Davina Treiber <Davina.Treiber AT PeeVRo.co DOT uk> wrote on 10/01/2008 
09:15:03 
AM:

> MIchael Leone wrote:
> > Davina Treiber <Davina.Treiber AT PeeVRo.co DOT uk> wrote on 09/30/2008 
06:11:33 
> 
> >> I am wondering why you would think this? Why would the fact that the 
> >> tape is full have any bearing on it being recycled?
> > 
> > I ask, because I had a tape that was close to 3 months old, that have 
not 
> > gone into recycle mode. I didn't think to check to see if there were 
> > savesets on that tape that depended on other savesets not expiring (I 
> > doubt it, as any "related" savesets should also have expired; it was a 

> > "daily" tape, so if there were any savesets on that tape that 
depeended on 
> > another tape, the other tape should also have been a "daily" tape, and 

> > expired, too). However, I've now manually re-labeled that particular 
tape, 
> > so I can't check anymore.
> 
> It is a little clearer to me now. You had a tape that you thought should 

> have expired and you were guessing at reasons for this.

Exactly.

> In this case it is advisable first to run nsrim, so that all 
> dependencies are up to date. Then run an mminfo query to discover what 
> unexpired save sets remain on the volume. Then take each of those save 
> sets in turn and investigate why they have not yet expired, again using 
> mminfo. Following that all should become clear.
> 
> I am sure I do not have to spell out the mminfo commands for this.

I can probably dig up those commands, yes. :-)

For the most part, this is a less-than-important issue for me, as it's not 
all that hard to mark a volume as recyclable. I already have a script that 
I can run that checks each library for tapes marked recycable, and then 
issues a re-label, by pool. Since I am pulling and adding tapes into the 
libraries every day anyway (usually only about 4 per library), marking a 
volume as recyclable is pretty quick. And then the script can be 
automated.

Be more work to do the nsrim, and the mminfos. :-) Altho that can be 
scripted and scheduled, too.

Thanks

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