ADSM-L

Re: Disaster-Recovery, Tapes Vanishing!

1999-04-29 01:23:32
Subject: Re: Disaster-Recovery, Tapes Vanishing!
From: Edouard Lauer <elauer AT PT DOT LU>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 07:23:32 +0200
Hi Cindy,

sorry but I didn't pursue the issue from the beginning. Which version of the
ADSM server are you using?

Bye,
Edi Lauer


"Bowers, Cindy Ann (CRD)" a écrit :

> Scott,
>
> The other thing I notice that may be related is that my expiration process 
> never seems to return any
> dbbackup tapes, even though I do a full db backup daily and retain them for 5 
> days.  I wonder if it
> is the db backups that are not getting returned from DRM.
>
> 04/28/99 09:28:20     ANR0812I Inventory file expiration process 147 
> completed:
>                        examined 55438 objects, deleting 55085 backup objects, > 0
>                        archive objects, and 0 DB backup volumes. 0 errors were
>                        encountered.
> 04/28/99 09:28:20     ANR0987I Process 147 for EXPIRE INVENTORY running in the
>                        BACKGROUND processed 55085 items with a completion 
> state
>                        of SUCCESS at 09:28:20.
>
> "0 DB backup volumes" just doesn't seem right.  I would expect one per day.
>
> Cindy Ann Bowers
> Systems Analyst
> GE  Corporate Research and Development
> 1 Research Circle
> KW-C122
> Niskayuna, NY 12309
> 518-387-5801, dial comm 8*833-5801 (phone)
> 518-387-6560, dial comm 8*833-6560 (fax)
> bowers AT crd.ge DOT com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Fluegge [mailto:sfluegge AT VENATORGROUP DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 3:36 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Disaster-Recovery, Tapes Vanishing!
>
> Thanks to everyone who responded to this problem.  It seems we have an
> undocumented issue here.  I was on the phone with Level 1 (highest) support 
> last
> night for a different issue and brought this one up while we waited for some
> processing to run.  I was told to document as much as I could about the tapes
> before and after they disappeared as well as how I am discovering them.  I am
> doing so.  I suggest that everyone else that is having the problem do so also.
> I am finding them by running a report of all of the volumes in the vault, and
> vault retrieve states and comparing the total to the number I know are in the
> vault.  When there is a discrepancy I compare the two lists.   I have started
> running the output of a "q drmedia f=d" to a file every day and holding it for
> about 7 days.  That way I have a history of the file before it disappears.  I 
> am
> going to collect several instances and then open a case with ADSM.  Everybody
> else that sees this happen I urge to do the same thing.  I think we all want
> this problem addressed!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott