It indeed is. Ofcourse, I would test any changes first :-)

Cheers,
Rick
 On Jun 4, 2012 5:04 PM, "Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU" <zforray AT vcu DOT edu> wrote:

> Thanks.  That pretty much confirms that OFFLINE is useless to me since I
> don't want to loose the data, if at all possible.  19TB is a lot to
> restore from dozens of offsite tapes.
>
>
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> From:   Rick Harderwijk <rick.harderwijk AT GMAIL DOT COM>
> To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Date:   06/04/2012 10:55 AM
> Subject:        Re: [ADSM-L] What does volume status of OFFLINE mean/do?
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>
>
> Zoltan,
>
> Update volume wherestatus=offline would mean to do something to volumes
> that have a status of offline. I'd think you would have to use
>
> update volume * access=unavailable wherestgpool=<SANSTGVOLUMEPOOL>
> wherestatus=offline
>
> Output from help update volume:
>
>  UNAVailable
>       Specifies that neither client nodes nor server processes can
>       access files stored on the volume.
>       Before making a random access volume unavailable, you must vary
>       the volume offline. After you make a random access volume
>       unavailable, you cannot vary the volume online.
>       If you make a sequential access volume unavailable, the server
>       does not attempt to mount the volume.
>       If the volume being updated is an empty scratch volume that had an
>       access mode of offsite, the server deletes the volume from the
>       database.
> Cheers,
>
> Rick
>
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
> <zforray AT vcu DOT edu>wrote:
>
> > A recent SAN system upgrade sort-of killed 19TB of storage volumes,
> making
> > them "read only".
> >
> > Since we are having pathing issues, plus we need to perform fsck on
> these
> > volumes due to the journal being screwed-up,  I wanted to disable use of
> > these disk volumes without killing the server, if possible.
> >
> > When I look in the book for UPDATE VOLUME WHERESTATUS=OFFLINE,   all it
> > says is Update volumes with a status of OFFLINE .  What exactly does
> that
> > mean?  What happens to the contents?
> >
> >
> > Zoltan Forray
> > TSM Software & Hardware Administrator
> > Virginia Commonwealth University
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