DanGiles
ADSM.ORG Senior Member
Every TSM administrator has been through this: tapes are mounted in the drives then the server crashes. When TSM comes back up it no longer knows about the mounts so when backups or migrations try to start up again, all types of drive and tape errors happen, tapes get marked read-only or unavailable, and drives get taken off line. Then you spend an hour or two cleaning up the mess. This gets compounded when the crashed server is a media manager! You can't just start dismounting volumes because they'd probably still be in use by other servers or LAN-FREE clients.
What do others do? Any way of automating the cleanup? (TSM hasn't gained the abililty of cleaning itself up, has it?)
What do others do? Any way of automating the cleanup? (TSM hasn't gained the abililty of cleaning itself up, has it?)