Using the tsm client command line interface for backup. How to use amazon glacier as a dirt cheap backup solution. Jun 15, 2016 here is an example to restore homeoraadmdata. Mar 30, 2004 marin komadina picks up where he left off last month, with an examination of the procedure for making a database backup using tivoli storage manager, tsm. Be aware that, as with backup, you cannot use wildcards in directoryfolder names. Tivoli storage manager considers the snapshotroot value as a file space name. I tried following but always get confused with different syntax like single quote, double quotes, without quotes,inactive etc. In this case, use the latest option to restore the most recent backup version.
Sorting file lists using the backupar chive client. The program permits a tivoli storage manager administrator to. New links from the backuparchive client gui to the tsm and tivoli home pages. To specify a file in another file space, precede the file name with the file space name.
The file spaces are stored on the tivoli storage manager server, or inside a backup set. Close all other programs and windows, and open the tivoli storage manager backup client command line. In this case, if tsm process 1 from console 1 created the first snapshot for fs1 and tsm process 2 from console 2 created the second snapshot for fs1, then if process 2 happens to finish first and tries to delete the snapshot, aix will fail the delete request. However, it does not locate the file named doc1 because that file was backed up before the virtual mount point was defined and the backup was stored in the home file space. The fromnode option permits one node to perform commands for another node. The screen shots and descriptions that follow may refer to older tsm clients, but with the exception of the file specifications the syntax is generic to all platforms. Table 28 shows examples of using these commands to perform different tasks. Tsm tivoli storage manager is a centralized, policybased, enterprise class, data backup and recovery package from ibm corporation. Back up a db2 database using tivoli storage manager page 2.
Ibm spectrum protect client command line utility for windows it. Specifies the file space, enclosed in braces, on the server that contains the file you want to query. Do not use wild card with any of the show commands, it will crash the tsm server. Tsm store files in tapes and after a while the incremental backups will store files in. Ibm tool to identify incorrect backups or archives on tsm. To display a list of the root directories in a file space, use the query backup command. You can use the incremental or selective commands to perform backups. This log file will contain information about each query that was processed for each node name and file space combination in the input file. The most often used solutions are local or remote disk file system, or tsm tivoli storage manager.
The dsmc command allows the user to back up and restore data from the ibm tivoli storage manager server. You can also use the filelist option to process a list of files. Be sure you do not use any overlapping file specifications in the commands. Tivoli storage manager for windows using the backup archive. Tivoli storage manager for windows using the backup archive client iii. The query backup command displays a list of backup versions of your files that are stored on tsm. Tsm file restores restores are performed by the customer via the tivoli storage manager tsm using the graphical user interface provided by the tsm client software. May 21, 2010 dsmc query backup netappnetappshare subdiryes inactive you can use this command to confirm the file space names that are available. This section will first provide an introduction to the tsm command line interface cli and then describe how to manually back up and restore files on the local machine. Tivoli storage manager for windows using the backup archive client xiii. Determine your old computers name and make sure that the server has files available for restore. Tivoli storage manager components and products rely on the tivoli storage manager v7.
The software was previously known as tsm tivoli storage manager and is still. The screen shots and descriptions that follow refer to a tsm client running on solaris v5. This document assumes that you have installed and configured the tsm client. Do you want to restore an active or inactive backup. The files that i am querying are not there on the share anymore but even using inactive option not helping me. The client program includes a group of client command options that you can enter with specific commands only from the command line. For each backup version, tsm displays the file specification, file size, backup date, whether the file is active or inactive, and the management class to which the file is assigned. For example, for a restore that is restartable, enter. Set the tsm nodename to the users username by convention.
Use wildcard characters to specify a group of files or all the files in a. Files can be restored from tsm using the dsmc command. Run backuparchive command line from start all programs tivoli. Use wildcard characters to specify a group of files or all files in a directory.
