Re: [ADSM-L] There are not enough scratch volumes available

You are right, check for "unavailable" tapes. I've seen bad tape drives take 
out all the tapes in a library, one by one, while you weren't looking. Check 
that, for sure!

STEPHEN STACKWICK | Senior Consultant | 301.518.6352 (m) | Stephen.Stackwick AT 
icfi DOT com | icfi.com
ICF INTERNATIONAL | 410 E. Pratt Street Suite 2214, Baltimore, MD 21202 | 
410.539.1135 (o)


________________________________________
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] on behalf of 
Chavdar Cholev [chavdar.cholev AT GMAIL DOT COM]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 15:31
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] There are not enough scratch volumes available

Also check vlume status RO, RW, unavailabel, etc

On 6/1/12, Stackwick, Stephen <Stephen.Stackwick AT icfi DOT com> wrote:
> 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
>
> STEPHEN STACKWICK | Senior Consultant | 301.518.6352 (m) |
> Stephen.Stackwick AT icfi DOT com | icfi.com
> ICF INTERNATIONAL | 410 E. Pratt Street Suite 2214, Baltimore, MD 21202 |
> 410.539.1135 (o)
>
>
> ________________________________________
> 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?
>
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------
> |This was sent by d.qureshi AT mdx.ac DOT uk via Backup Central.
> |Forward SPAM to abuse AT backupcentral DOT com.
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>