One cause can be that the copypool maxscratch limit has been reached.  The
maxscratch sets the maximum number of scratch volume that can be used by the
stroage pool.

Shekhar Dhotre wrote:

> Hi all,
>     TSM creates daily copypool(offsite)  tapes for me , with  command  backup
> stgpool tapepool copypool ,
> but from yesterday it started failing with following error, gives insufficient
> space error ANR1221E ,
> even though there are some scratch tapes.. and this process only needs one
> scratch tape .
> anybody faced this problem before..
>
> ANR8337I DLT volume MED403 mounted in drive DRIVE1 (/dev/mt0).
> ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: QUERY MOUNT
> ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: QUERY SESSION
> ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: QUERY MOUNT
> ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: QUERY DRIVE
> ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: QUERY MOUNT
> ANR1221E BACKUP STGPOOL: Process 13 terminated - insufficient space in target
> copy storage pool.
> ANR0985I Process 13 for BACKUP STORAGE POOL running in the BACKGROUND 
> completed
> with completion state FAILURE at 08:36:23.
> ANR1214I Backup of primary storage pool TAPEPOOL to copy storage pool COPYPOOL
> has ended.  Files Backed Up: 0, Bytes Backed Up: 0, Unreadable Files: 0,
> Unreadable Bytes: 0.
> ANR8325I Dismounting volume MED403 - 5 minute mount retention expired.
> ANR8336I Verifying label of DLT volume MED403 in drive DRIVE1 (/dev/mt0).
> ANR8468I DLT volume MED403 dismounted from drive DRIVE1 (/dev/mt0) in library
> STK9710.
>
> Thnaks in advance
> ..