Re: [ADSM-L] What does volume status of OFFLINE mean/do?

clicked send to soon....

I believe it does not do anything to the files on the volumes, it just
tells TSM that it cannot access the files. I think it will generate errors
when trying to move/copy files in space reclamation jobs of off-site media.

Cheers,

Rick

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Rick Harderwijk
<rick.harderwijk AT gmail DOT com>wrote:

> Zoltan,
>
> Update volume wherestatus=offline would mean to do something to volumes
> that have a status of offline. I'd think you would have to use
>
> update volume * access=unavailable wherestgpool=<SANSTGVOLUMEPOOL>
> wherestatus=offline
>
> Output from help update volume:
>
>   UNAVailable
>        Specifies that neither client nodes nor server processes can
>        access files stored on the volume.
>        Before making a random access volume unavailable, you must vary
>        the volume offline. After you make a random access volume
>        unavailable, you cannot vary the volume online.
>        If you make a sequential access volume unavailable, the server
>        does not attempt to mount the volume.
>        If the volume being updated is an empty scratch volume that had an
>        access mode of offsite, the server deletes the volume from the
>        database.
> Cheers,
>
> Rick
>
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <zforray AT vcu DOT 
> edu>wrote:
>
>> A recent SAN system upgrade sort-of killed 19TB of storage volumes, making
>> them "read only".
>>
>> Since we are having pathing issues, plus we need to perform fsck on these
>> volumes due to the journal being screwed-up,  I wanted to disable use of
>> these disk volumes without killing the server, if possible.
>>
>> When I look in the book for UPDATE VOLUME WHERESTATUS=OFFLINE,   all it
>> says is Update volumes with a status of OFFLINE .  What exactly does that
>> mean?  What happens to the contents?
>>
>>
>> Zoltan Forray
>> TSM Software & Hardware Administrator
>> Virginia Commonwealth University
>> UCC/Office of Technology Services
>> zforray AT vcu DOT edu - 804-828-4807
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