ADSM Server
> version 3.1 ?
With luck. Check the front of the 4.1 client manual: that combination
of levels is not supported. It's Spring, and the ice is thin...
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I also understand the E1A drives will work the best if we go to the
>newer "K" tapes, however you can't have "J" and "K" tapes in the library at
>the same time for some reason.
Yes, you can, and many of us do. Refer to the server README file for
particulars on upgrading your drives in a TSM environment.
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into the next storage pool in the hierarchy. This is the
awkwardness of having a disk storage pool as the entry point for
backups, as they tend to overflow anyway and get into the tape
dependency we seek to avoid.
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the next backup
will cause any prior Active backup file to become Inactive, and no
new Active backup file to exist.
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options were more
sophisticated, to allow selection by attributes other than name,
such as size (including avoiding backing up empty files), owner,
etc.
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>... ADSM didn't used to be supported through a firewall even though it
>would work in many situations. I don't know in this day and age if that
>non-support is still official. ...
See the client README file topic:
"Using Tivoli Storage Manager in a firewall environment"
erm archiving usually calls for storage to be in
"neutral" form, so that there is certainty of retrievability and
usability.
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>I'm lookking in other places currently but can anyone shed any light on this
>one ?
>
>04/05/01 09:17:31 ANRD afmigr.c(2683): Reconstruction of aggregates
>is
> disabled. Run audit reclaim utilities to re-enable
> reconstruction of aggregates.
Dwi
>Richard Sims ...
>
>How do YOU perceive implementing a "neutral" archive format
>given that most storage formats vary from platform to platform
>anyway (e.g., MVS to AIX), and sometimes from one drive architecture
>to another, because of changes in recording densit
d cause the adapter to lapse into narrow mode via detection,
but it's pot-luck with older devices.) I'd recommend getting the specs
from your 3996 manual and try making the adapter suit its needs.
I don't know if the 3996 needs any special device driver software beyond
that, which would
ight and a Radio Shack
fuse might get you back into operation quickly if you find it to be something
like this (as in the case of a dropped tape blocking movement).
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>Suad, did you specify force=yes (to override the options in the dsm.opt
>file)?
Note that INCLEXCL and DOMAIN are additive options such that
Force has no effect. That is, Force pertains only to
singular options.
the standard product reference, the Admin Guide,
treats the topic superficially and the Client manual ignores it.
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>I am doing incremental backups of a Netware 4.11 server with client code
>3.7.2.21. Tivoli is backing up files that are not changing. Any thoughts?.
You need to be very specific about "not changing". Chapter 3 of the
client manual specifies the criteria which govern backup candidacy,
including
>Has anyone ran across these errors??? The errors re-generate when a process
>tries to access it.
>
>04/16/01 07:47:08 ANR8300E I/O error on library AUTOLIB (OP=C0106C03,
>CC=315, KEY=05, ASC=3B, ASCQ=0D,
>SENSE=70.00.05.00.00.00.00.0D.00.00.00.00.3B.0D.00.00.00-
> .00.3B.0D.00., Des
ing the old J's to external and
offsite duties.
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driver
level with that in the IBM FTP site, as yours may be too downlevel for
TSM 4.1.3. I'd also recommend re-checking the element number.
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your Private (storage pool) category tapes.
(Do 'Query LIBRary' to verify.) Search back in your Activity Log to review
the history of that volume and how it got into that state, and what data
it may contain. If appropriate, do a CHECKIn LIBVolume to return it to
storage pool usage.
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ves that the drive/slot is
occupied, as though something irregular recently happened in the
library. If the library supports a "reinventory" operation, try that to
see if it will cause the library to reacquaint itself with the reality of
what's occupied and what isn't.
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_NAME; and if you specify -ARCHmc=default, CLASS_NAME will be
"DEFAULT".
Life would be too dull without things like this.
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> 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.
cable lengths,
number of devices on a loop, speed, and hot-plugability.
(Technology note: The industry convention is that the spelling is "disk" for
magnetic disks, and "disc" for optical platters, to immediately distinguish
them.)
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tp://ADSM-symposium.oucs.ox.ac.uk/.
Past presentations can be found at:
http://adsm-symposium.oucs.ox.ac.uk/1999/callfor.html
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>Does an export include all files or just active versions.
It's governed by what you ask for, via FILEData, as in
requesting BACKUPActive.
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now what you
are able to determine.
thanks, Richard Sims, BU
he analysis to find out what's wrong.
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>since few days I've got messages:
>ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume E003 - mount failed.
Wojciech - ANR1401W should be a summary message: preceding messages
should tell what the actual problem is.
Might be a problem in communicating with the tape library, or the
inability
, and that either
upgrading or dropping back to get away from that level can fix
problems.
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Mary - Your backup server is not necessarily your HSM server.
Given your recent migration, you may have, or need, a
MIgrateserver option in your client options file to point to
the proper HSM server.
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might be that
migration stops when the amount drops to the decimal value 0.something, as
opposed to integer 0.
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ations.
Get your operating system and hardware people involved, and have them
look for error log indications of problems. They can use utilities
or diagnostics to verify the voracity of the disk subsystem. Switch to
a different type of disk if possible, if nothing else turns up, and try
the restoral to that.
Richard Sims, BU
/
> Ok, I have successfully configured an auto-tape library and schedules.
