Willum
Active Newcomer
Hello. I an very new to Tivoli - actually it was dropped in my lap July 1 when the admin left! The system has been in place and working for several years.
The documentation he left was - how to remove a bad tape from the library, how to clean the drive, how to run the report to show what tapes are needed for DR, how to add a scratch tape and move a tape to the off site storage. He did not show me Health Monitor, Activity logs or where to see if the backup jobs actually worked!
I was told to see if there was a tape in the I/O spot in the Dell PowerVault TL4000 Tape Library and if so, follow the procedure to remove. I was supposed to add Scratch tapes when needed.
I got concerned when the report, ran weekly, did not change what tapes are needed for DR. I was also concerned that it did not take any new Scratch tapes. I was told that it sometimes takes weeks to add.
Problem - All backup Jobs fails. The TSM Data volume - 4.58TB is full. My guess it is not sending the data from the disk to the tapes.
I found how to check for Scratch tapes available and used and actually added to one of the storage pools. After that is said it was full.
Looking at the Activity Log of the server I see -
ANR1405W Scratch volume mount request denied - no scratch volume available, ANR1086E Space reclamation is ended for volume 000112L5. There is insufficient space in storage pool. (PROCESS: 883) -
ANR1163W Offsite volume 000028L5 still contains files which could not be moved. (PROCESS: 883) - that tape is actually over in the safe! Why is it looking at that?
Sorry for the length. TSM version 6.2 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard edition. Like I mentioned this had been working just fine (as far as I know) for years. These problems only started recently.
If I just deleted the 4.5 TB of files, somehow told it to inventory or just let the jobs run, would I be OK? Thank you. //Bill
The documentation he left was - how to remove a bad tape from the library, how to clean the drive, how to run the report to show what tapes are needed for DR, how to add a scratch tape and move a tape to the off site storage. He did not show me Health Monitor, Activity logs or where to see if the backup jobs actually worked!
I was told to see if there was a tape in the I/O spot in the Dell PowerVault TL4000 Tape Library and if so, follow the procedure to remove. I was supposed to add Scratch tapes when needed.
I got concerned when the report, ran weekly, did not change what tapes are needed for DR. I was also concerned that it did not take any new Scratch tapes. I was told that it sometimes takes weeks to add.
Problem - All backup Jobs fails. The TSM Data volume - 4.58TB is full. My guess it is not sending the data from the disk to the tapes.
I found how to check for Scratch tapes available and used and actually added to one of the storage pools. After that is said it was full.
Looking at the Activity Log of the server I see -
ANR1405W Scratch volume mount request denied - no scratch volume available, ANR1086E Space reclamation is ended for volume 000112L5. There is insufficient space in storage pool. (PROCESS: 883) -
ANR1163W Offsite volume 000028L5 still contains files which could not be moved. (PROCESS: 883) - that tape is actually over in the safe! Why is it looking at that?
Sorry for the length. TSM version 6.2 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard edition. Like I mentioned this had been working just fine (as far as I know) for years. These problems only started recently.
If I just deleted the 4.5 TB of files, somehow told it to inventory or just let the jobs run, would I be OK? Thank you. //Bill