Joni,
In all honesty I haven't thought as far as checking the moved media back
in, but I guess it'll be a case of when the 12 months that I intend
keeping the moved media is up, I'll just check the media backin as
private and TSM, knowing that it is now out of date, will change the
media to being scratch media.
I'm not quite sure what the results of rem=yes or rem=bulk would be for
a ACSLS library, but I guess from reading the help file, with an ACSLS
lib the rem=yes or rem=bulk results in the same action: tsm puts the
tape in the "convenience slot" whatever that is. I've an ADIC Scalar
i2000 with multiple entry/exit slots in the door, and with rem=bulk, tsm
checksout all the tapes specified to these slots. Your best bet is to
try rem=yes and then rem=bulk see what happens :)

For knowing when to bring them back: " q med * stg=<yourstgname> f=d "
That will give you a list of tapes, their location, and the date their
"last reference date" - which I'm taking to mean when they were written
to last. Depending on your retention periods, you'll know that tpaes
older than xx days need tocome back. That's how I intend playing it
anyway.

Sorry I can't be of more help, hopefully someone else can be more
helpful.
Iain 



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Joni Moyer
Sent: 04 March 2005 20:21
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] NDMP tape status

Hi Iain!

I have looked at the move media command and I believe that this is what
I want to enter if I want to send my tapes to our offsite vaulting
company, but I guess what I don't understand is what the difference is
between the remove=yes and bulk.  I have an STK SL8500 library with
ACSLS.  If I use this command and I send the tapes offsite, then how do
I know when to bring them back or do I just do a: q med status=empty and
then when I get a list of tapes that need to be returned issue the
command move med * stg=tape_ndmp wherestate=mountablenotinlib
wherestatus=empty?

mov med * stg=tape_ndmp wherestate=mountableinlib wherestatus=full
rem=yes checkl=n ovflo='Vital Records'

Honestly I am very confused right now about this whole process because I
am using EDT with my regular TSM backups since I have LTO2 drives/tapes.
I had to define an ACSLS library along with an external library and I
just have so many unknowns of how regular processing is done with an
ACSLS library and NDMP backups.  If anyone can clear things up for me I
would appreciate it.  Thank you!

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Highmark
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Joni,
Not sure if what you're trying to achieve is the same as I was, but
here's what Terry McColgan suggested for me and it works perfectly
(thanks again Terry).

Use the move media command:

mov med * stg=<yourpoolname> wherestate=mountableinlib wherestatus=full
rem=b checkl=n ovflo=TOPDRAWER

This command will mark all tapes in the <yourpoolname> as being in the
"topdrawer" overflow location, if they meet the criteria specified with
"wherestat" and "wherestatus" parameters. It will also auto checkout the
tapes to the entry/exit ports, if you don't want that to happen, change
the "rem" parameter.

If you do a "help move media" at the cmd you'll get the complete
details.
Hope this helps, it certainly did me :)
Iain


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Joni Moyer
Sent: 04 March 2005 19:45
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] NDMP tape status

Hi Everyone!

I am trying to eject the NDMP backup tapes from our library and send
them offsite.  I tried to update the access of the tapes to offsite, but
it won't let me stating that it has to be a copy storage pool volume or
a volume with devclass of server.  Since I can't do either of these,
what is the standard method of sending the tapes offsite and having the
TSM server be aware that they are not onsite?  Thank you in advance!

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Joni Moyer
Highmark
Storage Systems
Work:(717)302-6603
Fax:(717)302-5974
joni.moyer AT highmark DOT com
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