Hi, Allen.
I recently went through this with a client. I used "audit library
checklabel=yes", but I did give some thought to not having to do the
whole library.
Windows TSM server:
Disable autolabel
Use library's web interface to remove tapes from library
If necessary, checkout libvol remove=no checklabel=no
Take one of each duplicate tape, checkin libvol search=bulk
checklabel=yes
AIX TSM server:
Use tapeutil or the library's web interface to mount each questionable
tape
dd if=/dev/rmtXX count=1 conv=ascii
This will tell you what the tape's internal label is
Good luck!
Oh, and if anyone knows a similar way to dd the internal label from a
Windows machine, I'd be interested in hearing it. Thanks!
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Alex Paschal
Storage Solutions Engineer
MSI Systems Integrators
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Allen S. Rout
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 12:06 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Audit part of a library?
A sad tawdry tale has led me to a circumstance in which I have a
certain set of tape volsers duplicated in a library of mine.
Pleasantly, these volumes are either labeled (and mostly in use) or
they are brand spanking fresh, and unlabeled (in a TSM LABEL LIBVOLUME
sense).
So I expect that, if I were to AUDIT LIBRARY checklabel=yes, I would
find that the 'bad' (new) volumes would fail the audit, and the 'good'
(old) ones would pass.
But I'm going to have to do this several times, I bet. I'd prefer to
avoid mounting and label checking the other 1100 volumes every time I
go through the process.
Is there any procedure you folks have gone through, permitting you to
audit -part- of a library? Or am I being silly, just go mount them
all?
These tape volumes hold remote virtual volumes, so I'm guessing the
AUDIT VOLUME process might be quite quick. I'm going to give that a
shot, it may be quick enough...
- Allen S. Rout
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