totally cool, thaks don. the restartable process is there!

one question though. the dsm client stoped and i killed that process on
the client. do i need to restart dsm on the clinet before i restart the
process on the server? i praobably do, im just asking in case.

alex

On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, DFrance wrote:

> Tapes marked unavailable usually just need to be marked available (and
> possibly checked back into the library).  I suggest setting it to readonly,
> for now.
>
> If the msg you got is "waiting for files from the server..." that just
> indicates no-query-restore is invoked, the client will be receiving all the
> data and is responsible to filter out data it already has, based on your
> specifications.  You probably have a restartable restore in the queue;  do a
> "q rest" to see; if so, just run the restartable restore -- use the cmd
> "restart restore" to resume where you left off.  (This was new in 3.1, and
> it worked fine after the first PTF was installed.)
>
> Tapes can be marked unavailable if they are out of the library when the
> system needs them, and the operator fails to respond to the reply-request to
> check-in the tape;  also, sometimes a tape mount error can cause it to get
> marked unavailable -- prevents it from being written.
>
> Don France
> Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant
> Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390
> San Jose, Ca
> (408) 257-3037
> mailto:don_france AT att DOT net
>
> Professional Association of Contract Employees
> (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
> Alexander Lazarevich
> Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 9:37 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: restore hangs
>
>
> we are in major trouble.
>
> one of our fileservers is an AIX 4.3.3 running on a f50, with external
> 80-pin SCSI drives in a tower attached to a SCSI card in the f50.
>
> last friday, the SCSI card for that tower failed, and all of the
> filesystems on that tower are screwed! im so pissed. i can't mount any of
> the filesystems, it just says I/O error, and i run an fsck, but that
> doesnt fix it. i think the whole super block is totally lost.
>
> so, im trying to restore all those drives from tape. we have a 3575 tape
> library and run adsmserv 3.1 on that same AIX machine. there are 8
> filesystems that i need to restore. i started with one last night, it was
> going fine, but when i woke up this morning, it had stopped about 1/2 way
> through and complained about data unavailable to server. it only restored
> about 7GB when i know there is about 18GB on that filesystem.
>
> i tried running the dsm client again, and chose not to overwrite any data,
> but as soon as i start it, it just hangs there, doing nothing. maybe its
> still comparing all the 7GB of data that is already restored, but it
> doesnt say anything about that, it just says transfering...
>
> is this normal, or is something not working?
>
> also, i looked at the tapes in the library, and there are 2 marked as
> unavailable. those tapes were not unavailable 2 days ago!! what happened?
>
> any ideas?
>
> man, if i cant restore this data, we are so screwed.
>
> alex
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>    Alex Lazarevich | Systems | Imaging Technology Group
>    alazarev AT itg.uiuc DOT edu | (217)244-1565 | www.itg.uiuc.edu
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