Pending happens because the reuse days has not expired yet. So, even if you
bring them back they would not be reused until that time passed. Look in
the definition for the storage pool. Based on your scenario they may have
set the reusedelay very large to prevent them from being called back. When
the tape is pending, there is no more data on it that is not somewhere else
or has been expired. The following excerpt is from the help q volume
PENding
Display volumes with a status of PENDING. These are volumes from
which all files have been deleted, but the time specified by the
REUSEDELAY parameter from the DEFINE STGPOOL command has not
elapsed.
The tape will go to an empty status once the reusedelay has been reached.
Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon, INC
757-688-8180
-----Original Message-----
From: Adamson, Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 5:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Reclaming offsite tapes
Sorry if I sound a little ignorant. I took our backup environment over a
few months ago and have been trying to learn how it was set up. It was
explained to me that I could not get tapes back from offsite, just in case
we need to do a Point in time restore with DRM. I have asked if we could
bring tapes back that are in a Pending state and was told NO. Example: If
we pulled a DBSnap from lets say August 2001, it was explained to me that
some of these tapes that are marked Pending now, As of August 2001 they
could have data on them at that point in time. Am I missing something or am
I to assume that I can pull these(Pending) tapes back.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 11:34 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Reclaming offsite tapes
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
