TSM Restore - Data Unavailable to server

[P90X]

Hello All,

I've accepted the TSM Admin position with my company and next week I will attend training on TSM 5.5. So, this website and another has been very helpful for me on the How To's for TSM.

I need some assistance. I was performing a restore, recevied the restore is complete message, but only one of my documents restored. The rest failed "Data Unavailable To Server"

Has anyone experience this before, if so, would you be so kindly to give me some direction with this. I've research, but no real answer to why this is happening.

Thanks

 

[ProbablyDown]

Hi... That just means that the tape volume is not in the library. You will have to check it in to restore:

To get the vol in question:

q act begind=-1 se=restore - the actlog should have a restore failed message in there somewhere and will tell you the volume serial.

So to check if its in the library try:

q libv <library name> <volume_name>

If it shows up (meaning it IS in the lib) - do:

q vol f=d - to see what the status of the vol is (probablu "UNAVAILABLE") and to check for read/write errors on the tape

If it shows up in the libvol command and no real errors but status=unavailable do:

upd vol access=readw
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If its not in the library - load the tape and do:

checkin libv <libname> <volname> status=private checkl=ba (assuming you have barcodes of course)

Then:
upd vol <volname> access=readw

Then go ahead and try the restore again.

Good luck!

 

[ProbablyDown]

Sorry - small error:

"If it shows up (meaning it IS in the lib) - do:

q vol f=d - to see what the status of the vol is (probablu "UNAVAILABLE") and to check for read/write errors on the tape"


The command is "q vol <volname> f=d"

Otherwise you'd get a HUGE list.. my bad.