Did you bay any chance use DIRMAINT to delete a minidisk that covered cylinder zero of volume 230RES? When DIRMAINT deletes a minidisk, it usua lly has its worker DATAMOVE format the minidisk before deallocating it to prevent the next user from getting data from it.
/Tom Kern On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:57:06 -0500, Mary Zervos wrote: >Anyone game for another question....... > >Yesterday on our new 4.4 system, I was deleting some old users on random >packs using Dirmaint while logged onto Maint. Our person who runs >Vmbackup was logged on her Vmrmaint account running backups. All the >Vmbackup and Vmrmaint mdisks are on the old 230RES pack that we now have >attached to the 4.4 system as CP System. The Vmbackup person called me >to say that all the mdisks for vmbackup and vmrmaint were empty (she >never logged off) and upon checking myself, somehow 230RES was relabeled >to SCRTCH. Wow, was that a shocker for me! I immediately restored a >backup that I had but am now searching for the reason this happened. >Dirmaint?
