Hi all, I'm working on a procedure on how to handle a TSM server (with a container pool) when a database is restored to the latest backup. When you do this, you might end up with containers which were created after the last backup and which are not known to the TSM server because they were not yet created at the time of the last backup. In my case all containers are located in subdirectories in /tech/tsm/server, I use the following command to count them:
find /tech/tsm/server/container* -type f|wc -l and then I use this command to count the amount of containers in TSM: select count(*) from containers The amount should be the same. If there are more files on the local filesystem than in TSM, these are obsolete and should be removed. The SP manual (chapter Recovery from data loss outages) suggests to use the audit container <container_name> action=removedamaged to delete the container, but that doesn't seem to work. To test this I copied a container to a temp file on the local filesystem, moved the source container to a new one in TSM (temporarily set reusedelay=0) and as soon as the source file was gone, renamed the temp file to the same name as the source file. As soon as I audit it, it is not being removed: ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN command: AUDIT CONTAINER /tech/tsm/server/container00/01/00000000000001c7.dcf action=removedamaged ANR3710I This command will delete container /tech/tsm/server/container00/01/00000000000001c7.dcf from the file system. ANR3711E Container /tech/tsm/server/container00/01/00000000000001c7.dcf will not be removed from the file system. ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: ROLLBACK The message ANR3711E seems to indicate that the header could not be validated... What should be the right procedure to handle such a situation then? Just delete the obsolete containers manually? Thanks for any help in advance! Kind regards, Eric van Loon Air France/KLM Storage Engineering ******************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ********************************************************
