Things to search for in actlog that can cause a volume to become unavailable:
ANR1175W,unavail # Volume DHB003 contains files which could not be reclaimed. ANR1180W,unavail # Access mode for volume xxx has been set to unavailable due to file read or integrity errors. ANR1410W,unavail # Access mode for volume xxx now set to unavailable. ANR4247E,unavail # Audit command: Missing information for volume volume name cannot be created. ANR8313E,unavail # Volume volume name is not present in library library name. ANR8343I,unavail # Request request number for volumexxx canceled (PERMANENT) by administrator name. ANR8356E,unavail # Incorrect volume xxx was mounted instead of volume expected yyy in library ANR8359E,unavail # Media fault detected on device www volume xxx in drive yyy of library zzz. ANR8782E,unavail # Volume yyy could not be accessed by library xxx. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Hicks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 9:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Data in offsite pool that is not in onsite pool First off, thanks to all who responded to my e-mail. I think Ed has hit the nail on the head here. As we haven't been cursed with hat many bad tapes (that I'm aware of), we have had a significant amount of trouble with our tape drives. Something I noticed while attempting to troubleshoot this problem was that the list of tapes marked Unavailable was pretty long (32 tapes). They are a mixture of onsite and offsite tapes. Obviously, if TSM can't access the tape, it can't use the data on it in the reclamation process. Last Friday I went through and did an upd vol VOLSER access=readwrite on the tapes marked unavailable, now the list is back. What is putting these tapes in an unavailable state? I will try the restore vol command today and I'll report back what kind of luck I find. Steve Hicks CIS System Infrastructure Lead / AIX Administrator Knoxville Utilities Board Charles Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/04/2002 04:54 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Data in offsite pool that is not in onsite pool Steve, We recently had a couple of tapes that either went bad, or had copies of files on them marked as bad. What I would do is look at the actlog and see what vols reclaimation isn't able to continue on, and then do a "restore vol VOLSER preview=yes" on that volume. Most of the volumes that will come up as being needed will be the ones that you see in the actlog now as being needed, but are offsite. We brought the tapes from offsite, checked them in, restored vol without the preview option, and then checked the offsite vols back out. It took something like 80 tapes to restore 5 onsite tapes with bad data. it was a lot of fun! -ed >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002/09/03 08:57:30 AM >>> Our offsite pool reclamation process is calling for tapes that are listed as being in the vault (and they actually are). Obviously reclamation can not take place for these volumes, as they are not onsite. First, what is the best way to go about fixing this? Second, what could have gotten our pools out of sync? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks, Steve Hicks CIS System Infrastructure Lead / AIX Administrator Knoxville Utilities Board
