Hi William



First thanks a lot for the explanations !



Please some questions in the body of your message.



I you have a work paper ab out it I will be please to get it in private:   
rouzen AT univ.haifa.ac DOT il<mailto:rouzen AT univ.haifa.ac DOT il>



Thanks again,



Best Regards Robert



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Robert,



We recently replaced our TS3584 control frame since the our L32 model was going 
end of support last month. We replaced that frame with a 3584 L53 model and 
from a TSM perspective it looked like a new library. This is similar to your 
plan of moving to a new tape library and we kept the same model library and you 
are doing the same as well.



You could move the LTO-5 tapes to your new TS3200 library and just update TSM 
to use the new library.



Here are the steps we used:



After IBM was done with the frame swap out we did the necessary San zoning as 
the WWN's changed with the new frame.



Then we discovered the tape drives and library control device at the OS level.



Next we ran the following command to update the library definition in TSM.



update library <Library Name> serial=AUTODETECT



That command allowed us to remove the serial number from old library. Then we 
just updated the path for the library in TSM to the new library control point 
device and then TSM discovered the new library serial number and we were back 
in business with same library name.



Since we are using the same tape drives we only had to update the device in the 
tape drive paths in TSM. But you would have to delete the LTO-5 tape drives and 
add the new LTO-7 drives in TSM.



Next we ran an audit on the library and then TSM was back in sync with the tape 
library.



So for your case I would perform the following after you have discovered the 
new library at the operating system level:



1. Remove all the scratch & pending LTO-5 tapes from TSM and then update the 
remaining LTO-5 tapes to read-only when you are ready to start the library 
cut-over.



2. Move the LTO-5 tapes containing data to your new library. Turn off the old 
library so TSM will not discover it.  What you mean "Move the LTO-5 tapes" ? To 
run a checkout as: checkout libvolume  LTO5 xxx1 checklabel=no remove=yes



3. Run the update library command and then update the device path for the 
library path  Meaning:  update library LTO5 serial=AUTODETECT     and  from the 
command: tsmdlst to see the path of the new library LTO7 . Then change the path 
of the old library LTO5 to the new path ?




4. Once the library is online to TSM then create your LTO-7 tape drives



4. Put a LTO-7 drive online and run an audit library



Then you should be able to checkin your LTO-7 tapes and then just let the data 
roll off the LTO-5 tapes. Data roll off or a move data ?



William Sefranek

University of Buffalo

Enterprise Infrastructure Services

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Subject: [ADSM-L] Tapes from LTO5 to LTO7



Hi to all



I have a robot TS3200 LTO5 and made me a lot of problems . I acquire a brand 
new TS3200 LTO7 with 4 drives.



I wonder if I can connect the new library to the server (where library LTO5 is 
attach) and do:





1.       Checkout of all my tapes from LTO5



2.       Checkin those tapes to LTO7 .



3.       Do a move data or move nodedata or update the storage with next 
storagepool (LTO7)



Possible ???? Or other solutions ???



Best Regards



Robert