Re: Ghost backups from server-to-server backups

2011-08-02 Thread Keith Arbogast
Zoltan, I run 'reconcile volumes virtual volume devclass_name fix=yes' once a month. Our TSM servers are both running version 6.2.2.2, and reconcile finds hundreds of invalid volumes each time it runs. Others' experience may be different. In our situation, I should have opened a PMR long

Re: Ghost backups from server-to-server backups

2011-08-02 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Ghost backups from server-to-server backups Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Zoltan, I run 'reconcile volumes virtual volume devclass_name fix=yes' once a month. Our TSM servers are both running version 6.2.2.2, and reconcile finds hundreds of invalid

Re: Ghost backups from server-to-server backups

2011-08-01 Thread Keith Arbogast
Zoltan, Try running reconcile volumes from both ends. When we do that, it deletes a surprising quantity of orphan virtual volumes. Keith

Re: Ghost backups from server-to-server backups

2011-08-01 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
devclass didn't give any errors - of course, I had already deleted the filespace on the target server (needed to get back the 7TB of storage/volumes) From: Keith Arbogast warbo...@indiana.edu To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 08/01/2011 12:06 PM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Ghost backups from server-to-server

Ghost backups from server-to-server backups

2011-07-29 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
Back a while ago, one of my smaller servers kept overflowing it's disk LZ and couldn't access tape drives. To handle the overload, I setup virtual volume backups defining a storage pool on another TSM server that had plenty of disk space. When the tape drives were accessible, I migrated these