Hello:
 
In our environment, we have nine separate TSM instances all running
server version 5.4.3.0 on AIX 5.3.  One of the nine TSM instances acts
as our library master.  Well... this last weekend, we were having issues
with our library master and to resolve the issue, it needed to be
restarted.  At the same time the library master was down, one of the
other TSM instances was doing a "MOVE DRMEDIA 101198L4 TOST=COURIERR
W=Y".  So because the library master was down, it never got the message
that the client had deleted 101198L4.  We tried to checkin this tape but
received the following:
 
09/07/08 21:59:41     ANR8443E CHECKIN LIBVOLUME: Volume 101198L4 in
library    
                       SUN2079 cannot be assigned a status of SCRATCH.
(SESSION:
                       58661, PROCESS: 34)
 
According to the library master, this tape is not a scratch volume.  In
a attempt to resolve the issue, we were attempting to perform the
following steps:
 
# 1: checkin libv sun2079 101198L4 status=private checklabel=no    -- on
library master
# 2: define volume sun2079-pool1 101198L4 access=readw              --
on client
# 3: then delete the volume from the storagepool
-- on client
 
When we did # 1 on the library master, it automatically assigned
ownership to the client in question.  We then attempted to do # 2... but
received the following:
 
09/08/08 16:50:31     ANR2400E DEFINE VOLUME: Volume 101198L4 is already
defined
                       in a storage pool or has been used previously to
store   
                       export, database dump, or database backup
information.   
                       (SESSION: 319073)
 
At this point... we are stuck.  Has anyone ever ran into a similar
situation and resolved it?  Any suggestions?
 
Thank you...
 
 
Charles Welton
 
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