Thanks Sander, What if the Tapes are in NotMountable status? And we are not using DRM?
Thanks Sander Sander te Riet Scholten wrote: > Hello, > > If you use DRM, follow the steps below: > > If the database tapes are in status MOUNTABLE, you need to checkout those > tapes, after the checkout the tapes will become VAULTRETRIEVE immediately. > For some reason DB-tapes that are in the library will NOT become SCRATCH > automatically. You need to checkout/checkin those tapes for them to become > SCRATCH. > > Regards, > Sander > > Timothy Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 12/14/2004 03:14 PM > Please respond to > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc > > Subject > Re: DBtape won't go to scratch status > > Richard, > > The Dbbackups are being pruned, see the following. > > We have Delete Volhistory set > Schedule Name DELETE_VOLHIST_DBDACK > Description - > Command delete volhistory type=dbbackup todate=today-14 > Priority 5 > Start date 2002-06-18 > Start time 08:57:00 > Duration 1 > Duration units HOURS > Period 1 > Period units DAYS > Day of Week ANY > Expiration - > Active? YES > Last Update Date/Time 2004-04-28 07:36:44.000000 > Last Update by (administrator) > Managing profile - > > The date on the tape shows 12/23/03 it show have been > pruned a long time ago. > > Don, We have Reclamation set. I have not tried running a move data yet > > Schedule Name TAPE_RECLAIM_ON > Description reclaim tapes > Command UPD STG TAPEPOOL RECLAIM=20 > Priority 5 > Start date 2002-06-17 > Start time 09:00:00 > Duration 12 > Duration units HOURS > Period 1 > Period units DAYS > Day of Week ANY > Expiration - > Active? YES > Last Update Date/Time 2004-12-03 15:15:17.000000 > Last Update by (administrator) > Managing profile - > > Thanks Richard, Don and Jin > > Richard Sims wrote: > > > On Dec 13, 2004, at 2:16 PM, Timothy Hughes wrote: > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > Not sure If I wrote about this one before, I do know I had this > > > problem before but was never able to get it resolved. > > > > > > > > > I have a couple tapes that are in Dbackup and I would like to change > > > to > > > scratch status I tried using update library volume using the TSM Gui > > > and > > > received the following message > > > > > > ANR8443E UPDATE LIBVOLUME: Volume N00275 in library IBM3494R > > > cannot be assigned a status of SCRATCH. > > > > > > The DBbackup volume has a date of 12/23/03. So that data is not valid > > > > > > Anyone ever had a tape problem like this? > > > > > > > Dbbackup volumes are pruned via DELete VOLHistory ... Type=DBBackup . > > The most recent dbbackup volume is not deleteable, to assure that > > you have *something* to recover with. > > > > Richard Sims
