You are correct: damaged tape? No moving the data. What you can do is
mark the tape as destroyed (assuming this is a primary pool tape) and do
a restore volume command on it. If it is a copy pool tape, then delete
the volume by issuing delete volume volser discardd=yes (note: this is a
big hammer).
To restore the volume from copy pool tapes:
Restore vol volser preview=yes
This command will tell you which copy pool tapes you need to restore the
volume. Find them, check them into the library.
Then
Restore volume volser
Now, all that said, there is no urgency to any of this. You may well
want to wait until your TSM admin is back and let him/her do the work.
Kelly J. Lipp
VP Manufacturing & CTO
STORServer, Inc.
485-B Elkton Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
719-266-8777
lipp AT storserver DOT com
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Jon Adams
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 11:03 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Removing defective tape from library
Hi,
I am covering for our TSM Admin this week and ran into something I
haven't had to do in a while. We have a defective tape that has been
physically removed from a drive in library. Once removed, I see that it
is physically damaged and cannot be used again.
I believe I know how to check it out by using: "checkout libvol l700
<tapenum> remove=no checklabel=no force=yes". But I'm wondering if I
should move the data (it sounds logical), before I remove the tape from
the database?
I think the command to mark the tape as read only is (it's currently
'unavailable'): "update vol <tapenum> access=unavailable" and then to
move the data is "move data <tapenum>" but if I can't put the tape back
into the library, how am I going to move the data...?
Perhaps I am making this more complicated than it should. Any help
and/or confirmation would be greatly appreciated.
With regards,
_______________________________________________
Jon R. Adams
Senior Systems Engineer
IT Datacenter Operations and Hosting, OSS MLT, Building 4F1, J-5 Premera
Blue Cross
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