Greetings,
We are running TSM 5.4.2 server on AIX 5.3. We are in a shared
library environment, with 10 TSM server instances sharing a IBM3584 tape
library, while one TSM server instance acts as the library master.
Occassionally, maybe once every few weeks, we get into a situation where
a tape is reclaimed, then goes into Vaultretrieve. Then our daily
scripts notify our offsite vendor to return that tape, and moves it to
Courierretrieve. The tape then becomes a scratch tape, as you can seen
in this actlog:
Date/Time Message
--------------------
----------------------------------------------------------
05/28/2008 06:15:00 ANR2017I Administrator EXTSCRIPT issued command:
MOVE
DRMEDIA 040153 TOST=COURIERR W=Y (SESSION: 79397)
05/28/2008 06:15:00 ANR6683I MOVE DRMEDIA: Volume 040153 was moved from
VAULTRETRIEVE state to COURIERRETRIEVE. (SESSION:
79397,
PROCESS: 240)
05/28/2008 06:29:48 ANR1341I Scratch volume 040153 has been deleted
from
storage pool DRCOPYPOOL. (SESSION: 79452)
05/28/2008 06:29:48 ANR6684I MOVE DRMEDIA: Volume 040153 was deleted.
(SESSION: 79452)
Something goes wrong, though, because we would expect that the instance
that just scratched the tape would notify the library master. That must
happen most of the time, because usually the next day the tape comes
back and can be checked back in as a scratch. But sometimes, we get
this message:
05/29/08 16:50:04 ANR8443E CHECKIN LIBVOLUME: Volume 040153 in
library
SUN0092 cannot be assigned a status of SCRATCH.
(SESSION:
358188, PROCESS: 745)
from the library master when we try to check in the scratch tapes. Not
for all the returning scratch tapes either, but just a few. For some
reason the library master still thinks the TSM server instance owns the
tape, when that isn't true any longer. But if we wait a few days, we
can check the tapes in fine.
Can somebody tell me why a tape (or small group of tapes) can get
scratched by the owning TSM server, but not scratched by the library
master? And why does it only happen sometimes?
Best Regards,
John D. Schneider
Lead Systems Administrator - Storage
Sisters of Mercy Health Systems
3637 South Geyer Road
St. Louis, MO 63127
Phone: 314-364-3150
Cell: 314-486-2359
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