Shutting Down IBM Director will bring down your iSCSI servers!
That doesn't sound like a very good plan to me. What do you do if it
hangs, or crashes, or doesn't start after an IPL, or just has a runaway
CPU condition? When are you going to upgrade Director? If your
infrastructure depends on this will you EVER install an immediate PTF?
Just questions...
Regards,
Scott Ingvaldson
Senior IBM Support Specialist
Fiserv Midwest
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Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 12:36 PM
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Subject: RE: DR-1 Files Locked
Finally got around to opening a PMR at IBM... Shutting Down IBM Director
will bring down your iSCSI servers... Also unless you are changing your
configuration then the data in '/QIBM/USERDATA/Director/' should be
static.
So in this case the monthly Full save window will work nicely.
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You should be able to do an ENDTCPSVR *DIRECTOR before the backup and a
STRTCPSVR *DIRECTOR after the backup. If that doesn't work try QSH
CMD('/QIBM/ProdData/Director/bin/twgstop') before and QSH
CMD('/QIBM/ProdData/Director/bin/twgstart') after.
Regards,
Scott Ingvaldson
Senior IBM Support Specialist
Fiserv Midwest
-----Original Message-----
From: kirkg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kirkg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 4:03 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: DR-1 Files Locked
I have a client running a couple of iSCSI attached servers. During the
nightly backup we are getting several locks on IFS files in
/QIBM/UserData/Director/data/ /QIBM/UserData/Director/data/configmgr/db/
/QIBM/UserData/Director/log/
Now I really normally don't care about backing up anything in a 'log'
folder, but what about these other folders? Are these files static and
getting them on a full system save good enough or ??
They are only using director to support the iSCSI. The actual storage
spaces are being saved using a current Windows based package handling
their other wintel servers.
Thanks
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Kirk Goins
Systems Engineer, Manage Inc.
IBM Certified in i5 Solution Sales,
i5 Technical Solutions Expert V5R4,
iSeries Multiple Systems Administrator V5R3, Systems Expert - i5 LPAR
Technical Solutions V5R3
Office 503-353-1721 x106 Cell 503-577-9519 Home Office 503-674-2985
kirkg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx www.manageinc.com
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