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Re: [ADSM-L] How to tell what VM's are running backup in TSM for VE 7.1?

2015-04-25 13:30:42
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] How to tell what VM's are running backup in TSM for VE 7.1?
From: Saravanan Palanisamy <evergreen.sarav AT GMAIL DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 01:28:46 +0800
Hi Steve, 

There will be snapshot creation message for each Virtual machine backup and 
once backup got completed then it will create another entry for snapshot 
deletion in Vcenter task log. You can use this task log to identify latest 
backup. 



By Sarav
+65-82284384


> On 25 Apr 2015, at 8:54 pm, Schaub, Steve <Steve_Schaub AT BCBST DOT COM> 
> wrote:
> 
> Eric, can you point me to where exactly in the vCenter web gui I can see this?
> Thanks,
> -steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of McWilliams, Eric
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 9:28 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] How to tell what VM's are running backup in TSM for VE 
> 7.1?
> 
> The only thing I've found that shows me what jobs are currently running is in 
> vCenter.
> 
> 
> Eric 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of Schaub, Steve
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 7:15 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] How to tell what VM's are running backup in TSM for VE 
> 7.1?
> 
> Thanks to everyone who responded, but from what I'm seeing, none of these 
> queries show me which VM's are currently backing up?  Completed/fail, yes.  
> When I have 20-30 concurrent nodes running, and someone wants to know exactly 
> which ones are running, I'm at a loss.  Obviously VE must know, why isn't the 
> info exposed somewhere obvious?
> Very frustrating.
> -steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of Schneider, Jim
> Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 4:37 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] How to tell what VM's are running backup in TSM for VE 
> 7.1?
> 
> This is close.  I check time stamps to identify failures.  The time stamp 
> could also indicate a backup in progress.
> 
> select substr(filespace_name,9,18) as VM, filespace_id as FSID, 
> cast(backup_end as char(19) ) as "Backup Completed" from filespaces where 
> node_name='VC1_CH2_DM' order by 3
> 
> Jim Schneider
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of Schaub, Steve
> Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 3:22 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] How to tell what VM's are running backup in TSM for VE 7.1?
> 
> Running into some issues troubleshooting VE backups and hopefully I just 
> don't know where to look.
> I came in this morning and was surprised to find that one of my datamovers 
> was still running a schedule.
> There were 2 sessions in TSM, but of course they were using the datacenter 
> name so I had no idea what was running, or what was still waiting to run.
> So what do I use to gain visibility into a running VE schedule?
> I want to know:
> 
> 1.       What is running
> 
> 2.       What has completed
> 
> 3.       What is waiting to run
> I tried deciphering it from dsmsched.log, but gave up looking for those 
> needles in that haystack.
> I also went to the VE web UI hoping "reports/recent tasks" would help, but 
> nothing showed up there.
> Surely there is some easy way to do this simple task that I have overlooked 
> in the manual?
> 
> Steve Schaub
> Systems Engineer II, Backup/Recovery
> Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee
> 
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