Did you perhaps label it and check it in the library as private?  I seem
to recall I had similar thing happen with tapes I originally checked in as
private.  They return to their original state.

Etienne Brodeur




Mark Stapleton <stapleto AT BERBEE DOT COM>
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        Subject:        Re: delete volhist doesn't return volume to
scratch


From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Paul Miller
> No, it's not the last one.  It leaves the last one as it should.  After
> I run the command, the volume history is indeed deleted, but the tape
> remains "private" with a last use of "dbbackup".  I can update the
> libvolume and make it scratch, but that's not what's supposed to happen.

Do you have a REUSEDELAY setting for your tape pool?

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