Dear colleagues,
I didn't think this would resolve this way, but... I just looked at this
tape again, and it IS NOT EMPTY ANYMORE! I never saw it go into the
scratch pool, and it is still in the same storage pool (ARCHLOG_TAPE).
That storage pool is used for Oracle achived redo logs, and we back those
up every hour or two on every system with an Oracle database in archive
mode. Here's a clip from my activity log...
08/31/01 16:16:52 ANR1425W Scratch volume DBR086 is empty but will not
be deleted - volume state is "mountablenotinlib".
09/01/01 10:32:56 ANR8337I DLT volume DBR086 mounted in drive DRIVE3
(/dev/mt11).
09/01/01 11:49:57 ANR8325I Dismounting volume DBR086 - 60 minute mount
retention expired.
09/01/01 11:50:18 ANR8336I Verifying label of DLT volume DBR086 in
drive DRIVE3 (/dev/mt11).
09/01/01 11:51:46 ANR8468I DLT volume DBR086 dismounted from drive
DRIVE3 (/dev/mt11) in library ATL.
09/02/01 09:18:27 ANR1228I Removable volume DBR086 is required for
storage pool backup.
09/02/01 09:18:27 ANR8324I DLT volume DBR086 is expected to be mounted
(R/W).
09/02/01 09:20:00 ANR8337I DLT volume DBR086 mounted in drive DRIVE0
(/dev/mt8).
Looks like it was used yesterday morning for a storage pool backup. I'm
wondering now if another admin defined this tape as belonging to that
storage pool... although I would think I should have been able to delete
it. And there's still the media state discrepancy issue.
Oh well, I guess we'll just move forward, and wath to see if it happens
again!
Thanks to all for your suggestions.
Robin Sharpe
Berlex Laboratories
