Re: Copypool storage advice

2011-04-12 Thread Paul_Dudley
I believe I have found the problem. The maximum number of scratch volumes allowed was set to 40 and it had reached this limit which was causing the reclaimation process to fail. I have increased the maximum number of scratch volumes allowed and restarted the reclaimation process. Thanks

Re: Copypool storage advice

2011-04-10 Thread Paul_Dudley
Collocation for the storage pool is set to none. No I am not using the du= parameter on the reclaim commands. I check the log and they do finish successfully. They are a mixture of full and filling tapes. They are all set as offsite. Thanks Regards Paul I currently have a lot of copypool

Re: Copypool storage advice

2011-04-10 Thread Nick Laflamme
It's been a while since I've worked much with off-site copypools, but my next suggestion is to work with DRMedia. Do you have some volumes (that have been reclaimed) in VAULTRETRIEVE status? I don't remember how they show up in your volume list (I half expect 'EMPTY' status, but as I said, it's

Re: Ang: Copypool storage advice

2011-04-08 Thread Paul_Dudley
The copypool is on LTO3 tapes. They are not database backups just incremental server backups Thanks Regards Paul -Original Message- It would be helpful to know what kind of the tape technology you're using since the reclamation threshold % is usually based off which technology

Ang: Re: Ang: Copypool storage advice

2011-04-08 Thread Daniel Sparrman
...@anl.com.au Sänt av: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Datum: 04/08/2011 08:06 Ärende: Re: Ang: Copypool storage advice The copypool is on LTO3 tapes. They are not database backups just incremental server backups Thanks Regards Paul -Original Message- It would be helpful to know

Re: Copypool storage advice

2011-04-08 Thread Nick Laflamme
On Apr 7, 2011, at 11:07 PM, Paul_Dudley wrote: I currently have a lot of copypool storage tapes which are between 50 - 60% utilization. Expiration runs daily and I run reclaimation daily on this copypool, set to 50. Is there anything I can do to try and consolidate the data onto fewer

Copypool storage advice

2011-04-07 Thread Paul_Dudley
I currently have a lot of copypool storage tapes which are between 50 - 60% utilization. Expiration runs daily and I run reclaimation daily on this copypool, set to 50. Is there anything I can do to try and consolidate the data onto fewer copypool tapes? Thanks Regards Paul Paul Dudley

Ang: Copypool storage advice

2011-04-07 Thread Daniel Sparrman
Ärende: Copypool storage advice I currently have a lot of copypool storage tapes which are between 50 - 60% utilization. Expiration runs daily and I run reclaimation daily on this copypool, set to 50. Is there anything I can do to try and consolidate the data onto fewer copypool tapes? Thanks