As for question 2, I am not aware of any way to do what you suggest - but I
agree with what you are suggesting - sounds like a godd requirement to me.

Jerry Lawson
jlawson AT thehartford DOT com

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Subject: Q on recovering from damaged media
02-16-97 05:18 PM

ADSM 2.1.5.9 on AIX 4.1.4.

I have a backup tape cartridge with a permanent I/O error.
Tape went bad immediately, so not all the data got backed up into the
copy storage pool.

A "move data" removed everything up to the point of the I/O error.
Q CONTENT volser    shows only 4 files left on the tape, all belonging
to one client.

RESTORE volser preview=YES     confirms that those 4 files have no
copies.

If I do a DELETE volser DISCARDDATA=YES, it should clean up the entries
from the data base.

Q1:  The next time the client runs an incremental backup, will ADSM know
that it needs to back these files up again?  I suspect not, but would
like a second opinion.

Q2:  Is there any way for me (the admin) to tell which backup version of
the file was destroyed?  Q CONTENT F=D shows me the file name, client
name, file space name, and size, but no information about when the file
was copied, or whether other backup versions of the file exist.