Re: Sometime returning offsite tapes still can't be checked in a scratch

2008-05-30 Thread Schneider, John
t: Re: [ADSM-L] Sometime returning offsite tapes still can't be checked in a scratch As you know each tsm instance has its own volume history .Volume history ( library manager ) contains history of all volume which physical in library as well as not in library. It can happen a particular

Re: Sometime returning offsite tapes still can't be checked in a scratch

2008-05-30 Thread Anil Maurya
eider, John Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 12:21 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Sometime returning offsite tapes still can't be checked in a scratch Anil, Thanks for your email, but the tapes that are in this state are NOT in a library. They are tapes that are coming

Re: Sometime returning offsite tapes still can't be checked in a scratch

2008-05-30 Thread Schneider, John
: [ADSM-L] Sometime returning offsite tapes still can't be checked in a scratch I have seen similar behavior some time. I would suggest run audit library from library clients ( AUIDT LIBRARY LIBRARYNAME CHECKL=BARCODE ). Make sure no tapes mounted on library clients. This processes tells li

Re: Sometime returning offsite tapes still can't be checked in a scratch

2008-05-30 Thread Anil Maurya
: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Coles Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 8:59 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Sometime returning offsite tapes still can't be checked in a scratch I'm not sure any of this would affect your situation, but jus

Re: Sometime returning offsite tapes still can't be checked in a scratch

2008-05-30 Thread Howard Coles
rd > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Schneider, John > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 12:16 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [ADSM-L] Sometime returning offsite tapes still can't be > checked in a sc

Sometime returning offsite tapes still can't be checked in a scratch

2008-05-29 Thread Schneider, John
Greetings, We are running TSM 5.4.2 server on AIX 5.3. We are in a shared library environment, with 10 TSM server instances sharing a IBM3584 tape library, while one TSM server instance acts as the library master. Occassionally, maybe once every few weeks, we get into a situation where a tape

Re: Offsite tapes not being brought back.

2008-04-28 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
When you send the tapes offsite, do you update them to access=offsite? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Hensley Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 6:28 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Offsite tapes not being brought back. I have

Re: Offsite tapes not being brought back.

2008-04-28 Thread Howard Coles
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Jim Young > Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 9:11 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Offsite tapes not being brought back. > > Quick check SQL: > > select volume_name,status,pct_reclaim,pct_ut

Re: Offsite tapes not being brought back.

2008-04-28 Thread Strand, Neil B.
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Hensley Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 9:28 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Offsite tapes not being brought back. I have tapes in my offsite tapecopypool that are not being returned. How do I bring these tapes back for use? Dave Hensley Technical Analys

Re: Offsite tapes not being brought back.

2008-04-28 Thread Jim Young
age - From: "David Hensley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 2:44 PM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Offsite tapes not being brought back. Tapes are not flagged as empty. Reclaim does not appear to be working correctly. I have reclaim set to 30% and still nothing is

Re: Offsite tapes not being brought back.

2008-04-28 Thread Howard Coles
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of David Hensley > Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 8:45 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Offsite tapes not being brought back. > > Tapes are not flagged as empty. Reclaim does not appear to be worki

Re: Offsite tapes not being brought back.

2008-04-28 Thread David Hensley
ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent by: "ADSM:cc Dist Stor Manager" Subject <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: [ADSM-L] Offsite tapes not

Re: Offsite tapes not being brought back.

2008-04-28 Thread Angus Macdonald
Are the tapes flagged as Empty? Is reclamation working? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Hensley Sent: 28 April 2008 14:28 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Offsite tapes not being brought back. I have tapes in my

Offsite tapes not being brought back.

2008-04-28 Thread David Hensley
I have tapes in my offsite tapecopypool that are not being returned. How do I bring these tapes back for use? Dave Hensley Technical Analyst McNeilus Companies, Inc. Desk: 1-507-374-8587 Cell: 1-507-244-0921 Although this e-mail and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or othe

Re: Is it possible to get list of OFFSITE tapes to restore node to latest backup?

2008-03-03 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
> Wouldn't then the relevant required for the restore (list of the > copypool volumes) pop up in the actlog? It did not in any tests I performed. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is it possible to get list of OFFSITE tapes to restore node to latest backup?

2008-03-03 Thread Michael Green
get a list of the OFFSITE tapes required to restore > a > > specified node to the *latest* backup? > > >Many Thanks, > > =Adrian= -- Warm regards, Michael Green

Re: Is it possible to get list of OFFSITE tapes to restore node to latest backup?

