Hello, did you check that the media access status is "readwrite" or it is
 "unavailable?

Cyril Todorov
System Administrator
BULBANK AD
7 Sv. Nedelya Sq. Sofia1000 Bulgaria
tel.: +359 2 98412662
email: c.todorov AT sof.bulbank DOT bg



> ----- Original Message -----
> From: MC Matt Cooper (2838) <Matt.Cooper AT AMGREETINGS DOT COM>
> To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 17:03
> Subject: very few tapes expiring
>
>
> > Hello all,
> >         I am running TSM 4.1.3 (just upgraded from 4.1.1) on OS390 2.7.
> We
> > have been up and running for about 5 months now and the tape people (who
> > initially said tapes were returning from offsite) have told me that not
to
> > many tapes return from offsite.  So I start looking at things.  We have
> > NETWARE, NT, AIX, SUN UNIX, DB2, SQL, ORACLE, and MS-EXchange servers +
> 100
> > desktops.
> >  I see that I have a lot of tapes that are still in use all the way back
> to
> > when we were just testing things out 5 months ago.
> >  I can also see that the expiration process is running daily ( and not
to
> > the 3 hr limit).
> >  I can see that the tapes all have various amounts of reclaimable % of
> space
> > on them, some all the way to 100%,  but even though I see this from
> running
> > Q VOL xxxxxx that when I run Q CONTENT xxxxx COUNT=100 that there are
some
> > files there.
> > I know that the copygroups have been changed around, but  they always
had
> > either VERSIONS DATA EXISTS < 45   or RETAIN EXTRA VERSIONS < 45.
RETAIN
> > ONLY VERSION is 60, everywhere.
> > I know that I update the copy groups and activate the policysets every
> > weekend to change the COPYMODE to/from ABSOLUTE/INCREMENTAL to force
> weekend
> > fulls. (this shouldn't matter?)
> > I see some NETWARE, AIX, DB2 files on these tapes that are 4 months old.
> > I am at a loss as to what is wrong or what I am to new to know.  Anybody
> > have an idea as to where I should look or what I am not doing?
> > many thanks
> > Matt
>