Thank you very much Robben, this helps a great deal. I only see a handful of the 100 or so tapes int he DR media list. This tells me that the rest are not useful at this point! thanks again, Daad
Robben Leaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Welcome to the community, Daad! 1- TSM classifies tapes in three partially-overlapping ways: LIBVOL's are the tapes that TSM knows about in an attached tape library; a "Q LIBVOL" will show these volumes, including scratch tapes, and other tapes in the library that aren't in storage pools. VOL's are all volumes (including disk volumes) that are in any storage pools; "Q VOL" will show all of these volumes. Scratch tapes aren't in storage pools. DRMEDIA are tapes that are in any copy storage pools, plus any database backups (which aren't in storage pools), whether these tapes are in the librarey or off site; "Q DRMEDIA" will show all of these tapes. Between these three commands, you should get all of the tapes that TSM knows about, many of them more than once. 2- If a tape shows up as type=STGNEW in the volhistory, it's been checked in as a new, empty volume; TSM doesn't know about any data that might be on it. If the TSM database doesn't know about the data on a volume, it won't be able to get any data off of that volume. There are two exceptions: One, if node data was exported to a tape with the "EXPORT NODE" command; then, the "IMPORT NODE" command can be used to extract the information even if the TSM database doesn't know about it. Two, if a backupset was made using "GENERATE BACKUPSET", the client can restore the data directly from the tapes the data was written to. Hope this helps! Robben Leaf Enterprise Storage Backup and Retention 651-962-2698 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Daad Ali" Sent by: "ADSM: To Dist Stor [email protected] Manager" cc .EDU> Subject [ADSM-L] ALL Tapes known to TSM 06/13/2007 02:28 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" .EDU> a couple of newbie questions, 1- How can I list ALL the tapes that are known to TSM (onsite, offsite, drm, scratch ..etc)? 2- If a tape shows as STGNEW, will the data in it be recoverable? To give a little bit of history... I have a bunch of tapes, I am told used to belong to this TSM server as exchange and SQL server backups and I can olny find them in the volume history file as STGNEW. I don't see them as with q vol. Once again, thanks a bunch. Best regards, Daad --------------------------------- Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Electronic Privacy Notice. This e-mail, and any attachments, contains information that is, or may be, covered by electronic communications privacy laws, and is also confidential and proprietary in nature. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that you are legally prohibited from retaining, using, copying, distributing, or otherwise disclosing this information in any manner. Instead, please reply to the sender that you have received this communication in error, and then immediately delete it. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. ============================================================================== --------------------------------- All new Yahoo! Mail - --------------------------------- Get a sneak peak at messages with a handy reading pane.
