Hello all,
we are still not finished setting up our backup environment and rules here,
using TSM5.1.1.0 on Windows 2000 and a Dell Power Vault with two LTO-drives
and 42 slots. After some unforeseen data movements from one server to
others, I was running low on available tapes, and encountered the following:
- As all my slots in the lib were full and I feel better with a couple of
scratch tapes, i remembered a sales rep telling me that the lib could also
use the mailbox slots for storing tapes. Consequently, I tried to checkin
new tapes with the search=bulk parameter, which did not work -
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=pv_tape&message.id=251&highlight=tsm#M251
shows that i am not the only one who had encountered this.
Does anybody have a solution to this behaviour?
- Next, I tried to be clever and manually put tapes from internal slots
into the mailbox, and the new tapes into the lib - bad idea. Now i could
checkin the new tapes, but the lib did not recognise the tapes in the
mailbox and TSM marked them removed.
I put the tapes back and did a checkin of the removed tapes as private, but
now i wonder how to tell TSM that these tapes are to be used like they were
before - full, scratch or whatever?
- Coming back to my original problem, I would like to free space on my
tapes. A bunch of rather large media files has been moved across a couple
of servers, and has been backupped on each, which is a total waste.
Is there a method to selectively delete backups of files on the tapes?
These files have been part of ordinary incremental daily backups, and now
use up space worth a couple of my tapes I,d rather have them deleted - how?
Sorry if these questions have been asked recently - I did some searching
through my list mailbox and also rtfm on the introduction and reference
manuals, but to no avail - pointers would be heartily welcomed!
thanks in advance to all,
kind regards, tobi...
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Dipl.-Ing. Tobias Hofmann Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar D99423 Weimar
Professur fuer Graphische Datenverarbeitung Projekt medienquadrat
SnailMail: Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar, Fak. Medien, D99421 Weimar
Location: D99423 Weimar Karl-Haussknechtstr. 7 Zimmer 111
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