Dat,
No, TSM will NEVER let you (re)label a tape, if the tape is already known
to the current TSM server (ie: it is defined in Q VOLHIST or Q VOL).
If you try, in your activity log you'll see a label libv failure and the
reason why (and the existing label)...
If the tape was previously defined (you saw it in Q VOL), and now you cant
see it in Q VOL, then it is one of two things:
* It was a SCRATCH volume, that became empty and TSM deleted it.
* It was not a scratch volume, but a defined volume (DEF VOL command) and
somebody deleted it.
(You will know if volumes are scratch when you do a Q VOL F=D and look at
the "Scratch:" line.
...deon
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Have you looked at the A/NZ Tivoli User Group website?
http://www.tuganz.org
Deon George, IBM Tivoli Software Engineer, IBM Australia
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 24/10/2003
02:10:47 PM:
> Deon,
>
> Sorry if i was a bit vague, the question i am asking is does relable
destroy
> existing known tsm tapes or does tsm smart enough to know and prevent
you
> from doing it.
> Secondly the tape was already define to tsm previous, why now does it
give
> me this error (we havent use it elsewhere)
>
> > ANR2034E QUERY VOLUME: No match found using this criteria.
> > ANS8001I Return code 11
>
>
> I've also tried q libvol , but the tape isnt there either.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Dat
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deon George [mailto:dgeorge AT AU1.IBM DOT COM]
> Sent: Friday, 24 October 2003 1:36 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: tape status
>
>
> Dat,
>
> Q VOL will only show SCRATCH tapes that have data on them, or DEFINED
> tapes (when you use the define vol command), or sometimes (as you've
> captured below), you will also see SCRATCH tapes that are EMPTY - this
> will be because:
>
> * They recently became empty and TSM hasnt yet deleted them (returning
> them to the "scratch pool") - very rare,
> * They are empty and offsite (as your example is below),
>
> (Offsite SCRATCH volumes that are empty, remain in Q VOL so that you can
> bring them back onsite - as soon as you mark them as onsite, they will
be
> deleted from Q VOL).
>
> Now, if your tapes are empty and in your library and you CANT see them
> with q VOL, then you will be able to see the with Q LIBV.
>
> If you do a HELP UPDATE VOL - it'll tell you when TSM will delete
SCRATCH
> volumes from Q VOL.
>
> To answer your question, do you need to relabel them - no. (You would
only
> need to relabel tapes if they were used by something outside of TSM -
> which overwrote the TSM label.)
>
> ...deon
> ---
> Have you looked at the A/NZ Tivoli User Group website?
> http://www.tuganz.org
>
> Deon George, IBM Tivoli Software Engineer, IBM Australia
> Office: +61 3 9626 6058, Fax: +61 3 9626 6622, Mobile: +61 412 366 816,
> IVPN +70 66058
> mailto:dgeorge AT au1.ibm DOT com, http://www.ibm.com/tivoli
>
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 24/10/2003
> 10:34:24 AM:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I got LTO tapes that that was labelled into a 3583 library some months
> back,
> > now when i do a query volume, ie
> >
> > q vol gpc027 f=d
> >
> > I get a message:
> >
> > ANR2034E QUERY VOLUME: No match found using this criteria.
> > ANS8001I Return code 11.
> >
> >
> > If the tape has expired as tape as part of the system policy, wouldnt
i
> get
> > a message like below, eg Volume Status: Empty:
> >
> > Volume Name: GPC093
> > Storage Pool Name: COPYSAP_LOG1
> > Device Class Name: LTOCLASS
> > Estimated Capacity (MB): 0.0
> > Pct Util: 0.0
> > Volume Status: Empty
> > Access: Offsite
> > Pct. Reclaimable Space: 0.0
> > Scratch Volume?: Yes
> > In Error State?: No
> > Number of Writable Sides: 1
> > Number of Times Mounted: 3
> > Write Pass Number: 1
> > Approx. Date Last Written: 08/04/2003 03:33:02
> > Approx. Date Last Read: 08/02/2003 15:04:23
> > Date Became Pending:
> > Number of Write Errors: 0
> > Number of Read Errors: 0
> > Volume Location:
> > Last Update by (administrator): SCRIPT
> > Last Update Date/Time: 08/04/2003 11:31:55
> >
> >
> >
> > Can someone confirm if at this stage i will need to to relabel the
tape
> into
> > the library.
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Dat Vo
> > System Administrator
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