Hi *,

I have a scenario. We had an onsite tape that got mangeled by a drive. The tape 
showed 75% usage initially. When we did the restore from offsite tapes, TSM 
reported that it completed successfully but there was still 15% left on the 
tape. The user went ahead and did a del vol discarddata=yes ( yes , I already 
hear the groans ) and looking through the  logs see the following message :

14.07.2008 10:28:05  ANR1256W Volume C60255 contains files that could not be   
                      restored. (SESSION: 130878)

What we would like to do is setup TSM on a test server and perform a mini-DR. 
That is, restore the database prior to the del and do a query content on the 
volume and check against the current database to see what data is missing.

My questions :

1) Why would TSM report the restore being successful when there was still data 
on it ? Could it be that running an audit vol would have fixed the volume 
against database and there was no data lost, just a volume messing up the TSM 
database pointers ?

2) We have the volumes that were used for the restore. Is there any way of 
restoring the data and then importing it back into the current environment ?


TSM Server :
TSM 5.3.6.3 ( being upgrading to TSM 5.4 shortly )
AIX5.3

Rich

  
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