Stuck full filling empty offsite tape

2007-10-26 Thread Angus Macdonald
I have an offsite tape pool volume in an unusual state. It reports itself as 0.4% and filling but if I try to move the data to another volume, Tivoli reports that the tape contains no data, returning ANR2209W and ANS800, return code 11. Examining the content of the tape brings back nothing. If I

Re: Stuck full filling empty offsite tape

2007-10-26 Thread Richard Sims
On Oct 26, 2007, at 4:05 AM, Angus Macdonald wrote: I'm a bit stuck here. Tivoli won't delete the tape because it contains data and won't move the data because it is empty. That's the frequently posted issue of a volume needing an Audit Volume to fix the condition. For research, look back in

Re: Need advice on a long term TSM storage solution

2007-10-26 Thread Schneider, John
Nicholas, I think you are right to think about splitting your TSM instance into two. An 80GB TSM database isn't all that large, but if you anticipate it growing gradually bigger from there and never levelling off, it doesn't make any sense to wait. We recently had to split a TSM in

Re: TSM API error

2007-10-26 Thread Neil Rasmussen
Hello Avy, rc 106 means that your Error Log is not writable by the current application...meaning that, if one already exists it was probably created by root and the Application using the API is a non-root user, or the Error Log is not created yet but your Application using the API does not have wr

Re: Need advice on a long term TSM storage solution

2007-10-26 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
I have a curiosity question. I saw your comment about moving from 3592 to LTO4 ? Why would you do this ?All of my experience with LTO2 has been nothing but problems/headaches. We now have 9-3592-E05 (some over 1-year old) drives in our 3494 ATL and they have been nothing but pure joy. Absol

Re: Need advice on a long term TSM storage solution

2007-10-26 Thread Ben Bullock
Just to agree with John. We find that we are upgrading tape technologies about ever 5 years, the last jump was from 3590 to 3592 tapes. As he stated, TSM makes it very easy to add the new devices and set up the hierarchy of the storage pools to get it ready to go. Then some "move data" scripts to

Re: Need advice on a long term TSM storage solution

2007-10-26 Thread Richard Rhodes
> There is always the risk that when you read off of EVERY tape to write > to new media, you will find some un-readable data, (which is what you > always hear folks saying about tape), but in our case we read over 800TB > of data with over 700,000,000 objects and had 32 files comprising 5MB > that

Re: TSM API error

2007-10-26 Thread Avy Wong
Thank you Neil, You are right, I found out somehow there are two baclient under the same C: drive but under different folder tree. I will investigate some more. Thank you for your insight. Avy Wong Business Continuity Administrator Mohegan Sun 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd Uncasville, CT 06382 (860)86

AW: [ADSM-L] Need advice on a long term TSM storage solution

2007-10-26 Thread Lehmann, Stefan
...Additionally, does it make sense to incarnate another TSM instance? Hello Nicholas, yes it makes sense - not because of performance purposes or anything else, but in case of logical errors in your database, which require an dsmserv audit db - .. so we have a 3584 with 3592E05 and a Database(3