>My problem now is I filled the first set of tapes and went to use another
>set. I remove the tapes and put in the new ones. The machine has a barcode
^^
>reader and I labeled
ligible for processing. Read about the various methods of
removing tapes to choose the one most appropriate to your needs.
Depending upon library type, you might use the Remove=No keyword to
logically do what you have already physically done.
Or possibly do 'UPDate Volume ... ACCess=OFfsite&#
could
be a long-running and quite thorough expiration run.
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onform to whatever the
prevailing management class retention rules are at the time. So if you
extend your retention policy, it pertains to all archive files, old
and new.
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3.7 you installed is probably there in addition to the old ADSM code.
When installing a TSM client, always be careful to pick the components you
really want - don't automatically install everything just because it's there.
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..yV]
Refer to the 3590 Hardware Reference manual for codes and byte positions.
Here, we requested 40, being Drive Lifetime Mounts. That returned
the 32-bit value 066A, or 1642 decimal. The parameter 41 Drive Lifetime
Megabytes Written happens to be returned as well: 001563E3, or 1,401,827 MB.
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>When I enter the command on the server;
>CLEAN ARCHDIR nodename
>then I get ONE OR MORE PARAMATERS ARE MISSING.
>
>What is the right syntax
Wow, you're late to this party: that goes back to 3.1.
See
ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/adsm/fixes/v3r1/aixsrv/LATEST.SERVICE/README.SRV.3125
>Is it possible to do archive on server level and not client level?
>I want to archive the whole primary pool.
Just do a Backup Stgpool to a copy storage pool that you designate
for long-term holding.
ke a portable image of your current Active
backup files.
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>What is Backup set? I heard that form someone else too. I'm using ADSM
>Version 3, Release 1, Level 2.40, dose this version supports Backupset?
See "Backup Set" in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts, where I
keep a lot of factoids arranged alphabetically for handy lookup and
pointers to w
upgrade anyway; so consider doing it sooner
rather than later, and make all those new features available to
your site, to give you plenty of flexibility and choices.
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Larry - A frequently reported problem.
Try Audit Volume Fix=Yes, which usually takes care of it.
>I can't get anywhere close to that on 9840. I am happy when I get 11 MB/sec
>on them. Are you sure numbers are right?
The STK site specifies a maximum 10 MB/sec head-to-tape
data transfer rate for the 9840.
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t command, or reboot with the entry removed
from /etc/inittab. I would recommend doing a deinstall of ADSM before an
install of TSM, as the TSM install is unlikely to do the deinstall you might
expect it to.
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nters of sufficient capacity to keep this from occurring in
ordinary operations. Consider doing periodic 'RESet BUFPool's.
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>Anybody know a clever way to do this?
One sorta way: Caching, in a storage pool hierarchy.
Otherwise: Backup Stgpool.
But I think we'd like to hear what your requirements are
to better advise.
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in chapter 1
of the client manuals, and on the Tivoli web page
http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/compatibility.html .
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t true: deletion of a primary storage pool volume
causes the database entries to be removed.
See "Deleting Storage Pool Volumes" in the Admin Guide.
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files, you may have forgotten
to specify the files to be Archived in the OBJects parameter of the
DEFine SCHedule command?
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the competitive advantages in the new release.
What's the story with Development management that so many things are being
missed? Less golf - more management. ;-)
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still no effective
measures have been instituted to prevent such nonsense from occurring.
Is anyone there minding the store?
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>Does anyone know if TSM does, or will in the future do, block level
>backups?
See subfile backups in the Windows client manual, and the
TSM Technical Guide redbook.
/discmodelinter.html
for Seagate model numbering, to decypher that stuff.
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Zosi - See my notes on VCR Data problems in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts
The Move Data you did was fine, and you do not have to Checkout the volume.
But you probably need to update your drive(s) to improved microcode to
eliminate the cause of the problem.
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longer list of tapes, plus rotation ('DELete VOLHistory').
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in the technologies involved
in this stuff.
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for a limited repertoire of file systems, customary on each
platform (as for example an earlier posting from the Linux README file).
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test where you back up one or more very large
(1 GB or more) files.
>Does anyone know of a new tivoli performance tuning guide? I have a (not
>up to date) SP performance tuning guide.
The assemblage has been awaiting such a modern version of the product
performance guide.
Richard Sims, BU
April 30th, topic "DB buffer question".
You need to do periodic 'RESet BUFPool's to reset the counter, which
overflows and goes negative.
Look back on your Cache Hit Pct. some time after you have done the reset,
to assure meaningful numbers.
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ving (subfile backup et al) to meaningfully compare
with that competing vendor's offering.
Make sure that your business has firmly defined objectives
when it goes to compare storage management products: don't
simply look at packages and compare them. You want a
solution which will fulfill defined needs, not a vendor's
sale objectives.
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nstalled in your
operating system or the cabling is not attached or the drive
is turned off - something like that. Take a step-by-step look
at your implementation.
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>"When TSM uses TCP/IP to communicate between the server and the clients,
>what kind of communication is it using?"
TCP, as opposed to UDP. You can verify this with the 'netstat' opsys
command, or the 'lsof' public domain command for Unix.
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ng number
of digits for the year, or omitting the seconds value, could foul it up.
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>If filling tapes are not candidates for reclamation...
Filling and Offsite is a special case.
See the Admin Guide section on Reclamation, subsection
Controlling When Reclamation Occurs for Offsite Volumes.
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