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Hello,

TSM successfully checked out our list of 20 offsite volumes, but failed to send 8 of them to the CAP (CAP was full of incoming scratch volumes, I think). Now, all I know is the volume names that I need and their slot numbers, but since TSM doesn't see them, I can't figure out how to get the library robot to remove them. How can I tell our STK L700 (or TSM) to remove them? Obviously, I do not want to visually look for these things.

Thinking of getting TSM to audit the library and check them back in, but am afraid of changing the status of the volumes. The TSM Admin is on vacation and I am desperately trying to keep anyone from calling him, including me.



With regards,

Jon R. Adams
Premera Blue Cross, Mountlake Terrace WA


"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment"
- Will Rogers

The quick and dirty is to do as you suggested below:

Run a checkin with SEARCH=YES STATUS=PRIVATE;
then run a checkout for each volume with REMOVE=YES.

It's OK to do that.

It won't change the TSM volume status (you can display before and after
status with Q VOL xxxxxx F=D for stgpool volumes, status should be OFFSITE),
or the DRM status (you can display before and after with Q DRM xxxxxx,
status should probably be VAULT).

Kudos to you for filling in!




On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Jon Adams <Jon.Adams < at > premera.com> wrote:

Hello,

TSM successfully checked out our list of 20 offsite volumes, but failed to
send 8 of them to the CAP (CAP was full of incoming scratch volumes, I
think). Now, all I know is the volume names that I need and their slot
numbers, but since TSM doesn't see them, I can't figure out how to get the
library robot to remove them. How can I tell our STK L700 (or TSM) to
remove them? Obviously, I do not want to visually look for these things.


Thinking of getting TSM to audit the library and check them back in, but am
afraid of changing the status of the volumes. The TSM Admin is on vacation
and I am desperately trying to keep anyone from calling him, including me.



With regards,

Jon R. Adams
Premera Blue Cross, Mountlake Terrace WA


"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad
judgment"
- Will Rogers

John,
If TSM thinks that the cartridges are already offsite, then you
should be able to remove them from the library using library commands.
See publication 96845 Chapter 4, Export Data Cartridges:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/L700.tape#hic


Cheers,
Neil Strand
Storage Engineer - Legg Mason
Baltimore, MD.
(410) 580-7491
Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic.


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
Jon Adams
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 7:10 PM
To: ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Removing volumes that TSM doesn't see

Hello,

TSM successfully checked out our list of 20 offsite volumes, but failed
to send 8 of them to the CAP (CAP was full of incoming scratch volumes,
I think). Now, all I know is the volume names that I need and their slot
numbers, but since TSM doesn't see them, I can't figure out how to get
the library robot to remove them. How can I tell our STK L700 (or TSM)
to remove them? Obviously, I do not want to visually look for these
things.

Thinking of getting TSM to audit the library and check them back in, but
am afraid of changing the status of the volumes. The TSM Admin is on
vacation and I am desperately trying to keep anyone from calling him,
including me.



With regards,

Jon R. Adams
Premera Blue Cross, Mountlake Terrace WA


"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad
judgment"
- Will Rogers

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This worked! I was able to checkin/checkout 7 of the 12 'missing' volumes (it couldn't find 5 of them). That tells me that they are no longer in the library so now I will request a report from our offsite storage vendor for the remaining tapes. I suspect that they made it there after all.

Thank you very much for you help Wanda.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:20 PM
To: ADSM-L < at > VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Removing volumes that TSM doesn't see

The quick and dirty is to do as you suggested below:

Run a checkin with SEARCH=YES STATUS=PRIVATE;
then run a checkout for each volume with REMOVE=YES.

It's OK to do that.

It won't change the TSM volume status (you can display before and after
status with Q VOL xxxxxx F=D for stgpool volumes, status should be OFFSITE),
or the DRM status (you can display before and after with Q DRM xxxxxx,
status should probably be VAULT).

Kudos to you for filling in!




On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Jon Adams <Jon.Adams < at > premera.com> wrote:

Hello,

TSM successfully checked out our list of 20 offsite volumes, but failed to
send 8 of them to the CAP (CAP was full of incoming scratch volumes, I
think). Now, all I know is the volume names that I need and their slot
numbers, but since TSM doesn't see them, I can't figure out how to get the
library robot to remove them. How can I tell our STK L700 (or TSM) to
remove them? Obviously, I do not want to visually look for these things.


Thinking of getting TSM to audit the library and check them back in, but am
afraid of changing the status of the volumes. The TSM Admin is on vacation
and I am desperately trying to keep anyone from calling him, including me.



With regards,

Jon R. Adams
Premera Blue Cross, Mountlake Terrace WA


"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad
judgment"
- Will Rogers