Re: Find what tape a file is on

To go along with the activity log info Andy has given, if you watch the
mount activity messages in the log when the restore is kicked off it should
give you a clue as to what tape it is on too. Especially if nothing else if
going on that will force you to sift through other mount messages.

Thanks,

Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
SAIC M/S-G1b
(858)826-4062
Email: geoffrey.l.gill AT saic DOT com



-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Andrew Raibeck
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 9:43 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Find what tape a file is on

You can look at the CONTENTS table to find the tapes on which all versions
reside. That will help narrow things for you.

Having said that, I have to ask: why is it important to know the tape that
the file on?

The reason I ask is that all we know from what you've told us is that a
file was not restored. Before I worried about what tape it was on, I'd
want to know a whole slew of things... such as, do you know that it was
*supposed* to be restored? If so, how do you know this? Have you tried
restoring just this specific file? If not, try it and see what happens. If
you have tried, what did you see? If you got a failure, did you check the
server actlog to see what it had to say about the problem? If there is a
problem with a tape, it might have provided that info in any diagnostic
messages that were issued.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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Internet e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com

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ager.html

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 2005-12-01
10:34:25:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am trying to pinpoint why the restore of the file below couldn't be
> accomplished on the onsite tape, but I'm not quite sure how to find out
> what tape it's on.  Any suggestions?  Thanks!
>
>
> NODE_NAME           FILESPACE_NAME      HL_NAME             LL_NAME
>
> ------------------  ------------------  ------------------
> ------------------
> LNCAMPM21           /LNCAMPM21.DOMDBS   /mail3/mail-ins/ foreignconf.nsf
>
>
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> Highmark
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