2008-03-03 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
> Is it possible to get a list of the OFFSITE tapes required to restore a > specified node to the *latest* backup? >Many Thanks, > =Adrian= I worked on this scenario with IBM support some time ago. It doesn't surprise me that, even though I have recommended the system be ab

Re: Is it possible to get list of OFFSITE tapes to restore node to latest backup?

2008-03-03 Thread Jeff White
>From the 'volumeuseage' table, you can identify which offsite tapes contain the data for that node. However, as i understand it, you cannot determine which have the latest backups on them. We done this last week for a node, identified 43 offsite LTO3 tapes that had the data for

Is it possible to get list of OFFSITE tapes to restore node to latest backup?

2008-03-03 Thread Davis, Adrian
Is it possible to get a list of the OFFSITE tapes required to restore a specified node to the *latest* backup? Many Thanks, =Adrian= Adrian Davis * System Administrator * SunGard Public Sector Ltd * (Unit 72) 1st Floor, Romer House, 132 Lewisham High Street, Lewisham, London, SE13 6JG, UK

Re: Collocation and offsite tapes

2007-03-15 Thread David E Ehresman
Make sure your reuse delay is set to something reasonable for your offsite storage pool. Then start a program of "delete vol xx discard=yes" of the tapes in the old non-collocated offsite storage pool. Delete a few and then do a "backup stg new-onsite-collocated-pool new-offsite-collated-po

Collocation and offsite tapes

2007-03-15 Thread Richard Mochnaczewski
Hi *, I've recently turned a non-collocated server to collocated by creating a new management class and also executing a move nodedata command of the node's onsite data to my collocated disk pool. What happens to the offsite data that I collocated onsite ? Now that I've collocated the data, I

Re: OFFSITE TAPES

2006-03-15 Thread JN
11 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] OFFSITE TAPES Hello, I restore the volume, and made the volume readw. However, I am not seeing the data that was on the other tape eligible for a restore. Infact in the client gui, I am not seeing anything to restore, it looks like it has

Re: OFFSITE TAPES

2006-03-15 Thread Lepre, James
this is a new tape, or committing it to the database. Thank you Jim -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bos, Karel Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:46 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] OFFSITE TAPES The restore vol

Re: OFFSITE TAPES

2006-03-14 Thread Bos, Karel
2006 17:39 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: OFFSITE TAPES On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:35:59AM -0500, Lepre, James wrote: > Hello Everyone, > >I need to bring back some offsite tapes for a restore. How do I > check them into the library, and then force Tivoli to use them. I &

Re: OFFSITE TAPES

2006-03-14 Thread Ben Bullock
library if not already done so. * TSM> checkout libvol LIBRARYX C00252 remove=yes Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lepre, James Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:36 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: OFFSITE TAPES H

Re: OFFSITE TAPES

2006-03-14 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:35:59AM -0500, Lepre, James wrote: > Hello Everyone, > >I need to bring back some offsite tapes for a restore. How do I > check them into the library, and then force Tivoli to use them. I have > a tape that broke and now I need to bring back the offs

Re: OFFSITE TAPES

2006-03-14 Thread Lepre, James
Hello Everyone, I need to bring back some offsite tapes for a restore. How do I check them into the library, and then force Tivoli to use them. I have a tape that broke and now I need to bring back the offsite copy, but I am not sure what how to set this up. Should I bring back every tape

Re: Offsite tapes

2004-06-03 Thread Gordon Woodward
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Offsite tapes EDU 03/06/2004 10:07 AM Please respond to

Re: Offsite tapes

2004-06-03 Thread Reimer
a 1 to 1 correlation of offsite to onsite > tapes. > > Best of luck ... Jack > > > -Original Message- > From: Reimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 8:08 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Offsite tapes > > > Hi, > > We st

Re: Offsite tapes

2004-06-03 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Offsite tapes Hi, We start moving our backup system solution to TSM and in our actual backup system we daily move backup tapes used last night to an offsite building and I would like t

Re: Offsite tapes

2004-06-03 Thread Coats, Jack
luck ... Jack -Original Message- From: Reimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 8:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Offsite tapes Hi, We start moving our backup system solution to TSM and in our actual backup system we daily move backup tapes used last night to

Offsite tapes

2004-06-03 Thread Reimer
Hi, We start moving our backup system solution to TSM and in our actual backup system we daily move backup tapes used last night to an offsite building and I would like to know how can we address this process with TSM. Thanks in advance! Reimer [EMAIL

Re: offsite tapes 'reclamation'

