User's Manual

102 Managing media
CAUTION: Before treating an FSE medium as unreadable, make sure it is not loaded in a faulty tape
drive. In certain circumstances, an FSE medium may acquire “unusable” status because of problems with
the tape drive in which it is loaded. In this situation, the drive itself gets the “error” status.
You can get a list of all currently unusable media by filtering the output of the fsemedium --list
command, as follows:
Linux specific
Windows specific
The command output will be similar to the following:
For more information on the fsemedium command, see the FSE Command-Line Reference.
Starting redundant copy recreation
The recreation process is executed for a single FSE medium at a time. The medium does not have to be
allocated or loaded into an FSE drive. To start the redundant copy recreation process, invoke the following
command:
By default, fsemedium reports the progress of the maintenance job to the standard output and enables
you to monitor the recreation process in the command shell. You can disable monitoring (make
fsemedium return to the command prompt immediately) by specifying the --no-monitor option.
With monitoring enabled, the command generates an output similar to the following:
# fsemedium --list | grep unusable
%InstallPath%\bin>fsemedium --list | find "unusable"
000006 LTO-2 pool_A unusable drv:LTO-1 (lib:SA:6) 9 5
000045 LTO-2 pool_C unusable lib:SA:4 9 5
000103 LTO-1 LTO-pool_1 unusable drv:drive_1 (lib:Sa1:1) 1 0
fsemedium --copy-contents Barcode [--no-monitor]
fsemedium --copy-contents 020776
[11:42:09] Started (JobID: 20050121000002).
[11:42:09] Preparing list of source media
[11:42:09] 2 media needed for recall (bc: 050003, 050004)
[11:42:09] Request resources (bc: 050003) ...
[11:42:09] Resources allocated.
[11:42:09] Medium 050003 is already present in drive drv1.
[11:42:09] Starting Back End Agent.
[11:43:58] Medium 050003, volume 1: Reading files…
[12:20:58] Medium 050003, volume 1: Files written to disk buffer.
[12:46:02] Reading finished, releasing resources.
[12:47:12] Requesting resources...
[12:47:12] Resources allocated.
[12:48:42] Loading medium 050010 to drive drv2.
[12:49:09] Starting Back End Agent.
[12:49:58] Medium 050010, volume 3: Writing disk buffer.
[13:00:58] Medium 050010, volume 3: Disk buffer written to medium volume.
[13:11:50] Writing finished, releasing resources.