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323.0. "REPACK TO RECOVER DAMAGED TAPE VOLUMES" by WOTVAX::SMITHD () Fri Feb 28 1997 07:17

I have a question on using REPACK to recover a damaged tape cartridge used in 
an HSM archive class.  We have VMS version 6.2, HSM version 2.1 and two 
TL820 tape libraries. Each tape library contains the tapes for one separate 
archive class.

I tried SMU REPACK 2/FROM_ARCHIVE=3/VOLUME=BEF012/NOTHRESHOLD.

Tapes BEF7xx are in archive class 3 and BEF0xx are in archive class 2. BEF012 
had gotten damaged.

Log messages below. Here are my questions

BEF023 got loaded into $3$MUA330 around the time of the last HSM$SHP_AUDIT
message. Why was BEF023 loaded at all? It was not part of the volume set
I wanted repaired. I understand why all of the FROM_ARCHIVE had to get
analyzed, but not why the remainder of the destination archive was touched
at all.

The request seemed to hang forever after that OPCOM message got generated.

How should I respond to the OPCOM message?

Any suggestions. Is the SMU command correct for what I'm trying to do?

Go the following messages in HSM$SHP_AUDIT.LOG:

58 27-FEB-1997 08:41:42.44, 27-FEB-1997 08:41:42.72: Status: Success
   Application request from node CALVIN, process 258408BB, user HSM$SERVER
   Get volume information for REPACK
   %HSM-I-VOLUMESET, volume set contents:  (BEF006,BEF007,BEF008,BEF009,BEF0
10,BEF011,BEF012)

59 27-FEB-1997 08:52:09.18, 27-FEB-1997 08:52:09.82: Status: Success
   Application request from node CALVIN, process 258408BB, user HSM$SERVER
   Get volume information for REPACK
   %HSM-I-VOLUMESET, volume set contents:  (BEF711,BEF712,BEF713,BEF714,BEF7
15,BEF716,BEF700,BEF701,BEF702,BEF703,BEF704,BEF705,BEF706,BEF707,BEF717,BEF718)

60 27-FEB-1997 08:52:10.78, 27-FEB-1997 08:52:10.89: Status: Success
   Application request from node CALVIN, process 258408BB, user HSM$SERVER
   Get volume information for REPACK
   %HSM-I-VOLUMESET, volume set contents:  (BEF719,BEF720)

61 27-FEB-1997 08:52:11.36, 27-FEB-1997 08:52:11.49: Status: Success
   Application request from node CALVIN, process 258408BB, user HSM$SERVER
   Get volume information for REPACK
   %HSM-I-VOLUMESET, volume set contents:  (BEF709,BEF710)

62 27-FEB-1997 08:52:12.83, 27-FEB-1997 08:52:13.00: Status: Success
   Application request from node CALVIN, process 258408BB, user HSM$SERVER
   Get volume information for REPACK
   %HSM-I-VOLUMESET, volume set contents:  (BEF721,BEF722,BEF723)

63 27-FEB-1997 09:28:03.36, 27-FEB-1997 09:28:03.57: Status: Success
   Application request from node CALVIN, process 258408BB, user HSM$SERVER
   Get volume information for REPACK
   %HSM-I-VOLUMESET, volume set contents:  (BEF021,BEF022,BEF023)

64 27-FEB-1997 09:28:03.56, 27-FEB-1997 09:29:41.84: Status: Success
   Application request from node CALVIN, process 258408BB, user HSM$SERVER
   Load volume for REPACK
   %HSM-I-DRIVELOADED, volume loaded in drive _$3$MUA330: NOCOMP
   %HSM-I-NONEXTVOLUME, no more volumes in volume set

And this in OPERATOR.LOG:

%%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  27-FEB-1997 10:58:03.83  %%%%%%%%%%%
Request 9108, from user HSM$SERVER on CALVIN
MOUNT relative volume 2 (BEF002) on _$3$MUA330:

    Hi!
    
    HSM REPACK doesn't "rebuild" the damaged tape physicaly (You won't get
    tapes with the same label back). Instead it will write all data
    contained on the "lost" tapes to new volumes.
    
    Am I right that BEF023 was the current & last available tape of
    your BEF0 pool ?
    
    I hope this helps
    								Michael

    Thanks Michael,
    
    That helps a lot. I'll slap a few empty tapes in the BEF0 pool and try
    again.