The commands provided for thsi case of moving tapes out of a full librray are: QUERY MEDIA MOVE MEDIA
Look at syntax. Q Media allows you to specify a date used range so you can print a list of say tapes not used in 30 days. Then use those parameters on move media to take those tapes out of library. This is smarter than just checking some tapes out as you are less likely to have to check these tapes back in due to a "mount request" for them. DL >>> Keith Arbogast <warbo...@indiana.edu> 10/19/2010 12:18 PM >>> We are running TSM 5.5.4.3 on RHEL 5.5. Our tape library is a 3584 with ALMS and twelve 3592-E05 drives. Expiration and reclamation are not producing enough scratch tapes to stay ahead of their usage, so our scratch tape supply is dwindling (#18). More tapes are on the way, but only 15 empty slots remain in the 3584. Another frame for the 3584 is being negotiated, but Rome was not built in a day, administratively speaking. Given the current pace of expiration and reclamation, we could hit 0 scratch tapes. If that happens, I am thinking our only recourse will be to eject Private tapes and load new tapes manually until new capacity is in place. How is that done, properly? Is it like ejecting tapes for offsite vaulting? I don't have experience checking-out or checking-in Private volumes, so I am concerned that no data be lost due to incorrect parameters on checkouts and checkins. Is running dsmadmc in mountmode going to be the best way to do this? Or, console mode? With many thanks and best wishes, Keith ##################################### This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain private, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. #####################################
