Backup Central

Should the ADSM work involved to make this transition be just re-configuring
the library, drives and device class and type IV tapes used on DLT4000
should be readable by new DLT7000?

Can somebody give me any comments if there is anything I miss in this
transition? Thanks a lot!

Patty

Should the ADSM work involved to make this transition be just
re-configuring
the library, drives and device class and type IV tapes used on DLT4000
should be readable by new DLT7000?

Can somebody give me any comments if there is anything I miss in this
transition? Thanks a lot!

Patty

Where ? is the drive where NT was originally installed and _machine_ is the
ADSM Node Name.

This is the step that restores the registry.

Thanks.


Phil Bone
Sr. Systems Consultant
Network Services, Infrastructure Management
Office: 706.596.5928
Fax: 706.596.5950
Email: pbone < at > aflac.com
Email: philbone < at > mindspring.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Mooney [mailto:Mark.Mooney < at > SWPC.SIEMENS.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 6:20 PM
To: ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Bare Metal Restore


Do you need an agent to cut the "image"? also if you are using the second
method
do you need to restore the registry and reboot or vice-versa since the os
you
are running is in a separate directory?

Thanks,
Mooney



From: "Kristopher T. Domich" <kdomich < at > DIMENSION.NET> on 01/12/2000 18:35

To: ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU < at > SMTP < at > Exchange
cc:

Subject: Re: Bare Metal Restore

a bare metal restore is a restore that you have to do to a machine when
there has been a total hardware failure or a similar catastrophe. with nt
systems, you have the option of cutting an "image" of the hard drive and
restoring it with a few boot floppies or using the "second instance"
method. it sounds like you have not cut an image so here is a suggestion:

1) rebuild the machine installing NT in a directory that is different
than where you originally installed it (e.g. c:\winnt.bak instead of
c:\winnt)

2) add all necessary drivers and format your filesystems to the
original layout and size (or larger)

3) configure network connectivity

4) install the adsm/tsm client and configure for your environment
(point it o the adsm server)

5) give "write" permissions to boot.ini (attrib -r -s -h c:\boot.ini)

6) using the gui or command line, initiate a restore of every thing
you want back

7) reboot when the restore is complete.


everthing should be the way it was the last time it was backed up and you
can delete the directory which the second instance of NT was installed in.


~kris


At 06:02 PM 1/12/00 -0500, you wrote:
What is a "Bare Metal Restore"?

Thanks
Mooney



From: "Kristopher T. Domich" <kdomich < at > DIMENSION.NET> on 01/12/2000 18:15

To: ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU < at > SMTP < at > Exchange
cc:

Subject: Re: Bare Metal Restore still actual?

in my experience, be sure that you have the MOST up to date client code and
use the "second instance" method to do this.

At 04:15 PM 1/12/00 +0100, you wrote:
Is there now a bare metal recover for Windows NT available?

Regards
Werner Nussbaumer

"Talafous, John G." wrote:

I came away from the TSM 3.7 announcement thinking bare metal restore
would
fade away. Instead of bare metal restore we get Portable Backup
capability.

-----Original Message-----
From: Winfried Heilmann [mailto:Winfried.Heilmann < at > INFRACOR.DE]
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 7:11 AM
To: ADSM-L < at > vm.marist.edu
Subject: Bare Metal Restore still actual?

Hi,

where can I find some actual information about Disaster Recovery for
Netware-
and NT-Clients.

I've only found a redbook from 1997: ADSM Client Disaster Recovery:
Bare
Metal
Restore. SG24-4880-00

Does anybody Know if "Bare Metal Restore" will still be a part of the
"TSM-Future"

Regards Winfried

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Tom,
You could try (if you didn't do it yet) to replace the '%1' in your macro code
by %1, which should elimintae the search for a string %1 by the select
statement. Then, start your macro by passing the arguments with their quotes.
So, call your macro as follows:
macro temp.dsm '/osiris48' '/POE/003/009/OUTPUT'

Wim.
IBM Belgium



ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU on 05/07/98 02:38:46 PM
Please respond to ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU
To: ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU
cc:
Subject: macro substitions in SELECT statement


I'm trying to figure out how to get argument substitutions into a
select statement, but am having trouble because of the single
quotes necessary when specifying an object.

