Ah, I've been through this many times. As someone mentioned, stepping down by setting the threshhold to 99, then 98 and so on over time will work well. This is assuming you can fit all of your primary pool volumes into the tape library.
You can use the following select command to keep track of how many tapes you have at each level to judge when it's time to lower the threshold. (I think this is one of the example select statements in the HELP SELECT page. (replace TAPE_C2 with your stgpool_name select count(*) from volumes where stgpool_name='TAPE_C2' and status!='EMPTY' and pct_utilized <50 I went through a major catch-up once where this wasn't possible because the average primary pool volume was also mostly .05-.1 pct utilized. In that case, just sort the volume list by pct-utilized and recall and systematically run move-data on each volume starting from the least utilized. (a unix shell loop is great for this) I consolidated 8000 tapes down to 200 on that project! Regards, Shawn ________________________________________________ Shawn Drew Internet [email protected] Sent by: [email protected] 01/27/2010 08:53 AM Please respond to [email protected] To ADSM-L cc Subject [ADSM-L] Reclamation for offsite storage pools Hello everyone, For several years I had not been able to run reclamation on one of my tsm servers due to the lack of physical tape drives to accomplish the task. I am in the process of trying to get caught up, but it seems that I just never do. Most of my issue is with the copy storage pool volumes which are very under-utilized. It seems like reclamation, even if I start multiple reclamation threads, is taking quite a long time. Is there some other way for me to get the data onto new media without doing reclamation? Can I do a move data from 1 copy storage pool volume to the another volume within the same copy storage pool? I know that this would mean bringing the tapes back from the vault, but it is just not progressing as I would like with the reclamation processes. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated as I would like to get this back under control. Thank you in advance! Joni Moyer Storage Administrator III (717)302-9966 [email protected] ________________________________ This e-mail and any attachments to it are confidential and are intended solely for use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not keep, use, disclose, copy or distribute this e-mail without the author's prior permission. The views expressed in this e-mail message do not necessarily represent the views of Highmark Inc., its subsidiaries, or affiliates. This message and any attachments (the "message") is intended solely for the addressees and is confidential. If you receive this message in error, please delete it and immediately notify the sender. Any use not in accord with its purpose, any dissemination or disclosure, either whole or partial, is prohibited except formal approval. The internet can not guarantee the integrity of this message. BNP PARIBAS (and its subsidiaries) shall (will) not therefore be liable for the message if modified. Please note that certain functions and services for BNP Paribas may be performed by BNP Paribas RCC, Inc.
