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I have an ACSLS library "B243" with volrange VA5000-VA5149. I checked in
new volumes VA5150-VA5159, and 90 of the 150 tapes in the VA5000-VA5149
range disappeared!!!
One that disappeared was VA5000, which is one of my storage volumes. I
checked it in (status=private) and it now shows:
Library Name Volume Name Status Owner Last Use

------------ ----------- ---------- ---------- ---------
B243 VA5000 Private GENTOO51
Note "Last Use" is blank (should be Data). I tried to run "AUDIT V
VA5000" but it returned:
ANR2017I Administrator XXXXXXXX issued command: AUDIT
VOLUME va5000
ANR2410E AUDIT VOLUME: Unable to access volume VA5000 -
access mode is set to "unavailable".

Not good! How do I reconstruct my library volume table?

Best regards,
Mark Wheeler, 3M Company

Mark Wheeler wrote:
I have an ACSLS library "B243" with volrange VA5000-VA5149. I checked in
new volumes VA5150-VA5159, and 90 of the 150 tapes in the VA5000-VA5149
range disappeared!!!
One that disappeared was VA5000, which is one of my storage volumes. I
checked it in (status=private) and it now shows:
Library Name Volume Name Status Owner Last Use

------------ ----------- ---------- ---------- ---------
B243 VA5000 Private GENTOO51
Note "Last Use" is blank (should be Data). I tried to run "AUDIT V
VA5000" but it returned:
ANR2017I Administrator XXXXXXXX issued command: AUDIT
VOLUME va5000
ANR2410E AUDIT VOLUME: Unable to access volume VA5000 -
access mode is set to "unavailable".

Not good! How do I reconstruct my library volume table?


1- checkin all your lost volumes as data, the last use field will get updated once they are used.
2- update you volumes to become on-line again (upd vol va5* acc=readw whereacc=unav)

now, you probably lost some volumes that are scratch as well, so you'll need some sql select to find those:

select VOLUME_NAME from LIBVOLUMES where VOLUME_NAME not in (select VOLUME_NAME from VOLUMES) and volume_name not in (select volume_name from volhistory where not type like 'STG%')

(now, this is untested, so be sure to verify, I'm sure that if you have export tapes in there or backup sets, you must exclude those as well!)

if you are sure that a tape really is scratch, update that libvol.

You may want to do an audit library after all of this.


Best regards,
Mark Wheeler, 3M Company


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