Hi,

When you start reclamation it begins a process and decides which tapes
it is going to reclaim based on the value given.  These tapes can be
seen in the activity log of the server.  It will continue to reclaim
until it has reclaimed all of the tapes in the list or you cancel the
reclamation process.  

I have seen similar behavior in the migration process as well.  If you
set a storage pool to migrate (ie. By setting high=0 and low=0) then it
will empty it out. If you subsequently reset the values (and the storage
pool is now above the low value and below the high value) it will
continue to migrate all of the data out.

The migration_stop is there to set up the storage pools for the next
day's backup.  The reclamation stop doesn't seem to be terribly useful.

I set my storage pools to a decent value all of the time (something like
rec=90).  Then on weekends (usually Friday afternoon) I set it to
something deeper (currently rec=75 especially for the storage pools on
the remote server).  

Michael Wheelock
Integris Health



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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Tyree, David
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 8:18 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: strange reclaimation behavor

            I have something strange going on with my reclaimations. I
have
the system issue a command in the afternoons to start reclaiming tapes
by
dropping the levels to 60%. I then have it issue another command around
midnight to raise the levels back to 100%.

            When I get here in the morning I will usally find that
reclaiming is still going on. I have verified that the stop_reclaim
scripts
are actually running by looking at the actlog for the time period
involved.
I end up doing a cancel process to get it to stop.

            I could understand it still running if it was in the middle
of a
50-60 gig file but it's only moving small (several meg) files. It's had
about eight hours to stop on it's own. I would have thought it would
have
found an opertunity to stop after eight hours.

            The contents of all of the scripts involved are correct. I
have
one starting the tapepool and another to start the copypool and another
couple to raise the level back up. I alternate different pools each
night.

            Any ideas here?

I'm running 5.2.2 on a Win2k server with 4 LTO2 drives in a PV136T
library.





David Tyree
Enterprise Backup Administrator
South Georgia Medical Center
229.333.1155

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