A volume with a status of "filling" is a volume that has not yet hit the
estimated capacity, OR if it also shows 100% and filling, you've hit capacity
but, because of hardware compression, the 'end-of-tape' mark hasn't been hit.
Taking volumes off-site depends on your D/R plans and recovery strategy. We
send ours off-site every morning -- any tape with any data at all on them.
Remember, you'll need a matching TSM database backup to go with the data tapes.
To see what off-site tapes should come back, "q vol acce=of st=emp"; this will
show all volumes that are offsite that are now 'empty'. You will need to run
periodic reclaims to get off-site volumes emptied and freed to return.
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Liliana Windver
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 7:30 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Offsitevolumes question
Hi all,
I'm quite new to TSM so I'm sorry if my questions are maybe not appropriate but
in parallel with reading the books I will try the list since from my
experience that help.
TSM server 5.2.6.4 on AIX 4.3.Have the following script that running manually
by the Administrator with the intention to take tapes offsite to another
location.(We defined a copy storage pool OFFSITE_POOL).
update vol * access=offsite wherestg=offsite_pool location="Offsite site"
whereaccess=readwrite wherestatus=full
When we are looking at offsite list we see there volumes that belong to
offsite_pull but the status is still "Filling"
1.How come volume belong to offsite_pool while it's still filling. Can I change
the storage pool? If yes to what storage pool to add it? How can I know the
history of volume (can I know to what storage poll it belongs before was taken
to offsite_pool?)
2. How are the recommended policies to take volumes offsite? Should we take the
volumes even they are not full and replace tapes with new ones? or wait and
take only full ones?
3. What or how can I be announced when to bring back the volumes from offsite
to the original site (expired retension?) in this cycle of tapes rotation?
Thank you in advance
Liliana
Liliana Windver
SW Support
E&M Computing Ltd. URL: http://www.emet.co.il/
Authorized Sun Partner
tel: 972-3-5766988
fax: 972-3-7522008
E-Mail: liliana AT emet.co DOT il
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