Yes, I updated it to 'Destroyed' before I proceeded to restore the data, but
finding out that the restore process would also update the tape to destroyed
before restoring data.

Chuck

Quoting James Choate <jchoate AT SOURCE1INC DOT COM>:

> Did you restore the volume by update the volume and setting the
> access=destroyed, and then performing a restore volume?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: admin AT CF2TREE DOT COM [mailto:admin AT CF2TREE DOT COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:03 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: How to remove a 'Destroyed' volume
>
>
> TSM 5.1.6.2 running on AIX 5.1
>
> Hi,
>
> I recently had a bad tape.  I was able to restore the volume successfully
> from
> the offsite-copy tapes.  The bad tape was marked 'Destroyed' subsequently.
> >From what I read, I thought this tape would be removed by TSM after the
> data
> was restored to other volumes, but it did not.  Everyday TSM still trys to
> access this tape and complaining that the tape was 'Destroyed'.  Do I need
> to
> delete it manually? And how to do it?  I already tried "audit volume xxxxxx
> fix=yes", but it did not work.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>