TSM Client Installation on a Debian Distribution

[hackld]

I tried to install the Client in the version of Linux86_524 an got the following error.

Is anyone there, who installed teh client on a debian distribution and it works ???

The debian Version is:

Linux service 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux



Here now the error:



The backup-archive client requires the following software to run:

|Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0

|SUSE SLES 8 and 9

|Java JRE 1.4.1, or later

For GPFS ACL support on Linux86, the Tivoli Storage Manager client uses libgpfs.so library (which comes in the standard GPFS package).

|For Ext2/Ext3/XFS

|ACL support on Linux86, the Tivoli Storage Manager client uses libacl.so (which comes in |

the libacl package).

|A Mozilla 1.4 or higher browser





Is anyone here who can help me ???????

 

[Harry_Redl]

Hi,



look at private message



Harry

 

[serendipity]

Hi there!



Im runnung TSM 5.2.4 on a debian sarge server! So far it works ok with a bit of problems with the german umlauts.



It took me forever to set it up too, but the trick is u need: linstdc++2.10-glibc2.2(its apt name). It is somewhat of a downgrade to my mind, but it works.



Then need to fix the sym links for the libs in .../INST-DIR/API and .../INST-DIR/BA. Then ldconfig, then it should be fine.



Hope this helps



Cheers:SRTY

 

[FREDRIK]

Hi,



Can you please write down how to get it to work on a Debian (3.1) server?



Cheers

F

 

[billcarlson]

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Can you please write down how to get it to work on a Debian (3.1) server?



Cheers

F</BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><HR></TD></TR></TABLE>



Having just done this on Debian sarge....



As user:

1. Get TSM rpms

2. Install alien and fakeroot. Run 'fakeroot alien' on the RPMs (TIVsm-API.i386.rpm TIVsm-BA.i386.rpm). You know have deb packages.



As root:

3. Install the debs, ie 'dpkg -i blahlbah.deb blahblah.deb'

4. Steal libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 from a Redhat/SuSe box and put in /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin

5. Add '/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin' to /etc/ld.so.conf, run ldconfig.

6. Setup tsm options and go.



Note: I've only got dsmadmc and dsmc working/tested, the gui stuff and scheduling doesn't interest me.

 

[vivian_d]

hmm, hi guys,



i installed the client on a linux (debian box), as you discribed above.



now, when i try to run a backup, i.e.



./dsmc incremental -subdir=yes /home



i got the following error:

Tivoli Storage Manager

Command Line Backup/Archive Client Interface - Version 5, Release 1, Level 7.0

(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1990, 2004 All Rights Reserved.



Node Name: MSI.PC234

Session established with server TSM1: AIX-RS/6000

Server Version 5, Release 2, Level 6.4

Server date/time: 04/04/2006 15:04:38 Last access: 04/04/2006 15:01:20





Incremental backup of volume '/home'

ANS1228E Sending of object '/home/home' failed

ANS1017E Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure





in the error log:



04/04/2006 15:05:15 File System list is NULL: Using /home

04/04/2006 15:05:15 File System list is NULL: Using /home

04/04/2006 15:05:15 ANS1005E TCP/IP read error on socket = 4, errno = 104, reason : 'Connection reset by peer'.

04/04/2006 15:05:15 cuFSAdd: Received rc: -50 trying to read a EndTxn verb

04/04/2006 15:05:15 fsCheckAdd: unable to add FS to server

04/04/2006 15:05:16 ANS1228E Sending of object '/home/home' failed

04/04/2006 15:05:16 ANS1017E Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure



is this a mistake in the config or what happen here?



thx in advance

++vivian

 

[chad_small]

So is this an unsupported distribution or is it SUSE? Also I have found issues with certain filesystem types what FS type are you using?



The following software is required to run the client:



Linux kernel 2.4.x (for x=2 or higher)

glibc 2.2.x (for x=2 or higher)

libstdc++ 2.9.x (for x=6 or higher)

X Windows System X11R6 (for end user GUI only)

RPM 3.0.x or 4.0 (for x=0 or higher)



Also



Linux distributions that fulfill these requirements include:



SuSE 7.3, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 and SLES 8, 9

Red Hat 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9.0 and RHEL 2.1

RHEL 3.0 (*)

(* the compat-gcc-c++-7.3-2.96.122 package is needed)

RHEL 4.0 (*)

(* the compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.7.2.i386 package is needed)

Turbo Linux 7.0, 7.5 and 8.0

United Linux 1.0



The requirements for these distros should give you an idea of what dependency is missing.

 

[vivian_d]

hi chad,



first of all, thx for your answer.



yes, it's an unsupported distribution, but i also have 3 debian boxes here which work perfectly.



i also tried the config files (dsm.sys/dsm.opt/adsm_includeexclude) of these machines (editing only nodename and password). the difference is - the new one is using XFS - the others EXT3.

all uses kernel 2.6.x



**update**

ah, found another difference:

/home is only a directory, not a partition (as on the other machines)

************



**update #2**

there is also a windows partition on this disc (ntfs), when i try to backup this with:

./dsmc incremental -subdir=yes /windows

i got the same error messages.

****************



i'm sorry. these machines are not installed by myself, i only got it from the parent sysadmin



thx in advance

++vivi

 

[vivian_d]

next update:



so, let's see:



got the tsm packages (included the de_DE package) from

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client/v5r3/Linux/Linux86/v532/

changed it to debian packages with:

fakeroot alien TIVsm-BA.i386.rpm

fakeroot alien TIVsm-API.i386.rpm

fakeroot alien TIVsm-HSM.i386.rpm

fakeroot alien TIVsm-msg.de_DE.i386.rpm



the i installed all .debs with dpkg



now the dsmc client works but i get these error:

ANS9505E dsmc: cannot initialize DM services. Reason: Function not implemented



the hsm is installed in

/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/hsm



i added also

/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/hsm/bin

/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin

/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin

to my $PATH



thx in advance

++vivi

 

[chad_small]

Do you plan on usin HSM? If not I would not install it and if already installed I would make sure the process doesn't run. From my experience it has been a memory hog. As for the DM error...since it's related to HSM, if you don't use HSM it will go away.

 

[vivian_d]

hi,



i removed the package, now, everything looks ok.



thx a lot

best regards

++vivi