There is a way to do a select match the volhistory table against your libvolumes and figure out which ones are missing.
-----Original Message----- From: Joel Fuhrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 9:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tapes Blank Under Last Use In our case, these occur when there is a problem mounting a database backup tape. The TSM server request the mount and marks the volume private. When the mount fails, TSM neither enters it as a dbbackup in the volhistory nor does it return it to the scratch pool. I learned this when a faulty drive caused all scratch tapes to become private. When this happens, I just check the tape out and then check it back in as scratch. TSM will not check it in unless its empty. On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Michael Benjamin wrote: > This seems like normal behaviour... > > q vol > q drm > q libvol > q content > > Will return nothing for a library volume marked Private with no last > use. It has not been allocated to a storage pool, the library doesn't > know anything about it, except the fact it's been marked as private > and therefore not to use it unless requested. The request never occurs of > course and your library can > fill up with nolastuse tapes. > > Check out any tapes in this state, run the above commands and see if > there is any data on them, if not then you can relabel the tapes as > scratch or just check them back in as scratch and problem solved. > > More than likely a scratch tape loaded with a write protect. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gene Greenberg [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 9:30 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Tapes Blank Under Last Use > > > > Hi, > > > > I don't get stumped too often, no more than once a day, but I've run > > into a couple of problems I can't figure out. I'm using a 3575 > > library with server > > running 4.3.3 aix. For the last two or three days I'm getting nothing when > > I run > > an eject script. When I run a q libv I have tapes that have nothing in > > the > > column under last use. When I try to query the volume under the q vol > > command > > or q drmedia command nothing comes up. > > > > Going through the act log I'm getting many messages of volumes that > > are marked offsite and still contains files which could not be move > > ANR1163W. I don't know > > how we got to this point, but if anyone has any ideas please let me know. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Gene > > ********************************************************************** > **** > Bunnings Legal Disclaimer: > > 1) This document is confidential and may contain legally privileged > information. If you are not the intended recipient you must not > read, copy, distribute or act in reliance on it. > If you have received this document in error, please telephone > us immediately on (08) 9365-1555. > > 2) All e-mails sent to and sent from Bunnings Building Supplies are > scanned for content. Any material deemed to contain inappropriate > subject matter will be reported to the e-mail administrator of > all parties concerned. > > ********************************************************************** > **** >