Specifies the path and file name that you want to delete from storage. The systemstate keyword is not supported when the backup archive client is running on windows xp, even if the client is currently logged in to the tsm server as a windows 2003, windows vista, or windows 2008 node. Perform an incrementalbydate backup of your default client domain. When the primary server becomes unavailable, which products and components can automatically fail over to the secondary server, and which ones are not capable of. Adsml restore query from dsmc hi richard it is for dr testing, but i take your point with changing the nodename in the dsm. Ibm failover capabilities of tivoli storage manager components. See incremental and selective for more information about these commands. Useful tsm client commands for unix admins linux and vmware. When you issue multiple commands to restore your files, you must specify a unique part of the file space in each restore command. The java gui for the backup archive client requires the following software in order to.
I know that this client in question has taken the backups of an nfs share but i am not able to find the backups. Specifies the file space, enclosed in braces, on the server that contains the file you. The following example shows how to specify a unc name. Does tsm has default encryption if we never configure any setting to enable the. This is the drive label or unc name on the workstation drive from which the file was backed up. Run backuparchive command line from start all programs tivoli storage manager. Online help for tsm commands, options and error messages is. Introduction this section will first provide an introduction to the tsm command line interface cli and then describe how to manually back up and restore files on the local machine. Ill tell you how to purge in the file backup programs that come with windows 7. Query file system images from the nas2 nas file server. Read about classic restore versus no query restore nqr at ibm. Support for deleting individual backups from a server file space. Get db2 backup size from tsm in windows environment.
Dsmc query backup query backup the query backup command displays a list of backup versions of your files. Aug 10, 2011 adsml any default encryption for tsm server conclude that the tsm encryption can categories by two types. Any default encryption for tsm server backup central. Query backup or restore commands can fail with ans1084e under the following conditions.
To start a restore you must have administrator privileges to your server or workstation. You can also enter common options to override many of the options set in your client options file dsm. It always looks for a file in the file space with the longest name that matches the file specification you include in a command. You must use a windowsprovided device driver, not the device driver that is.
Tsm faqs scientific computing minerva supercomputer. The basic syntax for restoring your data is dsmc restore sourcefile destinationfile. The query filespace command displays a list of file spaces for a node. Start image backup for fs2 while the backup of fs1 is still in progress. After installing the software, start the tivoli storage managerbackuparchive gui tool and configure the software using the tsm wizard backup archive client. A user on another node must use the set access command to permit you to query, list, restore, or retrieve files or images for the other node. Nqr no query restore does not work for hsm space managed file systems, when the restoremigstate option is set.
Aix operating systems hpux operating systems linux. The java gui for the backup archive client requires the following software in. Ibm tivoli storage manager for windows backuparchive clients. The server program manages backup versions of files, archived copies of files, and migrated. There are two keyword values that can be used as file specifications for the dsmc query backup command. Tsm lasst sich uber zwei benutzerschnittstellen bedienen. Jul 03, 2014 if the file you are restoring no longer resides on your workstation, and you have run an incremental backup since deleting the file, there is no active backup of the file on the server.
Tivoli storage manager looks for files in the homemonnett file space. Subfile backups to backup only changed portions of files over slow network links. This problem will be fixed in an upcoming aix maintenance level with the apar iz74114. Using the tsm client command line interface for archive.
We can choose different storage mediums for saving a backup image. Based on the example input file from above, here is a sample of the queriesit11994. Additional considerations stored files the manual mentions the following. Get db2 backup size from tsm in windows environment db2. This allows a selection of active and inactive files along with selecting which directory to recall the files to. Introduction this section will describe how to manually archive and retrieve files on the local machine using the tsm command line interface cli. If the destinationfile is omitted then tsm will restore the file s to their original location. You can also specify a single file space name to query. You can get this information by entering dsmc at the command line. Hi, i am trying to query some files for a pointintime restore, i have use this command before and it worked however its not working now. To list or restore the doc1 file using a command, you must explicitly specify the file space name by enclosing it in braces. Query files from the abc file space proj directory.
It also allows retrieval of the same data via similar restore, recall, and retrieve methods. Tivoli storage manager looks for files in the home monnett file space. It is true what it is saying, this node so03drt02 never did backup data for the other node restnode. A query stgpool command will show the free space in the pool including. New links from the backuparchive client gui to the tsm and tivoli home.
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