OK, if you did an export on another box and then checked this tape
     into the current box as "status=private" it will show "data" until you
     perform an "import" using the tape then it will reflect the tapes real
     use of "export"...  I see this when I export & import domains when
     building new servers.


     Do you only have one server connected to the library ?

     When connecting multiple servers to the same library it is very
     important to set the scratch & private categories to something
     different on each connected server !  If not it could lead to such a
     situation...

     Have you tried a query content on the volume ?

     What is your REUSEDELAY associated with the storage pools going to
     that library... I use the default of 0 so I don't know what the
     volumes would show during the idle time if the value were something
     other than zero.

     later,
           Dwight



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Subject: Private/Scratch library tapes
Author:  phil.chissell (phil.chissell AT natpower DOT com) at unix,mime
Date:    7/14/98 8:41 AM


We're running ADSM V3.1.1.3 on NT 4.0.

Anybody seen the following scenario which we have experienced a couple
of times:

When issuing a "query libvol" command, a tape is marked as being
"private" and of type "data" when it is not in any storage pools and is
not used as a database backup tape.

As far as I can see, this tape should be marked as "scratch" and when I
use the "update libvol" command to update the status to be scratch it
does so OK.

My point is, anybody know why ADSM does this and has anybody else seen
this?  It seems like a bug to me.

Regards

Phil

Phil Chissell
National Power plc
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