2003-10-29 Thread David E Ehresman
uential Access Storage Pools" Especially these parts: "Reclamation for Copy Storage Pools" and "Reclamation of Offsite Volumes". Regards, Imre > -Original Message- > From: Hegedus György [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 9:54 PM

Re: offsite tapes 'reclamation'

2003-10-29 Thread Imre Kloknicer
ge- > From: Hegedus György [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 9:54 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: offsite tapes 'reclamation' > > > Hi All, > > I would like to copy the primary storage pools to a copy > stor

offsite tapes 'reclamation'

2003-10-28 Thread Hegedûs György
Hi All, I would like to copy the primary storage pools to a copy storage pool, then take the tapes offsite. The 'backup stgpool' command make incremental backups, so every day I should take some tapes offsite. And will be more and more offsite tapes. How can I initiate the reclamati

reduce number of offsite tapes

2003-07-01 Thread Debbie Lane
I saw this posting, but I did not see a reply. SteveC, did you ever receive a reply? Do you have any tips regarding move nodedata or other ways to reduce the # of offsite tapes. We do not have enough tape head time avaiable to keep up with offsite reclaims. All of our tapes are 3590, but I

Re: onsite and offsite tapes destroyed

2002-09-23 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT
Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:onsite and offsite tapes destroyed Let's say for the sake of

Re: onsite and offsite tapes destroyed

2002-09-20 Thread David Longo
. For onsite tape that is "destroyed, do a RESTORE VOL blah PREVIEW=YES. When this process completes, examine actlog and see what offsite tapes are needed to rebuild this tape. Get them, checkin to library and set access mode to readonly for these tapes. Then run RESTORE VOL without PREVIEW and it

onsite and offsite tapes destroyed

2002-09-20 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
Let's say for the sake of this discussion the following is true. Onsitetape1, 7, 9 and 11 are destroyed and not in the library, they have mixed node data on them. Offsitetape6, 9 and 15 have also been destroyed, they also have mixed node data on them. These tapes don't mirror each other but could

Re: Reclaming offsite tapes

2002-05-11 Thread Don France
The "Pending" state simply means the reuse-delay is in effect! That is, after expiration occurs, *all* offsite tapes go thru the period defined for "re-use delay"... which is intended to protect from over-writing tapes that might be needed during the period immediately

Re: Reclaming offsite tapes

2002-05-10 Thread Coats, Jack
o: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Reclaming offsite tapes > > Sorry if I sound a little ignorant. I took our backup environment over a > few months ago and have been trying to learn how it was set up. It was > explained to me that I could not get tapes back from offsite, just

Re: Reclaming offsite tapes

2002-05-10 Thread Seay, Paul
]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 5:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Reclaming offsite tapes Sorry if I sound a little ignorant. I took our backup environment over a few months ago and have been trying to learn how it was set up. It was explained to me that I could not get tapes back from

Re: Reclaming offsite tapes

2002-05-10 Thread Adamson, Matt
assume that I can pull these(Pending) tapes back. ={ -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 11:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Reclaming offsite tapes When you start reclaims on a COPY pool where the tapes are OFFSITE, TSM

Re: Reclaming offsite tapes

2002-05-10 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
We do reclaimation of our offsite, COPY POOL tapes, all the time. TSM is smart enough to figure out that it is a COPY POOL and simply creates NEW TAPES. It doesn't mount the offsite tapes. We have a process that checks for the % UTILIZED of the OFFSITE tapes and then creates a "recal

Re: Reclaming offsite tapes

2002-05-10 Thread Prather, Wanda
nsite copies of all those files, and create a new tape in the OFFSITE tape pool that is 30% full. Then it marks the OFFSITE tapes as EMPTY. So you send the new tape offsite, and then you can bring the EMPTY tapes back on site and reuse them. We do it constantly. -Original Message-

Reclaming offsite tapes

2002-05-10 Thread Adamson, Matt
Here is my scenario... We currently send all of our tapes offsite for 7 years. In the library we collocate by filespace. But, when we send the tapes offsite they are uncollocated. We have retired a number of servers in the past couple years, meaning we no longer need that data. Being that we

Re: Offsite tapes

2001-09-03 Thread Joel Fuhrman
Do a QUERY VOLUME DEVCLASS=offsite_copy_pool_name and see which are empty. However, unless you are doing a reclamation on the offsite copy pool there fill be few, if any, empty volumes. On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Zosimo Noriega (ADNOC IS&T) wrote: > I backed up the primary stg pools to copy pools for

