Our instructions to the operations staff is when tapes come back they keep
them stacked near the library. When they vault as many tapes come out, they
put that many scratch tapes in. The CHECKIN LIBV is scheduled to checkin
any/all tapes STATUS=SCRATCH in the I/O door (SEARCH=BULK) or SEARCH=YES for
libraries that don't have any I/O door. In that case the operators just open
the library, pull out the tapes called for and put a scratch tape back in
that slot AND NO OTHERS! There was a site where the operator would fill all
empty slots and not look to see if there were any tapes mounted in drives.
Library goes to put the tape back in the home slot and finds a tape there.
Kinda hoses things up!
Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Jin Bae Chi
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 10:08 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Automated DRM volume handling LTO 3582 library
Bill,
One more question here if you don't mind.
I'm using your cmds currently and work fine for me. But always I need
manually check if all tape volumes I requested had come back to my site
before I check them in as scratch ones. If there is any discrepancy on
the list, for instance some of tape didn't come back, I need to adjust
manually, then issued 'checkin libvol' cmd. Any better automation steps
that you could think of? Thanks.
Gus
>>> bill.boyer AT VERIZON DOT NET 3/8/2004 8:39:52 AM >>>
For DRM I would just
First, to get the list of tapes:
query drmedia * wherestate=mountable source=dbbackup
Then to actually "move" them:
move drmedia * wherestate=mountable source=dbbackup remove=no
tostate=vault
TO get a list of tapes that are offsite ready to come backup:
query drmedia * wherestate=vaultretrieve source=dbbackup
Then to "move" them backup:
move drmedia * wherestate=vaultretrieve source=dbbackup
tostate=onsiteretrieve.
When they come backup just put them in as scratch tapes.
Then I schedule an admin command:
def sched checkin t=a cmd='checkin libv 3582 search=yes checkl=b
stat=scr'
active=yes startt=17:00 dur=4
The above drmedia commands can be incorporated into a shell script (or
batch
file) and scheduled via a client schedule.
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf
Of
Alex den Hartog
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 8:27 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Automated DRM volume handling LTO 3582 library
Hi Bill,
Thanks for that.
Unfortunately, the AutoVault option is not possible.
The funny thing is: When I was using a 3570 Magstar MP library, there
were
no problems at all, as the library would just wait for me to give a
reply
when the cartridge was ejected into the I/O station. After upgrading
the
library, It just doesn't work anymore.
Alex
>From: Bill Boyer <bill.boyer AT VERIZON DOT NET>
>Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: Automated DRM volume handling LTO 3582 library
>Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 07:54:36 -0500
>
>I just installed on at a site, but the are using Autovault instead of
DRM.
>Autovault is configured to check out the volumes REM=NO CHECKL=NO.
Then
>they
>just open the library, pull out the tapes called for by Autovault and
put a
>scratch tape in the slot. then I have a scheduled checkin SEARCH=YES
>CHECKL=B for later in the day. The only difficult part is the tapes in
the
>back of the 3582. You have to make sure you park the picker first.
The
>manual says that's not the suggested way of doing it, but
TSM/Autovault
>doesn't support their little buld load/unload funtion.
>
>Bill Boyer
>DSS, Inc.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf
Of
>Alex den Hartog
>Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 4:26 AM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Automated DRM volume handling LTO 3582 library
>
>
>Hi listers,
>
>Is anyone using this new LTO library from IBM with TSM / DRM? And if
so,
>how
>are you performing your automated daily checkin / checkout routines
for
>your
>DRM volumes?
>
>Any tips would be very much appreciated!
>
>Thanks,
>Alex
>
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