Sounds like you need to see the "move media" command. Try "help move
media".


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Running out of tapes in my library, please help






Hello all,

I'm still relatively new to Tivoli administration, so I'm hoping this
problem I've come up against turns out to be something someone here has
seen before.

A number of months ago (before I joined my current team) my manager made
the decision to increase the data retention period for our tape library
from 3 months to 6 months.  (I guess this is done at the management class
level?)  This decision was made without considering if we had enough tapes
in our library to support the move, and is it turned out, we did not!  My
tape machines are nearly empty, and there are only a small handful of
3590's I can put in the machines which do not show up in a "q vol" report
... and all this is happening right before our monthly archive backups
which are scheduled to run this coming Saturday night.

On to my question...

I need to start freeing up tapes with data older than 5 months.  It seems
to me that the way to accomplish this is with the "delete volume" command.
 However, when I execute this command versus a tape, I get the following
message:

*****
ANR1425W Scratch volume 000101 is empty but will not be deleted - volume
state is "mountablenotinlib".
*****

Here's the volume history for this tape:

*****
Volume Name: 000101
Storage Pool Name: AIXPOOL
Device Class Name: 3590TAPE01
Estimated Capacity (MB): 0.0
Pct Util: 0.0
Volume Status: Empty
Access: Read-Only
Pct. Reclaimable Space: 0.0
Scratch Volume?: Yes
In Error State?: No
Number of Writable Sides: 1
Number of Times Mounted: 1
Write Pass Number: 1
Approx. Date Last Written: 02/23/04 08:46:58
Approx. Date Last Read: 02/23/04 05:13:52
Date Became Pending:
Number of Write Errors: 0
Number of Read Errors: 0
Volume Location:
Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN
Last Update Date/Time: 02/23/04 22:20:38
*****

So basically, what I need to do is free up tapes such as the one above so
that my 3494's will turn them into scratch volumes again.  I couple of
things confuse me here though.  First, the tape above is already older
than 6 months (or 180 days, which is what the retention period is set at),
so why does it still show up on the "q vol" report?   I'm assuming that
any tape which shows up when you do a "q vol" won't be turned into a
scratch volume.  That would seem to be confirmed by this output from my
"label" command:

*****
ANR8816E LABEL LIBVOLUME: Volume 000101 in library 3494LIB cannot be
labelled because it is currently defined in a  storage pool or in the
volume history file.
*****

How do I get this tape out of the volume history file?  I'm assuming this
is an issue with the volume history file, as opposed to an issue with this
tape being defined in a storage pool ... but maybe I'm wrong about that.
We have a half dozen or so storage pools that our scratch tapes can get
assigned to.

As a side note, I have tapes on my "q vol" report which were written to
last in 2003.  Shouldn't those tapes age off that report if the backup
copy group variable "Versions Data Exists" is set to 180?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I'm about to enter panic mode as I
see the number of usable tapes in my library dwindle.

As always, thank you,
Chris Hund
Tivoli/Unix Admin
Fiserv Health