Installing the TSM Version 6 Client for Solaris 10 and 11

3.1. SPARC systems

1. Download the latest client for SPARC . There is one tarfile to download.
2. To install the new Solaris client ensure that you have uninstalled any previous TSM Client software as detailed in the previous section, then login as the root user and change directory to where the package has been downloaded. Extract the tar file

     tar xvf tsm-solaris-Sparc-6.4.0.1-1.tar
   

3. Install the packages extracted from the tar file

     pkgadd -a ./tsmadmin -d ./gsk8cry64.pkg all
     pkgadd -a ./tsmadmin -d ./gsk8ssl64.pkg all
     pkgadd -a ./tsmadmin -d ./TIVsmCapi.pkg all
     pkgadd -a ./tsmadmin -d ./TIVsmCba.pkg all
   

   Answer yes if asked whether to create a directory
4. Change to the TSM directory and extract the hfs-config.tar file

      cd /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin
      tar xvf (path to tar file)/hfs-config.tar
    

3.2. x86 systems

1. Download the latest client for x86 . There is one tarfile to download.
2. To install the new Solaris client ensure that you have uninstalled any previous TSM Client software as detailed in the previous section, then login as the root user and change directory to where the package has been downloaded. Extract the tar file

     tar xvf tsm-solaris-Sparc-6.2.5.0-1.tar
   

3. Install the packages extracted from the tar file

     pkgadd -a ./tsmadmin -d ./gsk8cry32.pkg all
     pkgadd -a ./tsmadmin -d ./gsk8ssl32.pkg all
     pkgadd -a ./tsmadmin -d ./gsk8cry64.pkg all
     pkgadd -a ./tsmadmin -d ./gsk8ssl64.pkg all
     pkgadd -a ./tsmadmin -d ./TIVsmCapi.pkg all
     pkgadd -a ./tsmadmin -d ./TIVsmCba.pkg all
   

   Answer yes if asked whether to create a directory
4. Change to the TSM directory and extract the hfs-config.tar file

      cd /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin
      tar xvf (path to tar file)/hfs-config.tar
    

3.3. Initial Configuration

• You now need to configure the software. How you do this depends on whether you are upgrading or performing a new installation.
  • If you are upgrading from a previous version copy the dsm.opt, dsm.sys, and (if it exists) incl.excl you saved during the uninstall to /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin.
  • If you are performing a fresh installation

    cd /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin
    cp dsm.opt.example dsm.opt
    cp dsm.sys.example dsm.sys
    

    You must now edit dsm.opt and dsm.sys to insert your Nodename, Servername, TCPServer, and TCPPort. For details see Manually Configuring TSM for Linux/Unix. When you have done that run

    dsmc

    . Hit return when asked for your user id (which accepts the default of the node name you configured in dsm.sys and then enter your TSM password. This will be cached so you won't be asked for it in future. Type quit to exit the client.
• If you want to run the TSM scheduler (you usually do)

    svccfg import /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmsched.xml
    svcadm enable svc:/network/dsmsched:default
    svcadm refresh svc:/network/dsmsched:default
  

4.1. Editing the dsm.sys file

VirtualMountPoint

The option VirtualMountPoint can be used to logically partition your filespaces, but more usefully can give basic backup and restore functionality on unsupported filesystems. For more details on the virtualmountpoint option take a look at our page on supported Linux and Unix file systems.

4.2. Editing the dsm.opt file

Domain

Amend the Domain line to list the local filesystems you wish to have backed up. This list should be space-separated and may be specified on multiple lines to additively list a number of filesystems, as below:

Domain              /   /usr   /usr/local 
Domain              /data/01   /data/02

Please avoid backing up filesystems such as /tmp and /var/tmp which contain nothing of a permanent nature. Please also avoid backing up NFS-mounted filesystems; these should be backed up from their home machine. A symbolic link to a filesystem cannot be included in the Domain list.

4.3. Editing the include excludes

Traditionally include and exclude statements used to be placed in incl.excl. Now they are put into dsm.sys. Include and Exclude statements offer a finer discrimination than the Domain line in the dsm.opt file, limiting what is backed up from within filesystems. You should study the include and excludes within dsm.sys, consider your filestore usage, and amend the file to avoid backing up unnecessary files (for example, temporary files used by programs and utilities, virtual machine images, spool files, cached web pages and so forth). Backup performance can be greatly improved by not backing up unnecessary files.

If you have an old customized incl.excl file, these statements will have been merged into the dsm.sys file on an upgrade.

TSM processes the Exclude.fs then Exclude.dir before any of the Exclude file directives. Each group of directives is then processed working from the bottom to the top of the list. You can view the order of this processing by running:

dsmc query inclexcl

To quit the session, issue quit at the prompt. For further help on includes/excludes see our page on how to exclude files and folders from backup.

4.4. Log file location

TSM also writes a number of log files, the locations of which are controlled by the variable DSM_LOG set in the wrapper shell scripts dsmc, dsmj, dsmcad in /usr/bin. By default these are set as below:

Note that the file dsmerror.log must be writeable by the user running the TSM Backup Client program.

4.5. Running the TSM client as a non-root user

By default non-root users are not able to use the TSM software to back up and restore their own files. Should you wish to enable this functionality, the setuid bit on the /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmtca executable must be set by running the following command as the root user. Non-root users will then be able to backup and restore only their own files. To backup and restore all files, please run TSM as the root user.

chmod 4555 /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmtca

5.1. Introduction and CLI

Having installed the TSM Backup Client software, you will now want to back up your data. There are two methods for doing this, either using the command line tool or using the Java based GUI.

To use the command line tool, open a terminal and run dsmc. This will give you a command line interface (CLI). Or you can just run commands straight from the shell. For example

dsmc incr /home

For more in depth usage of the CLI, see Using the TSM Client Command Line Interface for Backup & Restore

5.2. Select all local partitions

The Java based GUI requires X windows, ksh and Java to work. From an X terminal run dsmj. The GUI first displays a splash screen, and then the TSM Hub window is displayed as below. From here you can select Backup under BACKUP.

This pops up another window as below.

To just back up all local disks, click on the grey box to the left of the icon and the word Local. If you have more data than the daily backup limit you may not want to do this. Scroll down for other examples.

The Local node in the tree has been ticked. Notice the parent node HFS-TEST-OUCS - this name will be replaced with your TSM nodename.

5.3. Back up Local Filesystems

Now to back up the files, all that is required is to click on Backup.

This will then show a progress bar as below.

It is also possible to see a report of current progress by clicking on Report. If you want to interrupt the backup process, click on the Stop button.

Once the backup process has completed then a message will pop up. It is possible for this to become hidden behind another window.

Clicking OK will return you to the TSM Hub window.

5.4. Selecting local filesystems

It is possible to select some partitions to manually back up.

To view the individual filesystems click on the small circle to the left of the tick box and the word Local. This will expand the tree to display the filesystem partitions.

To select filesystem partitions click on the square grey box to the left of the partition name. In the example below the following partitions have been selected: /, /boot, /usr and /var.

To back up the files click on Backup. You may want to follow the screenshots above in 5.3. Back up Local Filesystems .

5.5. Exploring the filesystem

It is possible to expand the tree to see what will be backed up. This is done by clicking on the small circle to the left of the tick box.

You may have noticed the red circle over /tmp/. This means that it has been excluded in dsm.sys. If you click on the directory name or the icon to its left (in the example below bin has been selected) then the files will be displayed in the right-hand pane.

5.6. Selecting a directory

It is possible to select a particular directory to back up. In the example below it is /bin/. Notice that I have clicked on the selector box and then clicked on the folder icon or directory name (bin). This shows that by selecting the directory, all the file and folder objects in that directory are also selected in the right-hand window pane.

To back up the files click on Backup. You may want to follow the screenshots above in 5.3. Back up Local Filesystems .

5.7. Selecting a file

It is possible to select a particular file to back up (or even a number of individual files). In this example it is /etc/ssh/sshd_config.

To back up the files click on Backup. You may want to follow the screenshots above in 5.3. Back up Local Filesystems .

To cancel any individual selection, click the selector box to toggle it off. To cancel all your selections first select the parent folder icon in the left hand pane, then choose the [Deselect Items] option from the [Edit] menu.

6.1. Allowable passwords

Remember that the TSM password represents the security of your backups. Passwords should be strong and unguessable. TSM passwords are case-independent. In addition to letters and digits they can contain the characters + - _ . & (plus, minus, underscore, point, ampersand) and must be between 6 and 63 characters long.

6.2. Using the Command Line Interface (CLI)

To use the CLI to change the TSM password you must be the root user.

dsmc
tsm>  set password [oldpassword] [newpassword]

6.3. Using the GUI

In the GUI (which must be running as root), from the [Utilities] menu choose the [Change Password] option.

This will then display a change password dialog box.

Enter your password into Current password. Then enter your new password into New password and again into Verify password. Once this has been done quit the TSM session and restart it to check that the new password has been set.

7.1. ANS1398E Initialization functions...

When running dsmc or dsmj and the following or similar is displayed:

ANS1398E Initialization functions cannot open one of the Tivoli Storage Manager logs
or a related file: /var/log/dsmerror.log. errno = 13, Permission denied

This means that dsmc or dsmj cannot write to the log file. Most likely this is beacuse you are running dsmc as a user who cannot write to /var/log/dsmerror.log

Rather than allowing all users of the system to be able to write to the /var/log/dsmerror.log file it is best to have

ErrorlogName            /var/log/dsmerror.log

commented out of /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsm.sys with a * at the beginning of the line. Then rather than using dsmc from /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc it is best to use the HFS supplied wrapper script /usr/bin/dsmc which sets the environmental variable DSM_LOG to the users home directory. One expection here is that when the home directory is / (probably the root user) then DSM_LOG is set to /var/log/dsmerror.log.

The dsmj wrapper script is similar to the dsmc wrapper script.

The dsmcad wrapper script for scheduled backups always sets DSM_LOG to /var/log/dsmerror.log.