Hello, I'm required to perform data restoration test from some offsite tapes. I have never done before this but did some reading from internet.
Below is my understanding : 1) Check offsite tapes into library. 2) Update the status of OFFSITE to readonly. (I'm not sure about this, this appear as one of the step I read in an article. I assume that this is to prevent accidental writes to the offsite tapes). update vol * wherestgpool=offsitepoolname whereaccess=offsite access=readonly 3) Update the status on onsite tapes to DESTROYED or UNAVAILABLE. I assume I can update invidivual volumes/tapes to unavailable update vol * wherestgpool=onsitepoolname access=DESTROYED or UNAVAILABLE (The article only mentioned DESTROYED. I saw the UNAVAILABLE option from the command reference. I think I would use UNAVAILABLE as it sounds less harmful. I don't know what is the impact if I use DESTROYED option as we will need to continue to use the onsite tapes after testing) 4) Restore data. 5) After restoration of data, update the onsite pool to readwrite and update the offsite pool to readwrite (This step is not mention in the article I read, I assume this is the step to normalize things) Is my understanding correct? Hope someone could help on this. Thanks Chan +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by cc1702...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------