Tape in scratch question

2013-12-23 Thread mik
Hi everybody, I do a update libvolume status=private And the tape go to private status not scratch. Regars, Mickael. +-- |This was sent by bobpatrick808...@yahoo.fr via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.co

Re: Tape in scratch question

2013-12-23 Thread Grigori Solonovitch
You want to have private - you have got private. What is wrong? Grigori Solonovitch, Senior Systems Architect, IT, Ahli United Bank Kuwait, www.ahliunited.com.kw -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of mik Sent: 23 12 2013 11:41 AM To:

Re: Tape in scratch question

2013-12-23 Thread Michael Roesch
Hi Mickael, the TSM server does as you have told him. If you want the tape volume to become scratch, use "status=private". Of course this only works, if the tape is really empty. Another way could be to delete the contents of the tape by entering: del vol "volumename" discarddata=yes But please m

Tape in scratch question

2013-12-23 Thread mik
hi all, For Grigori Solonovitch, i just come to say what the solution to y probleme i have found (if anybody search too) nothing else... For Michael Roesch, the tape was empty but in default, the tapedriver was not near of me so the checkout in this moment was not possible, i use this command

Re: Tape in scratch question

2013-12-23 Thread Michael Roesch
Hi Mickael, normally when TSM encounters a bad tape, it marks the tape as private by itself. On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 11:48 AM, mik wrote: > hi all, > > For Grigori Solonovitch, i just come to say what the solution to y > probleme i have found (if anybody search too) nothing else... > > For Mic

Tape in scratch question

2013-12-23 Thread mik
Hi Michael, Really ? my TSM try to do a database backup and fail with this tape (failure to excessive write error) and don't put this tape in private just let the tape in scratch. It's for that i search (and found) to put the tape in private^^ Thanks for you reply. Regards, Mickael. +-

Re: Tape in scratch question

2013-12-23 Thread Michael Roesch
Hi Mickael, normally it does, yes. Do you specifically tell the server to use that certain tape or do you just enter the device class for tape? On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 2:19 PM, mik wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Really ? my TSM try to do a database backup and fail with this tape > (failure to exces

Tape in scratch question

2013-12-23 Thread mik
Hi Michael, Just enter the device class and the server take tape. Regards, Mickael. +-- |This was sent by bobpatrick808...@yahoo.fr via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-

Re: Deduplication "number of chunks waiting in queue" continues to rise?

2013-12-23 Thread Skylar Thompson
Hey, Nick, missed your name the first time around! Being in higher-ed/research we went the cheap route and actually just use direct-attach 15K SAS drives on Dell servers, divvied up into multiple RAID-10 sets. Even a 1TB database only takes us ~1 hour to backup or restore, which is well within our