03-01-2008
Tape Library on Aix
I am having my 14 Aix 5.3 servers on bladecenters connected with my Tape Library.
I had a backup scheduled on tape library but after taking backup successfully,
Now,
Question 1:-
I wanted to restore backup but tape library could not recognize the tape and I get I/O error in TSM. I think it is not recognizing the barcode Label on tape though I think it just check in the tape blindly while backup starts. Whats your suggestion on this any solution..?
Question 2:-
Due to above issue I removed my tape drive rmt0 from TSM Server using command
#rmdev –dl rmt0
After that I wanted to reconfigure my tape library so I fired
#cfgmgr
But it does not detects my tape library rmt0
Then I restarted my tape library and issued same commands but same result
#lsdev –Cc tape
does not throw any output
Also in /dev/, rmt0 directory is absent
What can I do to reactivate my tape drives other than rebooting my server (Aix 5.3)?
Please help immediately, thanks in advance.
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tcopy
tcopy(1) User Commands tcopy(1)
NAME
tcopy - copy a magnetic tape
SYNOPSIS
tcopy source [destination]
DESCRIPTION
The tcopy utility copies the magnetic tape mounted on the tape drive specified by the source argument. The only assumption made about the
contents of a tape is that there are two tape marks at the end.
When only a source drive is specified, tcopy scans the tape, and displays information about the sizes of records and tape files. If a des-
tination is specified, tcopy makes a copies the source tape onto the destination tape, with blocking preserved. As it copies, tcopy pro-
duces the same output as it does when only scanning a tape.
The tcopy utility requires the use of Berkeley-compatible device names. For example,
example% tcopy /dev/rmt/1b /dev/rmt/2b
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWesu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
mt(1), ioctl(2), attributes(5)
NOTES
tcopy will only run on systems supporting an associated set of ioctl(2) requests.
SunOS 5.11 10 Mar 2000 tcopy(1)