Tapes marked unavailable usually just need to be marked available (and
possibly checked back into the library). I suggest setting it to readonly,
for now.
If the msg you got is "waiting for files from the server..." that just
indicates no-query-restore is invoked, the client will be receiving all the
data and is responsible to filter out data it already has, based on your
specifications. You probably have a restartable restore in the queue; do a
"q rest" to see; if so, just run the restartable restore -- use the cmd
"restart restore" to resume where you left off. (This was new in 3.1, and
it worked fine after the first PTF was installed.)
Tapes can be marked unavailable if they are out of the library when the
system needs them, and the operator fails to respond to the reply-request to
check-in the tape; also, sometimes a tape mount error can cause it to get
marked unavailable -- prevents it from being written.
Don France
Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant
Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390
San Jose, Ca
(408) 257-3037
mailto:don_france AT att DOT net
Professional Association of Contract Employees
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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Alexander Lazarevich
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 9:37 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: restore hangs
we are in major trouble.
one of our fileservers is an AIX 4.3.3 running on a f50, with external
80-pin SCSI drives in a tower attached to a SCSI card in the f50.
last friday, the SCSI card for that tower failed, and all of the
filesystems on that tower are screwed! im so pissed. i can't mount any of
the filesystems, it just says I/O error, and i run an fsck, but that
doesnt fix it. i think the whole super block is totally lost.
so, im trying to restore all those drives from tape. we have a 3575 tape
library and run adsmserv 3.1 on that same AIX machine. there are 8
filesystems that i need to restore. i started with one last night, it was
going fine, but when i woke up this morning, it had stopped about 1/2 way
through and complained about data unavailable to server. it only restored
about 7GB when i know there is about 18GB on that filesystem.
i tried running the dsm client again, and chose not to overwrite any data,
but as soon as i start it, it just hangs there, doing nothing. maybe its
still comparing all the 7GB of data that is already restored, but it
doesnt say anything about that, it just says transfering...
is this normal, or is something not working?
also, i looked at the tapes in the library, and there are 2 marked as
unavailable. those tapes were not unavailable 2 days ago!! what happened?
any ideas?
man, if i cant restore this data, we are so screwed.
alex
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