We do reclaimation of our offsite, COPY POOL tapes, all the time.
TSM is smart enough to figure out that it is a COPY POOL and simply
creates NEW TAPES. It doesn't mount the offsite tapes.
We have a process that checks for the % UTILIZED of the OFFSITE tapes and
then creates a "recall" list of the "empty" tapes as well as sending off
COPY POOL tapes that are either FULL or FILLING.
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Zoltan Forray
Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center
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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
