I recently had to restore a file from one node to another, but the tape for source node had some problems. Restore was very slow and TSM issued messages that it could not read files, so restore did not work. I tried to run audit on that volume/tape, TSM deleted some damaged files but it was very slow. After few hours I canceled audit process and tried to move files to a different tape, but it did not work either.
Finally I deleted data on that tape and checkout that tape. TSM still showed filesystems for that node, I deleted filesystems also and did backup again for that node. I wanted to know in this situation what else could I do or how can I prevent such things in future. If tape goes bad than what are my options? We use STK9710 tape library and DLT4 tapes, library has total of 500 tapes and almost half of them are scratch. TSM server is version4, release 1, level 3.0 on AIX. Thanks > ----- > Yahya Ilyas > Systems Programmer Sr > Systems Integration & Management > Information Technology > Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-0101 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone: (480) 965-4467 > >
