No, if the primary tape is marked DESTROYED or UNAVAILABLE, the next BACKUP
STGPOOL will not try to mount that primary tape.  I think you just get a
message in the ADSM log noting that the tape can't be backed up.

I assume the RESTORE you say you previewd is a RESTORE VOLUME or RESTORE
STGPOOL?

You can try restoring your user data without doing the RESTORE VOLUME first.
It's possible that the user data you want to restore is not on the tape that
is causing you grief.
If the primary tape is marked DESTROYED, mark all the tapes you brought back
from offsite as "READONLY" instead of offsite.
Then try to restore the user's data again.  ADSM will see that the primary
tape is unavailable, and call for the copy pool tape to do the restore.
If you're lucky, it will be one of the other 25 tapes....

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Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
443-778-8769
wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
Scott Adams/Dilbert
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisa Cabanas [SMTP:CABANL AT MAIL.MODOT.STATE.MO DOT US]
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 5:02 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      restore and audit/move data question
>
> Hey all,
>
> Problem:  Primary stg pool tape is destroyed -- the tape is broken.  I
> preview
> the restore and bring back all of the secondary offsite tapes.  The
> restore
> needs 26 tape, and one of them is causing i/o errors every time any drive
> loads
> it-- so al attempts at auditing fix=yes, or moving data have failed.  If I
> delete this tape from the secondary pool, and the next back stg pool
> "notices"
> that there aren't these files anymore, is it going to try to get it from
> the
> Primary tape that is destroyed?  If so, am I totally screwed, or is there
> some
> magic trick that can be preformed??
>
>
> (BTW- due to a personnel issue, HR is wanting someone's email restored.
> Am I
> gonna have to tell them SOL?)
>
>
> eek!
>
> lisa