Author: Arshad Sheikh <amshaik70 AT HOTMAIL DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:46:41 -0500
Hi there, I am a newbie so forgive my naiveness. I want to setup TSM 3.7 on a box with 8mm drive, so I create a library, drive,devclass,stgpool and label my volume. I also created the domain,policyse
Arshad, It would seem that there are not scratch volumes available for use as a db backup tape. Try the following select at your dsmadmc prompt to identify how many scratch tapes are in your library:
Author: Arshad Sheikh <amshaik70 AT HOTMAIL DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:33:54 -0500
Thanks for the reply. But since its just a 8mm 5GB tape drive and not a library so I think I can't have any scratch volume, here is what I have got when I try to label a tape tsm: TSM>label libvolume
Author: "Prather, Wanda" <Wanda.Prather AT JHUAPL DOT EDU>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:54:19 -0500
The tape should be labelled, but not checked in. Also check your DEVCLASS (q devclass class8mm f=d), make sure the MOUNTLIMIT is set to 1 or DRIVES. Then take the tape OUT of the drive so TSM will se
Author: Arshad Sheikh <amshaik70 AT HOTMAIL DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:05:49 -0500
I understand, isn't its how a newbie suppose to learn ??? I know it bugs, but just want to do it. Arshad. my question , why you are configuring 8mm in TSM .. and why to take backup on 8mm.? Arshad Sh
Author: Salman Ghani <salmanghani AT HOTMAIL DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:27:21 -0500
Here is the output. rmt0 Available 00-00-0S-6,0 5.0 GB 8mm Tape Drive mt0 Available 00-00-0S-6,0 Tivoli Storage Manager Tape Drive Yeah, I really don't have a clue too. Salman Well, the only other th
Author: Arshad Sheikh <amshaik70 AT HOTMAIL DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:35:02 -0500
The output is same. rmt0 Available 00-00-0S-6,0 5.0 GB 8mm Tape Drive mt0 Available 00-00-0S-6,0 Tivoli Storage Manager Tape Drive so there is no way to do that. Arshad. Here is the output. rmt0 Avai
Author: "Prather, Wanda" <Wanda.Prather AT JHUAPL DOT EDU>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:42:24 -0500
OK ONE MORE THING, Is this actually the same device, rmt0 and mt0? The one time I tried to do this, I found that I couldn't use the 8mm drive for ADSM ( this was a LONG time ago, so I don't remember
Author: "Malbrough, Demetrius" <d_malbrough AT TI DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:09:48 -0600
The output should look like this: rmt0 Defined 00-00-0S-6,0 5.0 GB 8mm Tape Drive mt0 Available 00-00-0S-6,0 Tivoli Storage Manager Tape Drive Run this command to put rmt0 in a DEFINED state: Thanks,
Author: Rich Taft <Rich.Taft AT RICOH-USA DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:59:06 -0500
You are correct You have to do a "rmdev -l /dev/rmt0" to set the "Unix" driver to unavailable. Its OK to leave it in this state if you don't use the 8mm for any other types of backups. Rich Taft Rico
Author: Arshad Sheikh <amshaik70 AT HOTMAIL DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:44:50 -0500
Hi there, Its working now, I just delete all the stuff and remake it. I think I screwed up something big before, but I couldn't figure it out. Both the drives rmt0 and mt0 are in available state. I d