Re: Rebuild a lost volhist for a dbrestore

2015-06-05 Thread Rick Adamson
Bill, As per IBM docs you must have a copy of the volume history file to recover the server. But before I threw in the towel I would try to recreate it. Do you have the disaster recovery file? If so, open it in notepad and search for VOLUME.HISTORY.FILE The information contained in that porti

Rebuild a lost volhist for a dbrestore

2015-06-05 Thread Bill Boyer
TSM V6.3 on Windows The volhist file copies were all lost but the .DBS files are still around. Is there a way to know the backup Series: and Volume Seq: so I can fudge up a simple volhist with a single BACKUPFULL entry. Or doesn't that matter on a restore? Or is that information compared to wha

Re: Moving nodes to a new policy

2015-06-05 Thread Rick Adamson
You could always use the "COPY DOMAIN" command to create the new domain, which would include all current policy sets, management classes, and copy groups. Then modify as needed. May be easier than recreating the wheel .. -Rick Adamson -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manage

Re: Moving nodes to a new policy

2015-06-05 Thread Skylar Thompson
I don't know that you have to restart the schedules after changing the node's policy domain, as long as you make sure to reset the schedule association. Running QUERY ASSOCIATION when changing the domain is something I always remember to do the moment after hitting enter. On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at

Re: Moving nodes to a new policy

2015-06-05 Thread Thomas Denier
This should work fine. There will be some additional complications if you use the TSM central scheduler to trigger backups for the affected nodes. You will need to copy schedule definitions from the old policy domain to the new one, unless the new one already has suitable schedule definitions.