to
2.80.0041.
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be the cause of all the errors.
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for the answers. Yesterday I upgraded the firmware on the
drives and library of our production system, and all went fine.
(We use tapes with six-positions serial numbers, so weren't affected by the
library firmware update)
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about the number of processed databage pages remaining
constant. Did anybody see this before? I have searched the archives
but couldn't find this.
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My question is: has anybody else experienced this behaviour? (ie. AUDITDB
changing schedules to execute each day)
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be
preempted.
Is BACKUP STGPOOL a Backup, archive, or HSM migration process?
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On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 03:33:01PM -0500, Guillaume Gilbert wrote:
Registered both the OS client and the Mail client. When I run
domdsmc q adsmserv I get a response from
Are you running the TDP with a Terminal Services client? If so,
don't. :-)
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notice this *real soon* and fix this, because this error
means that *all* mail for the entire tivoli.com domain will be bounced
immediately by this server. :-)
(And it's the primary mail exchanger too, ouch!)
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other* archives bound to MC_A will *also*
be kept longer. You cannot get TSM to apply special rules just for file
A, the changes you make apply to *all* archived files with management
class MC_A.
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should be fixed.)
My question is: in recent versions of TSM, do page writes happen atomically
or not? I would like to use the mirroring in our Symmetrix, but if TSM is
still vulnerable to the problem of partial page writes invalidating volumes
I would have to use TSM mirroring.
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before? Our TSM
server is at 5.1.6.2 (AIX 4.3.3 ML10), the client TRIASDC1 is at 5.1.5.15
(W2K) and TRIINFRA (RedHat Linux AS) is at 4.2.3.3.
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with sequential mirror writing, but our TSM server isn't
bottlenecked on database I/O. When (if) database I/O starts to become a
problem, most likely we'll switch to non-TSM mirroring.
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BACKUPGROUP command. *If* the System
Objects are causing this problem, CLEANUP BACKUPGROUP can help. Note
that CLEANUP BACKUPGROUP is only available at later TSM levels!
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clients (about 10 clients)
In that case, the auditdb might very well take very long. On this list,
there have been reports of an auditdb taking several days.
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installed with the correct option (Install and Update
from ALL available software).
It's not everywhere that linefeeds are missing, and it's only a very minor
cosmetic problem.
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reading tapes without the accompanying database.
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, and cannot be cancelled.
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,
by the way. Thanks again! :-) )
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issues are still being checked out.
Thanks for your reply,
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isn't able to delete things from only
a certain storagepool, which would be the point of that fictional DELETE
NODEDATA command. Although, granted, an option such as
FROMSTG=storagepool to DELETE FILESPACE would work too. :-)
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.
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duties, I would have saved thousands of hours explaining to people why
they were only gonna get them over my dead body. - Lee K. Gleason, VMS sysadmin
Volume?-line. If it says yes there, that volume is originally was a
scratch volume, and uses up a MAXSCRATCH slot.)
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I often reflect that if privileges had been called responsibilities or
duties, I would have saved thousands of hours explaining to people why
they were only gonna get
, this is probably totally unsupported. :-) )
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duties, I would have saved thousands of hours explaining to people why
they were only gonna get them over my dead body. - Lee K. Gleason, VMS sysadmin
.
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On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:19:15PM +0100, Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM wrote:
2nd quarter 2004. But I don't see any TDP (for Oracle) clients for Linux
platforms.
It does exist, we downloaded ours from the Passport Advantage-site. It's
in the same archive as the other platforms.
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it has the backups, while TSM expired them.
So: configure TSM to not ever expire any backups made with RMAN. This is
quite easy, and is explained in the installation documentation of the TDP
for Oracle. Let RMAN take care of the database retention policy. That's
what it's designed to do.
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. (In our setup, the backup piece
size is quite large, much larger than the typical archivelog
backup. Choosing a correct value for MAXSIZE wouldn't be too
difficult.)
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for Oracle,
but apparently I wasn't clever enough to think of them. :-)
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. Don't bring out the combine harvester just to tidy
up the flower pot.
What is the reason the Installation Guide tells us to do kill -9?
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E-mail has just erupted like a weed, and instead of considering
what to say when they write, people now just let thoughts drool
out onto
using stdin/stdout/stderr
instead of its own console magic. Now I have to use Expect when scripting
dsmadmc stuff; it would be *much* handier if I could just open a pipe to
and from dsmadmc.
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what to say when
)
encountering end-of-volume? At least, that is the problem I'm encountering.
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what to say when they write, people now just let thoughts drool
out onto the screen. - R. Craig Hogan
files in one large chunk).
Also, ADSM.QuickFacts says that sequential volumes have advantages
in a database restoral situation.
Would it be a good idea to return to a large DIRPOOL of type DISK
and eliminate DIRFILE, on TSM 5.3 and AIX 5.2?
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primary tape pool takes place. Nothing fancy needed here.
So the data from the DIRMC pool ends up on a sequential primary pool?
Am I correct in concluding that such a configuration does not result
in problems, e.g. performance-issues when doing offsite reclamation?
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, and (historically) for the
offsite reclamation performance problems (but this is no longer a
valid reason).
