OTOH, can I do a Checkin with Status=Private, Update the volume to
readwrite
and simply have TSM use it before requesting a new tape from the Scratch
Pool?
Yes and when you update your volume to ReadW it will go to your scratch
pool but it wont necessarily be used before other scratch tapes.
//Henrik
Mike Bantz
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.COM> cc: (bcc: Henrik Wahlstedt)
Sent by: Subject: Re: Returning a Reclaimed
Offsite Copypool Volume to the Library Scratch Pool?
"ADSM: Dist
Stor Manager"
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2004-02-26
00:22
Please
respond to
"ADSM: Dist
Stor Manager"
Try to update the access of those volumes to onsite retrieve:
move drm TSM023 tostate=onsiteretr (if it's a DRM volume)
Or just update the volume to readwrite instead of offsite.
Then try checking them in as scratch.
HTH,
Mike Bantz
-----Original Message-----
From: Dwight McCann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 12:39 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Returning a Reclaimed Offsite Copypool Volume to the Library
Scratch Pool?
I am running TSM 5.1.8.3 on W2K. I have several tape volumes that I have
reclaimed from Offsite Copypool storage. When I attempt to do a CHECKIN to
return them to the Scratchpool TSM does not allow it:
tsm: DATAPLUS_SERVER1>q vol tsm023
Volume Name Storage Device
Estimated Pct Volume
Pool Name Class Name
Capacity Util Status
(MB)
------------------------ ----------- ----------
--------- ----- --------
TSM023 COPYPOOL LTO2
0.0 0.0 Empty
tsm: DATAPLUS_SERVER1>q vol tsm023 f=d
Volume Name: TSM023
Storage Pool Name: COPYPOOL
Device Class Name: LTO2
Estimated Capacity (MB): 0.0
Pct Util: 0.0
Volume Status: Empty
Access: Offsite
Pct. Reclaimable Space: 0.0
Scratch Volume?: Yes
In Error State?: No
Number of Writable Sides: 1
Number of Times Mounted: 14
Write Pass Number: 1
Approx. Date Last Written: 10/09/2003 06:47:24
Approx. Date Last Read: 09/27/2003 06:35:55
Date Became Pending:
Number of Write Errors: 0
Number of Read Errors: 0
Volume Location:
Last Update by (administrator): DWIGHT
Last Update Date/Time: 12/16/2003 12:11:14
tsm: DATAPLUS_SERVER1>checkin libv lb1.1.0.5 tsm023 status=scratch ANR8443E
CHECKIN LIBVOLUME: Volume TSM023 in library LB1.1.0.5 cannot be assigned a
status of SCRATCH.
ANS8001I Return code 12.
The explanation of ANR84423E says that it is not allowed because there
might
be data on the tape, but TSM clearly knows that there is no data on the
tape. In the Admin Guide it says that volumes defined in a Storage Pool
cannot be checked as Scratch. Is the correct way to get this volume back
into the Scratch Pool to delete it from the storage pool and then do the
Checkin? This tape was originally moved to the COPYPOOL from SCRATCH.
Neither the message nor the message explanation gives the explicit reason
that this volume cannot be made scratch.
OTOH, can I do a Checkin with Status=Private, Update the volume to
readwrite
and simply have TSM use it before requesting a new tape from the Scratch
Pool?
--
Dwight McCann
Computer and Network Technologist, UCSB Info Systems & Computing
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://borg.isc.ucsb.edu/dmm/ - office: 805-893-3113
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