Happens to me too, and it is a managable situation.
Look carefully for unavailable or readonly tapes. Watch I/O errors. I
once had a flaky drive, and it would mount a scratch tape, start to
write on it, have an I/O error, make it readonly, and mount another.
This consumed 25 scratch tapes in only
Doncha hate it when that happens on a Friday?
Q DRM should show which tapes are copypool tapes and can be removed. You may
also have some DB backup volumes in there you could possibly even delete to
free up scratch tapes. Or, you may have some PENDing tapes; in an emergency,
you could delete
Also check vlume status RO, RW, unavailabel, etc
On 6/1/12, Stackwick, Stephen stephen.stackw...@icfi.com wrote:
Doncha hate it when that happens on a Friday?
Q DRM should show which tapes are copypool tapes and can be removed. You
may also have some DB backup volumes in there you could
You are right, check for unavailable tapes. I've seen bad tape drives take
out all the tapes in a library, one by one, while you weren't looking. Check
that, for sure!
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As an administrator, you need to perform the following regularly:
'Query Volume ACCess=UNAVailable,DESTroyed'
'Query Volume ACCess=READOnly STATus=FIlling'
'Query Volume ACCess=READOnly STATus=EMPty'
'Query Volume STatus=PENding Format=Detailed'
to find tapes which TSM has given up on, as per
You have two volumes on-site marked as unavailable, probably because of
media errors you can try to update these and re-use them by using 'upd
vol 'volname' acc=readwrite'.
Likewise you have a few in the on-site-pool that are readonly which you
can also set to readwrite?
You could also try
You can change the definition of the storage pool and allow it to use
more scratch volumes
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
David Lopes
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 3:50 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: There are not enough
It is difficult to determine your actual question. I presume you have
an operation you are attempting to perform which is failing with the
subject as an error message.
Is the below a complete listing of all of your tape volumes?
It appears that your off_site_pool is not being correctly managed...
