I think most people do not leave the storage pool reclamation set to 60%. Usually it is set to 100%. Then when you want to run reclamation you setup a scheduled administration command to set the reclamation to 60%. When you want reclamation to stop you schedule another administration command to set it back to 100%. This way reclamation only runs when you want it too. Offsite tapes can be reclaimed when they are off-site. This is done by mounting the primary storage pool tapes to copy the data. This way the off-site tapes never need to be recalled until they are empty. The offsite tapes that are pending will remain that way until you get them back from the vault and update the volume status. Hope this helps.
Mark -----Original Message----- From: Joni Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Reclamation for copy pools 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 Confidentiality Note: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to whom or which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this in error, please delete this material immediately.
