Ashish,
First of all, I suggest that you put one more drive in your Automated Library.
Secondly, you cannot restore if you load the vol from an Automated lib to a
manual one.
If your lib is full then you have no choice but to checkout some tape and
checkin the one you need for your restore.
Rajesh Oak
Sys Admin
GM Pontiac East Assembly
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On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 11:48:06 Asish Kumar Dash wrote:
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 11:48:06 Asish Kumar Dash wrote:
>I've got a DLT 15 tape library, I also installed and configured a
>external DLT drive (the library has one inside). So there are now two
>libraries (one manual, one automated) and two drives (one in the
>library, one external; on the SCSI chain). Basically I've got volumes
>checked out from the library sitting outside, not updated offsite or
>anything like that. Just taken out and replaced with some scratch
>volumes.
>
>My problem is, I've now got to do a restore. Instead of going through
>the hastle of removing a scratch tape from the library, checking in the
>volume from the REQUEST into the library (because it's part of this
>group I checked out). I'd like to just checkin the volume into the
>manual drive. The problem is the manual type library doesn't allow
>checkin libvol, and I can't seem to see a "mount" command. I've got the
>drive configured correctly, or at least I thought so, and the volume is
>in the drive.
>
>Below is some information. The volume I want to checkin is DLT15.
>
>--
>adsm> q drive f=d
> Library Name: EXTDRV
> Drive Name: DLTDRV1
> Device Type: DLT
> Device: /dev/mt1
> ON LINE: Yes
> Element:
> Last Update by (administrator): DASH
> Last Update Date/Time: 10/07/1999 10:01:31
>Cleaning Frequency (Gigabytes/ASNEEDED/NONE): NONE
>
> Library Name: LXS4115
> Drive Name: DLTDRV0
> Device Type: DLT
> Device: /dev/mt0
> ON LINE: Yes
> Element: 240
> Last Update by (administrator): DASH
> Last Update Date/Time: 07/11/1999 00:56:04
>Cleaning Frequency (Gigabytes/ASNEEDED/NONE): NONE
>
>adsm> q library f=d
>
> Library Name: EXTDRV
> Library Type: MANUAL
> Device:
> Private Category:
> Scratch Category:
> External Manager:
>Last Update by (administrator): DASH
> Last Update Date/Time: 10/07/1999 10:01:17
>
> Library Name: LXS4115
> Library Type: SCSI
> Device: /dev/lb0
> Private Category:
> Scratch Category:
> External Manager:
>Last Update by (administrator): DASH
> Last Update Date/Time: 07/11/1999 00:55:31
>
>
>adsm> q libvol
>
>Library Name Volume Name Status Last Use Home
>Element
>------------ ----------- ----------------- --------- ------------
>LXS4115 DLT16 Private Data 1
>LXS4115 DLT17 Private Data 2
>LXS4115 DLT18 Scratch 4
>LXS4115 DLT19 Private Data 5
>LXS4115 DLT20 Private Data 6
>LXS4115 DLT21 Scratch 7
>LXS4115 DLT22 Private DbBackup 10
>LXS4115 DLT23 Private Data 11
>LXS4115 DLT24 Private Data 12
>LXS4115 DLT25 Scratch 13
>LXS4115 DLT26 Scratch 14
>LXS4115 DLT27 Scratch 15
>LXS4115 DLT3 Private Data 3
>LXS4115 DLT8 Scratch 8
>LXS4115 DLT9 Scratch 9
>
>adsm> q vol
>
>Volume Name Storage Device Estimated Pct Volume
> Pool Name Class Name Capacity Util Status
> (MB)
>------------------------ ----------- ---------- --------- ----- --------
>/adsm/data MSIBKDSK DISK 6,144.0 13.9 On-Line
>DLT1 MSIBKTP LXSDLT 31,474.3 67.5 Full
>DLT10 MSIBKTP LXSDLT 27,420.7 67.3 Full
>DLT11 MSIBKTP LXSDLT 31,419.7 84.3 Full
>DLT12 MSIBKTP LXSDLT 41,015.8 65.1 Full
>DLT13 MSIBKTP LXSDLT 31,903.9 82.1 Full
>DLT14 MSIBKTP LXSDLT 30,551.6 27.0 Full
>DLT15 MSIBKTP LXSDLT 36,059.3 19.4 Full
>DLT16 MSIBKTP LXSDLT 42,495.0 46.8 Full
>DLT17 MSIBKTP LXSDLT 40,851.9 75.3 Full
>DLT19 MSIBKTP LXSDLT 39,395.5 97.3 Full
>DLT2 MSIBKTP LXSDLT 45,171.7 23.5 Full
>DLT20 MSIBKTP LXSDLT 20,480.0 0.3 Filling
>DLT23 MSIBKTP LXSDLT 37,155.1 99.8 Full
>DLT24 MSIBKTP LXSDLT 20,480.0 39.5 Filling
>DLT3 MSIBKTP LXSDLT 41,777.2 61.8 Full
>DLT4 MSIBKTP LXSDLT 39,982.4 15.3 Full
>DLT5 MSIBKTP LXSDLT 38,542.9 57.9 Full
>DLT6 MSIBKTP LXSDLT 40,559.1 94.7 Full
>DLT7 MSIBKTP LXSDLT 37,331.7 44.8 Full
>
>adsm> q vol DLT15 f=d
>
> Volume Name: DLT15
> Storage Pool Name: MSIBKTP
> Device Class Name: LXSDLT
> Estimated Capacity (MB): 36,059.3
> Pct Util: 19.4
> Volume Status: Full
> Access: Unavailable
> Pct. Reclaimable Space: 82.9
> Scratch Volume?: Yes
> In Error State?: No
> Number of Writable Sides: 1
> Number of Times Mounted: 12
> Write Pass Number: 1
> Approx. Date Last Written: 07/24/1999 02:23:24
> Approx. Date Last Read: 07/16/1999 00:56:54
> Date Became Pending:
> Number of Write Errors: 0
> Number of Read Errors: 0
> Volume Location:
>Last Update by (administrator):
> Last Update Date/Time: 07/16/1999 00:56:45
> Device Class Name: LXSDLT
> Device Access Strategy: Sequential
> Storage Pool Count: 2
>
>q devclass LXSDLT
> Device Class Name: LXSDLT
> Device Access Strategy: Sequential
> Storage Pool Count: 2
> Device Type: DLT
> Format: DRIVE
> Est/Max Capacity (MB): 0.0
> Mount Limit: 2
> Mount Wait (min): 60
> Mount Retention (min): 60
> Label Prefix: ADSM
> Library: LXS4115
> Directory:
> Server Name:
> Retry Period:
> Retry Interval:
>Last Update by (administrator): DASH
> Last Update Date/Time: 10/13/1999 11:24:08
>
>--
>
>Let me know if I am missing something completely, something I noticed
>just now is the devclass is specific to one library. Is that an issue?
>How should I have configured this. I'm guessing this shouldn't be that
>hard, but maybe I'm missing something.
>
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