Are you using a Library Manager?
If so, you need to remove the volume history for that volume by typing
this command on the library manager instance:
del volhistory todate=today T00015 force=yes
That should get rid of all associated volume history transactions.
Jim Neal
Sr. TSM Administrator
IS&T Storage and Backup Group
U.C. Berkeley
+++ All opinions expressed herein are solely my own and do not necessarily
represent the opinion of U.C. Berkeley +++
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Allen S. Rout
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 11:34 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] rarely, tapes become logically unusable?
Hi, there.
I have a small collection of tapes which appear to have become
uncorrectably unusable. They were part of a server which has been
decomissioned; now
tsm: CTRL>UPDATE LIBVOLUME 3592LIB T00015 status=private owner=GLMAIL
ANR9787E The owner name specified is not defined to this server.
ANS8001I Return code 11.
tsm: CTRL>UPDATE LIBVOLUME 3592LIB T00015 status=private owner=blargh
ANR8969E The owner of volume T00015 can not be updated to owner BLARGH.
ANS8001I Return code 27.
So, somewhere in its black little heart, TSM remembers what server
that tape went with, depite the fact that the server has been off
since 2005. On the one hand this is good: it prevents me from
accidentally overwriting tapes. On the other hand, it's now
preventing me from deliberately overwriting tapes.
What do I do? Ideally, I'd like to express to the server something
like 'No really, call that blank again, I'd like to reuse it'.
Relabel it, force=yes, checkin=scratch?
Any ideas?
- Allen S. Rout
