The 365I message tells you that the amount of valid data on the tape is below the threshold you specified (because data has expired and/or manually marked for deletion). HSM is recommending you issue the RECYCLE command for that tape which will copy the (small amount of) remaining data onto a new volume and free the volume for reuse.
The 261I message tells you that the tape has been successfully recycled or deleted and ready for reuse after you reinitialize the tape label. Neither message has anything to do with RMM. Whether you actually reinitialize the tape is a function of your procedures for returning tapes to the scratch and how you communicate to RMM and flex that the volume is free. -----Original Message----- From: Ron MacRae [mailto:snip] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 1:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: HSM/RMM tape reuse Ladies&Gentlemen, I'm sure this is an easy question for anyone who understands HSM & RMM, unfortunatly I'm not one of them. We've been running HSM/RMM without problems for several years. Recently, not sure exactly when, HSM started spitting out the following msgs when it freed up a tape. ARC0365I BACKUP VOLUME FT1718 NOW AVAILABLE FOR RECYCLE ARC0261I TAPE VOLUME FT1718 NEEDS TO BE REINITIALIZED We have now run out of tapes. (Actualy faketapes on a flex machine, but I don't think that is relevent.) We don't understand why this has started to happen. Our HSM parms were last changed in 2003. Several people have been playing with RMM so we suspect it's something in RMM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
