Hi:
We are just going to upgrade our drives to 'E' types. We currently have two 
drives in a tape library that holds our copypool. I believe below is a working 
senario, other than deleteing the copypool. Any comments?


 I believe that in order to upgrade the tape libraries and migrate the existing 
data we need to copy the data on the existing tapes to scratch tapes in the new 
library.
If both drives are updated concurrently and defined to a new library, there 
would be no way to do this.
I believe what has to happen is:
-one drive is upgraded and defined to a new library
-the data in the copypoool is copied to the new library
-the data in the copypoool is copied to the new library
-the existing copypool def is deleted
-the existing copypool def is deleted
-the related configuration definitions are changed to reference the new -the 
related configuration definitions are changed to reference the new copypool in 
the new library
copypool in the new library
the 2nd drive is upgraded.


>>> nickpc AT US.IBM DOT COM 01/10/02 02:54PM >>>
TSM knows the tape belongs to the other storage pool, which exists in the
other library.  You can't move the tapes themselves (with data on them),
you have to move the data on the tapes.  Once the tapes are scratch, you
can move them from one library to the other.

Nick Cassimatis
nickpc AT us.ibm DOT com 

Today is the tomorrow of yesterday.

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Ok, maybe I've misread the documentation but, this is causing me some
grief.


In testing the upgraded 3590E drive, I've followed the instructions for
creating
a new library, devclass, drive, and storage pools.  What I'm trying to do
is
move a full J tape from the old library to the newly defined library, and
read
it on the E drive.

I am able to 'checkin libvol magstor3e 101008 status=private devtype=3590',
but when I try to read the tape, ADSM requests it be mounted back in the
origional
library.

What gives?  I'm at wit's end (not that far from wit's beginning, really!)

Thanks,
Mike