We ran into a situation last week where we hit a tipping point that there would be more scratch tapes needed than were coming back from off site. Being the curious person that I am, I ran some commands to figure out what we had coming back, what were already in the library, and others that fell into neither category. I verified the first two numbers with my operator on duty, and was thoroughly astonished by the third number, which ended up being over 900 tapes, some of which haven't been mounted since January 2007. I produced a list of these "orphaned" tapes for my operator, and he recalled them from offsite. It turned out to be a good list.
My question is, has anybody experienced a problem with vaulting that tapes are not being recalled properly when they expire? If so, how did you address it. My "solution" is to produce an orphan list at a certain interval to recall these tapes, but I would like to get to the bottom of the issue and put it to rest. Thank you! PLEASE NOTE: The preceding information may be confidential or privileged. It only should be used or disseminated for the purpose of conducting business with Parker. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender by replying to this message and then delete the information from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu