Susie -

You didn't say in your note, but can I assume that the pool was deleted by
some manual method (not through ADSM)?  Id so, the pool still shows up to
ADSM, but is inaccessible (obviously).

What you should do is a Delete for the pool with Discarddata=yes.  ADSM will
then remove all entries in the DB for the data that was lost, and the next
incremental backup will cause the files to be backed up again.

Jerry Lawson
jlawson AT itthartford DOT com
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Author: INTERNET.OWNERAD
Subject: force ADSM to recognize a disk pool is gone
09-16-96 10:18 AM

I have a weird problem and don't know how to make ADSM realize what is going
on.

One (of several) DASD buffer pools were deleted from ADSM accidentally.
I realized it later and thouhgt well, we will continue with less buffering
area.
That has worked ok except-- apparently when the disk pool was deleted there
were
some files on there that had not yet migrated off to tape.  I assumed that
eventually,
ADSM would realize those files were gone and just make another backup.

That has not happened.  And occasionally, we need to restore a user and it
appears their
last/only backup of a particular file was on that disk.... ADSM fails the
backup saying a required
volume disk A03 is not available.

Can I make ADSM aware those files are gone forever, if I don't know exactly
what nodes had what
files on there at the time of the loss??  I just want ADSM to take another
backup copy of anything
that was on that disk the next time it does a backup.

We are Ver 1 of ADSM/VM
Thanks
Susie McClure
Rice University