My thanks to all who shared their advice. It has been an outpouring of
knowledge and experience.
Best wishes,
Keith
ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] rotating private tapes into/out of 3584 manually
Ideally, TSM's provided DRM regimens would be followed to provide the
discipline to properly handle tapes going out and coming back. Alternately,
you can do your own handling, providing that proper
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
libra
r 19, 2010 2:06 PM
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] rotating private tapes into/out of 3584 manually
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Keith Arbogast wrote:
> John,
> Thank you for those details. It sounds doable.
>
> When I return private volumes to the 3584, I run 'checkin libv
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Keith Arbogast wrote:
John,
Thank you for those details. It sounds doable.
When I return private volumes to the 3584, I run 'checkin libv library_name
volume_name search=bulk checklabel=yes. Then; update volume volume_name
access=readw.
If I'm misunderstanding something
Ideally, TSM's provided DRM regimens would be followed to provide the
discipline to properly handle tapes going out and coming back. Alternately,
you can do your own handling, providing that proper steps are followed... A
tape going offsite (out of the library) should have its access mode mark
John,
Thank you for those details. It sounds doable.
When I return private volumes to the 3584, I run 'checkin libv library_name
volume_name search=bulk checklabel=yes. Then; update volume volume_name
access=readw.
If I'm misunderstanding something, please let me know.
Best wishes,
Keith
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Original Message ----
Subject: [ADSM-L] rotating private tapes into/out of 3584 manually
From: Keith Arbogast
Date: Tue, October 19, 2010 11:18 am
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
We are running TSM 5.
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
