You are right, check for "unavailable" tapes. I've seen bad tape drives take out all the tapes in a library, one by one, while you weren't looking. Check that, for sure!
STEPHEN STACKWICK | Senior Consultant | 301.518.6352 (m) | stephen.stackw...@icfi.com | icfi.com ICF INTERNATIONAL | 410 E. Pratt Street Suite 2214, Baltimore, MD 21202 | 410.539.1135 (o) ________________________________________ From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] on behalf of Chavdar Cholev [chavdar.cho...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 15:31 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] There are not enough scratch volumes available Also check vlume status RO, RW, unavailabel, etc On 6/1/12, Stackwick, Stephen <stephen.stackw...@icfi.com> wrote: > Doncha hate it when that happens on a Friday? > > "Q DRM" should show which tapes are copypool tapes and can be removed. You > may also have some DB backup volumes in there you could possibly even delete > to free up scratch tapes. Or, you may have some PENDing tapes; in an > emergency, you could delete the oldest ones. Doing that means you couldn't > restore the TSM DB back to to that time, but in a pinch, it's a possibility. > > Why out of scratch, though? I'd check to see if reclamation has been running > successfully. > > Steve > > STEPHEN STACKWICK | Senior Consultant | 301.518.6352 (m) | > stephen.stackw...@icfi.com | icfi.com > ICF INTERNATIONAL | 410 E. Pratt Street Suite 2214, Baltimore, MD 21202 | > 410.539.1135 (o) > > > ________________________________________ > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] on behalf of danesh1 > [tsm-fo...@backupcentral.com] > Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 20:29 > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [ADSM-L] There are not enough scratch volumes available > > I'm getting messages saying "There are not enough scratch volumes available" > > At the moment the tape library is fully populated with 211 tape volumes. > > Can some please tell me which tape volumes I need to eject from the tape > library slots to be sent offiste so that I can load and check in more > scratch volumes? > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > |This was sent by d.qure...@mdx.ac.uk via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >
