You must set this option higher than 0x41 (I prefer 0xFF) on *any* machine accessing tape over SAN - be it TSM server, TSM Storage Agent, or any other product. Afterwards you must perform the backup *again* - some times with low maximumsglist setting the data is reported to be written but is not completely. Thus your backup might be not restoreable.
Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant i love tsm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 30.10.2003 09:21 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: maximumsglist - lanfree Hi Well the quest for lan free backups continues.... I got past my initial problems by upgrading storage agent to 5.1.5.4 (same level as server) Yesterday I managed to run an image backup lan free, 150Gb in 1hr 15 minutes so was quite happy with that. However when I went to restore it 5 minutes later it failed and the server actlog gave me 10/29/2003 16:39:39 ANR8939E The adapter for tape drive DRIVE2WWPK (mt1.0.0.5) cannot handle the block size needed to use the volume. I then tried another image backup and it failed with the same error. During the time of the image backup working then stopping working nothing had changed. I believe the above error is to do with the registry entry for maximumsglist. On the storage agent client I have had maximumsglist set to FF for a while. My question is do I need to set the same registry key on the TSM Server itself? If not then what else can be causing this TIA _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger