Joni, In all honesty I haven't thought as far as checking the moved media back in, but I guess it'll be a case of when the 12 months that I intend keeping the moved media is up, I'll just check the media backin as private and TSM, knowing that it is now out of date, will change the media to being scratch media. I'm not quite sure what the results of rem=yes or rem=bulk would be for a ACSLS library, but I guess from reading the help file, with an ACSLS lib the rem=yes or rem=bulk results in the same action: tsm puts the tape in the "convenience slot" whatever that is. I've an ADIC Scalar i2000 with multiple entry/exit slots in the door, and with rem=bulk, tsm checksout all the tapes specified to these slots. Your best bet is to try rem=yes and then rem=bulk see what happens :)
For knowing when to bring them back: " q med * stg=<yourstgname> f=d " That will give you a list of tapes, their location, and the date their "last reference date" - which I'm taking to mean when they were written to last. Depending on your retention periods, you'll know that tpaes older than xx days need tocome back. That's how I intend playing it anyway. Sorry I can't be of more help, hopefully someone else can be more helpful. Iain -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joni Moyer Sent: 04 March 2005 20:21 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] NDMP tape status Hi Iain! I have looked at the move media command and I believe that this is what I want to enter if I want to send my tapes to our offsite vaulting company, but I guess what I don't understand is what the difference is between the remove=yes and bulk. I have an STK SL8500 library with ACSLS. If I use this command and I send the tapes offsite, then how do I know when to bring them back or do I just do a: q med status=empty and then when I get a list of tapes that need to be returned issue the command move med * stg=tape_ndmp wherestate=mountablenotinlib wherestatus=empty? mov med * stg=tape_ndmp wherestate=mountableinlib wherestatus=full rem=yes checkl=n ovflo='Vital Records' Honestly I am very confused right now about this whole process because I am using EDT with my regular TSM backups since I have LTO2 drives/tapes. I had to define an ACSLS library along with an external library and I just have so many unknowns of how regular processing is done with an ACSLS library and NDMP backups. If anyone can clear things up for me I would appreciate it. Thank you! ******************************** Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************** "Iain Barnetson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ALLIBURTON.COM> To Sent by: "ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU> Re: NDMP tape status 03/04/2005 02:52 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> Joni, Not sure if what you're trying to achieve is the same as I was, but here's what Terry McColgan suggested for me and it works perfectly (thanks again Terry). Use the move media command: mov med * stg=<yourpoolname> wherestate=mountableinlib wherestatus=full rem=b checkl=n ovflo=TOPDRAWER This command will mark all tapes in the <yourpoolname> as being in the "topdrawer" overflow location, if they meet the criteria specified with "wherestat" and "wherestatus" parameters. It will also auto checkout the tapes to the entry/exit ports, if you don't want that to happen, change the "rem" parameter. If you do a "help move media" at the cmd you'll get the complete details. Hope this helps, it certainly did me :) Iain -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joni Moyer Sent: 04 March 2005 19:45 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] NDMP tape status Hi Everyone! I am trying to eject the NDMP backup tapes from our library and send them offsite. I tried to update the access of the tapes to offsite, but it won't let me stating that it has to be a copy storage pool volume or a volume with devclass of server. Since I can't do either of these, what is the standard method of sending the tapes offsite and having the TSM server be aware that they are not onsite? Thank you in advance! ******************************** Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ********************************