Our instructions to the operations staff is when tapes come back they keep them stacked near the library. When they vault as many tapes come out, they put that many scratch tapes in. The CHECKIN LIBV is scheduled to checkin any/all tapes STATUS=SCRATCH in the I/O door (SEARCH=BULK) or SEARCH=YES for libraries that don't have any I/O door. In that case the operators just open the library, pull out the tapes called for and put a scratch tape back in that slot AND NO OTHERS! There was a site where the operator would fill all empty slots and not look to see if there were any tapes mounted in drives. Library goes to put the tape back in the home slot and finds a tape there. Kinda hoses things up!
Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jin Bae Chi Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 10:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Automated DRM volume handling LTO 3582 library Bill, One more question here if you don't mind. I'm using your cmds currently and work fine for me. But always I need manually check if all tape volumes I requested had come back to my site before I check them in as scratch ones. If there is any discrepancy on the list, for instance some of tape didn't come back, I need to adjust manually, then issued 'checkin libvol' cmd. Any better automation steps that you could think of? Thanks. Gus >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/8/2004 8:39:52 AM >>> For DRM I would just First, to get the list of tapes: query drmedia * wherestate=mountable source=dbbackup Then to actually "move" them: move drmedia * wherestate=mountable source=dbbackup remove=no tostate=vault TO get a list of tapes that are offsite ready to come backup: query drmedia * wherestate=vaultretrieve source=dbbackup Then to "move" them backup: move drmedia * wherestate=vaultretrieve source=dbbackup tostate=onsiteretrieve. When they come backup just put them in as scratch tapes. Then I schedule an admin command: def sched checkin t=a cmd='checkin libv 3582 search=yes checkl=b stat=scr' active=yes startt=17:00 dur=4 The above drmedia commands can be incorporated into a shell script (or batch file) and scheduled via a client schedule. Bill -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alex den Hartog Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 8:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Automated DRM volume handling LTO 3582 library Hi Bill, Thanks for that. Unfortunately, the AutoVault option is not possible. The funny thing is: When I was using a 3570 Magstar MP library, there were no problems at all, as the library would just wait for me to give a reply when the cartridge was ejected into the I/O station. After upgrading the library, It just doesn't work anymore. Alex >From: Bill Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Automated DRM volume handling LTO 3582 library >Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 07:54:36 -0500 > >I just installed on at a site, but the are using Autovault instead of DRM. >Autovault is configured to check out the volumes REM=NO CHECKL=NO. Then >they >just open the library, pull out the tapes called for by Autovault and put a >scratch tape in the slot. then I have a scheduled checkin SEARCH=YES >CHECKL=B for later in the day. The only difficult part is the tapes in the >back of the 3582. You have to make sure you park the picker first. The >manual says that's not the suggested way of doing it, but TSM/Autovault >doesn't support their little buld load/unload funtion. > >Bill Boyer >DSS, Inc. > >-----Original Message----- >From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of >Alex den Hartog >Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 4:26 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Automated DRM volume handling LTO 3582 library > > >Hi listers, > >Is anyone using this new LTO library from IBM with TSM / DRM? And if so, >how >are you performing your automated daily checkin / checkout routines for >your >DRM volumes? > >Any tips would be very much appreciated! > >Thanks, >Alex > >_________________________________________________________________ >MSN Search, for accurate results! http://search.msn.nl _________________________________________________________________ MSN Search, for accurate results! http://search.msn.nl
