Rob Hefty wrote: >Hello, > >We recently removed a damaged 3584 library tape from our primary tape pool. >We were unable to complete the move data command and the data was >unavailable. We removed the tape and deleted it from the database. Luckily >we still have the copy pool tape. What if we need to do a restore from this >dataset, does TSM know to ask for the copy pool instead of the primary? > >Thanks, >Rob Hefty >IS Operations >Lab Safety Supply > > Rob,
The answer is YES, if you try to do a restore/retrieve of data that was on that tape it will get it from the copypool volume if that volume is available, i,e, not offsite. However, that is nice and will work but I would rather be proactive (how do you like that word, managers just loveit!!) and do a "restore volume" and bring the data back right a way. Also, this will insure your protection of the data since it will now be on 2 tapes again. If your copypool vol;umes are offsite, then you can run the restore with "preview=yes" to get a list of tapes you will need to bring on site. I hope that helps. -- Regards, Mark D. Rodriguez President MDR Consulting, Inc. =============================================================================== MDR Consulting The very best in Technical Training and Consulting. IBM Advanced Business Partner SAIR Linux and GNU Authorized Center for Education IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert, CATE AIX Support and Performance Tuning, RS6000 SP, TSM/ADSM and Linux Red Hat Certified Engineer, RHCE ===============================================================================
