Hello, as Wanda and Ronald suggested, tapes will go in a private status in the library inventory when TSM tries to use a tape which has no internal label.
As already pointed out, this can happen when a tape is checked in but not labelled. To avoid those situations, you can use the autolabel feature in TSM. You can do it with the following command : update library <library name> autolabel=yes The next time the TSM server encounters a tape with no internal label, it will write one. You might find this feature useful. Have a great day. Rejean Larivee IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support ********************************************************************************************************** Visit our new IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support page: http://www-3.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManager.html Expand IBM Tivoli product knowledge through our Support Technical Exchange. http://www-3.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/supp_tech_exch.html ********************************************************************************************************** Ronald Le Large <abulifia_is_smar [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Sent by: "ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU> Re: NO SLOTS 03/12/2007 12:38 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> James, It happened to me (and many others I know) that tapes became UA because the label was not written to tape. That happens if you check-in tapes without labelling them. I am not saying that this is the cause of your problem or that it happened to you , but I found it worthwhile to mention. Search for ANR8355 if you are interested. Kind regards, RLL David E Ehresman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The following query (thanks to a Paul Seay session at SHARE) will list tapes maked as PRIVATE but not in use: select volume_name as "Private Tapes NOT in Use" - from libvolumes - where status='Private' - and libvolumes.volume_name not in - (select volume_name from volumes) - and libvolumes.volume_name not in - (select volume_name from volhistory - where type in ('BACKUPFULL', - 'BACKUPINCR', - 'DBSNAPSHOT', - 'EXPORT')) Tapes listed by the above query can be updated to SCRATCH status with an UPDATE LIBVOL library_name vol_name STATUS=SCRATCH David >>> "Lepre, James" 3/9/2007 12:35 PM >>> I have done the first 4 steps already.. What I believe is happening is that when some scratch tapes were put in TSM tried to use them, couldn't and mark them as private.. Is there a command to check to see if this is happening -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Orville Lantto Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 12:33 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] NO SLOTS First, get a reliable inventory of what tapes are in your library, perhaps forcing the library to do an inventory beforehand. Do not use TSM for this. Second, reconcile the hardware inventory against what TSM reports in "q libvol" for this library, perhaps doing a TSM library audit beforehand. Third, investigate the disparities. You unavailable tapes could be out of the library or were made unavailable when TSM couldn't mount them because of drive errors or whatever. If they are in the library and not damaged, just update them to readwrite. Fourth, review your reclamation policy and procedures. Fifth, if you still are out of slots, upgrade your tape technology, get another frame on your library, or eject tapes and start storing them outside your library. Orville L. Lantto Storage Consultant GlassHouse Technologies, Inc. 200 Crossing Boulevard Framingham, MA 01702 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.glasshouse.com -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lepre, James Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:15 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] NO SLOTS Hello Everyone, I am having problem with no available slots in my 3584 library. I am running tsm 5.3.2.5 and have 450 slots in the library. I also have over 50 unavailable tapes listed in TSM. I am struggling to figure out what to do first. Does anyone have a suggestion to where I should start to solve this problem. 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