But you can do reclamation on your copy pool tapes.  Just issue the
update stgpool command and change the reclamation threshold to be
something lower than 100% and let them get cleaned up.  ADSM will mount
the local tapes (that contain copies of the files on the offsite tapes)
and create new copy pool tapes.  The offsite tapes that had low
utilization will be empty when the "delay period for volume reuse" has
elapsed.  Then they will be returned to scratch, if that's where they
came from.

I don't think I left anything out here.  Except that it's recommended to
reset the threshold back to 100% so you can control when reclamation
runs for your offsite tapes.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Janie Pendergraft [SMTP:jpenderg AT STJ DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 3:13 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Re[2]: Copy Tapes
>
> That is what I have finally figured out. I guess we will just leave
> the
> tapes as they are just in case for some reason there may be some
> information on them that we need. We will just order new tapes. I
> would
> just discard the data and scratch the tapes but I really don't want to
> take
> the chance there may be something on them we might need. Thanks
> anyway.
>
> Janie Pendergraft
> St. John's Regional Medical Center
>
>
>
> ----------
> From:   James SPORER[SMTP:james.sporer AT CCMAIL.ADP.WISC DOT EDU]
> Reply To:       ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent:   Wednesday, April 22, 1998 2:40 PM
> To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:        Re[2]: Copy Tapes
>
>      I don't think you can do that.  The data already exists in the
> primary
>      storage pool.  If you want to copy the tape you must copy it to a
> copy
>      storage pool.
>
>
>
> ______________________________ Reply Separator
> _________________________________
> Subject: Re: Copy Tapes
> Author:  "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>  at IPNET
> Date:    4/22/98 11:34 AM
>
>
> Kelly,
> We used the Gui interface on an ADSM NT Sever ver 2.1.06 with the move
> data
> option. We were trying to move the data from the copy tape to a
> storage
> pool called backup_disk. We thought this would reclaim the tape to
> scratch
> status. The error we keep getting is:
> ANS8001 Moving data from selected volume cannot be completed due to
> the
> following error
> ANS51021 Return Code 21
>
> We are still trying to research the error message and figure out why
> we
> cannot reclaim the tapes.
> ----------
> From:   Kelly J. Lipp[SMTP:lipp AT STORSOL DOT COM]
> Reply To:       lipp AT storsol DOT com
> Sent:   Tuesday, April 21, 1998 5:25 PM
> To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:        Re: Copy Tapes
>
> You can reclaim copy storage pool volumes.  Are you getting an error
> when
> set the reclaim threshold on the pool?
>
> Good job on having a copy storage pool in the first place.  Lots of
> folks
> don't create one early and then have real problems later.
>
> Kelly Lipp
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Janie Pendergraft [SMTP:jpenderg AT STJ DOT COM]
> Sent:   Tuesday, April 21, 1998 3:53 PM
> To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:        Copy Tapes
>
> When we first set up our ADSM server we had a consultant come in and
> help
> us. We had a tape drive set up for copy tapes to use for offsite
> backups.
> We had not implemented DRM and still haven't yet but are in the
> process of
> doing so. We have nearly 100 copy tapes in the library 4mmlib_copy
> with 0.3
> % utilization and .51% utilization etc. This apparently happened
> because
> our ADSM server was not set up correctly. Our tapes fill up to 100%
> now. My
> question is when we tried to reclaim the data off of these tapes it
> gave us
> an error message indicating that we cannot reclaim copy tapes. Is
> there any
> way to reclaim the data off of these tapes so we can make them
> scratch? I
> am under the impression from what I have read copy tapes cannot be
> reclaimed and if this is so then we will have to keep buying more
> tapes
> instead of scratching the ones we already have. We can delete them and
> discard data but we would rather not do that in the event there is
> some
> information on these tapes that we may need. Thanks for any help. We
> are
> still new to ADSM and learning how it works.
>
> Janie Pendergraft
> St. John's Regional Medical Center