It indeed is. Ofcourse, I would test any changes first :-) Cheers, Rick On Jun 4, 2012 5:04 PM, "Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks. That pretty much confirms that OFFLINE is useless to me since I > don't want to loose the data, if at all possible. 19TB is a lot to > restore from dozens of offsite tapes. > > > Zoltan Forray > TSM Software & Hardware Administrator > Virginia Commonwealth University > UCC/Office of Technology Services > [email protected] - 804-828-4807 > Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will > never use email to request that you reply with your password, social > security number or confidential personal information. For more details > visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html > > > > From: Rick Harderwijk <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 06/04/2012 10:55 AM > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] What does volume status of OFFLINE mean/do? > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> > > > > Zoltan, > > Update volume wherestatus=offline would mean to do something to volumes > that have a status of offline. I'd think you would have to use > > update volume * access=unavailable wherestgpool=<SANSTGVOLUMEPOOL> > wherestatus=offline > > Output from help update volume: > > UNAVailable > Specifies that neither client nodes nor server processes can > access files stored on the volume. > Before making a random access volume unavailable, you must vary > the volume offline. After you make a random access volume > unavailable, you cannot vary the volume online. > If you make a sequential access volume unavailable, the server > does not attempt to mount the volume. > If the volume being updated is an empty scratch volume that had an > access mode of offsite, the server deletes the volume from the > database. > Cheers, > > Rick > > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > A recent SAN system upgrade sort-of killed 19TB of storage volumes, > making > > them "read only". > > > > Since we are having pathing issues, plus we need to perform fsck on > these > > volumes due to the journal being screwed-up, I wanted to disable use of > > these disk volumes without killing the server, if possible. > > > > When I look in the book for UPDATE VOLUME WHERESTATUS=OFFLINE, all it > > says is Update volumes with a status of OFFLINE . What exactly does > that > > mean? What happens to the contents? > > > > > > Zoltan Forray > > TSM Software & Hardware Administrator > > Virginia Commonwealth University > > UCC/Office of Technology Services > > [email protected] - 804-828-4807 > > Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will > > never use email to request that you reply with your password, social > > security number or confidential personal information. For more details > > visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html > > >
