You can define an additional copy pool, use the define volume command
to assign the volume to the new pool, then backup a primary storage pool
to the new pool. 

Since this is an additional copy pool, you can delete the volume when done
testing.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Richard Mochnaczewski
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 8:01 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Mount and write to a specific tape


Hi Everybody,

I am having a strange problem where some newly labelled and initialized tapes 
once they are taken from the scratch tape pool process get errors regarding the 
label and the tape is changed to inaccessable and becomes private. I've checked 
out the tape and checked it in and would like to try and mount the tape and 
write directly to it to reproduce the problme rather than wait until the tape 
comes around to be mounted. Is this possible ? 

My library is a 3494, the drives are 3590, and TSM version is 5.3.2.3 running 
on AIX 5.2.

Rich