It looks as if everything is working fine, when you say you reissue your
backup db command it is using the 4 tapes that are scratch and then there
are no more scratch tapes available. This is were the error you see comes in
to the picture.( Why are you running the backup db command multiple times)

If you do a Query Libvol command do you see any scratch tapes available. If
not then you need to label and checkin more tapes.

If you do a Query Volhist command and see that tapes 1,2,3,4 are all db
backup tapes then this is proof as well that your 4 db backup commands ran
ok.

John Stephens
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM V3
IBM Certified Specialist - AIX
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
> Werner Nussbaumer
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 11:03 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: HELP! DLT Tape Library Management (Scratch)!
>
>
> Hello all
>
> I'm trying to configure a TSM Server for Windows NT with a
> Quantum DLT 7000
> Library. The library contains 4 Tapes. The following commands successfully
> worked:
>
> LABEL LIBVOLUME LB0.0.0.1 SEARCH=YES LABELSOURCE=PROMPT CHECKIN=SCRATCH
> OVERWRITE=YES
>
> TSM asked me for 4 tape labels, I used TAPE1, TAPE2, TAPE3 and TAPE4.
>
> Also this command worked:
>
> CHECKIN LIBVOLUME LB0.0.0.1 STATUS=SCRATCH CHECKLABEL=YES
> SWAP=YES MOUNTWAIT=60
> SEARCH=YES
>
> This way I have now 4 scratch tapes.
>
> Then I used with scratch=yes (I could not change to scratch
> affter I used the
> label wizard):
>
> BACKUP DB devclass=dltclass1 scratch=yes type=full
>
> TSM first used TAPE1, after I reissued the command again, it used
> TAPE2, then
> TAPE3 and finaly TAPE4. Then it terminated with:
>
> ANR1405W Scratch volume mount request denied - no scratch volume
> available.
>
> ANR4578E Database backup/restore terminated - required volume was
> not mounted.
>
> ANR0985I Process 9 for DATABASE BACKUP running in the BACKGROUND
> completed with
> completion state FAILURE at 15:46:37.
>
> The status of the tapes was now set to >private< instead of >scratch<.
>
> Can anyone help me and tell me, what commands I have to use to
> define a scratch
> volume library with those tapes so TSM will automatically use the required
> tapes and after defragmentation uses again free tapes.
>
>
> Any help is welcome!
> Thank you
> Regards
> Werner Nussbaumer
>