>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lindsay Morris [mailto:lmorris AT SERVERGRAPH DOT COM]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 12:24 PM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes
>
>
>The "filling" tapes are not candidates for reclamation - TSM
>still hasn't
>written all the way to the end of the tape yet.  Only the FULL
>tapes might
>be reclaimed, and the smallest one is 55.7% full, which means
>"upd stg xxx
>recl=44" should cause it to be reclaimed.

If filling tapes are not candidates for reclamation then how can you
implement a true disaster recovery proceedure? You'd end up leaving
"filling" tapes in the library till they get full. If that is a number of
days then what if the plant blows up in the mean time? Where will TSM find
that data when a restore is requested on a node that had data on one of
those "filling" tapes that were supposed to be part of the offsite pool that
was left in the library?

Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail:   gillg AT saic DOT com
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
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