I am inclined to disagree that you cannot restore from copy pool volumes, as
I do this regularly during D/R testing...

If you set the onsite tapes to unavailable and not destroyed and make the
copy pool vlomues available to the server... It works fine...

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Andy Wilcox
Midrange Services
Aquila Networks Services Ltd



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gagan Singh Rana [SMTP:gagan AT QUANTM DOT COM]
> Sent: 14 May 2003 11:53
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: restoration from copy pool
>
> NO. you cannot restore any data using copy pool volumes. These r used to
> restore the
> primary stgpool or primary stgpool volumes.
>
> Since this is a disaster scenario, (it is assumed) you would have lost
> your primary
> tapes.... all the tapes which you want to restore from, mark them
> "destroyed" in primary
> pool and then run the command "restore stgpool (poolname)....." this will
> restore the data
> in primary pool on new volumes. Then you can restore the data u wish to.
>
> Thanks and regards
> Gagan Singh Rana
> Tivoli Certified Consultant - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager  V5.1
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Anil Polat [mailto:panil AT IN.IBM DOT COM]
> > Sent: 13 May, 2003 6:21 PM
> > To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject: restoration from copy pool
> >
> >
> > TSMers,
> >       I want to restore the files from my COPY POOL tapes assuming that
> my
> > primary pool is lost . I have set up a new server and restored the TSM
> DB
> > and checked in only the COPY POOL Tapes. Now if I try to restore any
> file
> > from a client machine, it is looking for the Primary storage pool tapes
> ;
> > not the COPY Pool. Can anyone explain me how exactly the restoration
> works
> > in TSM . Do I need  to restore the complete Storage Pool or damaged
> volume
> > to the Primary Pool in order to restore the data ? I will not take it
> from
> > the copy pool if I checkin only the COPY Pool tapes ???
> >
> > Thanks in Advance,
> >       Anil.
> >
> >
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