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Re: Hard Drive Failure

2003-06-26 14:52:13
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Failure
From: "Camilo A. Marrugo" <camilo AT DIALTONE DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:51:46 -0400
Thanks Richard, I followed the admin procedures and I am back online.
Thanks for the advice on simultaneous images.

Camilo Marrugo

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 09:44, Richard Sims wrote:
> >This morning during a data center migration, one of the hard drives that
> >holds a volume for the TSM database was damaged. I keep getting I/O
> >errors, and its not mounting. This is besides the point, I have another
> >hard drive coming. My question is, does anybody has any procedure on how
> >to recover from that failure after the hard drive is replaced?
>
> Standard restoral procedures per Admin Guide.
>
> Your plight emphasizes the need for having multiple simultaneous images
> of *SM Database and Recovery Log volumes.  The product itself provides
> for up to three images, and they are well worth having, to safeguard
> against failures such as you experienced.  Disk is cheap these days:
> scrimping and then dealing with downtime costs far more than disks cost.
>
>   Richard Sims, BU
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Camilo A. Marrugo <camilo AT dialtone DOT com>

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