E.g., I have the following query:

SELECT node_name, filespace_name, hl_name, ll_name, object_id, \
backup_date, deactivate_date, owner, class_name \
FROM backups \
WHERE node_name = 'OSIRIS' \
AND filespace_name = '/osiris48' \
AND type = 'FILE' \
AND hl_name = '/POE/003/009/OUTPUT/'

which I would like to make into a macro file, allowing for
substitution variables in filespace_name and hl_name. I tried:

SELECT node_name, filespace_name, hl_name, ll_name, object_id,
\
backup_date, deactivate_date, owner, class_name \
FROM backups \
WHERE node_name = 'OSIRIS' \
AND filespace_name = '%1' \
AND type = 'FILE' \
AND hl_name = '%2'

But when I run the macro ('macro temp.dsm /osiris48
/POE/003/009/OUTPUT') the select is executed with a search for a
literal '%1' and '%2' instead of a variable substitution.

Is there a way to get a variable into the selection criteria of
the WHERE clause in a macro?

-- Tom

"It's a dog eat dog world, Thomas A. La Porte
and I'm wearing milkbone underwear." DreamWorks SKG
- Norm Peterson <tlaporte < at > anim.dreamworks.com>


------------- End Forwarded Message -------------

Here are the intersting fields : 4,5,6,8,16,17,21

The dsmaccnt.log is ALWAYS updated after the client session ends.

Hope this helps.
Herve


Field
Contents
1 Product level
2 Product sublevel
3 Product name, 'ADSM',
4 Date of accounting (mm/dd/yyyy)
5 Time of accounting (hh:mm:ss)
6 Node name of ADSM client
7 Client owner name (UNIX)
8 Client Platform
9 Authentication method used
10 Communication method used for the session
11 Normal server termination indicator (Normal=X'01',
Abnormal=X'00')
12 Number of archive database objects inserted during the session
13 Amount of archived files, in kilobytes, sent by the client to
the server
14 Number of archived database objects retrieved during the session
15 Amount of space, in kilobytes, retrieved by archived objects
16 Number of backup database objects inserted during the session
17 Amount of backup files, in kilobytes, sent by the client to the
server
18 Number of backup database objects retrieved during the session
19 Amount of space, in kilobytes, retrieved by backed up objects
20 amount of data, in kilobytes, communicated between the client
node and the server during
the session
21 Duration of the session, in seconds
22 Amount of idle wait time during the session, in seconds
23 Amount of communications wait time during the session, in
seconds
24 Amount of media wait time during the session, in seconds
25 Client session type. A value of 1 or 4 indicates a general
client session. A value of 5 indicates
a client session that is running a schedule.
26 Number of space-managed database objects inserted during the
session
27 Amount of space-managed data, in kilobytes, sent by the client
to the server
28 Number of space-managed database objects retrieved during the
session
29 Amount of space, in kilobytes, retrieved by space-managed
objects






kdomich < at > DIMENSION.NET on 18/01/2000 08:59:00
To: ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU
cc: (bcc: Herve Chibois/FR/ABNAMRO/NL)
Subject: Question: DSMACCNT.LOG

hello all...

does anyone know where the different fields in dsmaccnt.log are
documented? i would like to write some custom reports and drive them from
the info in that file but do not know what each field represents.

thanx!

~kris

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Dimension Enterprises
205 Van Buren Street
Suite 180
Herndon, VA 20170

+1.703.709.7500 x289 (O)
+1.703.709.7699 (F)
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--
Joshua S. Bassi
Senior Technical Consultant
Symatrix Technology, Inc.
jbassi < at > gloryworks.com
(503) 702-3371

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU]On Behalf Of
Joel C McCarty
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 6:24 AM
To: ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: dsmstat


Hi guys,

Can someone give me some info on what dsmstat does. I'm not quite sure
after reading the docs.

Thanks,

Joel McCarty

Does that correspond to what you're seeing?

Bill Smoldt SSSI
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
Phil Hosking
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 6:58 AM
To: ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: RESOURCEUTILIZATION

Does anyone out there understand the underlying logic behind the
RESOURCEUTILIZATION option in TSM V3.7 client? If I set it to say 6 then I
seem
on most clients to get 4 sessions started with the server, with two of them
sending data and two of them not sending data. On some clients I get only
one
active session sending data. Can anyone tell me how TSM decides on how many
sessions to establish depending on what the RESOURCEUTILIZATION option is
set
to. The documentation is a little fuzzy.

Thanks, Phil

Phil Hosking
RS/6000 Systems Specialist
United Computer & Management Consultancy
P.O. Box 9226, Dubai, U.A.E
Tel: 009714 -3021502(direct); 00971-50-6506941(mobile)
Fax: 009714 - 3313312.
Email: phil < at > ae.ibm.com

- I do agree with most of proposals you already received,
pick the right one for you
good luck!

