I agree with Richard, the tapes won't all go to scratch, they will go to INSERT status.
If you have to go that way, I don't think it will be a big deal. 1) Checkout all your tapes from TSM with REMOVE=NO. (You can use SQL to generate the commands to do them all at once, no need to do it manually; let me know if you need help with that.) 2) When your service people are done and the tapes are in INSERT status, run a checkin using VOLRANGE to check in tapes in the library into SCRATCH status. TSM is smart enough that you will get an error message for each one that is defined in the DB or VOLHISTORY, saying you are NOT ALLOWED to check them in as scratch. So your scratch tapes will be checked in, the private tapes won't. 3) Run another checkin using VOLRANGE to check in the tapes with status=PRIVATE. Voila. Everything back to normal. Wanda Prather "I/O, I/O, It's all about I/O" -(me) -----Original Message----- From: Christoph Pilgram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AW: Upgrade Library 3494 Hi Richard, That way is the second possible way to migrate. My service people told me that for this way they have to upgrade the library-manager on the existing pc. Then they could backup the database, connect the new pc import the database and all should be fine. They told me that they sometimes had problems with this way and then there would be no way back. And I don't know which one is the better way. Thanks Chris -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. April 2004 14:24 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Upgrade Library 3494 >We are running TSM (AIX 5.1 / TSM 5.1) with a 3494 Library with about 2000 >tapes inside (most of them private). Because we have new drives in our >library (3592) we have to upgrade the library manager software (incl. New >Library-Manager-PC inside the Library). Our support wants to take the old PC >out of the Library, the new one with the new Library-Manager-Software into >the library and make just a reinventory of the library to build the >library-manager-database. >I know that the info about the status of the tapes (private or scratch) is >available in the library-manager-database. With a new inventory, I think, >all tapes will go to category scratch. In our tsm-server the category is >also available. >Is there a possibility to get the info about the status of the tapes >synchronized from tsm-server to library. Is there a problem if library has >the tape as category scratch and tsm has the tape as private (member of a >tape-storage-pool with data)? Christoph - An interesting situation there... For the effects of a change implemented in that manner, refer to "Re-inventory complete system" in redbook "IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape: A Practical Guide". (All tapes end up in Insert category. To be avoided.) Your IBM service people should be aware of better approaches... The Library Manager consists of the industrial PC, LM software, and a database. The database is a logically separate entity, and can be handled in pretty much the same way as any other database can, to the best of my knowledge, which includes preserving its contents across a hardware change. If you activate the Service Menu portion of the control panel menu repertoire, under Utilities you will see "Backup database..." and "Restore database...". Your service people should be exhorted to fully pursue the potential there, and not needlessly disrupt the customer environment. Remind them that this is Enterprise level hardware and software, which implies continuity without untoward disruption. Richard Sims, http://people.bu.edu/rbs
