Sunhillow
ADSM.ORG Senior Member
Hi all,
as we did not yet upgrade our TSM server to 5.5.2.1, I wrote a Perl script to label all virtual tapes with status = 'Scratch'.
As TSM Server won't complain when date tapes are being labeled, I fear this might be a bit dangerous. Do you think it might happen that I write a label to a tape used for data? The VTL then would "think" the last write position is at the beginning of the volume, so shrink it to its minimum size and discard the rest?
as we did not yet upgrade our TSM server to 5.5.2.1, I wrote a Perl script to label all virtual tapes with status = 'Scratch'.
As TSM Server won't complain when date tapes are being labeled, I fear this might be a bit dangerous. Do you think it might happen that I write a label to a tape used for data? The VTL then would "think" the last write position is at the beginning of the volume, so shrink it to its minimum size and discard the rest?