When you start reclaims on a COPY pool where the tapes are OFFSITE, TSM knows that the tapes aren't available (they are marked OFFSITE, yes?). So TSM does the reclaim using only the ONSITE tapes.
If you have 3 tapes offsite that are only 10% good, TSM will mount a scratch tape, find the onsite copies of all those files, and create a new tape in the OFFSITE tape pool that is 30% full. Then it marks the OFFSITE tapes as EMPTY. So you send the new tape offsite, and then you can bring the EMPTY tapes back on site and reuse them. We do it constantly. -----Original Message----- From: Adamson, Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 2:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Reclaming offsite tapes Here is my scenario... We currently send all of our tapes offsite for 7 years. In the library we collocate by filespace. But, when we send the tapes offsite they are uncollocated. We have retired a number of servers in the past couple years, meaning we no longer need that data. Being that we send the tapes offsite Uncollocated, data from a retired server could be on the same tape of a server that we still have in production. Is there a way for me find out if this is so? Is there a way I can call the tapes back from offsite and perform some sort of reclamation? Any ideas would be great, but if I'm stuck I can deal with it. Tape costs are making look into all different scenarios. Thanks, Matt
