>From personal experience if you try to checkout a tape that is mounted you
won't be able to.
As for sharing the convenience i/o I think whoever starts their task wins.
On a slightly off question but dealing with the same environment I have
discovered that I have a greedy tsm server in that it will steal scratch
volumes from another server and not tell them. Especially if I do a checkin
seach=yes have you or anyone else ever had that happen?
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Cowen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 4:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3494, multiple tsm's connected, balancing media
Snyder.John [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
>This configuration should allow us to "rebalance" the number of scratch
tapes between the different servers as required. (ie: if I need to move
some tapes from server A to server B, I don't need to peel and stick any
volser labels!) So far, so good...and something I've done occasionally
in the past.
>However, when we use DRM and insert tapes into the 3494 that have
returned from offsite, when we do a checkin for these returned volumes
(using "checkin libv MYLIB stat=scr search=yes devtype=3590 checklabel=no"),
all of the returned media gets checked into the one TSM server that issued
the checkin.
....................
Or script the checkin process. I had the script check the volid's against
the volhist file to see if was volume that was "ours", and only issue
checkins against those that matched. I kept the volhist forever to keep
stats on volume usage, etc. I used mtlib to get a list of inserted tapes.
You would also need to account for "new" scratch tapes that might need
labeling...
