Thanks for all the responses. I wanted to make certain that there was no way to simply scan tapes for files belonging to a particular node. Apparently there isn't. :-(
This may be a good excuse to practice disaster recovery, and see what's actually involved in reconstructing things on another server.
Thanks again.
Chet Osborn Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
At 01:51 PM 3/17/2004 -0700, Ben Bullock wrote:
Yuck..... Yes this would be possible if your DB and your environment is small.
With your scenario, between steps 3 and 5, no clients can connect to the TSM server (as their data would disappear when step #5 were executed). Where we have Databases push transaction/redo logs to the TSM servers almost constantly, this would not be possible as their data would be lost.
We would have to restore the previous TSM DB to second server instance to recover that data.
Ben
-----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 1:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recovery of deleted filespaces
Well, the good news - you get to test your DR plan! Bad news - it's quite a bit of work.
1) STOP any reclamation processes ASAP.
2) BACKUP your TSM DB as it is now.
3) RESTORE your TSM DB to a point BEFORE your deleted the filespace.
4) EXPORT the client's filespace to a tape. (Will work unless a RECLAIM managed to write over the data after you deleted the filespace).
5) RESTORE your TSM DB from the backup in 2) above
6) IMPORT the filespace you exported.
Good luck!
-----Original Message----- From: Chet Osborn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 3:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Recovery of deleted filespaces
Hi,
In attempting to help a user clean up his backups, mistakenly assumed that he had copies of the subset of folders that he wanted to back up on his disk drive. I deleted the TSM filespace, only to discover that my assumption was incorrect.
If I can figure out which tapes the backups are on, is there any way of restoring them?
Chet Osborn Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
