Forgive me for asking, but is this based on experience? I ask because some administrative processes aren't that graceful about unavailable tapes. (RECLAIM STG comes to mind.)
On Friday, November 8, 2013, Shawn DREW wrote: > I would just mark all the tapes that are not in the library as > "unavailable", then run your "copy activedata". When It finishes, eject as > many tapes as you can and put in other tapes. It will tell you which tapes > that were needed, but were marked unavailable in the actlog. Change the > unavailable/readw flags around and repeat until you get through all the > tapes it asks for. > At the end, mark all of them readw again and rerun the copy activedata to > catch any stragglers. > > > > Regards, > Shawn > ________________________________ > Shawn Drew >