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[ADSM-L] Ho do I reclaim copypool volumes

2007-05-15 11:37:39
Subject: [ADSM-L] Ho do I reclaim copypool volumes
From: Nicholas Rodolfich <nrodolfich AT EJGH DOT ORG>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 10:36:08 -0500
Hello ALL,

Thanks for your help!

I am at a new job and the copy pool in the TSM instance here has been
collocated previously. The admin thought it was collocated by group but
each group only had one member so it is really collocated by node I
think.  The collocation has been turned off for a couple of weeks now. I
am not sure if that is part of the problem. The IBM doc really doesn't
have any practical examples  of this that I can find.

The issue is: There are 900 or so volumes in the offsite vault via DRM.
Over half of these are less than 10% utilized. The scratch pool is
dwindling and I need a way to reclaim some of these volumes. The company
also has a DR test scheduled this summer and I would like to reduce the
number of offsite volumes so the DR process won't be so cumbersome.

What is the best way to consolidate this copypool onto less volumes. I
know the pending ones will be returned at the end of the reuse delay on
the pool and/or the DB backup expiration in DRM. I would think the that
pending volumes would be the only ones that would have a 0% utilization
but I have FULL and FILLING volumes with 0% utilization.

EX: ( sample of the volumes)
Volume      STGPOOL         % Util.           Status        Last write
              Last read
A00947  COPYPOOL        0       EMPTY   5/29/2006       5/29/2006
A00509  COPYPOOL        0       FULL    7/10/2006       7/10/2006
A00248  COPYPOOL        0       FULL    7/15/2006       7/15/2006
A00200  COPYPOOL        0       FULL    7/16/2006       7/15/2006
A00259  COPYPOOL        0       FULL    7/18/2006       7/18/2006
A00264  COPYPOOL        0       FULL    7/18/2006       7/18/2006
A00265  COPYPOOL        0       PENDING 7/18/2006       7/18/2006
A00148  COPYPOOL        0       FULL    7/22/2006       7/21/2006
A00820  COPYPOOL        0       FILLING 7/24/2006       7/22/2006
A00848  COPYPOOL        0       FILLING 7/27/2006       7/27/2006
A00087  COPYPOOL        0       FULL    7/29/2006       7/29/2006
A01087  COPYPOOL        0       FULL    7/30/2006       7/29/2006
A00324  COPYPOOL        0       FULL    8/2/2006        
8/2/2006
A00086  COPYPOOL        0       FULL    8/6/2006        
8/5/2006
A00837  COPYPOOL        0       FULL    8/6/2006        
8/6/2006
A00391  COPYPOOL        0       FULL    8/10/2006       8/10/2006
A00406  COPYPOOL        0       FULL    8/12/2006       8/12/2006
A00428  COPYPOOL        0       FULL    8/15/2006       8/15/2006
A00073  COPYPOOL        0       FULL    8/20/2006       8/19/2006
A00147  COPYPOOL        0       FULL    8/21/2006       8/20/2006
A00927  COPYPOOL        0       FULL    8/23/2006       8/22/2006

Nicholas
.
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...

Nicholas Rodolfich
TSM/AIX Administrator
East Jefferson General Hospital
Fidelity Information Systems
504-883-6955 (office)
228-223-6777 (mobile)
nrodolfich AT ejgh DOT org



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