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Yup, that's what I did too. My problem was getting exit codes if running processes in parallel. Rather than try that for weeks on end, I'll just change the amount of processes per job. It's a cost on...

Hi Tiger22,
We are using a single tape drive per job because our daily backup are just under 3TB and thus fit on a single tape. I will however try and have each job that takes too long use two...

Thank you both for your answers.

Hi moon-buddy, I currently am running the whole script from bash but it's not great in terms of dealing with threads so I'm stuck on a line by line execution...

Hi all,

I got my maintenance script doing its job well but it seems that with the increase in nodes my migration and replication times are becoming ridiculously long. I'd like to shorten those...

I had to recover from a defect tape just yesterday so I thought the output of a successful volume restore might help you identify where it went wrong for you.


04/08/2013 11:51:01 ANR2017I...

Ok, so my first question would be, do you have a copy pool?

1) If not, Step '4' onwards are of no use to you and you should probably put the tape back into the library, mark it 'readonly' and try...

I believe that the order in which you do your steps is important.

Did you mark the tape as destroyed before or after checking it out?

Did your 'restore volume' command work? It complains there...

I'm no veteran and I'm not in front of my console but does the CHECKOUT command not put the tape into the I/O and remove the entry from the library list. What command do you run to see it is still...

I think you simply mark the tape as destroyed then get it out of the library. The first part of the document will explain the step but you might want to rebuild it and go through the entire...

Go figure... it worked fine today and a couple of volumes were reclaimed.


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Hi all,

I'm lucky enough to get to setup our server from the ground up which great but I am getting this odd error...

After running:

RECLAIM STGPOOL PF01 WAIT=YES THRESHOLD=1 DURATION=240
...

Thank you all for your help. The test was made on a new server with my data alone so no loss there but rather a good lesson learned! :)

Sorry for the latre reply, we're in different time zones ;)

moon-buddy, the answer to your question is "deleted". I ran a "delete vol" on all the volumes in the PF01.

chad_small, both copy...

Hi all,

I tried to do a test restore that simulated the failure of the primary pool and hoped it would switch to a copy pool.

The following is my current setup.



nodes --> PrimaryDisk OS...

Well, PF01 will be a pool of 10K disks from SAN across fibre. I did a test and it all seems to work as expected. The data will mostly be a bunch of OSs (Linux and Windows) so dedup should work a...

Hi,

I ended up changing the way I structured the volume pools.



nodes --> PrimaryDisk OS (PD01) +-> Primary File (PF01)
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...

Correct me if I'm wrong but an active-data pool will only hold the "current data" (active data) and not the entire backup retention like you'd find on tapes. If so, the active-data pool is not what...

Hi inestler,

Thank you for your help. I realise I can't migrate to multiple pools. My ill written question was more like: "How do I use a "dedupped primary file pool" as a primary pool for quick...

The following is the order of each steps I take every day:

- Backup the primary disk pools to the copy tape pool
- Backup the primary tape pools to the copy tape pool (incase the disk pool filled...

Hi all,

I am trying to setup a new TSM server instance. This is my first shot at it and I think I'm doing something wrong.



nodes --> PrimaryDisk OS (PD01) +-> Primary Tape (PT01) -->...

I had a quick look at the documentation and it seems to be spot on!

Thanks a lot for your help. I was getting nowhere.

TSM Server Version 6, Release 2, Level 2.0

Hi all,

I'm getting the following error from TSM:


ANR1259W Files on volume AA0026L5 needed for offsite
reclamation cannot be accessed - access...

I get it. I just thought that TSM kept track of all tapes in the pool and that it would miss it but I see it now.

Thanks for your help!

Hi,

I realise that there is no data on the tape and that it can be binned. My problem is that

a) DRM keeps sending a mail to the people storing the tapes off-site asking them to bring back the...

Hi,

Thanks for your help but I don't quite understand what you mean.

The tape is indeed in a "vault retrieve" state

>q drmedia AA0062L5
AA0062L5 Vault retrieve 04/30/2012...

Hi all,

I had a tape that was sent off-site using DRM. When DRM called it back, I found that it had been dropped and was unable to physically put it back into the library I/O.

Now I need to...

I'm still learning a lot and your posts have been very helpful. The ADP was supposed to be migrated to another in an attempt to define some kind of SLA. In the end, a greater project is going to take...

I like how answers are coming from all corners of the world! :)

sjl got what I am trying to do. Flush one or more servers from the active data pool without loosing data from these servers on other...

Hi,

I have an active data pool which seems to hold data from servers which should not be found there. The fault is entirely mine but I'd now like to remove the data.

How can I clean the active...

Thanks for the answer smajl, this is exactly what I was after and it works great. Sorry for the late reply.

Hi all,

I've had a look on the forum and on the net and can't seem to find the info I need so I'm venturing being flamed in the hope that it will give me a link to the document I need and can't...

I realise this is an old thread but it might help someone who also needs to run multiple processes on SLES and be LSB compliant

This is how I did it for SLES 11 SP1


#!/bin/bash
#
# dsmsc ...

I believe I have found the problem and it's a stupid one...


Policy Domain Name Schedule Name Associated Nodes
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Thanks for your answer but this does not seem to apply as I'm on 6.2. I'll keep looking and post any solution I find if any.

Hi all,

It looks like I'm missing something obvious but I just can't put my finger on it.

I have a TSM Server 6.2.2.0 running on SLES 11 SP1 and an Exchange 2010 running on a Windows 2008 R2...

Thanks for your answer. This would of course be hell as I'd have to be notified for any new database being created. I'll stick to what I have and let the DBA browse the logs ;)

Bump.

Did any of you have a demanding DBA that asked for a more granular view of backup statuses on a database base rather than a server base? An exit code of "402" might indicate a backup...

Dear all,

I have a DB that is desperate for a backup status of all the databases we back up. Not only the general exit code of the database server backup but the exit code for every single...

Hi all,

Just for completion, I finally got my hand on the document I was after. Here are the IBM recommendations on how and where to install TSM.

Hope this can help someone.

Hi all,

I'm looking all over the TSM boulder website for documentation on a standard to mount TSM devices but I suspect you need as much experience in finding the information than in knowing TSM...

Hi Chad,

Thanks a lot for your help. I'll read up on the command.
In the meanwhile, it looks like our consultant had thought about the issue and had a spare 60GB left on the phisical disk. I...

We are running SLES 11.1 and had problems with the tape drives getting muddled up each time we booted. This was solved by our Linux Wiz with a few lines in udev. Maybe this can help you or someone...

Hi all,

I am getting the following error which is quite straight forward:


tsm>RECLAIM STGPOOL PA01BRU WAIT=YES THRESHOLD=50 DURATION=420
ANR0984I Process 654 for SPACE RECLAMATION started in...

Could someone confirm this for me? Do I really have to manually kill all connections to the DB before overwriting it? The TDP will not do this even though there is an option to overwrite?

Any...

Hi,

Thanks for your answer. Putting the DB in single user mode does in effect, kill all connections to the DB. I was just wondering why the TDP does not do this? Are you saying that before...