we are in major trouble. one of our fileservers is an AIX 4.3.3 running on a f50, with external 80-pin SCSI drives in a tower attached to a SCSI card in the f50.
last friday, the SCSI card for that tower failed, and all of the filesystems on that tower are screwed! im so pissed. i can't mount any of the filesystems, it just says I/O error, and i run an fsck, but that doesnt fix it. i think the whole super block is totally lost. so, im trying to restore all those drives from tape. we have a 3575 tape library and run adsmserv 3.1 on that same AIX machine. there are 8 filesystems that i need to restore. i started with one last night, it was going fine, but when i woke up this morning, it had stopped about 1/2 way through and complained about data unavailable to server. it only restored about 7GB when i know there is about 18GB on that filesystem. i tried running the dsm client again, and chose not to overwrite any data, but as soon as i start it, it just hangs there, doing nothing. maybe its still comparing all the 7GB of data that is already restored, but it doesnt say anything about that, it just says transfering... is this normal, or is something not working? also, i looked at the tapes in the library, and there are 2 marked as unavailable. those tapes were not unavailable 2 days ago!! what happened? any ideas? man, if i cant restore this data, we are so screwed. alex --- --- Alex Lazarevich | Systems | Imaging Technology Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (217)244-1565 | www.itg.uiuc.edu --- ---
