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Re: HELP! DLT Tape Library Management (Scratch)!

2000-07-11 11:19:46
Subject: Re: HELP! DLT Tape Library Management (Scratch)!
From: "Tessier, Ron (Contractor)" <ron.tessier AT WEYERHAEUSER DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:19:46 -0700
First do you have bbarcode labels on the DLT tapes? What type of library are
you using? Try using LABELSOURCE=BARCODE if you have them

> ----------
> From:         Werner Nussbaumer[SMTP:werner.nussbaumer AT UBS DOT COM]
> Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent:         Tuesday, July 11, 2000 8:03 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
>
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