Hi Michel/list,

A former employee here wrote a small program that read the
tapes directly.  It had some shortcomings and tweeking
(depending on NT or AIX).  This is a program that was run
on an AIX box.  Not sure if it will compile on any other
OS.  It made no distinction of old/delted files and active.
If I can remember correctly you supplied it with the node name,
filespace and a file mask which you wanted to restore.  It was
slow, bulky and irritating to use, but has saved quite a few
customers who are too cheep to buy a library/autoloader.

If this is something that interests you, mail me and I'll start
digging through the 'misc' folder he had.  It's written in C and
was used on 3.x (mainly ADSM), but I think it will work on newer
ones as well.

Good luck with your restore.

Thorhallur Sverrisson, thorhs AT demon.nyherji DOT is


On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:34:06AM -0800, Michel David wrote:
> I think than the guys there are not better than
> Richard, Wanda, PAul Demetrius and other friends that
> alwais solve every problem.
>
> We ARE ready to PAY. It's not the problem. The problem
> is that we didn't find a way to get this support. I
> mean that I want a man and not a stupid automatic mail
> responser.
> Someone has an idea ?
>
> Thank you.
> Michel
> MARNET
>
> --- "Malbrough, Demetrius" <DMalbrough AT TTIINC DOT COM>
> wrote:
> > Are your DB & Recovery Logs mirrored? If so, you can
> > try to bring the server
> > up by reading the mirrors. In your dsmserv.opt file
> > change MIRRORREAD LOG to
> > Verify!  Otherwise, call TSM Support!!!
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lloyd Dieter [mailto:dieter AT SNRGY DOT COM]
> > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 10:22 AM
> > To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject: Re: Please HELP! Restore DB without
> > DBBACKUP tape.
> >
> >
> > Michael,
> >
> > To the best of my knowledge, you MUST have a valid
> > DB backup tape to
> > recover.  AFAIK, it is not possible to read
> > storagepool media without an
> > intact database.
> >
> > If your DB is not intact, and your DB backup tapes
> > are no good, I would
> > recommend that you call TSM support to see if they
> > can help you.
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > -Lloyd
> >
> > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 07:19:35 -0800
> > Michel David <moi_md AT YAHOO DOT COM> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everybody!
> > > Thank you Paul.
> > > I try once more to get help to our powerfull List.
> > >
> > > This is the biggest disaster I can imagine.
> > > That looks like No DBBACKUP tape are available !
> > >
> > > Is it possible to recover the data FROM the POOL
> > > TAPES, if I know which tape is right pool tape ?
> > >
> > > This is a real emmergency. We tried everything
> > else I
> > > think.
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > > Michel DAVID
> > > MARNET
> > >
> > >
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