You can start by setting the Reclamation Threshold on your DRM pool to 90. TSM will make a new copy the from the primary pool to the copypool. Then request the return of all those DRM tapes with a status of VAULTRETRIEVE. Once you have gotten thru the backlog, start doing this on a regular schedule, choosing a reasonable figure for the threshold (I use 75 as a figure that fits my processing window).
-----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicholas Rodolfich Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] Ho do I reclaim copypool volumes Hello ALL, Thanks for your help! I am at a new job and the copy pool in the TSM instance here has been collocated previously. The admin thought it was collocated by group but each group only had one member so it is really collocated by node I think. The collocation has been turned off for a couple of weeks now. I am not sure if that is part of the problem. The IBM doc really doesn't have any practical examples of this that I can find. The issue is: There are 900 or so volumes in the offsite vault via DRM. Over half of these are less than 10% utilized. The scratch pool is dwindling and I need a way to reclaim some of these volumes. The company also has a DR test scheduled this summer and I would like to reduce the number of offsite volumes so the DR process won't be so cumbersome. What is the best way to consolidate this copypool onto less volumes. I know the pending ones will be returned at the end of the reuse delay on the pool and/or the DB backup expiration in DRM. I would think the that pending volumes would be the only ones that would have a 0% utilization but I have FULL and FILLING volumes with 0% utilization. EX: ( sample of the volumes) Volume STGPOOL % Util. Status Last write Last read A00947 COPYPOOL 0 EMPTY 5/29/2006 5/29/2006 A00509 COPYPOOL 0 FULL 7/10/2006 7/10/2006 A00248 COPYPOOL 0 FULL 7/15/2006 7/15/2006 A00200 COPYPOOL 0 FULL 7/16/2006 7/15/2006 A00259 COPYPOOL 0 FULL 7/18/2006 7/18/2006 A00264 COPYPOOL 0 FULL 7/18/2006 7/18/2006 A00265 COPYPOOL 0 PENDING 7/18/2006 7/18/2006 A00148 COPYPOOL 0 FULL 7/22/2006 7/21/2006 A00820 COPYPOOL 0 FILLING 7/24/2006 7/22/2006 A00848 COPYPOOL 0 FILLING 7/27/2006 7/27/2006 A00087 COPYPOOL 0 FULL 7/29/2006 7/29/2006 A01087 COPYPOOL 0 FULL 7/30/2006 7/29/2006 A00324 COPYPOOL 0 FULL 8/2/2006 8/2/2006 A00086 COPYPOOL 0 FULL 8/6/2006 8/5/2006 A00837 COPYPOOL 0 FULL 8/6/2006 8/6/2006 A00391 COPYPOOL 0 FULL 8/10/2006 8/10/2006 A00406 COPYPOOL 0 FULL 8/12/2006 8/12/2006 A00428 COPYPOOL 0 FULL 8/15/2006 8/15/2006 A00073 COPYPOOL 0 FULL 8/20/2006 8/19/2006 A00147 COPYPOOL 0 FULL 8/21/2006 8/20/2006 A00927 COPYPOOL 0 FULL 8/23/2006 8/22/2006 Nicholas . .. ... Nicholas Rodolfich TSM/AIX Administrator East Jefferson General Hospital Fidelity Information Systems 504-883-6955 (office) 228-223-6777 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message and any included attachments are from East Jefferson General Hospital, and is intended only for the addressee(s), and may include Protected Health (PHI) or other confidential information. If you are the intended recipient, you are obligated to maintain it in a secure and confidential manner and re-disclosure without additional consent or as permitted by law is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, use of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please promptly reply to the sender by email and delete this message from your computer. East Jefferson General Hospital greatly appreciates your cooperation.
