You need to do a full backup. And make sure you have available drives when you start it.
-----Original Message----- From: Rob Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 11:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The old SCRATCH TAPE NOT FOUND message Hello all, This is my first time posting a question so please don't confuse my newbie frustration with my dire hopelessness. We ran Tivoli 3.7 Server on AIX before I came to this office. It was working fine till "the crash and burn". The log files filled up and TSM stopped and couldn't be started. Since 3.7 was NOT supported by IBM anymore we upgraded to 4.1 and did a "on-phone" upgrade with a Tivoli Support Representative for 2 weeks. It seemed to work fine till it started the "cannot backup the Database" messages in the log files because it couldn't mount the scratch tape it had put the daily DB backup on for the 1 week after the new install. I did a total new install again of 4.1 and got it working again for the last week. The daily DB backup was working fine again till 3 days ago when the same messages came up again. I know it is about to crash and burn again any day now due to this. The server is an IBM RS/6000 H70 running AIX, which is working fine, plus an IBM LTO Ultrium 3580 tape drive and 3583 Tape Library supporting 36 LTO tapes. It is backing up clients fine now and is using tapes perfectly for pool migration. Below is some info: Storage Device Estimated Pct Pct High Low Next Pool Name Class Name Capacity Util Migr Mig Mig Storage (MB) Pct Pct Pool ----------- ---------- ---------- ----- ----- ---- --- ----------- ARCHIVEPOOL DISK 4,000.0 0.0 0.0 90 70 BACKUPPOOL DISK 72,000.0 42.8 42.8 70 50 TAPE SPACEMGPOOL DISK 4,000.0 0.0 0.0 90 70 TAPE ULTRIUM1 3,601,156. 14.7 36.1 80 60 When the backuppool reaches 70%, it migrates to the TAPE pool perfectly. It is the DB BACKUP that is killing me. Here is my DAILY BACKUP COMMAND that is issued everyday at 7:00 am. BACKUP DB dev=Ultrium1 type=INCREMENTAL scratch=YES wait=NO Like is said...this worked fine for like 3-4 days, but now I get this message like every hour for the DB. 06/05/02 09:22:44 ANR2121W ATTENTION: More than 306.012 MB of the database has changed and the last database backup was more than 24 hours ago. Use the BACKUP DB command to provide for database recovery. And when I try the DB BACKUP command now I get these messages in log: ANR0984I Process 112 for DATABASE BACKUP started in the BACKGROUND at 09:54:21. 06/05/02 09:54:21 ANR2281I Incremental database backup started as process 112. 06/05/02 09:54:21 ANR0609I BACKUP DB started as process 112. 06/05/02 09:54:23 ANR1405W Scratch volume mount request denied - no scratch volume available. 06/05/02 09:54:24 ANR4578E Database backup/restore terminated - required volume was not mounted. 06/05/02 09:54:24 ANR0985I Process 112 for DATABASE BACKUP running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 09:54:24. It seems like it can't find the original tape that it did the DB BACKUP on the first few days. I know which tape it did this on but I can't get it to go get it and mount it again. When my DB fills up, my TSM will crash again and won't let me start it up again on server using dsmserv. Anyone have any help or thoughts? Rob L. Jones Operations dotLogix, Inc. - Smarter, Faster Business 901-260-7137
