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  • 1.  How to reuse filled tape

    Posted Thu July 14, 2016 02:11 AM

    Hi,

    I am looking for a way out to re-use the filled tape which is private. I am sort of tapes wanted to reuse it, can anyone provide me the process how i can do it . I am using TSM below version  Server Version 5, Release 5, Level 6.100.

    Regards

    Prem



  • 2.  RE: How to reuse filled tape

    Posted Mon October 31, 2016 03:12 PM

    Hello,

    If this tape still contains data you must move data to another location (disk or tape). After that tape will be empty and available for reuse.

    Use TSM "move data" command.

     



  • 3.  RE: How to reuse filled tape

    Posted Tue November 01, 2016 12:36 AM

    Hi Marcel,

    Thank you so much for the response, but while running move data command i am getting below error.

    tsm: ITSM01>move data kg5070l4 stg=diskpool_vm
    ANR2233W This command will move all of the data stored on volume KG5070L4 to
    other volumes in storage pool DISKPOOL_VM; the data will be inaccessible to
    users until the operation completes.

    Do you wish to proceed? (Yes (Y)/No (N)) y
    ANR2411E MOVE DATA: Unable to access associated volume KG3853L4 - access mode
    is set to "unavailable".
    ANS8001I Return code 14.

     

     

    Regards

    Prem



  • 4.  How to reuse filled tape

    Posted Tue November 01, 2016 04:57 AM
    Before run “move data” command, update the access of the volume:

    TSM> update vol KG5070L4 access=reado



    Regards,

    Marcel Sampaio Tubini
    Partner IT Consultoria em Serviços
    11 3636-8989 / 11 99429-7714
    marcel@partner-it.com.br<mailto:marcel@partner-it.com.br>

    From: Prem Singh [mailto:storage-ti@lists.imwuc.org]
    Sent: terça-feira, 1 de novembro de 2016 02:36
    To: storage-ti@lists.imwuc.org
    Subject: [storage-ti] - RE: How to reuse filled tape


    Hi Marcel,

    Thank you so much for the response, but while running move data command i am getting below error.

    tsm: ITSM01>move data kg5070l4 stg=diskpool_vm
    ANR2233W This command will move all of the data stored on volume KG5070L4 to
    other volumes in storage pool DISKPOOL_VM; the data will be inaccessible to
    users until the operation completes.

    Do you wish to proceed? (Yes (Y)/No (N)) y
    ANR2411E MOVE DATA: Unable to access associated volume KG3853L4 - access mode
    is set to "unavailable".
    ANS8001I Return code 14.





    Regards

    Prem

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  • 5.  RE: How to reuse filled tape

    Posted Tue November 01, 2016 08:13 AM

    Hi Marcel,

    Very surprising output from your side, I use to do it in the same way i was not updating the volume into reado, data movement was happening earlier.

     

    Regards

    Prem

     



  • 6.  RE: How to reuse filled tape

    Posted Tue November 01, 2016 08:43 AM

    Hello, I did a mistake.

    The volume you shoul update is KG3853L4, not kg5070l4. It occurs because some date necessary to empty kg5070l4 is on KG3853L4.

     

    Look at the error:

    ANR2411E MOVE DATA: Unable to access associated volume KG3853L4 - access mode is set to "unavailable".



  • 7.  How to reuse filled tape

    Posted Tue November 01, 2016 08:50 AM
    The problem is due to checking out some tapes from the library. You will not necessarily know which tapes are related to the same backup data. If you are moving data and it is spread across two different volumes, it needs to have both volumes available in order to complete the command. If you are checking some tapes out without realizing there are multiple volumes for that particular data, your command will always fail.



    From: Marcel Sampaio Tubini [mailto:storage-ti@lists.imwuc.org]
    Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2016 7:43 AM
    To: storage-ti@lists.imwuc.org
    Subject: [storage-ti] - RE: How to reuse filled tape


    Hello, I did a mistake.

    The volume you shoul update is KG3853L4, not kg5070l4. It occurs because some date necessary to empty kg5070l4 is on KG3853L4.



    Look at the error:

    ANR2411E MOVE DATA: Unable to access associated volume KG3853L4 - access mode is set to "unavailable".

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  • 8.  RE: How to reuse filled tape

    Posted Wed November 02, 2016 06:54 AM

    Brenda,

    Point taken, thank you very much for the continuous response, I understand the point. why it's not moving the data.

     

    Big thank you to you and Marcel ! You people are really genius.

     

    Regards

    Prem



  • 9.  RE: How to reuse filled tape

    Posted Wed November 02, 2016 10:27 AM

    Here is a handy select statement that can show you which tapes are reclaimable:

     

    SELECT cast ((volume_name) as char(17)) as VolSer, cast ((devclass_name) as char(5)) as DevClass, cast ((stgpool_name) as char(17)) as storage_pool, pct_reclaim, pct_utilized, cast ((status) as char(9)) as status, cast ((access) as char(9)) as access FROM volumes WHERE devclass_name<>'DISK' ORDER BY pct_reclaim

     

    Thanks