Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows: Administrator's Reference
Use this command to reload a dumped TSM database in optimal order.
No other server activity is allowed while reloading the database.
Perform the applicable steps in this order:
- When recovering from a failure reinstall TSM using the DSMSERV LOADFORMAT
and create a new database and recovery log. This keeps the original
database and log volumes intact in case you must repeat the dump and
load.
Attention: Do not reinitialize DISK storage pool
volumes.
- Save the current sequential volume history to a file. The load
process regresses the sequential volume history information. The saved
copy should be printed or copied to a safe location. The information in
the dataset will be needed after the database is reloaded. If the data
is not printed or copied, key information may be lost when the server is
restarted after loading the database.
- The DSMSERV LOADDB utility specifies a device class to be used when
reading the database information. Ensure that a device configuration
file that includes the definitions for this device class and for any required
libraries and drives is available.
Attention: The DSMSERV LOADDB command only supports the use
of manual libraries (LIBTYPE=MANUAL in the DEFINE LIBRARY command).
- Run the DSMSERV LOADDB utility.
- A message at the end of the output from the DSMSERV LOADDB indicates if
you must audit the database. If the server was halted with the HALT
command with the quiesce parameter and allowed to end normally before running
the DSMSERV DUMPDB utility, an AUDITDB utility will not normally be required
when the database is loaded using the DSMSERV LOADDB utility.
Otherwise, run the DSMSERV AUDITDB utility to ensure that the database is
returned to a synchronized state after it is reloaded. If there was any
storage pool volume activity after the dump, audit the volumes by using the
AUDIT VOLUME command. (The AUDIT VOLUME command is run from the command
prompt with the server running in normal mode.)
- Audit all disk volumes.
- Use the volume history information to identify sequential volumes to be
audited. Audit all volumes that have been reused after the last
dump. Volumes identified as deleted in the sequential volume history
file which are still available, have not been reinstalled, and have not been
reused by another application should also be audited. If the deleted
volumes are no longer available, delete all references to them using the
DELETE VOLUME command with the DISCARDDATA=YES parameter.
- Note:
- When a database is loaded or restored, the server-to-server
communication verification token is changed. The verification token is
an attribute of the database and is not stored in the database itself.
Part of the token is the install date and time for the database. For
servers that have been defined for server-to-server communications, you must
issue an UPDATE SERVER command with FORCESYNC=YES.
Syntax
>>-DSMSERV LOADDB--DEVclass--=--device_class_name--------------->
.-,-----------.
V |
>----VOLumenames--=--+---volume_name-+-+-----------------------><
'-FILE:file_name--'
Parameters
- DEVclass (Required)
- Specifies the device class to be used when reading the database
information. |You cannot use a device class with a device type of NAS.
- VOLumenames (Required)
- Specifies the volumes needed to load the database. Possible values
are:
- volume_name
- The names of the volumes. To specify multiple volumes, separate the
names with commas and no intervening spaces. List the volumes in the
order in which they were used for the DSMSERV DUMPDB command.
- FILE:file_name
- The name of a file that contains a list of the volumes. Each volume
name must be on a separate line in the order in which they were used for the
DSMSERV DUMPDB command.
Examples
Task 1
Load the database from the DB0001, DB0002, and DB0003 tapes.
- Command:
-
dsmserv loaddb devclass=tapeclass
volumenames=db0001,db0002,db0003
Task 2
Load the database using tapes listed in the ADSM.VOLLIST
file.
- Command:
-
dsmserv loaddb devclass=tapeclass
volumenames=file:adsm.vollist
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