Win 2008 cluster TSM setup problem

[rvillano]

Hello to all,

I have been rackin my brain trying to figure out what is wrong with getting this 2008 windows cluster to work! The clients are using TSM V6.1.3 to a TSM server V5.5.3
Here is the optfile from the default TSM client folder:

PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE
TCPSERVERADDRESS XXXXXXXX
TCPCLIENTADDRESS xxxxxxxx
SCHEDMODE PROMPTED
NODENAME xxxxxxxxx
ERRORLOGRETENTION 10 D
SCHEDLOGRETENTION 10 D
TCPBUFFSIZE 64
TCPWINDOWSIZE 64

EXCLUDE "*:\microsoft uam volume\...\*"
EXCLUDE "*:\microsoft uam volume\...\*.*"
EXCLUDE "*:\...\EA DATA. SF"
EXCLUDE *:\...\pagefile.sys
EXCLUDE *:\IBMBIO.COM
EXCLUDE *:\IBMDOS.COM
EXCLUDE *:\MSDOS.SYS
EXCLUDE *:\IO.SYS
EXCLUDE *:\...\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\...\*
Exclude *:\...\ntuser.dat*
Exclude *:\...\usrclass.dat*
Exclude *:\...\hgfs.dat
EXCLUDE *:\...\system32\Perflib*.dat
EXCLUDE.DIR *:\...\WINDOWS\TEMP
EXCLUDE.DIR *:\...\system32\wins
EXCLUDE.DIR *:\...\system32\LServer
EXCLUDE.DIR *:\...\system32\dhcp
EXCLUDE.DIR *:\...\system32\config
EXCLUDE.DIR *:\...\ntfrs\jet
EXCLUDE.DIR *:\...\ntds
EXCLUDE.DIR "*:\System Volume Information"
EXCLUDE.DIR "*:\...\Temporary Internet Files"
EXCLUDE.DIR *:\Recycled
EXCLUDE.DIR *:\Recycler
EXCLUDE.DIR *:\Data\MSSQL\Data
EXCLUDE.DIR *:\Data\MSSQL\Syb6
EXCLUDE.DIR *:\Data\MSSQL\Syb7
EXCLUDE.DIR *:\Data\MSSQL\Syb8
EXCLUDE.DIR *:\Program Files\IBM\director
EXCLUDE.DIR "C:\users\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager"
INCLUDE *:\...\system32\wins\wins_bak\*
INCLUDE *:\...\system32\wins\wins_bak\*

Here is the dsm.opt file from the clustered resource folder X:\home_01\sys\dsm.opt

TCPSERVERADDRESS XXXXXX
Nodename cluster
DOMAIN "\\dcmscls06\X:"
DOMAIN "\\dcmscls06\X:\home_01\h1_h"
HTTPPORT 1001
Clusternode yes
ERRORLOGRETENTION 7 D
SCHEDLOGRETENTION 7 D
SCHEDMODE PROMPTED
PasswordAccess generate
Errorlogname X:\SYS\SHUHD_01-dsmerror.log
Schedlogname X:\SYS\SHUHD_01-dsmschedlog.log
Errorlogretention 14
Schedlogretention 7
MEMORYEFFICIENTBACKUP YES

EXCLUDE "*:\...\*.err"
EXCLUDE "*:\...\*.tts"
EXCLUDE "*:\...\*.log"
EXCLUDE "*:\...\*.mp3"
EXCLUDE "*:\...\*.tmp"
EXCLUDE "*:\...\*$*.*"
EXCLUDE "*:\...\~*.*"
EXCLUDE "*:\...\desktop.ini"
EXCLUDE "*:\...\index.dat"
EXCLUDE.DIR "*:\...\Cookies"
EXCLUDE.DIR "*:\...\Personal/Cookies"
EXCLUDE.DIR "*:\...\History.IE5"
EXCLUDE.DIR "*:\...\Personal/History"

when I call the dsmc application with -optfile=X:\home_01\sys\dsm.opt it starts fine. I then did a q option and saw that clusternode was set to yes. when I tried to backup a drive that is mounted as a folder the tsm returned an error saying the disk is not a clustered disk?

Node Name: XXXXXX
Session established with server XXXXXX: AIX-RS/6000
Server Version 5, Release 5, Level 3.0
Server date/time: 01/26/2010 15:58:51 Last access: 01/26/2010 15:55:23

tsm> incr X:\home_01\h1_h\* -subdir=yes

Incremental backup of volume 'x:\home_01\h1_h\*'
ANS1228E Sending of object '\\dcmssfs02\x$\home_01\h1_h\*' failed
ANS1151E '\\dcmssfs02\x$\home_01\h1_h' is not a cluster disk.

