You might want to do earl or tmsgrw to see how many tapes have zero Block count
Next what is the ttl (time to live) on the TS7700? Ours is 7 days. Reclaimed tapes are not cycled back to scratch pool in the appliance for a week We do not see any changes in amount of storage until ttl is actioned Lizette Sent from EarthLink Mobile mail On 8/21/24, 22:03, גדי בן אבי <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, We use HSM to backup datasets to virtual tape on a TS7770. We are getting close the TS7770's capacity and want to reduce the capacity used by HSM. The current strategy is to find backups we no longer want/need, delete the from HSM, and then use RECYCLE command to merge the tapes that are not full. After we've done that, the used capacity that the TS7770 reports is not reduced. My theory is that HSM does not release the tapes (and cache space they take up) when they are empty. Is this correct? Is there a way to tell HSM to release empty tapes to the general SCRATCH pool? Gadi ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
