Re: Save / Restore Storage -- MIDRANGE-L

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We talked to the PE and he said that as long as there was the same model drive 
in the same position it should work with parity running, so we took the rack 
config from before and after, and swapped a few drives around to make it match. 
The 2 CE's and a Ex CE here were curious to see if this would work.   And it 
did not.

So we took AL's advice and stopped RAID-5.  We then started the Restore, and 
when this finished it came back to DST and RAID-5 was not going.  So as the 
book says we did a IPL to manual mode, and never came back up because one of 
the new drives failed during the  IPL.

Should RAID have been restarted automatically by the restore storage?

Chris


>>> barsa@barsaconsulting.com 07/30/02 02:32PM >>>

Restoring storage is tricky.  (I have one going on in the next room now.)

The error screens are confusing, at best.

You definitely should NOT add the DASD or start RAID-5.  The restore
storage processing will bring this back.

Al

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We have done a save storage of a machine, and replaced 20 of 30 drives with
the same size drive.  We are now Tring to do a restore storage, and it is
not letting up because it says current configuration does not match what is
on the tape.  We called IBM before we started, and they said it was
possible to do a restore storage, as long as there were the same number of
drives and they were the same size or larger.  Has anyone else done this,
or have any Ideas?  Should we not have started parity before we attempt the
restore?


Thanks,

Chris
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