totally cool, thaks don. the restartable process is there! one question though. the dsm client stoped and i killed that process on the client. do i need to restart dsm on the clinet before i restart the process on the server? i praobably do, im just asking in case.
alex On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, DFrance wrote: > Tapes marked unavailable usually just need to be marked available (and > possibly checked back into the library). I suggest setting it to readonly, > for now. > > If the msg you got is "waiting for files from the server..." that just > indicates no-query-restore is invoked, the client will be receiving all the > data and is responsible to filter out data it already has, based on your > specifications. You probably have a restartable restore in the queue; do a > "q rest" to see; if so, just run the restartable restore -- use the cmd > "restart restore" to resume where you left off. (This was new in 3.1, and > it worked fine after the first PTF was installed.) > > Tapes can be marked unavailable if they are out of the library when the > system needs them, and the operator fails to respond to the reply-request to > check-in the tape; also, sometimes a tape mount error can cause it to get > marked unavailable -- prevents it from being written. > > Don France > Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant > Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 > San Jose, Ca > (408) 257-3037 > mailto:don_france@;att.net > > Professional Association of Contract Employees > (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@;VM.MARIST.EDU]On Behalf Of > Alexander Lazarevich > Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 9:37 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: restore hangs > > > 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 > --- --- >
