Just another comment about something that caused me confusion:

PENDING vs EMPTY.

If you have a reusedelay period of n days defined in the properties of your
storage pool, when ADSM knows all the data from a tape has been expired (or
reclaimed), it marks the tape as PENDING.

It stays in PENDING status for n days.  Then it automatically changes that
tape to EMPTY when it's really ready to come back.

So you really don't have to do much, ADSM minds the status of everything for
you!

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Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
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wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
Scott Adams/Dilbert
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Sims [SMTP:rbs AT BU DOT EDU]
> Sent: Monday, February 22, 1999 12:59 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: More Questions on DR Without DRM
>
> >Only bring them back when they are empty...
>
> True.  For general interest, note that at the time of ADSM start-up,
> it will write messages like the following to the Activity Log, which
> point out volumes quite ripe for harvesting from offsite:
>
> ANR1423W Scratch volume 000129 is empty but will not be
>          deleted - volume access mode is "offsite".
>
> Richard Sims, BU