I'm very confused about running reclamation on copy pools, so here is my set up on TSM:
1. Clients back up to either the disk pool or the sequential access tape pool(onsite) 2. Backup copy disk pool to offsite tape pool 3. Backup onsite tape pool to offsite tape pool 4. Migration 5. Expiration 6. Backup devconf, volh, and db Reclamation is set for 60 on both the onsite tape pool and the copy pools(offsite). Every night I run a job that marks the tapes in the offsite copy pool that are full or filling as having offsite access which then removes the tape from the silo and I send it to our offsite vault. All while this is happening reclamation for the offsite copy pools runs whenever the volume has 60% reclaimable space on it and the system is trying to run reclamation on tapes that are at the offsite vault and then in turn the reclamation for that volume fails because it cannot be mounted in the silo. I didn't think it was possible to run reclamations for the tapes that are in the vault. How do I prevent reclamation from trying to reclaim these volumes when they are also technically recognized in the copy pool? My question is: Should the reclamation only be run before my job that marks the tapes that were copied to for the day as offsite? Which in my case would be every day because we send tapes to our offsite vault daily. I also have many volumes in the offsite copy pool that are in the status of pending and they are in the offsite vault. Does TSM interact with TMS to bring those volumes back to the copy pool in the silo or do I have to run a job to do this? Thanks so much for being so helpful! You can't imagine how informative it is just to read everyone's suggestions and comments since I am so new to TSM. Joni Moyer Associate Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (717)975-8338
