or upd vol N00275 acc=readw

gus


Jin Bae Chi (Gus)
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>>> rbs AT BU DOT EDU 12/13/2004 2:55:51 PM >>>
On Dec 13, 2004, at 2:16 PM, Timothy Hughes wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Not sure If I wrote about this one before, I do know I had this
> problem before but was never able to get it resolved.
>
>
> I have a couple tapes that are in  Dbackup and I would like to
change
> to
> scratch status I tried using  update library volume using the TSM
Gui
> and
> received the following message
>
> ANR8443E UPDATE LIBVOLUME: Volume N00275 in library IBM3494R
> cannot be assigned a status of SCRATCH.
>
> The DBbackup volume has a date of 12/23/03. So that data is not
valid
>
> Anyone ever had a tape problem like this?
>

Dbbackup volumes are pruned via  DELete VOLHistory ... Type=DBBackup .
The most recent dbbackup volume is not deleteable, to assure that
you have *something* to recover with.

    Richard Sims