Tapes showing as unavailable

[juda]

I have a tape library, which is showing quite a few tapes as unavailable, has anyone come accross this before, all the tapes are actually in the library

 

[cdacunha]

Hi,



There'are a few possibilities :



The inventory of your library is incorrect so the library can't find the volume and sets it to status unavailable



The volume isn't physically in your library



At some point in time you had a problem with the library, all the volumes that TSM tries to access during that period are marked as unavailable



Someone changed those volumes ( for a specific reason ) to status unavailable



I would suggest verifying the content of your library first and afterwards running 'audit library'. Be carefull this can take a while ( depends on what kind of library you have )



After these manipulations you can update the remaining volumes to status readwrite to make them available again