Actually there is no difference between DESTROYED and UNAVAILABLE. I would recommend to use DESTROYED at Disaster Site and UNAVAILABLE during testing at main site.
I think you finally need to update all offsite volumes to status OFFSITE, not READWRITE. Grigori G. Solonovitch Senior Technical Architect Information Technology Ahli United Bank Kuwait http://www.ahliunited.com.kw Phone: (+965) 2231-2274 Mobile: (+965) 99798073 E-Mail: [email protected] Please consider the environment before printing this Email -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of cc1702004 Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 1:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] Need to perform simple restoration test from offsite tape Hello, I'm required to perform data restoration test from some offsite tapes. I have never done before this but did some reading from internet. Below is my understanding : 1) Check offsite tapes into library. 2) Update the status of OFFSITE to readonly. (I'm not sure about this, this appear as one of the step I read in an article. I assume that this is to prevent accidental writes to the offsite tapes). update vol * wherestgpool=offsitepoolname whereaccess=offsite access=readonly 3) Update the status on onsite tapes to DESTROYED or UNAVAILABLE. I assume I can update invidivual volumes/tapes to unavailable update vol * wherestgpool=onsitepoolname access=DESTROYED or UNAVAILABLE (The article only mentioned DESTROYED. I saw the UNAVAILABLE option from the command reference. I think I would use UNAVAILABLE as it sounds less harmful. I don't know what is the impact if I use DESTROYED option as we will need to continue to use the onsite tapes after testing) 4) Restore data. 5) After restoration of data, update the onsite pool to readwrite and update the offsite pool to readwrite (This step is not mention in the article I read, I assume this is the step to normalize things) Is my understanding correct? Hope someone could help on this. Thanks Chan +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [email protected] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [email protected]. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- Please consider the environment before printing this Email. ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY AND WAIVER: The information contained in this electronic mail message and any attachments hereto may be legally privileged and confidential. The information is intended only for the recipient(s) named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that any use, disclosure, copying or distribution is prohibited. If you have received this in error please contact the sender and delete this message and any attachments from your computer system. We do not guarantee that this message or any attachment to it is secure or free from errors, computer viruses or other conditions that may damage or interfere with data, hardware or software.
