Yes, you have to specify the library or an '*' to say all libraries.
If TSM loses the location of a tape in a library, typically during a
dismount failure or something like that, it will delete the volume from the
libvolumes table. The reason is it has no idea where the volume is anymore.
The next time the volume is attempted to be accessed, the mount will
eventually timeout and the volumes table entry will get marked unavailable.
Then future mount requests will fail immediately.
I have 3494 libraries. The only time this happens to me is if the library
goes offline for a failover or we set it offline and a dismount request
occurs during this time period.
I cannot speak to the particulars of your library, but the base code in TSM
probably works the same way. If you research it deeply you will probably
find some condition like or similar to this. And, maybe a bug, in the
dismount of a tape during a bulk checkin.
Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180
-----Original Message-----
From: Chetan H. Ravnikar [mailto:Chetan.Ravnikar AT SYNOPSYS DOT COM]
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 7:15 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: tape missing under q libv (HELP)
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Seay, Paul wrote:
> 4.2.2.0 is a really bad release to be running but I do not think it is
> your problem. 4.2.2.12 or 4.2.2.13 are pretty good.
we are thinking of moving to 5.1.51 and we have been testing
>
> When you issue the q libvolume command you must specify the library
> and the volume otherwise you will always get not found. If you just
> specify q libvolume it will show all volumes.
do I need to specify the lib, even when we have only one lib defined. q libv
<lib-name> still did not show the vol required.
I can q vol <vol-name> and it does come back saying it is part of onsite
storage pool! Not sure how it went out of sync!
> When you do the checkin command what does the log say? Is it really
> being checked in or is the checkin failing.
the checkin come back un-succesful in the beginnning, we had weird
combination of errors. TSM lost element information on the LIB, a lib audit
failed. After reseating the QIPs the lbtest came back fine.
Now we moved the tape out to the E/E port (manually)and re-checked in the
tape as private, with the below comand which failed to see the tape again as
there were some I/O errors.
CHECKIN libv gator64k l05232 search=n stat=pri checkl=n
10/29/02 12:03:16 ANR8306I 003: Insert 8MM volume L05232 R/W into the
slot with element number 0 of library GATOR64K within 60 minutes; issue
'REPLY' along with the request ID when ready.
apparently on a SpectraLogics gator 64k using TSM, the limitation is that
the E/E port is configured for exports only for TSM. There is no way one can
have tapes in the E/E port and do a BULK checkin via TSM.
We BULK load tapes via the lib console and then do a TSM audit.
Now here is how it worked. we put in the tape back in the E/E/ port and then
ran this comand
CHECKIN libv gator64k search=y stat=pri
ANR8430I Volume L05232 has been checked into library GATOR64K
> What kind of library do you have?
anybody using TSM with Spectra Logics libs and how are they working with the
sequence numbers going out of sync. This happens when we do a BULK load via
the lib-console and say at the same time there is a tape which is currently
being read/written to (basicaly mounted), the lib could just go load the
tape to a slot which had a VALID tsm volume in it and when TSM returns back
with the volume, it freeks out!
it makes me wonder if spectra logics is really really compatible with TSM!
Not sure how other libs work with TSM on this issue
Many thanks for your time Paul
> Paul D. Seay, Jr.
> Technical Specialist
> Naptheon Inc.
> 757-688-8180
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chetan H. Ravnikar [mailto:Chetan.Ravnikar AT SYNOPSYS DOT COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 11:28 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: tape missing under q libv (HELP)
>
>
> Hello
> I have a strange situation, when doing a restore. The process keeps
> waiting for a media unavialable and bails out.
>
> The volume it is looking for is in the on-site tapepool, but doesn't
> show under q libv. I had re-checked in the volume as private, also I
> can *q cont* on this vol but for some reason it does not show under q
> libv.
>
> I have even audit'd the lib, but no success.. any pointers/advice is a
> great help. I have a customer waiting on this restore
>
> we are on TSM server 4.2.20 on sol-2.8
>
> thanks
> Chetan
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