Category: Tivoli Data Protector

Tivoli Storage Manager – discover which is the server that is making the backups

To check the server that is making the backups, check which is the host that the client is establishing the connection. In this case is the host called TSMSERVER

root@linux:~ # dsmc q file
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Command Line Backup/Archive Client Interface
Client Version 5, Release 5, Level 3.0
Client date/time: 08/08/11 17:30:49
(c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2010. All Rights Reserved.

Node Name: LINUX
Session established with server TSMSERVER: AIX-RS/6000
Server Version 5, Release 4, Level 6.0
Server date/time: 08/08/11 17:30:37 Last access: 08/08/11 17:20:07

# Last Incr Date Type File Space Name
— ————– —- —————
1 03/01/11 03:05:21 REISERFS /
2 04/14/11 17:49:16 REISERFS /boot
3 03/03/11 15:08:10 EXT3 /logs
4 06/18/10 21:37:39 REISERFS /opt
5 06/18/10 22:17:30 REISERFS /usr
6 06/18/10 21:39:56 REISERFS /usr/software
7 06/18/10 21:38:53 REISERFS /var

Reinstaling Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle on Solaris SPARC

root@sol10sparc:~ # pkginfo -l TDPOrc64
PKGINST:  TDPOrc64
NAME:  IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases – Oracle 64-bit Solaris 8/9/10
CATEGORY:  application
ARCH:  sparc
VERSION:  Version 5 Release 3 Level 3
BASEDIR:  /opt/tivoli/tsm/client
VENDOR:  IBM Tivoli
PSTAMP:  2006.167.17:10:16
INSTDATE:  Oct 09 2008 22:09
STATUS:  completely installed
FILES:        8 installed pathnames
2 shared pathnames
3 directories
4 executables
4420 blocks used (approx)

When you remove the Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle using pkgrm and you try to reinstall, you’ll notice that it will say that the install size will be 11 MBs but in reality it installs only 6 MBs. You need to uninstall it using a uninstaller script that comes with the package. After you run the uninstall script, you can run the installer script and it will install the 11 MBs.

root@sol10sparc:~ # /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/_uninst/uninstaller.bin