FULLY agree with you Maria. After many different trials, I decided to to
use Move Media for both directions, based on the Copy Storage Pool,
followed by an update status ReadOnly->Offsite.
I am not using nor running the cmd option.
To send tapes offsite, the move media is ejecting the tape, changing
status to readonly and ejecting the tape. The update volume is changing
status to offsite.
To call empty tapes back, the move media is modifying status. The
checkin is reallocating the tape to the library.
Ruddy
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From: Maria Paz Gimeno
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 11/08/2000 12:15:21 PM
Subject: Re: "Move media" vs. checkout
I use MOVE MEDIA for this operation both ways, out and in the library.
With CHECKOUT you have to provide the volume labels of the tapes you
want
to remove from the library, while with "move media" you can select by
stgpool. I am not sure if the "checkout" changes the access to offsite
but
"Move media" creates a file with the volume label of the tapes that
processes, and you can afterwards run a command to perform an update of
the
volumes with access=offsite.
The only problem is that, what the command creates is a macro and can
only
be scheduled by a cron job,( my system is UNIX.)
The macro can not be scheduled by TSM, not included in a script. It has
to
run from the command line.
Regards
Maria
----- Original Message -----
From: Reiner Sauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 8:26 AM
Subject: Antw: "Move media" vs. checkout
I've learned that to get the tape out and set in the db to offsite, is
to
use the command checkout and the tape get offsite. Now the tape is not
availiable fpr the library. To get the tape in you should use the
commands
checkin and update volume.
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7.11.2000 22:14:11 >>>
I'm looking at moving our copypool tapes offsite. We are not running
DRM. I've been reading the archive of this list and it seems some
people
use the adsm checkout command and others the Move media command to
remove
the tapes from the library for offsite storage. I've read up on both
and
it seems the move media command is the right one for removing the tape
from
the library and a checkin command to bring it back in. Does anyone have
any comments on the checkout versus "move media" command that might help
explain their use? Am I on the right track thinking the "move media"
command should be used?
