You can define an additional copy pool, use the define volume command to assign the volume to the new pool, then backup a primary storage pool to the new pool.
Since this is an additional copy pool, you can delete the volume when done testing. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Mochnaczewski Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 8:01 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Mount and write to a specific tape Hi Everybody, I am having a strange problem where some newly labelled and initialized tapes once they are taken from the scratch tape pool process get errors regarding the label and the tape is changed to inaccessable and becomes private. I've checked out the tape and checked it in and would like to try and mount the tape and write directly to it to reproduce the problme rather than wait until the tape comes around to be mounted. Is this possible ? My library is a 3494, the drives are 3590, and TSM version is 5.3.2.3 running on AIX 5.2. Rich