so you would actually do a * and not specific tapes? I did 7 and there is
50 tapes at this time. I went all the way to 28 and got 11. I guess I have
to determine on my own what is best.
thanks
Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Longo [SMTP:David.Longo AT HEALTH-FIRST DOT ORG]
> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 1:16 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: how to determine which tapes to move
>
> To see a list of tapes to pull out of library do:
>
> q media * stg=POOLNAME days=X wherestate=mountablein
>
> Where POOLNAME = your tape poll name. For X in days=, I would
> start high, say 7 days. THis will showe you tapes in this stgpool
> that are mountableinlibrary and haven't been accessed in 7 days.
> You can adjust this X value till you get as many tapes as you need to pull
> out.
>
> The do:
>
> move media * stg=POOLNAME days=X wherestate=mountablein
>
> This will remove all tapes with this criteria out of library. (You can
> add
> remove=bulk if you havew a bulk I/O station)
>
> This doesn't gaurantee that these tapes won't be needed an hour after
> you remove them, but using the days parameter reduces the possiblity.
>
> When a restore/retrieve/reclamation needs one of the tapes you removed,
> there will be a pronpt on the Console for that tape. No real way to
> predict
> when a tape is needed. I do this a lot with my IBM 3575-L32 library.
>
> When a tape is needed just check backin as you would a scratch tape
> except use status=private.
>
> David Longo
>
> >>> PCoviello AT CMC-NH DOT ORG 03/01/02 09:38AM >>>
> HI, since our library is full and we need to keep the data we have
> (Exchange a years worth 30gb a night) aaaaahhhh!!!!! (sorry- it has
> become
> the bane of our existence), I have been using an overflow location,
> Taperoom. We were running SSM up to now but our demo license has run out
> and we are in the process of waiting to hear if the budget is approved.
> Which will also give us 98 more slots (joy) anyway we've lost that
> capabilty
> for now. So the following questions are:
>
> config of AIX 4.3.3 TSM 4.1.3 and a 100 tape ATL P2000
>
> How does one select which tapes to move off to an overflow
> location?
> with out TSM requiring them the same day or even next. also How do you
> monitor when the tape is needed?
>
> thanks
>
> Paul
>
>
> Paul J Coviello
> Sr Systems Analyst
> Catholic Medical Center
> 2456 Brown Ave
> Manchester, NH 03103
> 603 663-5326
>
>
>
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