Moving from a library to a single drive

[melvin]

My existing server has an IBM LTO3 tape library with 6 drives and 90 slots. This hardware is going out the door because our lease expires and management has chosen to go with another backup solution. Our existing configuration has a primary storage pool and an offisite copy pool.

I have been given a new server with a single LTO3 drive which will only be doing restore jobs for old data. Basically when the existing server leaves, all TSM client schedules/reclamations/expires will be stopped. It will basically be frozen in time but accessible in case somebody needs to grab a file from 'the old system'.

The problem is there is no library. I can't checkin tapes to a manual library.

I backedup/restored the tsm DB to the new server. I have the manual drive defined to TSM and clients can connect to it, but when I issue restore requests they always bomb and ask for tapes from the offsite copy pool.

Does anyone know how to get a single tape drive on a new server to use tapes from another pool? How can I "attatch" the single drive to the primary storage pool?

I'm spinning my wheels here... Help!

 

[moon-buddy]

Switching from a library to a single drive system should not be any different. Have done this a lot in the past.

Have you checked that the online pool tapes are not labeled as 'unavailable'? This is commonly one reason why TSM would ask for offsite tapes.

 

[opermty]

check the original mgmclass and policies, review the drives references

 

[domino]

https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?mynp=OCSSGSG7&mync=E&uid=swg21515118&myns=swgtiv