Janie, tapes should reclaim just fine for your copy storage pools.
You just can't do it with MOVE DATA, it should happen automatically with the
RECLAIM process

If your copy storage pool tapes are still on site, when a tapes hits the
reclaim threshold, ADSM will start mounting the tapes automatically and
doing a reclaim.  Once all the data has been copied to a new tape, the
reclaimed tape will be returned to scratch.

If your copy storage pools tapes are offsite, when a tape hits the reclaim
threshold, ADSM will mount the appropriate tapes from the PRIMARY pool and
start to rebuild the data onto a new copy pool tape.  And the offsite tape
being reclaimed will go back to scratch.

Something else is wrong if you have a copy pool set up, but no reclaims are
happening.

1) are your PRIMARY tapes being recliamed OK?

2) What is the RECLAIM threshold for your copy storage pool?
(To find out, display the PROPERTIES for the copy storage pool.  Or if you
prefere the command line, enter the command:  q stgpool  POOLNAME f=d

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Wanda Prather
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
443-778-8769
wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think."
              - Scott Adams/Dilbert
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> ----------
> From:         Janie Pendergraft[SMTP:jpenderg AT stj DOT com]
> Sent:         Wednesday, April 22, 1998 4:12 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
>