Hello all, we are still not finished setting up our backup environment and rules here, using TSM5.1.1.0 on Windows 2000 and a Dell Power Vault with two LTO-drives and 42 slots. After some unforeseen data movements from one server to others, I was running low on available tapes, and encountered the following:
- As all my slots in the lib were full and I feel better with a couple of scratch tapes, i remembered a sales rep telling me that the lib could also use the mailbox slots for storing tapes. Consequently, I tried to checkin new tapes with the search=bulk parameter, which did not work - http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=pv_tape&message.id=251&highlight=tsm#M251 shows that i am not the only one who had encountered this. Does anybody have a solution to this behaviour? - Next, I tried to be clever and manually put tapes from internal slots into the mailbox, and the new tapes into the lib - bad idea. Now i could checkin the new tapes, but the lib did not recognise the tapes in the mailbox and TSM marked them removed. I put the tapes back and did a checkin of the removed tapes as private, but now i wonder how to tell TSM that these tapes are to be used like they were before - full, scratch or whatever? - Coming back to my original problem, I would like to free space on my tapes. A bunch of rather large media files has been moved across a couple of servers, and has been backupped on each, which is a total waste. Is there a method to selectively delete backups of files on the tapes? These files have been part of ordinary incremental daily backups, and now use up space worth a couple of my tapes I,d rather have them deleted - how? Sorry if these questions have been asked recently - I did some searching through my list mailbox and also rtfm on the introduction and reference manuals, but to no avail - pointers would be heartily welcomed! thanks in advance to all, kind regards, tobi... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Tobias Hofmann Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar D99423 Weimar Professur fuer Graphische Datenverarbeitung Projekt medienquadrat SnailMail: Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar, Fak. Medien, D99421 Weimar Location: D99423 Weimar Karl-Haussknechtstr. 7 Zimmer 111 Fon: ++49-(0)3643-58-3780 Fax : -3701 e-mail: mailto:tobias.hofmann@;medien.uni-weimar.de ----------------------------------------------------------------------
