Paul, I'm pretty new to TSM and trying bl**d* hard to get a grip on it. We're experiencing some trouble with TSM in a Windows 2000 environment - issues we'll most likely have solved by the end of this week, probably earlier - this is just to give you *some* background to my question.
When TSM does a space reclamation, I sometimes do see a FAILURE, while a q ev * t=a tells me all ended as succesfull. Is this the problem you are referring to? Second, when I run the SQL-query you post, I get a list of 8 tapes. Is this good or bad? One tape is DESTROYED - which it was, the others are READWRITE. I guess you'll appreciate my little intro now you've read the 2nd question... Let me (and the rest of us) know what you think. Anyone else have some input on this? Kind regards, Rick Harderwijk Systems Administrator Factotum Media BV [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens Seay, Paul Verzonden: 19 maart 2002 5:18 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Backup StgPool Issue Discovered I found out today it appears that a BACKUP STGpool command will just skip tapes that are in an UNAVAILABLE, DESTROYED, or DAMAGED status and put out a little warning message and give you a SUCCESS. DESTROYED is not a problem because I took the overt action to say it was destroyed, but skipping UNAVAILABLE or DAMAGED is not good. I would bet there are hundreds of customers not aware of this. The exposure is your copypool (disaster recovery set) may not include all of the data and not a valid restore point. Unfortunately, a tape can get in the UNAVAILABLE status just because the tape library had a problem dismounting the tape. I have developed a workaround: select volume_name, access from volumes where access not in ('OFFSITE','READONLY','READWRITE','DESTROYED') and stgpool_name LIKE 'TAPE_%' ANR2034E SELECT: No match found using this criteria. ANS8001I Return code 11. This generates a return code 11 if everything is OK, zero is not good. I am developing a script to do my backup commands and capture if there are pools with errors. Everyone may want to at least run this against your primary pools to see if you have any. All my primary pools begin with "TAPE_". Remember % is splat and _ is placeholder. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180