Juraj SALAK
Linz, Austria


-----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Wu, Jialin [mailto:jialin_wu < at > MERCK.COM]
Gesendet am: Montag, 31. Januar 2000 04:40
An: ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU
Betreff: Re: One Filespace Can't be Backed Up

Yes. It is a NT permission problem. When I remote access the =
filespace
through ADSM web client I got access deny error. Thanks for quick
responding.

I have an ADSM performance question. It takes more than 11 hours for =
ADSM
to backup one of our big NT file/printer server. There are about 4 =
millions
objects on this server. One filespace has 60 GB data and it takes 2 =
hours to
backup. The another filespace has 125 GB data and it takes 9 hours to
backup. Everyday normally only 2-3 GB data are transferred and backed =
up.
Look like the most of time are spent on file comparing. I'd like to =
know if
it is normal for ADSM backup. I also have a local DLT tape drive =
running
incremental backup using BackupExec. It only takes 3 hours. The =
following
is a summary of performance data. ADSM server version is 3.1.2.40 and
client is 3.1.0.7.

Date/Time Message
--------------------
----------------------------------------------------------

01/28/2000 06:51:07 ANE4952I (Session: 4258, Node: CRRY0F03) =
Total
number of
objects inspected: 3,992,440
01/28/2000 06:51:07 ANE4954I (Session: 4258, Node: CRRY0F03) =
Total
number of
objects backed up: 4,220
01/28/2000 06:51:07 ANE4958I (Session: 4258, Node: CRRY0F03) =
Total
number of
objects updated: 159
01/28/2000 06:51:07 ANE4960I (Session: 4258, Node: CRRY0F03) =
Total
number of
objects rebound: 0
01/28/2000 06:51:07 ANE4957I (Session: 4258, Node: CRRY0F03) =
Total
number of
objects deleted: 467
01/28/2000 06:51:07 ANE4959I (Session: 4258, Node: CRRY0F03) =
Total
number of
objects failed: 59
01/28/2000 06:51:07 ANE4961I (Session: 4258, Node: CRRY0F03) =
Total
number of
bytes transferred: 1.24 GB
01/28/2000 06:51:07 ANE4963I (Session: 4258, Node: CRRY0F03) Data
transfer
time: 74.78 sec
01/28/2000 06:51:07 ANE4966I (Session: 4258, Node: CRRY0F03) =
Network
data
transfer rate: 17,432.23 KB/sec
01/28/2000 06:51:07 ANE4967I (Session: 4258, Node: CRRY0F03) =
Aggregate
data
transfer rate: 33.38 KB/sec
01/28/2000 06:51:07 ANE4968I (Session: 4258, Node: CRRY0F03) =
Objects
compressed by: 0%
01/28/2000 06:51:07 ANE4964I (Session: 4258, Node: CRRY0F03) =
Elapsed
processing time: 10:50:52
01/28/2000 06:51:07 ANR0403I Session 4258 ended for node CRRY0F03
(WinNT).


Thanks!

Jialin Wu


----------
From: Kelly Lipp[SMTP:lipp < at > STORSOL.COM]
Reply To: lipp < at > storsol.com
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 12:29 PM
To: ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: One Filespace Can't be Backed Up

Probably an NT permissions thing.

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs CO 80919
(719)531-5926
Fax: (719)260-5991
www.storsol.com
lipp < at > storsol.com

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU]On Behalf =
Of
Wu, Jialin
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 8:20 AM
To: ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: One Filespace Can't be Backed Up


One of four filespaces of a NT server can't be backed up since Jan. =
4. It
was working before. Other filespaces backups are fine. Is there =
anyone
who
has experienced the similar problem? Thanks.

Jialin

I like another approach as well. Rather than over worrying the restore of a
server, start to fixate on restoring applications and data. For instance,
in most shops, the most critical application has something to do with money:
money in or money out. So the finance app is most critical. If you focus
on the data and app for finance, and make sure that is optimized for
disaster restore, you can probably shorten the time to making this app
functional again. Take your average large server: a couple of hundred gigs
maybe. How big can the finance app and data be? 20 - 50 GB? Restoring
20 - 50 GB is an easy problem.

Proceed like this covering all the mission critical apps. The nice thing
about apps like these is they tend to somewhat naturally collocated on the
primary and copy storage pool tapes due to the way they are backed up: shut
'em down and back 'em up. Nothing special required to ensure data is on
just one tape.

The downside of this approach to the rapid restore approach is you must have
the *SM server to do the restore.

When faced with the prospect of eating a whole elephant, the task can appear
daunting. However, if you eat him a little at a time, you won't get a
stomach ache. Divide and conquer folks.

