Wanda,
You are correct, of course. Upon further examination it seems my first 'backup
stg primary newcopy', which started on a Fri., ran all weeked and copied
everything. So, I don't need to worry about reclaiming the old copy pool, just
staging the return of all the 3490 tapes.
This has me wondering, though. At some point I want to convert the larger
offsite copy pool as well, but I want to avoid a complete one time backup, it
would take a 'really' long time and there would be contention for the drives.
Any suggestions?
"Prather, Wanda" wrote:
> ??
> Copy pools are not "assigned" to primary pools.
>
> You can : backup stgpool primary1 copypool1
>
> Then turn right around and
>
> backup stgpool primary1 copypool2
>
> Some people keep multiple copy pools all the time.
>
> So having a new copypool isn't the reason you can't reclaim - that's a
> normal situation to have (i.e., having more than 1 copy pool active for a
> primary pool).
>
> Maybe you should post the errors you are getting when you try to do the
> reclaim of the old copy pool.
>
> On the other hand, in the example above, BOTH copypool1 and copypool2 are
> COMPLETE copies of primary1.
>
> So if your intention is to have only one copy pool (on the 3590's), and you
> have already done at least 1 "backup stgpool primary1 3590copypool", plus
> "backup stgpool diskpool 3590copypool", then you could just DELETE your old
> 3490 copy pool tapes, instead of trying to reclaim them?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Kirkman [mailto:jmk AT EMAIL.UNC DOT EDU]
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 12:31 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: New media and old copy pools
>
> Hey all,
>
> I've started using our new 3590K tapes for archiving and dr tape pools
> and life is good! Now, I want to start getting our older 3490 tapes back
> and I'm not sure of the best method.
>
> What we did was to create a new device class/storage pool using the new
> 3590 drives and make that new storage pool the copy pool for an existing
> primary pool. One problem is I can no longer reclaim the original
> offsite pool. I assume this is because of the change in copy pool
> assignment to the primary pool? Move data doesn't help, can't cross
> storage pools.
>
> This is the smaller of the two offsite pools, but it's still approaching
> 500 tapes, so I don't want to onesy and twosey this thing. Even if I do
> jump through some hoops to get the number of tapes down I still want to
> eventually get rid of the old pool all together.
>
> What have others done when creating a new device class, etc?
>
> Oh, 4.1.4.2 on OS\390 using a 3494 library.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Jim Kirkman
> AIS - Systems
> UNC-Chapel Hill
> 966-5884
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Jim Kirkman
AIS - Systems
UNC-Chapel Hill
966-5884
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