How are you checking them into the library? Tapes will be marked private if

1) you check them into the library with "status=private" (though I don't believe
it would set the type to data, but would rather remain blank)
2) you DEFINE the volume to a storage pool
3) you check them into the library as scratch, but then adsm detects (through
the database) that there should be valid data on the volume after it asks the
library for a scratch tape.

Perhaps you can give us more details on the cercumstances surrounding this.





From: Phil Chissell <phil.chissell AT NATPOWER DOT COM> on 07/14/98 01:41 PM GMT

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Subject:  Private/Scratch library tapes




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
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