I know its clustered and see it in windows explorer!

I tried just as a desparate idea was to rename the dsm.opt file in the default directory and discovered the tsm client would not start even though I called it with the
-optfile=X:\home_01\sys\dsm.opt ?

Does any one have any idea whats wrong here?

Best Regards,
Bob...

 

[gyuzik]

Add to your local dsm.opt file...
clusternode no
clusterdisksonly no

Add to your cluster dsm.opt
clusterdisksonly no

I fumbled around for a while with the same issue and that was my solution.

 

[rvillano]

gyuzik,

Thank you for your help! your suggestion did work. I'm confused as to why I needed to set "clusterdisksonly no" in the clustered .opt file? It would seem backwards to me to specify no to that since the whole purpose of this clustered client is to backup the clustered disks?

Thanks Again!
Bob

 

[gyuzik]

Great! I'm glad I am not the only one completely confused by "clusterdisksonly no". The only thing I can think of is TSM is not properly recognizing the disks as cluster disks... but I really can't give you a clear answer.

 

[moon-buddy]

You can leave 'clusterdisksonly no' out as the default, I believe, setting is NO.

 

[rojar_toppo]

Following is an excerpt from Tivoli Document

Scenario 4: Back up a node which manages the clustered drives within a cluster resource group, using volume mount points as cluster resources
[FONT=OFOIJ L+ Palatino,Palatino][FONT=OFOIJ L+ Palatino,Palatino]In this scenario, it is assumed that the node is responsible for backing up a cluster resource group that has two drives, [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=OFONI D+ Book Master,Book Master][FONT=OFONI D+ Book Master,Book Master]f: [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=OFOIJ L+ Palatino,Palatino][FONT=OFOIJ L+ Palatino,Palatino]and [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=OFONI D+ Book Master,Book Master][FONT=OFONI D+ Book Master,Book Master]f:\mnt[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=OFOIJ L+ Palatino,Palatino][FONT=OFOIJ L+ Palatino,Palatino]. There are clustered drives which appear as volume mount points (IBM Tivoli SANergy, Windows 2003 server). Ensure that you define the incremental processing domain as only the volumes within a cluster resource group. If you have multiple cluster resource groups, assign a unique Tivoli Storage Manager node to manage each cluster resource group. [/FONT][/FONT]
Options file:
[FONT=OFONI D+ Book Master,Book Master][FONT=OFONI D+ Book Master,Book Master]CLUSTERNODE YES [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=OFONI D+ Book Master,Book Master][FONT=OFONI D+ Book Master,Book Master]CLUSTERDISKSONLY NO [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=OFONI D+ Book Master,Book Master][FONT=OFONI D+ Book Master,Book Master]DOMAIN f: f:\mnt [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=OFONI D+ Book Master,Book Master][FONT=OFONI D+ Book Master,Book Master]EXCLUDE f:\mnt\...\file.txt [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=OFONI D+ Book Master,Book Master][FONT=OFONI D+ Book Master,Book Master][/FONT][/FONT]
My understanding is when
CLUSTERNODE YES
CLUSTERDISKSONLY YES (default)
the cluster disk map that TSM creates does not include the mount points that are presented as clustered disks ,

However
[FONT=OFONI D+ Book Master,Book Master][FONT=OFONI D+ Book Master,Book Master]CLUSTERNODE YES [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=OFONI D+ Book Master,Book Master][FONT=OFONI D+ Book Master,Book Master]CLUSTERDISKSONLY NO [/FONT][/FONT]
does not create a cluster disk map and hence lets to specify the mount points that are presented as clustered disks [ and other cluster disks ],probably since TSM cant create this list, am not sure.

But TSM does let you backup all clustered resource in different scenarios.

 

[khawts]

What if I have a cluster drive that consists of mounted volumes and folder.

e.g.
x:\Microsoft SQL server - a folder on cluster X drive
x:\Data_01 - a mounted volume on cluster X drive.
x:\Data_02 - a mounted volume on cluster X drive.
x:\Data_03 - a mounted volume on cluster X drive.

I want to backup only x:\Data_03\bks directory and exclude everything.

How should my dsm.opt look like? I seems to cannot get it to work. It back up everything.