Re: DRM
1998-09-14 11:13:36
I find this statement disturbing - has anyone else found that ADSM V3.1.1.5
is unable to eject more than one volume from an STK 9710?
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Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
443-778-8769
wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu
"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
Scott Adams/Dilbert
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Naveed Mustafa [SMTP:Naveed_Mustafa AT mckinsey DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 1998 7:33 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
> Subject: DRM
>
> Hi All,
>
> We are in the implementation phase of the Disaster Recovery Manager (DRM).
> Our environment is that we are running ADSM Server Version 3.1.1.5 on AIX
> 4.2 machine with STK Library 9710 attached to the server utilizing the
> ACSLS Interface software Version 5.2. The library contains 10 DLT 4000
> drives.
>
> My questions are as follows:
>
> MOVE DRMEDIA command is used to send the storage pool backup volumes
> offsite. Are we required to execute CHECKOUT LIBVOL command to check
> these volumes out of the library or MOVE DRMEDIA * WHERESTATE=MOUNTABLE
> will eject all the tapes in the COPYPOOL out of the library?
> What if we change the state directly from MOUNTABLE to VAULT, what will
> be the volume checkout and ejection procedure?
> IBM has told us that ADSM Version 3.x is not capable of checking out
> multiple volumes out of the STK library. Whenever there are two or
> more
> volumes in the COPYPOOL, we have to manually checkout each of them
> individually. Has anyone implemented a workaround? Again, we are
> running ACSLS Version 5.2 with STK 9710 library and the ADSM server
> version is 3.1.1.5.
>
> Any comments in the aforementioned questions will be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Naveed.
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