Hello,
I have just setup a new Tivoli solution over the holidays, but I fear that I have made an error in the configuration... hopefully somebody can let me know that there is an easy fix! (this forum is great by the way)
In my database maintenance plan, I selected a TAPE device class. Now when I view our volumes, in the tape library, there are dozens of volumes that are now marked Private, showing the Last Use as the DatabaseBackup
After doing some research, it would seem that you can only have 1 database backup per volume. I have since moved the database backups to a different device class (on a disk), but I don't seem to be able to reclaim any of these wasted private volumes back into scratch.
Is there an easy or safe way to do this? I have tried an "expire inventory" command, then tried an "update libvolume" command. These volumes do not show up as being reclaimable when I run a query. Would "checkin" / "checkout" of the tape produce the same results?
Thanks for advise / help with this...
I have just setup a new Tivoli solution over the holidays, but I fear that I have made an error in the configuration... hopefully somebody can let me know that there is an easy fix! (this forum is great by the way)
In my database maintenance plan, I selected a TAPE device class. Now when I view our volumes, in the tape library, there are dozens of volumes that are now marked Private, showing the Last Use as the DatabaseBackup
After doing some research, it would seem that you can only have 1 database backup per volume. I have since moved the database backups to a different device class (on a disk), but I don't seem to be able to reclaim any of these wasted private volumes back into scratch.
Is there an easy or safe way to do this? I have tried an "expire inventory" command, then tried an "update libvolume" command. These volumes do not show up as being reclaimable when I run a query. Would "checkin" / "checkout" of the tape produce the same results?
Thanks for advise / help with this...