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs CO 80919
(719)531-5926
Fax: (719)260-5991
www.storsol.com
lipp < at > storsol.com

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU]On Behalf Of
sal Salak Juraj
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 4:26 AM
To: ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: AW: Designing a solution for fast manual restore


Hello Eric,

I am coping with similar issues
and untill now I have not found
an 100% solution.

However, I am playing in mind with
the idea of using the TSM4s 3.7
new feature for this purpose:
rapid recover, lan free.
(once I have TSM 3.7)

On the paper it looks like following:
I would regulary generate
off-site rapid recovery tapes
for selected important data
from selected importanant nodes.

It is very similar to your regular
full-backup approach, but with advantages:

- the adsm db will not grow (each rapid recovery
backup tape is treated as single object in the DB)

- the regular "full backup" is cheaper as
both data source and target is ADSM Server,
the clients & network are not involved at all

- the restore, assuming you attach
local tape devices to your nodes, is much quicker,
as the tapes will be probybly streaming
and there is no network involved

- the restore would not depend on ADSM server at all,
so after disaster I can first restore
important file server HW first and only
after that the ADSM server

- "your" regular full backups generate
regulary new unnecessary
file versions in ADSM, eventually pushing
necessary, older ones away.
"My" regular full backup does not alter
storage pools at all.


Disadvantages:

- for several reasons you still
will need the common off-site
storage pool in addition to the new approach,
so your backup effort/costs
are higher

- you will need to plan for a couple of locally
attached tape drives after disaster

- this tape drives will probably not be of 3590 type,
so you will have to introduce another tape technology,
like DLT, in addition to your existing one

Any objectives?

Juraj Salak

KEBA AG
Softwareentwicklung Bankautomation
Gewerbepark Urfahr 14 - 16
Postfach 111
A-4041 Linz
Vsterreich

Tel. ++43/732/7090-7461
Fax ++43/732/730910
e-mail: sal < at > keba.co.at
www.keba.co.at

P.S. I have a question about your process:
You create tapes in an storage pool in an tape library,
and during disaster recovery you restore
from this tapes using singe tape drives.
How do you manage this?
As far as I now one cannot move tapes among storage pools
and one cannot mix libraries and single drives in one
device class => storage pool?
One even cannot combine two identical libraries together!








-----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Eric Winters [mailto:ewinters < at > AU1.IBM.COM]
Gesendet am: Dienstag, 1. Februar 2000 05:18
An: ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU
Betreff: Designing a solution for fast manual restore

Dear ADSM community,

I'd be interested in hearing how others are handling a similar
requirements to the ones we have or if you have any good ideas.

The implementation has a 3494 library and critical data resides on almost
three hundred and fifty 3590 cartridges which are part of a collocated
(node level) offsite storage pool. In the event of disaster, the file
systems would be restored via 4 external 3590 tape drives. This is of couse
an extremely manual process. The objective is to minimise the manual
cartridge loading/unloading as much as possible within the constraints of
not having a library. To this end, the original system architect decided to
do a full backup once a week (thereby essentially collocating filesystem
data) and incrementals daily thereafter. Cartridges are moved offsite
daily. A disaster recovery test worked well.

This has worked up to now but the volume of data being backed up is
increasing quickly - the full node backups are causing the recovery log to
fill, trigger db backups and recently this has also lead to ADSM crashing.

How do others prepare for similar disaster recover scenarios?
ie no automated cartridge handling and a requirement for fast restores of
large volumes of data.

I have considered collocation at the filesystem level coupled with
incremental backups, but I understand this would quickly lead to all
scratch tapes in the library being defined even though they might contain
only small filesystems. I cannot allow this to happen as scratch tapes are
required for other operations. I understand strictly speaking I could
define volumes to my offsite storage pool with collocation enabled at the
filesystem level but this is not practical - there are so many volumes for
this storage pool being checked in and out, I would be sure to run out of
volumes quickly.

My initial reaction was one of horror when I saw that a full backup was
being performed weekly. I had always assumed ADSM would be set to perform
incrementals ad infinitum. I'd be interested in hearing if other locations
also run full backups too and what approaches others are taking to meet
similar requirments.

Thanks for any input,

Eric Winters
IBM Global Services Australia

To make things even easier (and cheaper), could I attach a DLT library
and use it to make the tapes that are sent off-site? Assuming the DLT
library can handle it, I'd be able to use the entire Magstar library
for client data - thus making better use of that fast (and expensive!)
medium and never having to touch the Mastar tapes (except to replace
worn out ones). Am I on the right track here?

