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Re: tapes becoming unavail

2002-07-17 01:34:16
Subject: Re: tapes becoming unavail
From: "Seay, Paul" <seay_pd AT NAPTHEON DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 01:32:08 -0400
You need to mark them readonly.  What has probably happened is the end of
file marker on the tapes is not complete because a backup failed while
processing.  I presume these are primary pool tapes.  If you have a COPY
POOL in you possession then you can rebuild them using the restore command.

Have you done a q volume on each to see how full they are?

Another option is do a move data vvvvvv on each of them to move the good
data to elsewhere in the pool.  Then the only thing you will lose is the
last file or so on the tapes, if that because it was probably never commited
in the database and was backed up on another tape.  When you have gotten all
off that you can, if the tape does not go scratch at that point, you will
just have to do a delete volume vvvvvv discarddata=yes.  Any file backups
still on the tape will be lost, but they already are so it really does not
matter.  When the next backup is run the current version of the file will
get saved again if its match on the tape was its active version.

This is easy to get out of.

Now, there is one other possibility.  The tapes may have no data on them and
simply need to be relabeled because the labels are bad or were never put on
the tapes.

Been here, done this, fixed this before.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon, INC
757-688-8180


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