Volume History showing tape with 'remote' status

[chris.read]

Every since we upgraded to v5.2.3.4, if a tsm server hangs or blue screens, any tapes in drives at the time are given a status of 'remote' in the volume history.



Once all the data on them expires, they remain private and you cannot assign them a status of Scratch



Its as if TSM is being extra careful and doesnt want you to ever use these tapes again in case they caused the problem



I now have 50 or so perfectly good tapes which i cannot use.



I have tried using a different barcode, but TSM will not let you overwrite a digital label with a different one



Is there any way round this?



this is the command:



all: select volume_name,date_time,type from volhistory where volume_name='DJF452'



and here is the output:





RONALD_SERVER1 follows:



VOLUME_NAME DATE_TIME TYPE

------------------ ------------------ ------------------

DJF452 2002-02-06 STGNEW

15:22:07.000000

DJF452 2002-04-22 STGDELETE

19:24:27.000000

DJF452 2002-06-05 STGNEW

15:16:06.000000

DJF452 2002-06-14 STGDELETE

01:19:38.000000

DJF452 2005-08-25 REMOTE

07:34:10.000000



Many Thanks

 

[sthoppay]

Did you try to use virtual volumes?



For virtual volumes, TSM marks the volume as remote.