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to the TSM
server (SIGPIPE). Test this well.
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limit.
Nice features on the client side: the ability for the TDPs to plug-in
into the Web-interface of the standard client, so you can do TDP for
Domino-restore from the regular Web-client.
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sparse files are in the same
place as the holes in the original files.
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reclamation started issuing errors reporting it couldn't access
onsite versions of the objects it was reclaiming on offsite volumes.
All the objects it couldn't access on onsite volumes should have been
in the affected stgpool.
IBM has reproduced this problem and is analyzing it.
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E
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. Again without any real errors.
We're now on firmware level 4AP0, which should contain a fix for our
silly TapeAlert and tape directory corruption problem.
Are TapeAlerts enabled in your setup? If not, try enabling them and
look in the TSM log for any TapeAlerts.
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system)
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K 458 NodeAIX TRIDW1
15,278 Tcp/Ip IdleW 2 S 63 4 Node
I have opened a PMR about this, but I wondered if somebody here
encountered this problem and might have a workaround. The client
version is 5.2.2.5.
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On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 03:16:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If MOVE NODEDATA had a preview=yes, then we could parse the output of that
command in a fairly straightforward manner.
Then you might be interested in QUERY NODEDATA, a new command in TSM 5.3.
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On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 08:09:45PM -, Iain Barnetson wrote:
I can tell you that the procedure as it is now DOES NOT work.
Read http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html for
more info about how to effectively solve your problem.
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a problem. (Of course, in some cases, a document about how to properly
*read* a bugreport would be handy as well.)
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, which migrated to the affected FILE pool)
In TSM 5.2 and earlier, this wasn't a problem. In 5.3 (and presumably
later), each tiny object now takes up 256 KiB at a minumum, causing
a *huge* overhead.
The solution was to stop using FILE volumes for this pool, but only DISK
volumes.
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capacity, hardware compression and the
block or header sizes dictated by the actual device.Because of
these conditions, the waste seen on a FILE volume may not have the
same impact or even noticeable on tape volumes.
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could be generous was that
directories were so small that it wouldn't matter a lot. With the new
handling of sequential volumes, it does start to matter (and sometimes
a lot).
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encountering end-of-volume. The description given in the PMR seems to fit
the symptoms quite well.
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of archived packages
to choose from.
What I would like to know is how to achieve something like this
(pseudocommand):
dsmc delete archive -des=gl-2004*
This would then delete all archived data with a matching description,
even when only directories are present in a package.
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already a CLI user, and TSM is no exception: when
upgrading to 5.3, I didn't even *try* to bother installing the ISC. :-)
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also tried the command with /oracle/ and still
getting nothing. I retried and now the directories did show up!
What was the cause? Instead of using query archive, I used delete
archive -pick earlier on, but I failed to realise that -pick only
shows files. D'oh!
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with one of those, I
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, resulting in bad performance with that
tape (but no I/O-errors), and genuine TapeAlerts on that volume from then
on. Not letting TSM report the TapeAlerts would only have masked the
problem, since no hard errors occured..
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On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:00:31AM -0300, TSM User wrote:
If I delete a volume of a primary SP (discard data = yes) that happens
with the data that are in the copy SP
You can find out with the command HELP DELETE VOLUME.
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On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:59:03PM +0200, Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM wrote:
The 5.3.0 client package does only contain a 64-bit API client and no 64-bit
BA client. Does anybody know why that is?
Yes I do, and so do the creators of the accompanying README file... :-)
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or storage system mirroring, not TSM mirroring. The TSM
documentation implies that TSM mirroring will protect against certain failures
against which OS or storage system mirroring will not protect. (I think
this is a shortcoming of TSM, but not so bad I can't live with it. :-) )
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in a copypool. It's not smart enough to take the data from the primary
pools. Yes, this s*cks, and yes, DELETE NODEDATA would be handy. :-)
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to comfortably work on
modern unix variants.
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, an error would have
been issued.
There is an APAR for this behaviour, but that is closed as a suggestion
because IBM finds it too much trouble to fix.
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helpful and very concerned with the quality of TSM.
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:08:02AM -0600, Todd Lundstedt wrote:
them from the old copy storage pool. But nothing moved. What is wrong?
The implementation of MOVE NODEDATA (especially early versions) is a bit
wobbly. For your particular problem, see APAR IC36499.
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if all the data was indeed moved.
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, a programmer apparently took advantage of it to
also include the reporting of off-site volumes.
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On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:48:05PM -0500, Prather, Wanda wrote:
But, the LTO2 drives can read media that was written by LTO1.
Do you know whether LTO1 cleaning tapes work in LTO2 drives?
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to accomplish that?
Also, the devclass for the new library will have FORMAT=ULTRIUM2C. Will
this cause any problems when a drive gets an LTO1 tape?
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it doesn't work that way. If you have a copypool volume that
is 20% full when you send it offsite, it's immediately a candidate
for reclamation. The manual warns that this may result in excessive
reclamation, if you're not careful.
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: 26308)
04/23/04 10:39:07 ANR2063I Node TRIDEV1 updated. (SESSION: 26308)
You don't get to see the ANR4739E unless you look in the actlog.
