Re: Scratch tape questions SOLVED

2005-05-18 Thread Dave Zarnoch
Dave, YOU DA MAN! I ran the command and found UNAVAILABLE tapes. These tapes were located in an "overflow" location in our server room. I issued the command: upd vol access=readw Now, TSM is requesting the tapes and awaiting mounts. I think what happened was: A prior admin had checked out

Re: Scratch tape questions

2005-05-18 Thread David E Ehresman
>>Why is TSM attempting to use this tape for reclamation when it has been labeled as "vault" and is "offsite"?<< Its not. TSM is trying to using the primary pool version of the data to recreated the copy pool version of the data and is unable to do so because it is not for some reason able to r

Re: Scratch tape questions

2005-05-18 Thread Richard Sims
On May 18, 2005, at 10:32 AM, Dave Zarnoch wrote: ...Why is TSM attempting to use this tape for reclamation when it has been labeled as "vault" and is "offsite"? ... See Admin Guide topic "Reclamation of Offsite Volumes". Marking a tape as Offsite only makes it ineligible for mounting. Richard S

Re: Scratch tape questions

2005-05-18 Thread Dave Zarnoch
John, Thanks! It's been very helpful... A question on reclamation I have the following occurring constantly during reclamation: 05/17/05 11:41:12 ANR1040I Space reclamation started for volume 304048, storage pool EAGLECOPY (process number 8619). 05/17/05

Re: Scratch tape questions

2005-05-13 Thread Talafous, John
I always say, "The only naïve/stupid/dumb question you have is the one you don't ask." 1.) Previously answered by Mr. Stapleton 2.) There are ways to manually audit (and I have done this) the various entries for TSM Tapes. Tapes are either in the DRMEDIA inventory and offsite, onsite and used

Re: Scratch tape questions

2005-05-13 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Zarnoch >1 - How do I know if there are any tapes at the offsite >storage that should be onsite and be available for scratch? The only way to do this is to periodically create a volume list by running query drmedia * wh