TSM / ISP Backup

TSM / ISP Backup

The LRZ offers a backup and archive solution from IBM called TSM or the new brand SP.

Structure

We use the LRZ backup service to protect the data from our Ceph storage cluster. This data includes all application data (wiki, inventory, orders, icinga, etc.), VM image backups, datasets and employee and student data. The policy of the LRZ allows for performance reasons only 20TB and 10 million files per backup node. For our ceph cluster several nodes need to be requested and configured to protect the whole cluster.

The CephFS structure and the regarding backup nodes are split in the following way:

Ceph Folder Structure
---------------------

admin  ---|
          |            |-- one_vms
          |-- backup --|-- wiki_cm
          |            |-- etc.
          |
–------–--------------------------------------------------- ^ Node 1 - 10TB (50GB x 100VMs = 5TB, + 5TB application data)
          |
          |-- internal
          
          
           |-- <thesis1>
           |
student ---|-- <thesis2>
           |
           |-- etc.
           

user    ---|-- data
           |
–-------–-----------------------–-------------------------- ^ Node 2 - 15TB (student + employee data, simluations, etc.)
           |              |-- UF 
           |              |
–---------------------–------------------------------------ ^ Node 3 - 10TB (dataset with 8.2TB, 8.300.000 files) 
           |              |
           |-- datasets --|-- <set1>
                          |
                          |-- <set2>
                          |
–---------------------------------------------------------- ^ Node 4 - 20TB (several "small" datasets) 
                          |
                          |-- <...>

–---------------------------------------------------------- ^ Node N - XTB (future datasets)

Usage

This section describes the usage of the TSM backup client. Further documentation can be found on the LRZ website.

After the installation and first configuration the config files can be found here: /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/

dsm.sys → primary configuration file
dsm.opt → additional file, specify files to backup etc.
dsmsched.log → Log File tracking the call of the tsm sheduler
dsmerror.log → Important! Log errors and warnings during backup
/etc/adsm/TSM.PWD → Stores the encrypted node password

All backup commands are also listed and explained on this LRZ website. To execute most of of the following commands you need to cd into the config directory and execute them from there

 cd /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin

Query Backup

Query backup for all files

dsmc query backup -subdir=yes "/etc/ssh/*"
dsmc query backup -subdir=yes -detail "/etc/ssh/"
# show also files that were deleted but exist in the backup
dsmc query backup -inactive -subdir=yes "/etc/ssh/*"

Show all filespaces / virtual mount points that are backed up
```
 dsmc query filespace
```
Show client version, retention policies, etc.
```
dsmc query mgmt -detail
```

Init Backup

Start backup manually
```
dsmc incremental backup
```

Restore Files

Restore whole folders

dsmc restore -replace=no -subdir=yes "/etc/ssh/*" /etc/ssh/

Restore but not files that are on the host and are more recent

dsmc restore -replace=yes -subdir=yes -ifnewer "/etc/ssh/*" /etc/ssh/

If the restore process was aborted (user, network outage), a pending restartable restore session is spawned until it resolves no further restore or backup operations can be performed!!

Show all pending restore sessions
```
dsmc query restore
```
Restart the restore session, choose the right session in the dialog
```
dsmc restart restore
```

Config File

Config file used for the ceph cluster backup. After making changes to the config make sure everything works (no typos) by executing a query

dsmc query filespace

. The command will throw an error if the config file is corrupted. Nevertheless check the logs in detail the day /backup after changing the config!

VirtualMountPoints are shown in the query filespace command (dsmc query filespace) but only after the backup executed.

ISP Config Ceph Backup - dsm.sys

*****************************************************************
* Ceph Storage Backup                                           *   
*                                                               *   
* LRZ Tivoli Storage Manager Config                             *   
*****************************************************************

* ceph01 ********************************************************
* ###############################################################

servername ceph01
tcpserveraddress        s<nn>.abs.lrz.de
tcpport                 <1234>
nodename                ceph01.cm
passwordaccess          generate
managedservices         schedule
ERRORLOGRETENTION       7 D 
SCHELOGRETENTION        7 D 
errorlogname            /var/log/backup/ceph01_error.log
schedlogname            /var/log/backup/ceph01_sched.log
subdir                  yes 

VirtualMountPoint       /ceph/backup
domain                  /ceph/backup

exclude                 *   
include                 /ceph/backup/../*


* ceph02 ********************************************************
* ###############################################################

servername ceph02
tcpserveraddress        s<nn>.abs.lrz.de
tcpport                 <1234>
nodename                ceph02.cm
passwordaccess          generate
managedservices         schedule
ERRORLOGRETENTION       7 D 
SCHELOGRETENTION        7 D 
errorlogname            /var/log/backup/ceph02_error.log
schedlogname            /var/log/backup/ceph02_sched.log
subdir                  yes 

VirtualMountPoint       /ceph/internal
VirtualMountPoint       /ceph/students
VirtualMountPoint       /ceph/data
domain                  /ceph/internal
domain                  /ceph/students
domain                  /ceph/data

exclude                 *   
include                 /ceph/internal/../*
include                 /ceph/students/../*
include                 /ceph/data/../*

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