I've seen this same symptom Debi. I only have two or three tapes in the copy dir pool but when I tried to reclaim one it took all day to finish. Maybe it has something to do with the number of files on the tape??? I know it's not a whole lot of data in megabytes...
Mark -----Original Message----- From: Debi Randolph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 1:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Reclamation of Copy Dirs Yes, it's forever and 2 days with no tape drive contention. We're using 3590E1A's, but moving to LTO in the next 30 to 60 days. I only have 12 volumes utilized in the Copy Dirs pool. So we've turned over the specific volumes a number of times. So I don't think it's any one volume that could be causing the problem, as far as read/write errors go. How does reclamation on this pool work? When you reclaim Copy Dirs, it only uses one tape drive, just an output volume, no input volume. All the other storage pools use two drives, an input volume and an output volume. So is it going back to the client to re-write the data to a new tape? Thanks, Deb Randolph Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: cc: Dist Stor Subject: Re: Reclaimation of Copy Dirs Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> 08/05/2003 11:17 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" >Is it supposed to take forever and 2 days to reclaim my Copy Dirs pool? Not for the price of the product... You haven't told us if you are checking for tape drive contention, as in drives busy with higher priority tasks. If no contention, you may have some "difficult" tapes, consuming costly retries in reading or writing. To try to isolate the problem, you can do Move Data on indicative tapes and follow the progress, watching for particular points where things crawl, and go from there, as in examining I/O load or paging on your server. We also don't know your tape technology type: as you may have seen from historic posting, start-stop on some drives is painful. Richard Sims, BU ******************* N O T I C E ******************* The information contained in this e-mail, and in any accompanying documents, may constitute confidential and/or legally privileged information. The information is intended only for use by the designated recipient. If you are not the intended recipient (or responsible for the delivery of the message to the intended recipient), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance on this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message from your system. *************************************************** ******************* N O T I C E ******************* The information contained in this e-mail, and in any accompanying documents, may constitute confidential and/or legally privileged information. The information is intended only for use by the designated recipient. If you are not the intended recipient (or responsible for the delivery of the message to the intended recipient), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance on this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message from your system. *************************************************** 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.
