Re: how to determine which tapes to move

To see a list of tapes to pull out of library do:

q media * stg=POOLNAME days=X wherestate=mountablein

Where POOLNAME = your tape poll name.  For X in days=, I would
start high, say 7 days.  THis will showe you tapes in this stgpool
that are mountableinlibrary and haven't been accessed in 7 days.
You can adjust this X value till you get as many tapes as you need to pull
out.

The do:

move media * stg=POOLNAME days=X wherestate=mountablein

This will remove all tapes with this criteria out of library.  (You can add
remove=bulk if you havew a bulk I/O station)

This doesn't gaurantee that these tapes won't be needed an hour after
you remove them, but using the days parameter reduces the possiblity.

When a restore/retrieve/reclamation needs one of the tapes you removed,
there will be a pronpt on the Console for that tape.  No real way to predict
when a tape is needed.  I do this a lot with my IBM 3575-L32 library.

When a tape is needed just check backin as you would a scratch tape
except use status=private.

David Longo

>>> PCoviello AT CMC-NH DOT ORG 03/01/02 09:38AM >>>
        HI, since our library is full and we need to keep the data we have
(Exchange a years worth 30gb a night)  aaaaahhhh!!!!!  (sorry- it has become
the bane of our existence),  I have been using an overflow location,
Taperoom.  We were running SSM up to now but our demo license has run out
and we are in the process of waiting to hear if the budget is approved.
Which will also give us 98 more slots (joy) anyway we've lost that capabilty
for now. So the following questions are:

        config of AIX 4.3.3 TSM 4.1.3  and a 100 tape ATL P2000

        How does one select which tapes to move off to an overflow location?
with out TSM requiring them the same day or even next.  also How do you
monitor when the tape is needed?

thanks

Paul


Paul J Coviello
Sr Systems Analyst
Catholic Medical Center
2456 Brown Ave
Manchester, NH 03103
603 663-5326



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