Re: HELP!! TIPS on freeing up library slots
- where devclass_name='LTOCLASS1' - order by location, - volume_name ** -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnny Lea Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:21 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] HELP!! TIPS on freeing up library slots I used the overflow location once with success when I was in this same situation. Just long enough to put in some scratch tapes and move data. I wouldn't recommend it for normal occasions though. Johnny Lea CNE Data Center Manager Division of Information Systems University of MS Medical Center 601-984-6398 fax 601-815-3222 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicholas Rodolfich [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/27/07 9:13 AM Hi All, Thanks for your help!! I have TSm 5.3.5 on AIX 5.3.5 using an IBM 3584 w/16 LTO drives. I have run out of slots in the library and can't seem to get enough scratch volumes in to get any decent move data commands flowing based on pct_reclaim values. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could consolidate some volumes quickly? 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. Individuals who have received this information in error or are not authorized to receive it must promptly return or dispose of the information and notify the sender. Those individuals are hereby notified that they are strictly prohibited from reviewing, forwarding, printing, copying, distributing or using this information in any way. This electronic transmission and any documents accompanying this electronic transmission contain confidential information belonging to the sender. This information may be legally privileged. The information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or the taking of any action in reliance on or regarding the contents of this electronically transmitted information is strictly prohibited.
HELP!! TIPS on freeing up library slots
Hi All, Thanks for your help!! I have TSm 5.3.5 on AIX 5.3.5 using an IBM 3584 w/16 LTO drives. I have run out of slots in the library and can't seem to get enough scratch volumes in to get any decent move data commands flowing based on pct_reclaim values. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could consolidate some volumes quickly? 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.
Re: HELP!! TIPS on freeing up library slots
Look for filling volumes. Sometimes I find a pool has more filling volumes than I think it should have. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicholas Rodolfich Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 9:13 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] HELP!! TIPS on freeing up library slots Hi All, Thanks for your help!! I have TSm 5.3.5 on AIX 5.3.5 using an IBM 3584 w/16 LTO drives. I have run out of slots in the library and can't seem to get enough scratch volumes in to get any decent move data commands flowing based on pct_reclaim values. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could consolidate some volumes quickly? 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. This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.
Re: HELP!! TIPS on freeing up library slots
One way is to use query media and move media. If you have more than one onsite tape pool, most likely at least one is not used as often. Q medai can show list of tapes in a pool not accessed in more than x number of days. Then Move Media moves those tapes out of library. That's what these 2 commands were designed for. Trick is, if one of those tapes is needed for a restore or reclaimation, need to have OPS watch for messages or setup pages, etc. so OPS knows when a tape is needed. David Longo Nicholas Rodolfich [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/27/2007 10:13 AM Hi All, Thanks for your help!! I have TSm 5.3.5 on AIX 5.3.5 using an IBM 3584 w/16 LTO drives. I have run out of slots in the library and can't seem to get enough scratch volumes in to get any decent move data commands flowing based on pct_reclaim values. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could consolidate some volumes quickly? 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. # This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. #
Re: HELP!! TIPS on freeing up library slots
The fastest scratch provisioning in a situation like that is to delete any Pending volumes. Where you are constrained for tape space to reclaim volumes within the library, consider performing a Move Data to the upper disk storage pool in the hierarchy. (You can always temporarily add a spare disk to the top of the hierarchy, if you don't already have one in the hierarchy, and leave the copy group target as tape, unchanged.) You can later let the disk-held data drain down into the tape pool when you have the tape space. Richard Sims
Re: HELP!! TIPS on freeing up library slots
This will give you a list of tapes under twenty percent utilized from all pools select volume_name, stgpool_name,pct_utilized, status from volumes - where pct_utilized 20 and status='FILLING' - order by pct_utilized, stgpool_name, volume_name After that, do a MOVE DATA VOLUMENAME to help it along a bit. Does anyone know whay TSM has this issue with keeping lots of 'filling' volumes? Cheers Jim Young IT Operations Coordinator (Hull) Cattles plc - Original Message - From: Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 4:04 PM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] HELP!! TIPS on freeing up library slots The fastest scratch provisioning in a situation like that is to delete any Pending volumes. Where you are constrained for tape space to reclaim volumes within the library, consider performing a Move Data to the upper disk storage pool in the hierarchy. (You can always temporarily add a spare disk to the top of the hierarchy, if you don't already have one in the hierarchy, and leave the copy group target as tape, unchanged.) You can later let the disk-held data drain down into the tape pool when you have the tape space. Richard Sims This message has been scanned for viruses by Cattles and Sophos Pure Message scanning services. Cattles plc Registered in England No: 543610 Kingston House, Centre 27 Business Park, Woodhead Road, Birstall, Batley, WF179TD. The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the author and not of Cattles plc or any of its subsidiaries.The content of this e-mail is confidential, may contain privileged material and is intended solely for the recipient(s) named above. If you receive this in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. Please note that neither Cattles plc nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan the email and attachments(if any). No contracts or agreements may be concluded on behalf of Cattles plc or its subsidiaries by means of email communications. This message has been scanned for Viruses by Cattles and Sophos Puremessage scanning service.
Re: HELP!! TIPS on freeing up library slots
Hot Diggety! Jim Young was rumored to have written: This will give you a list of tapes under twenty percent utilized from all pools select volume_name, stgpool_name,pct_utilized, status from volumes - where pct_utilized 20 and status='FILLING' - order by pct_utilized, stgpool_name, volume_name After that, do a MOVE DATA VOLUMENAME to help it along a bit. Does anyone know whay TSM has this issue with keeping lots of 'filling' volumes? Could be a collocated setup? That's one way you get lots of individual tapes, each filling (relatively) slowly? -Dan
Re: HELP!! TIPS on freeing up library slots
On Nov 27, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Jim Young wrote: Does anyone know whay TSM has this issue with keeping lots of 'filling' volumes? This is an old chestnut issue. See Tape leak in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts for general info on it. Richard Sims
Re: HELP!! TIPS on freeing up library slots
Are you running backups, directly to tape, in the same storage pool where you are seeing the filled volumes? I have an issue, with my SQL DB backups, that results in the same situation. Because of their size, they go directly to tape. Due to the available backup window, I am forced to back them all up at roughly the same time. This generally leads to a each backup going to a separate tape. To help rectify the situation, I have a little ksh script that consolidates the filled volumes. HTH David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 11:31 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] HELP!! TIPS on freeing up library slots On Nov 27, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Jim Young wrote: Does anyone know whay TSM has this issue with keeping lots of 'filling' volumes? This is an old chestnut issue. See Tape leak in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts for general info on it. Richard Sims ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.clearswift.com **
Re: HELP!! TIPS on freeing up library slots
I used the overflow location once with success when I was in this same situation. Just long enough to put in some scratch tapes and move data. I wouldn't recommend it for normal occasions though. Johnny Lea CNE Data Center Manager Division of Information Systems University of MS Medical Center 601-984-6398 fax 601-815-3222 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicholas Rodolfich [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/27/07 9:13 AM Hi All, Thanks for your help!! I have TSm 5.3.5 on AIX 5.3.5 using an IBM 3584 w/16 LTO drives. I have run out of slots in the library and can't seem to get enough scratch volumes in to get any decent move data commands flowing based on pct_reclaim values. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could consolidate some volumes quickly? 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. Individuals who have received this information in error or are not authorized to receive it must promptly return or dispose of the information and notify the sender. Those individuals are hereby notified that they are strictly prohibited from reviewing, forwarding, printing, copying, distributing or using this information in any way.
