ADSM-L

Re: ANS0328E

2007-03-16 14:58:54
Subject: Re: ANS0328E
From: Fred Johanson <fred AT UCHICAGO DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:58:28 -0500
Del,

It worked just fine.  I didn't hhave to track down the
admins of 10 different machines to change options files and
modify scheduled service.  The next person to run into the
situation should keep this in mind.



---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:44:42 -0400
>From: Del Hoobler <hoobler AT US.IBM DOT COM>
>Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ANS0328E
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>
>Fred,
>
>That should work as well, you will just want to make sure
>that all the filespaces are renamed in the same manner,
>following the naming standard.
>
>For example, assume you original filespaces are:
>     SERVER1\meta\0000
>     SERVER1\data\0001
>     SERVER1\data\0002
>     SERVER1\data\0003
>
>Rename to:
>     SERVER1-R\meta\0000
>     SERVER1-R\data\0001
>     SERVER1-R\data\0002
>     SERVER1-R\data\0003
>
>In other words, make sure you rename all of the filespace
>in a similar pattern because the data for a single databases
>is split between multiple filespaces, depending on how
>many stripes you used to perform the backup.
>
>I tried this on my test server, and it worked fine with 3
stripes.
>I was able to do a restore from the renamed filespaces.
>They backup appear in the GUI under the server
names "SERVER1-R".
>
>Thanks,
>
>Del
>
>----------------------------------------------------
>
>
>"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on
03/14/2007
>11:38:41 PM:
>
>> Del,
>>
>> I had the APAR in front of me as I started to type, but my
>> symptoms appeared to be different.  But I tried the rename
>> node and rneame filespace approach and it worked just
fine.
>> However, that requires the sysadmin to change both the
>> dsm.opt and the scheduled service.  With a couple of dozen
>> machines amd sysadmins saying why me?, I got to wondering
if
>> I couldn't get the same results if I just renamed the
>> filespaces without renaming the node. Tjat doesn't require
>> the intervention of the sysadmin.  I'm going to try that
on a
>> test machine in the morning.
>>
Fred Johanson

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