You are right. We had an OS390 server crash a few months ago and that was
the step that was keeping us from going any further. When we finally read
about it in the manual all went fine after that.
Guillaume
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cook, Dwight E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: Restoring a server
> did you do the dsmserv with the option to "install" all the newly defined
> volumes, listing the quantity of logs and their names and the quantity of
> dbvols and their names???
> I believe it is
> dsmserv install 1 logname 1 dbfilename
> double check the manual... you have to do this to init the vols prior to
> doing a restore...
>
> later,
> Dwight
>
> > ----------
> > From: Ray Baughman[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Reply To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 2:30 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Restoring a server
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I'm getting ready to migrate from ADSM to TSM and to move the server
from
> > one H50 to another H50. This process gives me the opportunity to test
out
> > my disaster recovery procedure. I have moved a copy of ADSM to the new
> > H50
> > and migrated to TSM. This ran fine. I then backedup up the TSM
database,
> > and blew TSM away, everything! I have since reloaded TSM, and restored
> > the
> > dsmserv.dsk, dsmserv.opt, volhist.txt and devconfig.txt files. I have
> > also
> > used dsmfmt to recreate the database and log files and copy files. My
> > last
> > step is to restore the database from my backup, however when I perform
the
> > restore, using dsmserv restore db. I get the following message.
> >
> > Unable to read complete restart/checkpoint information from any database
> > or
> > recovery log volume.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Ray Baughman
> > National Machinery Co.
> > Phone: 419-443-2257
> > Fax: 419-443-2376
> > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
