IBM Tivoli Storage Manager How To

[edit] How to schedule a periodic TSM backup

Create a crontab by running

crontab -e

to look something like this

SHELL=/bin/bash
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
# m h  dom mon dow   command
0 3 * * 7 /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc inc>>  /backup/scripts/tsmback.log 2>&1 

Or create a backup script, something like this

#!/bin/bash
DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d.%H-%M-%S`
sudo dsmc inc >> ~/dsmstdout.log
echo remote $DATE $? >>~/backup-status.log

And then schedule it in the crontab

0 0 * * 0 /home/user/bin/backup-remote

Do not try to cut the full paths, cron needs them spelled out.

[edit] How to create and move database and logs in TSM

First find out the current size of the DB and the logs

q db
q log

Then simply create new ones:

def dbvol /new location/new db file name.vol formatsize=size in MB
def logvol /new location/new log file name.vol formatsize=size in MB

Wait a bit to make sure they are created

q proc

Then delete the old

del dbvol /old location/old db file name.vol
del logvol /old location/old log file name.vol

Verify by querying the db and the log

[edit] How to create and move local volumes in TSM

dsmadmc -se=local
q vol
q proc
def vol backuppool /backup/tsmbackups8.vol formatsize=50000
move data /backup/tsmbackups1.vol

then you can delete/remove the old vol file

del vol /backup/tsmbackups1.vol

[edit] How to install TSM server on Ubuntu 64bit

First convert rpm's to deb's with alien. Make sure to convert the scripts and expect non critical errors to showup. Install prerequisites:

• Get 64 bit libstdc++5 from here: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/amd64/libstdc++5/download and install it

sudo dpkg -i libstdc++5_3.3.6-18_amd64.deb

• Install other prerequisites

sudo apt-get install language-pack-en gawk ksh
sudo locale-gen en_US

• Now install the server, temporarily setting your shell to bash:

sudo ln -sf bash /bin/sh
sudo dpkg -i tivsm-server_5.5.0-0_amd64.deb 
sudo dpkg -i tivsm-license_5.5.0-0_amd64.deb
sudo ln -sf dash /bin/sh

• Edit or restore from backups dsmserv.dsk, dsmserv.opt as approriate /opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin
• Run dsmserv for the first time:

cd /opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin
sudo ./dsmserv

• Register the licenses, then halt (in TSM server prompt):

reg lic file(*.lic)
halt

• Enable automatic startup:

cp /dsmsource/etc/init.d/dsmserv /etc/init.d/dsmserv
sudo update-rc.d dsmserv defaults 99
sudo service dsmserv start

[edit] How to install TSM client on Ubuntu 64bit

• Prepare and install the packages

sudo alien -k --scripts TIVsm-BA.i386.rpm
sudo alien -k --scripts TIVsm-API.i386.rpm
sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture *.deb

• Move shared libraries

cd /usr/lib
sudo mv libgpfs.so libdmapi.so libha_gs_r.so libct_cu.so libxmlutil-5.5.2.0.so libtsm552xercs-cl_6_0.so libApiDS.so /usr/lib32

• Install a 32bit libstdc5. For a 64 bit system do the following:

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/i/ia32-libs/ia32-libs_2.7ubuntu6.1_amd64.deb
dpkg-deb -x ia32-libs_2.7ubuntu6.1_amd64.deb ia32-libs
sudo cp ia32-libs/usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.5.0.7 /usr/lib32/
cd /usr/lib32
sudo ln -s libstdc++.so.5.0.7 libstdc++.so.5
sudo chmod go+r libstdc++.so.5.0.7

• Configure the client by setting dsm.sys/opt

cd /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin
sudo vi dsm.sys
sudo vi dsm.opt