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Avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive, such as a mirrored
volume or a RAID-5 volume. Paging files do not need fault
much more likely to get an answer to your question on the AIX
Toolbox mailing list. If you read that list, you would've seen that I had
the same issue and that upgrading to the SSH released by IBM on May 4 fixed it.
:-)
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Avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive
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Avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive, such as a mirrored
volume or a RAID-5 volume. Paging files do not need fault-tolerance. - 308417
://www-1.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/lto/3584.html
There is a nice Firmware link and after 2 clicks you can download any
firmware you want for your library.
And, yet again, the latest versions on that page are 38D0 and 3480. *The
original poster already *has* those versions*.
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)
Otherwise, you could check with truss to see what dsmcad is doing.
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Avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive, such as a mirrored
volume or a RAID-5 volume. Paging files do not need fault-tolerance. - 308417
for the copy storage pools as well?
Yes. Keep in mind that MOVE NODEDATA is not very useful for offsite
copypools, since it requires the copypool-volumes to be onsite and
available. (It doesn't work like e.g. MOVE DATA does, which gets the
files from the primary pool)
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Avoid putting
into this, the more I am inclined to never use more than
one copy pool for any given TSM server.
Especially so with a MOVE NODEDATA that would work on offsite volumes.
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Avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive, such as a mirrored
volume or a RAID-5 volume. Paging files do not need
by default, so kill dsmserv pid
should work.
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Avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive, such as a mirrored
volume or a RAID-5 volume. Paging files do not need fault-tolerance.-MS Q308417
into.
While I fully agree with you, it *is* frustrating that a somewhat common
response to a problem is works as designed, and the impression is left
that feedback is not something IBM support is waiting for.
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Avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive, such as a mirrored
known-good media and backups.
You cannot trust anything on that machine now, unfortunately.
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Avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive, such as a mirrored
volume or a RAID-5 volume. Paging files do not need fault-tolerance.-MS Q308417
a call open with IBM. That call is progressing at glacial
pace however, and they make me jump through several hoops. So, I'm
interested in any experiences of other people.
Thanks for reading this far. :-)
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I often reflect that if privileges had been called responsibilities or
duties
something.
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I often reflect that if privileges had been called responsibilities or
duties, I would have saved thousands of hours explaining to people why
they were only gonna get them over my dead body. - Lee K. Gleason, VMS sysadmin
FlashCopy (or your storage
system's equivalent) as a way to restore your datafiles (in case of a
database) very fast. By restoring them from the FlashCopy, you don't need
to restore them from TSM.
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I often reflect that if privileges had been called responsibilities or
duties, I would
(AIX 5.2) to crash hard
several times. (Fortunately this is solved now, but now we're getting
nonsensical TapeAlerts from the 3584. This case is now open for several
months.)
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I often reflect that if privileges had been called responsibilities or
duties, I would have saved thousands
and attaching from TSM that way?
Well, we thought about it, but decided it wasn't worth the trouble. :-)
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I often reflect that if privileges had been called responsibilities or
duties, I would have saved thousands of hours explaining to people why
they were only gonna get them over my dead
. However, when the default
port is already used by another application when dsmcad starts up, it
will pick another one and the TSM server can't reach the client.
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. Something
was causing schedmode prompted to not work, and that something is still
there. It's probably wise to look into this, because that something might
also cause other things to fail.
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slots
being unexpectedly full and TapeAlerts about the library inventory
being inconsistent.
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inventory using the front panel, *all* tapes are detected,
*including* the ones that the library didn't see just seconds earlier.
This is consistent behaviour: inventory triggered by powerup/front
door -- tapes invisible, inventory triggered manually -- all tapes
visible.
Weird.
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 02:33:00PM -0500, Kathleen M Hallahan wrote:
Is this something you folks are seeing in all frames, or in just one?
Both. Our 3584 is just one frame. :)
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, it looks like someone from your Legal Department escaped and
came too close to a computer again. Please be more careful with them
in the future.
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want an off-the-shelf product instead
of your own code? Is the Perl-code not functioning correctly?
What problem are you trying to solve?
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You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
configurations which
you don't even use. Homegrown code has only the complexity you need.
As a side note: it would really *really* be nice to have a documented
API to enter dsmadmc commands
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
.
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
products really are quite benificial to have. (I guess the vendors are
quite happy with the ISC/AC-behemoth :) )
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You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
that was listening on 1581. The dsmcad that you left running was
listening on an unknown (by the TSM server) port.
The TSM server then tried to contact the dsmcad process on its default
port, but on that port nothing was listening so communication failed.
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before running it's backup. I think the more
typical solution is to just run the tsm backup client within the os of
each virtual machine.
You can run the TSM client on ESX Server, it's just Red Hat 7.2. You can
use the add redo feature to back up running virtual machines.
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Savage's
.
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
also assuming that if the 1 hour time set elapses without the port
clearing will also result in an incomplete process.
It's all quite clearly explained when you type HELP MOVE DRM. The 3584 is
a SCSI library, but I assume you know that.
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
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