Good idea for sites that have the need to read an 8 char label in an library that only supports the 6 characters. I'll try this myself.
I still believe that if you are starting from scratch it is best to set up the library to only use 6 characters. Then there is no need for any special consideration down the line. William Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just check the tapes in with CHECKLABEL=YES instead of CHECKLABEL=BARCODE. Then TSM/the library will ignore the barcodes and read the internal label. Once they're checked in TSM only uses the element numbers to move tapes around. Now if you have a lot of tapes to checkin, this could take a while. Bill Boyer "Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ?? -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TSM_User Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 3:06 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: 8 or 6 character We have found that if you check the tapes into a library that does not read the last 2 characters then you can not use them. It is a good idea to use the 6 character configuration. As an example if you have a tape seen as A00001L1 in an IBM library the TSM DB will know the tape as this. When you check it into an STK library as A00001 TSM will not assume it is the same tape at the L1. We have sites with both IBM 3583's and STK L40's at our hot site we have one of each as well for recovery. We did not make sure to turn off the reading of the last two characters so now we can read our STK tapes in the IBM library but not the other way around. Maybe if you were in a major pinch there would be a way to update the database with the help of support but there is no rename volume command in TSM. Otto Schakenbos wrote: today we became our new 3584 (to replace 2 x 7337) and we are of course very happy. Now the initial adrenaline shock is over and we stopped drooling I remembered something about 8 and 6 character labels. The library currently uses 8 character labels, what happens if, in a disaster recovery scenario for example, I need to use a library that can only read 6 character label. (which is every non-ibm library if i recall correctly?) Am I able to read my volumes in such a library or is it a good idea to switch to 6 character now for compatibility since it is still relatively easy to do so at this point? (will need to re-label all my shiny new volumes but that is ok) I know it has been posted before but can't find it. thnx -- Otto Schakenbos System Administrator TEL: +49-7151/502 8468 FAX: +49-7151/502 8489 MOBILE: +49-172/7102715 E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Teleflex Holding GmbH Corporate IT Europe Fronackerstrasse 33-35 71332 Waiblingen GERMANY --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone.
