One additional item on this, having done a few times.
A slight "gotcha". When you run the "preview" to see what
tapes to bring onsite, then you bring them back. You do the
"restore" and then sometimes find out that you still need another
tape or two.
Why? You have been running reclamation on offsite volumes
and some of the data has been moved since you ran preview
and the time you got tapes back and did restore. So, just
run preview again and find the extra tape or two that you need.
Also, you can have a tape that you brought back, now has been
"emptied" and you can "loose" this tape if not careful. I always
keep a list of tapes brought back and then make sure they all come
back out of library and that they still have data before I send then back
offsite.
David Longo
Shawn Drew <shawn.drew < at > AMERICAS.BNPPARIBAS.COM> 8/20/2008 9:44 AM >>>
Correct, recalling specific offsite tapes for a restore would not be done
with "move drmedia"
Move drmedia follows a normal "lifecycle". Recalling a tape for a restore
is an interrupt in that cycle, so it needs to be handled manually by using
"upd vol $VOL acc=readonly". Running this command puts the tape back into
a drm "mountable" state and will be checked out again (and put back into
the cycle) the next time move drmedia is run to eject tapes for offsite.
Regards,
Shawn
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Thanks for the replies Howard and Steve.
I guess I am looking for a confirmation that recalling specific offsite
copypool tapes is not handled by using "move drmedia" commands. It
won't let me "move drmedia volnnn wherestate=vault
tostate=vaultretrieve", or "move drmedia volnnn
tostate=courierretrieve". So, it looks like I must manually edit the
vaultretrieve report and add the volume(s) needed and edit the vault
inventory report to remove the volumes. After the tapes arrive, follow
the steps to restore the volume and send the copypool tapes back to the
vault.
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
Steven Harris
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 6:54 PM
To: ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Recalling drmedia volumes to restore a damaged volume.
Hi Larry
If its the mismatch between the DRM location and the real location that
bothers you,
upd vol <vol_name> location='' access=readonly
will put it back to mountable.
Regards
Steve.
"Mcnutt, Larry
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Hello list,
I have a damaged primary storage pool volume. Fortunately, the data is
on copy pool volumes. I found a nicely detailed procedure for handling
the restoral of the data from mail-archive.
http://www.mail-archive.com/adsm-l < at > vm.marist.edu/msg25446/adsm_restore_a
_tape_volume.doc
The part that I do not see how to do "cleanly" is recalling the specific
volumes from offsite using "move drmedia" commands. I know I can
manually add the volumes to the "vaultretrieve" list and remove them
from the "vault" inventory report. But that doesn't feel right. Am I
missing something?
Thanks,
Larry McNutt
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