Dan

I do relabel the volumes when I check in the scratch tapes.  The
thinking behind this was that the scratch tapes could either be ones
that have been reclaimed or else new virgin tapes which won't have been
labelled.  To keep the "checkin" script consistent we elected to relabel
all "checkin" tapes.  I realise there will be an overhead with labelling
pre-labelled tapes but this surely would be minimal.

I be interested to hear your comments on this...

Regards

Phil

Phil Chissell
National Power plc
Windmill Hill Business Park
Whitehill Way
Swindon
Wilts. SN5 6PB
UK

Tel:  +44 (0)1793 894237
Fax: +44 (0)1793 894230
MailTo:Phil.Chissell AT natpower DOT com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Giles [SMTP:Dan_Giles AT MANULIFE DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 1998 5:58 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Private/Scratch library tapes
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> Hmmm. Are you saying that when you return the tapes from offsite, you
> relabel
> them? I have a couple of ideas if this is the case.
>
> Let me know.
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> From: Phil Chissell <phil.chissell AT NATPOWER DOT COM> on 07/14/98 05:50 PM
> GMT
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> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
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> Subject:  Re: Private/Scratch library tapes
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>
> The scenario is as follows:-
> (1)     Everyday ADSM does a backup stgpool command
> (2)     The backup stgpool tape(s) are checked out using a "checkout
> libvol ... checklabel=yes" command and an "update volume ...
> access=offsite" command
> (3)     ADSM kicks off an "audit library ... checklabel=barcode"
> process
> (4)     The tape is ejected and taken offsite and a scratch tape is
> put
> into the eject port
> (5)     ADSM issues a "label libvol ... checkin=scratch
> labelsource=barcode overwrite=yes" command to checkin the scratch tape
> (which may or may not already be labelled)
> (6)             ADSM kicks off an "audit library ...
> checklabel=barcode"
> process
> (7)     Once a week, the offsite tapes are reclaimed and the above
> process re-iterates.
> Now the problem is that (very) infrequently, a tape appears in the
> output of a "query libvol" command as being a private tape when it is
> not a member of any storage pools nor is used as a database backup
> tape.
> This tape then needs to be remarked as being scratch by issuing a
> "update libvol ... status=scratch" command
> That's about the size of it!
> Regards
> Phil
> Phil Chissell
> National Power plc
> Windmill Hill Business Park
> Whitehill Way
> Swindon
> Wilts. SN5 6PB
> UK
> Tel:  +44 (0)1793 894237
> Fax: +44 (0)1793 894230
> MailTo:Phil.Chissell AT natpower DOT com
>
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