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Hi all

Can someone confirm my thinking...

Client backs up to a volume (stgpool has NO copypool)
Volume is marked destroyed.

So now restores will fail (obviously) but i'm assuming incremental backups
will NOT re-backup the missing files because TSM still knows about them.
I'm also assuming they will only get picked up in the next incremental only
after the volume is deleted.

True / False???

Thanks

Steven

Steven -

The TSM storage pool info remains in stasis until the situation is resolved by a TSM server administrator. Whereas the database entries remain intact, incremental backups will not cause new backup copies to be made. The Destroyed state is just a flag, which can be removed; and it is the case that a volume in that (perhaps temporary) state does not mean that files on it cannot be copied (when that state is un-done for a Move Data, for example).

I guess the thing to do is assess what the actual significance is of "destroyed" in this volume's case.

Richard Sims

On Nov 29, 2011, at 5:42 PM, Steven Langdale wrote:

Hi all

Can someone confirm my thinking...

Client backs up to a volume (stgpool has NO copypool)
Volume is marked destroyed.

So now restores will fail (obviously) but i'm assuming incremental backups
will NOT re-backup the missing files because TSM still knows about them.
I'm also assuming they will only get picked up in the next incremental only
after the volume is deleted.

True / False???

Thanks

Steven

Hello Richard

That's just as I'd assumed. Thanks for the quick response.

Steven

On Nov 30, 2011 1:03 AM, "Richard Sims" <rbs < at > bu.edu> wrote:

Steven -

The TSM storage pool info remains in stasis until the situation is
resolved by a TSM server administrator. Whereas the database entries
remain intact, incremental backups will not cause new backup copies to be
made. The Destroyed state is just a flag, which can be removed; and it is
the case that a volume in that (perhaps temporary) state does not mean that
files on it cannot be copied (when that state is un-done for a Move Data,
for example).

I guess the thing to do is assess what the actual significance is of
"destroyed" in this volume's case.

Richard Sims

On Nov 29, 2011, at 5:42 PM, Steven Langdale wrote:

Hi all

Can someone confirm my thinking...

Client backs up to a volume (stgpool has NO copypool)
Volume is marked destroyed.

So now restores will fail (obviously) but i'm assuming incremental
backups
will NOT re-backup the missing files because TSM still knows about them.
I'm also assuming they will only get picked up in the next incremental
only
after the volume is deleted.

True / False???

Thanks

Steven