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Front cover Integrating Backup Recovery and Media Services and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager on the IBM Eserver iSeries Server Use BRMS and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for the most complete iSeries-based multiplatform protection Use IBM Tivoli Storage Manager to protect your multiplatform environment Use BRMS to protect your iSeries environment Jim Cook Dan Johansson Steve Mann Edelgard Schittko Bradley Smoley ibm.com/redbooks
International Technical Support Organization Integrating Backup Recovery and Media Services and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager on the IBM Eserver iSeries Server December 2003 SG24-7031-00
Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “Notices” on page ix. First Edition (December 2003) This edition applies to Version 5 Release 2 of Backup Recovery and Media Services for iSeries (5722-BR1) and Version 5.1.5 and Version 5.2 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for OS/400 Portable Application Solutions Environment (PASE) Server (5698-ISX). Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2003. All rights reserved. Note to U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights -- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp.
Contents Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .x Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi The team that wrote this redbook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Become a published author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii Comments welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii Part 1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 1. Introduction to integration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.1 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and BRMS together: A solid backup strategy . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.1.1 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and the iSeries server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.2 General considerations for backing up your iSeries data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.2.1 Data in an iSeries server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.2.2 System environment used in this redbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1.3 Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.4 Organization of this redbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Chapter 2. Backup Recovery and Media Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1 General overview of the BRMS product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1.1 5250 emulation interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1.2 BRMS iSeries Navigator client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 Media options available within BRMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3 Differences between user data and system data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4 Backup strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5 Save-while-active function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5.1 How it works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5.2 Checkpoint processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5.3 Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.6 Backing up Lotus Domino servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.7 Full system save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.8 Full system recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.9 System backup strategies to an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.9.1 Advantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.9.2 Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.10 Restore considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 16 18 21 22 23 24 25 25 25 26 27 28 30 31 32 32 32 Chapter 3. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1.1 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1.2 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager backup-archive concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3.1 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Disaster Recovery Manager and disaster recovery. 3.4 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager client for iSeries Linux partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.5 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager restore considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 34 34 38 39 40 41 41 42 Part 2. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Copyright IBM Corp. 2003. All rights reserved. iii
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Installing IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server for OS/400 PASE. . . . . . . . . 4.1 iSeries server requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for OS/400 PASE prerequisite software . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2.1 OS/400 PASE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2.2 Program temporary fix requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3 Installing the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server code. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4 Downloading IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for OS/400 PASE fixes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4.1 IBM FTP server via Web browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4.2 IBM FTP server to OS/400 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4.3 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support Web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5 Loading and applying IBM Tivoli Storage Manager PTFs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 46 46 46 47 47 48 49 49 50 50 Chapter 5. First steps: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server basic configuration . . . . 53 5.1 Starting and stopping the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 5.1.1 Starting and ending the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server for the first time. . . . 54 5.1.2 Starting IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server in batch mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 5.2 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager administration interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 5.2.1 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Web administrative client interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 5.3 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 5.3.1 Changing the default admin password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 5.3.2 Changing IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Web administrative client interface time-out value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 5.3.3 Registering IBM Tivoli Storage Manager licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 5.3.4 Querying IBM Tivoli Storage Manager licensed information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 5.3.5 Creating an IFS file structure for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 5.3.6 Increasing the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager database size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 5.3.7 Increasing the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager recovery log size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 5.3.8 Removing the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager default database volume . . . . . . . . . 74 5.3.9 Removing the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager default recovery log volume . . . . . . . 75 5.3.10 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server option file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 5.3.11 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server run-time options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 5.3.12 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager disk storage pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 5.3.13 Increasing the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager BACKUPPOOL size. . . . . . . . . . . . 79 5.3.14 Removing the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager initial BACKUPPOOL volume. . . . . 82 5.4 Verifying the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server is working. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 5.4.1 Registering an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager client node to the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 5.4.2 Downloading the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Windows client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 5.4.3 Installing the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Windows client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 5.4.4 Configuring the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Windows client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 5.4.5 Backing up using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Windows client . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Chapter 6. Next steps: Getting the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server ready for production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 6.1 Setting the correct time zone for OS/400 PASE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 6.1.1 Adding an environment variable for the OS/400 PASE time zone . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 6.1.2 Restarting the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 6.1.3 Accepting new IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server time, enabling sessions . . . . 95 6.2 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and BRMS tape library management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 6.2.1 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and BRMS tape library overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 6.2.2 Creating IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and BRMS exit programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 6.2.3 Registering the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager exit programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 6.2.4 Defining the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager USRDFN tape library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 6.2.5 Defining the device class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 iv Integrating Backup Recovery and Media Services and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
6.2.6 Verifying the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and BRMS exit programs . . . . . . . . . 6.2.7 Sharing a common media pool between IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, BRMS. . 6.3 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager advanced storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3.1 Overview of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3.2 Storage pool migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3.3 Collocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3.4 Reclamation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3.5 Creating a sequential access storage pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3.6 Updating the disk storage pool to migrate to tape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3.7 Creating a copy storage pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3.8 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager disk storage pool performance improvements. . . . 6.4 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager policies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.4.1 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager policy overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.4.2 Updating the default backup copy group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.4.3 Validating and activating copy group changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager daily maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5.1 Creating a daily maintenance script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5.2 Scheduling a daily maintenance script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5.3 Scheduling disk storage pool migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5.4 Scheduling reclamation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5.5 Querying administrative command schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.6 Disaster recovery requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.6.1 Backing up IBM Tivoli Storage Manager storage pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.6.2 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager recovery log mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.6.3 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager database backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.6.4 Additional IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server recovery files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.6.5 Reusing delay for copy storage pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.6.6 Mirroring IBM Tivoli Storage Manager database and recovery log volumes. . . . 6.6.7 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server backup with BRMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.6.8 Disaster Recover Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 104 105 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 113 113 115 116 116 119 120 120 122 122 123 123 124 125 127 128 128 130 Part 3. Backup Recovery Media Services details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Chapter 7. Installing Backup Recovery and Media Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.1 Installing prerequisite software for a BRMS software installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2 Installing the BRMS software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.3 Installing and uninstalling BRMS iSeries Navigator client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.3.1 Installing the BRMS iSeries Navigator client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.3.2 Uninstalling the BRMS iSeries Navigator client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4 Downloading and installing no-charge IBM Tivoli Storage Manager APIs . . . . . . . . . 7.5 Using the Internet to order and install fixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.5.1 Ordering and downloading PTFs over the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.5.2 Installing PTFs using Virtual Media Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 134 134 136 137 141 142 143 144 151 Chapter 8. Backup Recovery and Media Services up and running . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.1 BRMS operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.1.1 Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.1.2 Setting up BRMS in logical order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.1.3 lnitializing BRMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.1.4 Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.1.5 Single backups using BRMS commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.1.6 Regular backups using control groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.1.7 Control groups and policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.1.8 Full versus incremental backups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 156 156 159 159 160 169 169 169 172 Contents v
8.1.9 New (expired) volume or appending to one containing active data . . . . . . . . . . 8.1.10 Text fields are searchable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.1.11 Other tasks you should do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.1.12 BRMS and journaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.1.13 BRMS environment variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.1.14 Functional usage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.2 Performing a system backup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.2.1 Using BRMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.2.2 System backup outside BRMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.2.3 Using SAVSTG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.3 Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.3.1 Saving your recovery reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.3.2 Making sure everything works. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.3.3 Removing deleted records from BRMS inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.4 Disaster recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.4.1 Files in wrong order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.5 Creating media classes or media pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.6 Creating a media class (pool) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.7 Adding media to the pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.7.1 Adding media using a tape library device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.7.2 Removing media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.7.3 Manually adding media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.8 Save scenario examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.8.1 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.8.2 Saving native OS/400 data to an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server . . . . . . . . 