How to restore (already expired) objects from tape?

2015-04-14 Thread Gregor van den Boogaart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear List, the retention settings in the copygroup were to strict... The version of the file we would like to restore has already been expired. :-( However it is very likely the desired version of the file is still on tape, as no reclamation has taken

Re: How to restore (already expired) objects from tape?

2015-04-14 Thread Krzysztof Przygoda
Hi Gregor Do you have any TSM DB Backups from time before you run expiration on that particular files? Then, by restoring TSM with that DB backup you can get access to lost files and their entries in TSM if they not have been already overwritten on tapes (but as you said there was no reclamation o

Re: How to restore (already expired) objects from tape?

2015-04-14 Thread Steven Harris
Hi Gregor. IBM used to offer a special service to get data off tape. Not sure if it is still available. Other than that the only way I know is to restore your DB to a point before expiration. Start up the restored instance with NOMIGRECL and immediately stop your daily schedules, in particular s

Re: How to restore (already expired) objects from tape?

2015-04-14 Thread Krzysztof Przygoda
Hi I guess its better to disable schedules before you start (by adding disablescheds yes in dsmserv.opt file) the resorted server than to do it after start (as some jobs can start just after startup). http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.0/com.ibm.itsm.srv.ref.doc/r_opt_server_d

Re: How to restore (already expired) objects from tape?

2015-04-14 Thread Steven Langdale
We had a data loss "incident" a couple of years back. There is no way to re-populate the TSM DB from a tape. You have 2 options: 1. Do a DB restore to before the data was deleted from the TSM DB 2. Use a data recovery process to re-read the tapes. We used Option 2, and got most of it back. IBM s

Re: How to restore (already expired) objects from tape?

2015-04-14 Thread Gregor van den Boogaart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Krzysztof, hi Steven, hi Steven, thanks for all the hints on restoring the DB and commercial alternatives! I had the feeling that this would be a supported approach, but was not aware of the details. I am now... Due to unlucky timing our DB backups

TSM/CMS

2015-04-14 Thread David Ehresman
Is TSM/CMS supported for TSM/VE Windows Datamover nodes? David

Re: TSM/CMS

2015-04-14 Thread Robert Jose
Hi David We currently do not support TSM/VE Windows Datamover nodes. Only "traditional" backup-archive clients are supported for the client diagnostic functions. How important is it to include other clients (like VE)? Rob Jose TSM OC UI Developer / L3 Support "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on

Re: TSM/CMS

2015-04-14 Thread Ken Bury
The data mover logs are huge part of troubleshooting a VE setup. On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:29 PM Robert Jose wrote: > Hi David > We currently do not support TSM/VE Windows Datamover nodes. Only > "traditional" backup-archive clients are supported for the client > diagnostic functions. How import