I would be better to mark the tape unavailable. If you mark it read-only then TSM will still try to mount it for restores or reclamation. At times we have need to checkout primary tapes. When we do this we update vol acc=unav.
Mark Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Thanks Mark and Richard, By the way Mark, we ARE doing backupsets of that node along with a regular backup also, I know, I know...... Thanks :) Mark Bertrand -----Original Message----- From: Stapleton, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 12:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Colocation readonly tape question From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >I have a new tapepool that I only use for a couple of nodes >that is using >colocation. Can I change the status of a tape that is in that pool to >readonly so I can remove it, even though it is not full? Will >TSM then grab >a new tape to use, or will it complain because the "not full" >tape is not >available and the backup fail? > >If so then I can rotate these tapes by marking them readonly >and readwrite >weekly since I am only doing a weekly backup for this special >node. Not that >hard to test out, but I thought I may get an answer faster >through you guys. You could do that. You could also run a regular nightly backup (no collocation) of the node, and then run a weekly backupset of the node. That gives you a collocated weekly "snapshot" of the entire client. There is no tape volume access flipping to be remembered, and you don't have to have a special storage pool for just those 2 or 3 clients. Backupsets' expiration periods are easy to set, so you can get rid of those you don't need anymore. -- Mark Stapleton --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage!
