On 4/25/2016 10:32 AM, John Dawes wrote:
G'Day,I am trying to read a virtual tape that went into scratch status. The tape has not been reused since it went scratch. The job abends with a IEC145I 413-08. I had the tape analyzed and it shows the following: UNIT DEVICE SERIAL MFR CARTRIDGE 667D VIRTUAL A15886 IBM 800 MB FATAR DETAIL REPORT LOCK LNGTH/ MESSAGE/ 1...5...10...15...20...25...30...35...4 UMBER DISPL BLOCK TYPE (COLUMN GRID IS VALID ONLY FO * * * * * * * START FILE 1H 1 80 INPUT LABEL VOL1A15886 ***VOLUME LABEL*** VOLSER=A15886 OWNER= 2 80 INPUT LABEL HDR100000000000000000000000000000000000 ***HEADER LABEL*** DSNAME=00000000000000000 SERIAL=00 CRTDT=000000 EXPDT=000000 SECURITY * * * * * * * END OF FILE 1H -- FILE CONTAINED 2 BLOCKS * * * * * * * START FILE 1 TS096 **END OF DATA MARK ENCOUNTERED. BLOCK ID=00000003 It seems that the tape is empty. My question is if the tape goes scratch the data cannot be recovered even though it has not been overwritten? I have no problems with physical tapes which have gone scratch and not reused. I would appreciate your thoughts. Thanks.
I've seen this with the EMC Dlm. If the virtual disk is at a certain threshold, usually 95% or higher, it would immediately reclaim the virtual disk used by the tape. It would release all the disk after the tape label. If you want to keep your tapes, you'll need to feed your virtual tape system with plenty of disk.
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