what error message is in your actlog when reclamation fails?


"Slaughter, Bill" wrote:
>
> Jim,
>
> Are the under 40% Utilized tapes marked Full or Filling?
>
> If they are Full then Reclamation will not use them and will be looking for
> more scratch tapes.
>
> Is the status of the "Empty" one really empty or is it scratch? When my
> tapes are "Empty" they are deleted from the storage pool but kept in scratch
> status in my STK 9710 and Breece Hill Q47 libraries.
>
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Coen [mailto:coen AT WASHBURN DOT EDU]
> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 9:49 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Reclamation
>
>      ADSMers,
>
>      Magstar 3570, AIX 4.2.1, ADSM 3.?.?
>
>      Help . . . How on earth do I get ADSM to reclaim space on tapes?
>      I have done everything the manual says to do and our disk pool
>      continues to fill to 100 (won't migrate because tape volumes
>      all say 100% except one empty one).
>
>      Some of the tape volumes have a Pct Util of under 40 % and the
>      reclamation percentage is set to 60%.
>
>      I just don't get it. I have massive backup failures overnight
>      because the disk pool simply will not migrate.
>
>      Any help?
>
>      Thanks in advance.
>
>      Jim
>
>      Jim Coen
>      Washburn University

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