Shawn,
To transfer the data to another volume use the move data command (move data
volume_name).  TSM will use any other available tape as the recipient tape,
as long as you are not using collocation.

You can check in a new tape with that old label if you delete the old volume
from the database (del vol volume_name) after it is checked out of the
library, then check in the new vol with that old label.


-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Price [mailto:sprice AT MORRISONHOMES DOT COM]
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 9:14 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Unavailable LTO Tapes


Hello All,
 I have recently taken over the TSM admin duties in a small AIX 4.3.3
environment and have little experience with Tivoli and how to manage our
3584 library. Yesterday I had one of our four tape drives go offline, and
errpt indicates a disk drive error. Now I have a tape that has gone
unavailable twice and shows 0% utilized. My question (finally) is what is
the best procedure for getting any data off of the tape and removing it from
the library and the database so that Tivoli knows that it is damaged and is
being removed. Also since I will be replacing this tape with a new one, can
I just remove the barcode label and put it on the new one?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Shawn