Ramblings of a sysadmin
Archive for September, 2009
TSM: Lost Tapes
02 years ago
by Kristijan
in Shell Scripting
We had an issue not long ago were Tivoli Storage Manager was losing track of tapes. The issue ended up being how TSM manages database snapshots which are sent offsite using DRM (Bug in TSM which has been around for a while according to a colleague of mine).
I needed to find out quickly which tapes TSM had no knowledge of, and had essentially become scratch. I wrote the following script to do just that for me. You’ll need to tailor it to your environment, as our tapes are bar-coded COL000L4 through to COL120L4.
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Monitor AIX filesystems V2
02 years ago
by Kristijan
in Shell Scripting
I updated this script a while back and made it a lot easier to maintain. It now checks for usage on all mounted filesystems, except for those listed in the $SKIPFS variable.
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