Re: [ADSM-L] Unavailable Tapes - cannot do Move Data

Hello,

I find normally that when a tape is unavailable is has to do with the fact
that the tape is stuck in a drive. We have to mannualy open the library
and remove the tape from the drive and place it in the CAP. Then we load
the tape with checkin libvolume back into the library. First check if the
tape itself is correct, physically and if the tape has no read and/or
write errors. In case of to many errors maybe the tape has to be put in
state Destroyed and then recover data from the copy or main tapepool.

Rolf.

> First of all, is the tape definitely in the library?
>
> Next, is this an onsite or offsite tape?
>
> Do a
>
> q vol <volume-name> f=d
>
> What is in the 'location' field? If the tape if supposed to be offsite and
> the location is blank and you run a 'move data', it will think it is in
> the
> library, not find it and revery back to 'unavailable'. I had two of these
> last week
>
>
> Jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of
> Cheung, Richard
> Sent: 04 November 2008 09:53
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Unavailable Tapes - cannot do Move Data
>
> Hello..
>
> I have a number of tapes showing as access=unavailable in the system.  I
> have tried to change the state to readwrite to see if it would work
> (maybe some kind of read / load issue) but that didn't work.   I have
> then tried to change the state to readonly, and do a 'move data' command
> to move the data on the tape onto a storage pool - but the activity log
> shows when it tries to load the tape, it fails and the tape goes right
> back to unavailable again.
>
> A q filespace and q occupancy shows there is data for my nodes on these
> tapes which I really don't want to loose.
>
> What else can I do about this?
>
>
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