I'm basing all this on the belief that the most labor-intensive task
in maintaining *SM is creating tapes for off-site storage. There seem
to be plenty of other things to keep a(n) *SM admin busy, but what
they are is still a bit vague to me. What should my next area of
concern be?

Thanks!
Eric Lindbeck
SCT

Enjoy,


--
Joshua S. Bassi
Senior Technical Consultant
Symatrix Technology, Inc.
jbassi < at > gloryworks.com
(503) 702-3371

The good thing about this backup partition, is that the systemdisk never has
files in use, while doing a bare metall restore.
Restore and reboot back to the original partition, and all is well.
Over here this works fine.
The only requirement is that you have a spare partition of about 300 MB to
use for backup partition.



Met vriendelijke groet,
Kind regards,

___________________________________________________

Ilja G. Coolen
ABP / USZO / CIS / ES / Storage Management
Tel: +31 (0)45 579 7938
Fax: +31 (0)20 882 7286
E-mail : ilja.coolen < at > abp.nl <mailto:ilja.coolen < at > abp.nl>



-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU]Namens Richard
Taft
Verzonden: maandag 7 februari 2000 17:38
Aan: ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU
Onderwerp: Windows NT Server restores.


The following results were encountered while performing ADSM $B!> (B
Windows NT
Server restores. Version 3.1.2.50 AIX server w/ version 3.1.40 NT client


Backup


Built complete NT 4 server with compaq monitoring utilities, Macafee
Netshield
and IIS. Created 3 primary partiitions. (C: and D: on disk 1) (E: on
disk 2)
Formatted as NTFS.


Loaded all system files/utilities on c: drive. Created one sub-dir with
data on
d:, as well as one sub-dir with data on e:.


Loaded and configured adsm client. Performed initial full backup and
then
several incrementals. No problems found.





Restore


Reinstalled base NT on c: without any extra utilities or service pack
updates.
Redefined d: and e: partitions and formated eactly as built on original
machine.


Performed full restore (checked off entire unit).


Restore completed but restored all data to c:. Did not restore the
registry.
Did not restore sub-dir $B!G (Bs to d: and e:, instead restored them to the
c: drive.


Initiated another restore selecting only the d:\ and e:\. This time the
sub-dir
on d: and e: restored successfully.


Rebooted machine to attempt to restore registry, machine hangs.


Next step, rebuild machine with base NT as in step 1. Will first
restore
registry, then initiate full system restore to see if this puts data in
right
partitions.


Question: Is it necessary to restore registry first before performing
full
system restore in order to get data into correct drive locations/partions?


Additional Issue: During the restore many $B!H (Bread only $B!I (B files
are encountered
mostly for $B!H (BWinnt\system32\ $B!I (B directory which must be
skipped. Last restore
encountered approx. 230 of these files. Is this normal/correct?





Thank you.

Regards,
Larry Clark
NYS Thruway Authority

I'd be interested to know Simon (if you know) why IBM said not to touch
it as this is contrary to the advice we have been given by IBM in UK?

In our experience it is not just hardware failure that can get you on
the 3494 PC - we did once have the software updated (by engineers) and
it went horribly wrong and we lost 24 hours with the 3494 ... oh well,
all in a days work?

Thanks, Sheelagh
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sheelagh Treweek Email: sheelagh.treweek < at > oucs.ox.ac.uk
Oxford University Computing Services Tel: +44 (0)1865 273205
13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN, UK Fax: +44 (0)1865 273275
------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 07:52:36 +0800
From: Simon Watson <simon.s.watson < at > SHELL.COM.BN>
Subject: Re: 3494 Tape Libraries
To: ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU

We have looked into this in the past, and according to IBM we should
not touch it. As far as they are concerned it is an IBM serviceable
part. However, I would suggest you have an education issue for your
IBM CE's. They should be able to rebuild in 1/2 an hour or so.
Although it would be nice if it had mirrored disks...

Simon


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill.Maloney
Sent: Wednesday, 09 February, 2000 10:26 PM
To: ADSM-L
Cc: Bill.Maloney
Subject: 3494 Tape Libraries


Hello All,

I would be curious to hear if anyone has a backup strategy for the OS/2
PC that
runs the 3494 tape library? The reason I ask is that we had a hard disk
failure
on the PC this weekend and it took three IBM CE's three days to rebuild
it.
Three days without a tape library is not pretty. The process was
basically a
complete re-install of the OS.


Thanks..

Bill Maloney
AIX System Admin
The Pep Boys