Susan McClure asks:

>This weekend we had a major leak in the tape storage area, and now find that
>quite a few of the ADSM 3480 tape cartridges have water inside the
>cartridge.
>
>ADSM wanted to mount some for space reclamation, and we were afraid to do
>that... so we cancelled the reclamation.
>
>Question... since we don't "need" the data on these cartridges right now for
>a restore operation... would it be easiest to just delete the volumes that
>are damaged from ADSM ?? Will this cause ADSM to realize he does not have
>backups of some data for some clients and on their next backup attempt be
>sure to get a version of the data that has been lost ????
... etc.

Yes. If you delete the volumes and they contain the latest backup versions of
your files, then the next time the client backup runs, it should create a new
backup version.

You can use QUERY CONTENT to determine which clients lost data.

One caveat: if you've lost only backup versions, then this shouldn't be too
problematic. However, you'll want to know whether any of these versions are
archives. Archives are (usually) more critical and can't be recreated by taking
another archive (unless the data hasn't changed).

Andy Raibeck
ADSM Level 2 Support
408-256-0130