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Hi all,

I am trying to find how can i select "Last Backup Start Date/Time" and "Last Backup Completion Date/Time" from filespace using a select commnad?

I tried below but no help



select...

Can you please let me know how to start incremental backup from windows client GUI?
also will that run in the background? or should i be connected till the backup completes?

Thank you!

yes, i want kick back up now instead of waiting. But clientaction would be something additional so that is not what i want

Hi all,

there is a windows TSM client, which is associated with a client schedule in TSM server.
The scheduled start time is 17:00 EST and so client is waiting for the scheduled time to start...

Hi all,

TDPO backup fails with below message. Kindly help to troubleshoot.



02/20/2013:22:43:28 PID<4992> ==> (RC-53)
stdpoReadPswdFromFile()
ile:...

Hi all


I am trying to restore node A data on node B with virtualnodename option.
Node A has been retired but its filespace still exists on TSM server.


I am trying to query backup of a file...

Hi all,

we have multiple TSM servers (6.3 on AIX) at different sites with hundreds of nodes registered to each server.
Is there any IBM or third party tool/software to monitor all servers and all...

Hi all,

How to find the device class of a tape?

I know we can use "q volume <volume_name>" to know it but there are tapes not listed in q volume as they are scratch tapes.
q libvolume lists...

Hi all,

There is one storage pool of device class 3590.
Now i want to move all the data contained by tapes in this storage pool to another new storage pool of device class 3592.

Please...

Hi all,

How do we find out the location of a tape volume in TSM?

for example, i have below tape but not sure what is the location of it. It doesn't seem to be inside the tape library.

...

:D....thanks

Thank you Ralf !

How i get the number of such tape volumes?

I tried count(*) instead of just * bu got below


selct count(*) from volumes where stgpool_name='copy' and volume_name in (select...

Hi all,

I am trying to list all the tapes that belong to a particular device class (ex: 3590 tapes) and which are inside the tape library.
I am having a stgpool (TEST) with 3590 device class.
...

Hi Jeroen,

Thank you very much for detailed explanation.

Actually i need to backup NFS share using the TSM scheduler. Can you please help me how to do this ? Where should i tell the scheduler...

Many questions on this (on Linux/AIX)

1) where to run the scheduler for daily NFS filesystem backups ? on BA client or on TSM server ?
2) Does scheduler has to be installed separately or it...

Hi all,

Can anyone give me step by step process to setup and run TSM scheduler in-order to perform daily backups on TSM6.3 on AIX6.1 ?
I am looking for detailed steps to accomplish this (I will...

Hi All,

Below is the error while trying to restore files from TSM.


ANS4007E Error processing <filename> access to the object is denied ** Unsuccessful **


Some of the files are failed to...

thank you ChrisRees,

Can you please expalin what are rpad and numbers like 9 and 13 etc in the query ?

Hi all,

Recently migrated to TSM 6.3.2 and i find it little different when it comes to output format of select statements from TSM 5.5
Below is the output format of a select statement in V6.3.2
...

Hi all,

Not sure if this related to TSM in any way but, i have an issue in accessing IBM3494 tape library console remotely via web.

If i am connected to same subnet as of tape library then i...

Hi all,

I am wondering if TSM can backup the whole disk image of a server ? If so how to do that ?
Can installing BA client on the target machine will be sufficient ?

Also in the event if a...

Hi MrOdysseus,

Just an hour ago i updated the stgpool to values HI=90 and LO=10 but then again it reset.
below is the actlog query.


tsm>q actlog begint=-1 search=HIghmig

Date/Time ...

Hi MrOdysseus,

yes, CPOFFJA and CPONJA are offsite and onsite copy pools.
BKUPJA is a primay tape pool and BKUPPOOL is the disk pool.
When i query BKUPJA stgpool, looks like collocation is set...

thanks rallingham and Trident,

Hi MrOdysseus,

looks like data is going straight to tapes only (from what i see of q stg commmand's output; the HI and LOW mig of stgpool are being reset to 0 and...

Thanks Trident.

Hi rallingham, yes this is very poor transfer rate.
How can i improve things here ?
What are the things i should be checking to improve the TSM performance ?

Hi all,

Does "bytes recvd" in the output of query session command will say anything about how much of the backup job is complete ?
Currently this query on the backup job says that it received...

Hi all,

Anyway to find out how much of the filesystem is been backedup ?

I am having a full backup job of 22TB filesystem running from about 73 days now. Still not sure how many more days this...

Hi Ed,

Yes, it belongs to old library (IBM3494-05).


q libvolume IBM3494-05 C01088

Library Name Volume Name Status Owner Last Use Home Device
...

Thanks Chad and Ed,

This tape, C01088 is in the tape library.


q libvolume IBM3494-05 C01088

Library Name Volume Name Status Owner Last Use Home ...

Hi all,

TSM is using up all the volumes that i checkin as scratch but it is never able to free up volumes which are already used ?
Does this is related to reclamation process of the server ?
How...

Thanks Ed,

yes, we do run a script to do these actions. But somehow moving tapes to onstie/offsite locations is not been happening from few months and that is where i got suspicious about these...

Hi all,

we have a setup of DRM that each primary stgpool with two copy pools.
first copy pool tapes should be onsite outside of tape library and
second copy pool tapes should be sent to...

Hi Harry,

I updated the nodename in dsm.sys file in client and then renamed and updated password in TSM server.
Below is the stanza for this BA client in dsm.sys


SErvername tsm1...

Thanks Domino,

I renamed the node from linux1.test.com to linux1 and then update the password for the node.
But when i try to connect to to server from client by "dsmc", it is taking the default...

Hi Harry,

sorry for not putting my question clearly.

Thanks for clear explanation. This answers my question.

Hi all,

what happens to the files/directories backed up during the same backup process till backup process was cancelled, will they be considered as backed up and stored in TSM ?
Thanks in...

Thanks Domino

Hi smajl,

will this checkin the volume if it is present in the library ?
or
just check if the volume is present in the library ?

Hi all,

there seems to be hung process "/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmcad" on a linux client.
what is this "dsmcad" process ?
is this related to backup-archive client or TDPO client ? (there...

Thank you Domino,

So there won't be any harm to previous backups right ?

and also one more thing,

both BA client and TDPO client on the same linux server and on TSM server when i do q node...

Hi Ed,

to audit the library, should all the sessions and processess be cancelled ?
Right now there are lots of backups running so just wondering if TSM needs be quiet during the audit process

Hi all,

I want to rename a BA client node name with "rename node " command as there is a conflict because currently both BA client and TDPO client on this physical linux server are same.

I...

Hi Ed,

how do we check if it is inside library or not ?

At AIX prompt, i got below with mtlib command


# mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qI |grep C00636
C00636 012C 00 20 04

Hi all,
tried to restore a file from tape but endup with error saying that "storage volume is inaccessible"


dsmc restore /TM/planfiles/plan.20120311.131713 /tmp/testrestore/


ANS4035W...

Hi all,

Based on what rule TSM backups files in directory ?
I mean, which file/dir out of all files/dirs in a filespace gets backed up first ?
will it sort files/dirs inside a filespace based...