If I am not misreading your intentions it sounds like you are trying to do
space management
which is NOT supported on AIX 4.1 in ADSM V2. According to a REAME file I
have. I
correlate HSM with space mgt. As of matter of fact if you try to install
space management on a 4.1.4 system it blows away your vfs file in etc and
you get wacko messages.
At 12:28 PM 6/13/96 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
>I hope I can get some help with this.
>
>I am running AIX 4.1.4 with ADSM V 2.x (which I had to pull down from the ftp
>site, lslpp reports 2.1). I am trying to demonstrate whether the HSM
>functionality will work for what we want in our environment. We are not
>particularly interested in the backup/archive functions at this point, other
>than to backup the space managed filesystem (only one in this test
>environment).
>
>While I have been able to successfully migrate files disk to disk, when I
>attempt to backup either a space managed or non-space managed file system using
>ADSM, I continually get I/O errors and failure.
>
>Now I admit that it is perfectly possible that I have missed something that
>should have been obvious in the documentation, but try as I might, I can't find
>what it might be.
>
>Scenario --
>
> Configure tape device to AIX using SMIT. (variable block size, should
> it be fixed at some value? I couldn't find anything in the docs
> about it one way or the other.)
> Configure ADSM tape device using SMIT.
> Do all the defining of devices, libraries (manual), etc. necessary
> to make ADSM aware of the drive.
> Label a bunch of tapes using ADSM
>--> Select Backup/Archive client.
> Select Backup
> Select Backup by File Specfication
> Select all files in the filesystem by selecting all files (including
> subdirectories).
> Select backup.
>-> Mount a tape in the drive (I do run dsmadmc -mountmode to watch
>things).
> See the message of
> "8mm VOLX mounted in drive TAPEDRIVE01 (/dev/mt0)
> See the "Waiting for media mount" window go away.
> Either
> a- see anywhere from a few hundred KB to a few MB written
> b- see nothing written
> See message -
> I/O error on drive TAPEDRIVE01 (/dev/mt0) (OP=WRITE, CC=205, KEY=FF,
> ASC=FF, ASCQ=FF).
> Either -
> a- window with "Detected System Error" message and backup stops or
> b- window with "Waiting for Media Mount " message and dismounted tape
> message and request for another tape and cycle back to ->
> c- decide that having failed on x tapes I'm through messing around
> and wait for the mount request to time out
> Delete all volumes I've tried to use and cycle back to --> after
> frustrating myself looking for any hint in the documentation
>
>I have seen the same messages using
> 1- an IBM provided (with the system) 8200 8mm tape drive (OK, it's an
> old system -- what do you want for a test environment?)
> 2- a generic 8200 8mm tape drive
> 3- a generic 8505 8mm tape drive
>
>I have had no difficulty reading and writing the same tapes on the same tape
>drives using system software (i.e. tar or dd).
>
>So, please, am I missing something I should have seen or is this something that
>needs to be fixed? Is there a later version of ADSM (which supports the HSM
>client under AIX 4.1) which I need? We have to have AIX 4.1 for the larger
>than 2 GB filesystems (can you imagine managing 100 GB of space managed disk, 2
>GB at a time?).
>
>If anyone can help with this problem I would be glad to send you virtual
>brownies or cookies or other simulated rewards. It will also let me get on
>with doing other things here at work, and thus feeling productive again.
>
>Janet Curtis
>
>
>Sr. Systems Programmer
>Administrative Computing Services and Utah Supercomputing Institute
>University of Utah
>
>udpjcc AT usi.utah DOT edu
>
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