8.9 Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.9.1 Creating locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.10 Move policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.10.1 Creating a move policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.10.2 Attaching the move policy to the backup policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.11 Running a save of your ITSM environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.12 Running a native data backup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.13 Finding your backup job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.14 Restore scenario examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.14.1 Restoring the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server environment . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.14.2 Restoring native OS/400 data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.14.3 Finding your restore results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 173 173 174 174 175 176 176 177 177 178 178 178 178 179 179 179 180 181 181 185 185 187 187 198 215 215 218 218 221 222 224 226 230 230 236 247 Chapter 9. Setting up an iSeries server as the Backup Recovery and Media Services Application Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 9.1 Setting up the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server for BRMS to use IBM Tivoli Storage Manager APIs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 9.2 Setting up the BRMS environment for backup and restore to an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 9.2.1 First steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 9.2.2 Follow on steps using the 5250 interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 9.2.3 Follow-on steps using iSeries Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 9.3 Save scenario example: Saving to an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server . . . . . . . . 277 9.3.1 Using the 5250 interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 9.3.2 Using BRMS iSeries Navigator client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 9.4 Restore scenario example: Restoring from an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server . . 299 9.4.1 Using 5250 interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 9.4.2 Using BRMS iSeries Navigator client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 vi Integrating Backup Recovery and Media Services and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
9.5 Full iSeries backup and restore on the BRMS Application Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.5.1 Full backup for system AS02 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.5.2 Full system backup restore considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.6 Save-while-active implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.7 Setting up IBM Tivoli Storage Manager password management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.8 Performance expectations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 313 324 325 327 329 Part 4. Advanced topics for Backup Recovery and Media Services, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager . . 335 Chapter 10. Backup Recovery and Media Services movement of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 10.1 Sample programs for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, BRMS media movement . . . . . 338 10.2 Configuring BRMS for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager media movement . . . . . . . . . . . 339 10.2.1 Creating a new BRMS location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339 10.2.2 Creating a new BRMS move policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339 10.3 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager volume status before running STRMNTTSM. . . . . . . . 340 10.4 Running the STRMNTTSM command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 Chapter 11. Troubleshooting Backup Recovery and Media Services . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1 Logs on the iSeries used for BRMS troubleshooting and problem determination. . . 11.1.1 Job logs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1.2 History log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1.3 BRMS log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.2 Flight recorders on the iSeries for BRMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.3 Other debug and problem determination items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.4 BRMS program temporary fixes needed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 348 348 350 350 351 353 355 Chapter 12. Troubleshooting IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for OS/400 PASE . . . . . . 357 12.1 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager activity log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358 12.2 Using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager help command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 12.3 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager message format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 12.4 Forcing the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server to end. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362 12.4.1 Ending IBM Tivoli Storage Manager from within OS/400 PASE . . . . . . . . . . . . 362 12.4.2 Ending the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server for OS/400 PASE with the ENDJOB command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363 12.4.3 Ending the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server for OS/400 PASE with the ENDJOBABN command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364 12.5 Displaying your IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364 12.6 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support Web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 Part 5. Appendixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367 Appendix A. General backup and recovery considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369 Consideration before you begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370 After the evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374 Appendix B. Backup Recovery and Media Services reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375 Full system recovery report to tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376 Full system recovery report to tape and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server . . . . . . . . . . 385 Appendix C. AIX administrative client in OS/400 PASE sample programs . . . . . . . . Downloading the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V516 client code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Installing the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V516 client code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Configuring the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V516 client code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Running an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server command from OS/400 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contents 399 400 400 401 402 vii
Adding a new administrator to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sample code for the RUNTSMCMD command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ending the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server from a batch program . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sample code for the STRMNTTSM command and programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sample code for STRMNTTSM program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sample code for the STRMNTTSM command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sample code for the TSMDBBOFF program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sample code for the TSMVOLON program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sample code for the TSMCPYOFF program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sample code for the MOVMEDTSM program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 403 404 404 404 405 405 407 408 410 Appendix D. Additional material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Locating the Web material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using the Web material . . . .
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