That's exactly what it was - me not understanding what MAXSCRATCH means.

Now I know what it means. And now my DRM is running again. :-)

Thanks for the wicked quick replies!!!

 - mike

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Copper, Steve
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 8:06 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Insufficient space in copypool

Mike,

Somewhere to look is at the detailed info for the storage pool you are
trying to backup to.

q stgpool <stgpool_name> f=d

Look at the Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed field and see what that value
is. If you are pushing this limit with volumes in the stgpool then up it.

HIH

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Bantz [mailto:mbantz AT RSINC DOT COM]
Sent: 11 June 2004 14:59
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Insufficient space in copypool


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I'm trying to run three commands:
backup stg directorypool copypool
backup stg diskpool copypool
backup stg tapepool copypool
I get errors trying to run each command:
        ANR1221E BACKUP STGPOOL: Process 58 terminated - insufficient space
in target copy storage pool.

The thing is, I've got 14 scratch tapes in that library unassigned to any
media pool. Almost as if TSM won't grab any of those tapes. Is there
somewhere I can start looking to see why this would happen?

Thanks in advace!

Mike Bantz
Systems Administrator
Research Systems, Inc

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