Re: LTO Tape Life

2008-06-23 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
: Saturday, June 21, 2008 12:55 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] LTO Tape Life I know, I just hate manual processes. What I want is an API so that we can get that sort of info back to the host in an automated fashion. I want to be able to run something like: audit volume * report

Re: LTO Tape Life

2008-06-21 Thread Wanda Prather
Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:08 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: LTO Tape Life Is there a way to find out if your tapes are nearing their end-of-use? I use a 3584, and unfortunately am still having to deal with LTO-1/2 cartridges. How can I tell, either from

Re: LTO Tape Life

2008-06-21 Thread Richard Sims
On Jun 21, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Wanda Prather wrote: The only way we're going to get this info, is if somebody provides an API to read from the cartridge chip. I'm kinda suprised nobody has done that yet -- except as Tom says, the cartridges tend to last a long time anyway. As noted in ADSM

Re: LTO Tape Life

2008-06-21 Thread Gee, Norman
The TS3500 internal web server provides some information about the cartridges. Not sure what they really means. It does tell you the number of read and write errors for both LTO and 3592 cartridges from the cartridge memory. Go to your TS3500 library internal web server Expand +Cartridges Select

Re: LTO Tape Life

2008-06-21 Thread Wanda Prather
I know, I just hate manual processes. What I want is an API so that we can get that sort of info back to the host in an automated fashion. I want to be able to run something like: audit volume * report(medialife) or audit volume * report=EXCEPTIONSONLY (wouldn't that be cool?) On 6/21/08,

Re: LTO Tape Life

2008-06-21 Thread Paul Zarnowski
It would probably have to be associated with a libvol instead of a volume. Volumes get created and deleted as they move out of and back into the scratch pool. I'd like to see the stats that are currently associated with volumes instead associated with libvols (mounts, read and write errors,

Re: LTO Tape Life

2008-06-20 Thread Kauffman, Tom
ended up dumping six tapes over the period. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:08 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: LTO Tape Life Is there a way to find

LTO Tape Life

2008-06-19 Thread Bell, Charles (Chip)
Is there a way to find out if your tapes are nearing their end-of-use? I use a 3584, and unfortunately am still having to deal with LTO-1/2 cartridges. How can I tell, either from TSM (which I doubt) or from 3584 hardware level what the amount-of-times used/mounted is? Normally, between myself and

Re: LTO Tape Life

2008-06-19 Thread Richard Sims
Chip - See the Ultrium entry in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts for what we communally know about lifetime and access to usage data. Richard Sims

Antwort: LTO Tape Life

2008-06-19 Thread TSM
select volume_name,times_mounted from volumes order by times_mounted desc

Re: Antwort: LTO Tape Life

2008-06-19 Thread Schneider, John
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