I guess I should have passed on that I pre labeled one tape and when TSM kicked off a db backup it asked for a tape, which I inserted, but TSM never recognized it. A migrate did the same thing. Since there is only one drive at least I know I didn't screw that up... I also have read via messages and info on the admin console screen in 5.3 that scratch tapes need to be checked in. It sort of tells you how to do this but locating it hasn't been possible yet.
Well I'll give it another try and see what happens. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Booth - UIUC Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 7:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: manual tape drive On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 07:19:19AM -0800, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote: > I've set up TSM 5.3 in a test environment with an external dat drive. > Unfortunately since I've only worked with automated libraries I don't know > the process for checking in a scratch tape to use with TSM. I also haven't > been able to find the solution in the manuals so I was wondering if someone > could help me out please? I guess I'm not sure why the commands seem to be > readily available for automated libraries but not this case. I've been able > to label some tapes just fine. You don't check in tapes in a manual mode. Pre-label your tapes with dsmlabel or label libv. TSM will ask for a scratch tape to be loaded when it needs one, and you just plop it in to the requested drive. Once the label is read, it is registered to the storage pool. When the tape is emptied it is deleted. hth, bob
