Doncha hate it when that happens on a Friday?

"Q DRM" should show which tapes are copypool tapes and can be removed. You may 
also have some DB backup volumes in there you could possibly even delete to 
free up scratch tapes. Or, you may have some PENDing tapes; in an emergency, 
you could delete the oldest ones. Doing that means you couldn't restore the TSM 
DB back to to that time, but in a pinch, it's a possibility.

Why out of scratch, though? I'd check to see if reclamation has been running 
successfully.

Steve

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] on behalf of 
danesh1 [tsm-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM]
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2012 20:29
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] There are not enough scratch volumes available

I'm getting messages saying "There are not enough scratch volumes available"

At the moment the tape library is fully populated with 211 tape volumes.

Can some please tell me which tape volumes I need to eject from the tape 
library slots to be sent offiste so that I can load and check in more scratch 
volumes?

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