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1. Is it possible to determine which tape volume a particular version of a backup lives? For example, when I run something like this in dsmc on the client:
q backup /var/cache/man/index.db -fromdate=2020-02-19 -detail
I see the usual output, but nothing to clue me in on how to decipher which tape this would be on. I do see a 'Volume ID' reported, but I've not been able to find any information on how to reference that with an actual volume name. Maybe that's in some table?
Is there any kind of unique identifier that TSM uses that can be queried? The only thing I've been able to figure out is how to use a select statement (dsmadmc) to see a list of the volumes containing the file space for a given node, but not the actual volume that contains the particular version.
2. Also, does anyone know what the inode# is when using '-detail' with `q backup`? It never matches the inode number that the OS reports (`ls -lid filename`) for that file or directory. Is this some kind of internal TSM thing that doesn't apply?
q backup /var/cache/man/index.db -fromdate=2020-02-19 -detail
I see the usual output, but nothing to clue me in on how to decipher which tape this would be on. I do see a 'Volume ID' reported, but I've not been able to find any information on how to reference that with an actual volume name. Maybe that's in some table?
Is there any kind of unique identifier that TSM uses that can be queried? The only thing I've been able to figure out is how to use a select statement (dsmadmc) to see a list of the volumes containing the file space for a given node, but not the actual volume that contains the particular version.
2. Also, does anyone know what the inode# is when using '-detail' with `q backup`? It never matches the inode number that the OS reports (`ls -lid filename`) for that file or directory. Is this some kind of internal TSM thing that doesn't apply?