Right, watch out for the Windows journalling service quietly dying off.
TSM then reports successful backups, but doesn't back up anything.
One of our customers got a big black eye that way.
TSM development is considering abandoning the Windows journaling service for
something more reliable;
until then, reboot windows nodes weekly, if they are using the JBB trick.
Lindsay Morris
Principal
TSMworks
Tel. 1-859-539-9900
lindsay AT tsmworks DOT com
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:21 AM, David McClelland <tsm AT networkc.co DOT
uk>wrote:
> If nobody has pointed it out already, perhaps this is the article that
> you're looking for:
>
> Steps required to setup the TSM Journaling Service in a MSCS environment
>
> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1019&context=SSSQWC&context=SSG
> SG7&q1=Journal+Service+Cluster&uid=swg21167834&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en
>
> I've worked with TSM Journalling in MSCS clusters in the past, and it's
> *okay* on the whole, but I'd recommend some good monitoring to make sure
> the
> journal service is up/running as expected, and also to run a non-journalled
> backup at intervals (e.g. once a week, once a month perhaps - iirc the
> option '-nojournal' might be your friend here) using MEMORYEFFICIENTBACKUP
> YES as Mr Coles suggests.
>
> HTH,
>
> /David Mc
> London, UK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of
> Johnny Lea
> Sent: 26 October 2009 15:00
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM journaling
>
> Will not the PreserveDBOnExit=1 setting keep the journal active during a
> failover and prevent a full backup?
> I hope so cause I just set up journaling on a cluster and was counting on
> this.
>
> Johnny
>
> >>> Howard Coles <Howard.Coles AT ARDENTHEALTH DOT COM> 10/26/2009 9:40 AM >>>
> We tried this for a while, and I can dig up the docs on exactly how to
> set this up on an older Windows cluster. However, I would highly
> recommend using the memoryefficient backup with disk cache method
> instead. Every time the cluster fails over you'll have to do another
> full normal backup, which may or may not work due to the sheer number of
> files causing the inventory to fill up memory. With the disk cache
> method it's a little slower, but it doesn't have to start over every
> time you fail over or reboot.
>
> See Ya'
> Howard
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> > Of Sanju Chacko
> > Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 4:47 AM
> > To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM journaling
> >
> > Could someone provide me steps to install journaling on cluster?
> > (Windows 2003 cluster)
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Sanju
>
>
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