Mark,
I don't know Rob's situation, but I know that a year a go I had TSM
'dumped' on me, having never had any dealings with the product
previoulsy. It was 4 months before my company finally got me on the
basic TSM course, after much tears & tantrums. During that 4 months I
struggled severly - even having had RTFM. Unfortunately for me I didn't
know about this email group back then, I wish I had, it's an invaluable
source of information.
Mostly people here are very understanding, but occaissionally, and I'm
not referring to you, people simply say RTFM which is less than helpful.
Some need to understand that there are people out there for whom TSM is
just one of their responsabilities and there are only so many hours in a
day which means not always enough to read, digest and grasp the
intricacies of TSM. Especially when the manuals can be at times, it's
got to be said, less than clear and unequivocal. It's not usually a case
of the person not having read the manuals, for some including myself,
it's an uphill struggle to get to grips with TSM. After having worked
with TSM for around a year now, I only consider myself beginning to
fully understand it now. And I'd say that I'd picked up more from this
email group than from any other avenue.
Whilst DB backups and tape management maybe fundamental, it doesn't make
it obvious.
Regards,
Iain
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Mark D. Rodriguez
Sent: 25 March 2005 20:50
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] DELETing a volume from a DB backup
Rob,
Please don't take this wrong, I certainly don't mind the question.
However, I must say that this is such a fundamental part of TSM I am
wondering about your basic level of training here. This product does
require some basic training in order to operate it correctly. I
recommend taking one or even two of the available TSM classes from IBM
to get the basic skills needed. If you can't take the formal classes
IBM has on line self paced classes as well. Or you can do it the old
fashion way and cozy up to the TSM Administration Guide and give it a
few hours of your time.
Now in regards to your question, DB backup volumes regardless of whether
they are full, incremental or snapshot do not expire on their own (with
the exception of those managed by DRM, which is a whole separate chapter
in the Admin Guide!) and therefore require you to take action. You must
issue the DELete VOLHistory command in order to expire those tapes and
have them become scratch tapes again. Please look in the documentation
for the DELete VOLHistory command in order to see the correct syntax.
Also, please note you won't be able to delete your most recent DB backup
set, nor should you, if that is what you are trying to do.
Again, please don't take my comments at the beginning as an insult. I
am merely trying to encourage you to develop the basic skill needed to
run a TSM environment.
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Regards,
Mark D. Rodriguez
President MDR Consulting, Inc.
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Rob Berendt wrote:
>When I use a tape volume to perform
>backup db devclass=3581dev type=full scratch=yes wait=no How do I
>prepare it for later reuse?
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