Arshad, It would seem that there are not scratch volumes available for use as a
db backup tape. Try the following select at your dsmadmc prompt  to identify how
many scratch tapes are in your library:

select count(*) as num_scratch_tapes from libvolumes where status='Scratch'

George Lesho
Storage/System Admin
AFC Enterprises





Arshad Sheikh <amshaik70 AT HOTMAIL DOT COM> on 03/21/2001 11:32:14 AM

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Subject:  What's wrong here



Hi there,

I am a newbie so forgive my naiveness. I want to setup TSM 3.7 on a box with
8mm drive, so I create a library, drive,devclass,stgpool and label my
volume. I also created the domain,policyset,mgmtclass and copypool for
backing up files and register the node in it.
Now when I tried to do a db backup

backup db devclass=c8mm type=full

I got the following from actlog

03/21/01   09:10:51  ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: BACKUP DB
                      devclass=class8mm type=full
03/21/01   09:10:51  ANR0984I Process 6 for DATABASE BACKUP started in the
                      BACKGROUND at 09:10:51.
03/21/01   09:10:51  ANR2280I Full database backup started as process 6.
03/21/01   09:10:51  ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library
                      LIB8MM.
03/21/01   09:10:51  ANR1404W Scratch volume mount request denied - mount
                      failed.
03/21/01   09:10:51  ANR4578E Database backup/restore terminated - required
                      volume was not mounted.
03/21/01   09:10:51  ANR0985I Process 6 for DATABASE BACKUP running in the
                      BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at
                      09:10:51.


What I need to do to make it work, I already labeled the volume, its already
inserted in the drive. What is wrong here?? Checkin volume command only
works with automated libraries so I can't check in the volume.

Any help is deeply appreciated.

Arshad.
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