ADSM-L

Re: Volume deleted from OFFSITETAPES pool

2002-07-24 10:01:12
Subject: Re: Volume deleted from OFFSITETAPES pool
From: "Prather, Wanda" <Wanda.Prather AT JHUAPL DOT EDU>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 09:59:23 -0400
Hey, you NEVER have to worry about TSM losing data!
(One of the reasons I think it is the best product on the market...)

Here's what probably happened:
Either the data on this tape had already expired, or was relocated during a
reclaim.  So the tape was EMPTY (no valid data left), but still marked
OFFSITE.   So when you marked the tape as READO instead of OFFSITE, TSM
realized the tape was empty, and did what it normally does - deleted the
empty tape from the  storage pool.  If there were any valid data left on
that tape, TSM would NOT have deleted it from the storage pool.

If AD0289 were an onsite tape that was checked into your library, it would
have gone back to SCRATCH status.

If AD0289 is in your offsite location/vault, the only problem is that
(depending on how you generate your list of tapes to return from the vault),
it is no longer marked OFFSITE, so probably will not appear on your next
TAPERETURN list.  Just make a note to yourself that this tape needs to be
added to your next TAPERETURN list.

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Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
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wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
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