Re: Offsite tapes

2001-09-03 Thread David Longo
With DRM in use, you do a : q drm wherestate=vaultretrieve This gives you a list of tapes that are now empty and can be returned from offsite. David Longo >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/03/01 02:57AM >>> I backed up the primary stg pools to copy pools for offsite backups. I ejected the tapes from cop

Re: Offsite tapes

2001-09-03 Thread Lindsay Morris
Zosimo Noriega (ADNOC IS&T) > Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 2:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Offsite tapes > > > I backed up the primary stg pools to copy pools for offsite backups. I > ejected the tapes from copy pools and sent to offsite. How can i > determi

Offsite tapes

2001-09-02 Thread
I backed up the primary stg pools to copy pools for offsite backups. I ejected the tapes from copy pools and sent to offsite. How can i determine the tapes to be returned from offsite in order to use again? The access type of the volumes were set to offsite after ejecting from the tapes library

Re: Offsite tapes expiration

2001-03-13 Thread Allen Barth
site and onsite. Jim Taylor cc: Sent by: Subject: Re: Offsite tapes expiration "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Offsite tapes expiration

2001-03-13 Thread Jim Taylor
You state that you are running reclamation. What is the reclamation threshold on your offsite copypool being set to? Check the status of your offsite tapes. If the Pct Util for a volume is less than that of your reclamation threshold, those volumes should be reclaimed(emptied) when you run the

Offsite tapes expiration

2001-03-13 Thread Braich, Raminder
except that the offsite tapes seldom become empty. We have two domain which are backed up SAP R/3 and all the other NT machines. For R/3 the backups are supposed to be kept for 360 days and for NT machines for 30 days. The expiration process runs everyday and reclamation process runs every weekend. It

Re: Restore Volume from offsite tapes

2000-09-28 Thread Richard Sims
>Thanks for all the response, it's truely helpfull and encouraging. >Good news is, we found the tape (Richard, we didn't give up searching :) >Strange news is, the tape is in a cabinet where we keep our scratch tapes, >how it got out there at the first place? my best bet is due to human error. >I'

Re: Restore Volume from offsite tapes

2000-09-28 Thread Estee Chen
r Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Restore Volume from offsite tapes >Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:51:02 -0500 > >I'll 2nd that! I've found many tapes in creative location in our 3494. > >Besides the floor, I've found the

Re: Restore Volume from offsite tapes

2000-09-28 Thread James Healy
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Re: Restore Volume from offsite tapes

2000-09-28 Thread Allen Barth
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Re: Restore Volume from offsite tapes

2000-09-28 Thread Prather, Wanda
ot; - Scott Adams/Dilbert > -Original Message- > From: Estee Chen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 6:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Restore Volume from offsite tap

Re: Restore Volume from offsite tapes

2000-09-28 Thread S W Branch
EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 09/28/2000 06:55:32 AM Any replies will be addressed to: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:

Re: Restore Volume from offsite tapes

2000-09-28 Thread Henk ten Have
>>"q vol HO1302" shows it's in primary tape pool >>"q libvol 3494 HO1302" said no match found >>"mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qV -VHO1302" shows I don't know which level ADSM you'r running, but we had exactly the same problems with adsm 3.1.2.55 (AIX 4.2.1, Atape 5.0.2.0, atldd 4.0.1.0): volumes are "not

Re: Restore Volume from offsite tapes

2000-09-28 Thread Richard Sims
>we have a primary disk pool, a primary tape pool(in 3494 tape library) and a >copy tape pool(also our drm tape pool, which get offsite everyday). >We lost/misplace one volume from primary tape pool (how it get out from the >3494 tape library? I don't know), I found that out when space reclamation

Restore Volume from offsite tapes

2000-09-27 Thread Estee Chen
hi folks, let me try to make my story short .. we have a primary disk pool, a primary tape pool(in 3494 tape library) and a copy tape pool(also our drm tape pool, which get offsite everyday). We lost/misplace one volume from primary tape pool (how it get out from the 3494 tape library? I don't kno

Re: Getting a list of onsite to reclaim offsite tapes.

2000-08-03 Thread Joe Faracchio
Hi Mark! With collocation on for onsite and not for offsite, I have found that the process of reclamation offsite tapes reads just about every tape in my library. I've thought about it: every day, every user sends me some backup data. I put it on their very own tape (well not very own!

Getting a list of onsite to reclaim offsite tapes.

2000-08-03 Thread Mark Brown
Hello, When I turn on reclamation for a copypool where my OFFSITE tapes are adsm uses tapes from the primary tape pool to reclaim the offsite tapes. Does anyone have a script that can report what tapes from a primary pool will be asked for when reclaiming an offsite copypool -- Thank You