Expert Guide, Use CaseDB Backup is full - how to continue backing up? Clean up expired virtual volumes with Reconcile Volumes Fix for IBM Storage Protect

Oliver Ladage — 30. April 2024
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Reconcile Volumes Fix für IBM Storage Protect

Scenario: Two IBM Storage Protect servers are running in the environment, each with virtual volumes. The DB backup of the ISP servers is mutually backed up to the virtual volumes, but is full.

Reconcile Volumes Fix for IBM Storage Protect

The investigation was triggered when it was discovered that a hard drive for DB backups was full. It was discovered that some volumes on this drive were very old and no longer appeared in the volume history.

DBBackup im TSM-Server IBM Storage Protect voll
DB Backup in the IBM Storage Protect Server environment

How to proceed

Using the command

"Q Vol stgp=dbbackup devc=dbs"

these were still visible. However, the old volumes in the file system were deleted beforehand because, as already mentioned, the hard drive for the DB backups was full.

Die alten Volumes im Dateisystem gelöscht
Old volumes deleted from the file system

During the current reclaim, these volumes were set to unavailable status.

Volumes in ‘not available’ status

These volumes could then be deleted by the command

"del vol --- discarddata=yes"

After all old volumes were deleted from the ISP server, both servers of the virtual volumes had to be cleaned up with the command:

"REConcile Volumes <devclass> fix=yes"
Damit waren dann beide Server wieder in einem konsistenten Zustand.
Clean up both servers of the virtual volumes

Both servers were then in a consistent state again.

Additional IBM Storage Protect links

BACKUP DB (database backup)

Last update: 2024-03-22

https://www.ibm.com/docs/de/storage-protect/8.1.22?topic=commands-backup-db-back-up-database

RECONCILE VOLUMES (reconciliation of differences)

Last update: 2023-09-14

https://www.ibm.com/docs/de/storage-protect/8.1.20?topic=ac-reconcile-volumes-reconcile-differences-in-virtual-volume-definitions

 

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Oliver Ladage

Oliver Ladage ist seit 2019 im Bereich Empalis Managed Service tätig. Der Informatiker ist als Junior Service Engineer vielseitig in Umgebungen wie Windows, Microsoft und VMWare unterwegs. Im Bereich Backup- und Recovery Management sind seine Schwerpunkte insbesondere IBM Spectrum Protect, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus und Veeam - auch in der Cloud.

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