I have seen instances where a cartridge will show up as empty when it is
allocated to a large backup and will only show up as full when the session
is complete.



On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Robin Sharpe wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> I didn't think this would resolve this way, but...  I just looked at this
> tape again, and it IS NOT EMPTY ANYMORE!  I never saw it go into the
> scratch pool, and it is still in the same storage pool (ARCHLOG_TAPE).
> That storage pool is used for Oracle achived redo logs, and we back those
> up every hour or two on every system with an Oracle database in archive
> mode.  Here's a clip from my activity log...
>
>   08/31/01   16:16:52 ANR1425W Scratch volume DBR086 is empty but will not
> be deleted - volume state is "mountablenotinlib".
>   09/01/01   10:32:56 ANR8337I DLT volume DBR086 mounted in drive DRIVE3
> (/dev/mt11).
>   09/01/01   11:49:57 ANR8325I Dismounting volume DBR086 - 60 minute mount
> retention expired.
>   09/01/01   11:50:18 ANR8336I Verifying label of DLT volume DBR086 in
> drive DRIVE3 (/dev/mt11).
>   09/01/01   11:51:46 ANR8468I DLT volume DBR086 dismounted from drive
> DRIVE3 (/dev/mt11) in library ATL.
>   09/02/01   09:18:27 ANR1228I Removable volume DBR086 is required for
> storage pool backup.
>   09/02/01   09:18:27 ANR8324I DLT volume DBR086 is expected to be mounted
> (R/W).
>   09/02/01   09:20:00 ANR8337I DLT volume DBR086 mounted in drive DRIVE0
> (/dev/mt8).
>
> Looks like it was used yesterday morning for a storage pool backup.  I'm
> wondering now if another admin defined this tape as belonging to that
> storage pool... although I would think I should have been able to delete
> it.  And there's still the media state discrepancy issue.
>
> Oh well, I guess we'll just move forward, and wath to see if it happens
> again!
>
> Thanks to all for your suggestions.
>
> Robin Sharpe
> Berlex Laboratories
>