Time to buy another tape drive for your library!  TSM hates systems that
aren't designed correctly.

If you have disk space, you could issue move data commands on the
volumes needing to be reclaimed:

Tsm> move data volumeintapepool tostg=diskpool

Poor man's reclamation processing.

Kelly Lipp
CTO
STORServer, Inc.
485-B Elkton Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
719-266-8777
www.storserver.com


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Joaquim Carmona
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:50 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] RECLAIM process with one tape drive

Hi,

We just started to use TSM a couple of months ago and it has been a lot
of fun ;-) to discovery the solutions for our problems.

We have another one now, about the volume reclamation. The scenario:

.A disk pool  named DISKPOOL
.A Tape Library named ON_SITE_POOL with one drive
.Another Tape Library named OFF_SITE_POOL with also one drive.

As each tape library (TL) has just one drive, for doing the volume
RECLAIM, according to the TSM AG manual, we should define a storage pool
with device type DISK and make it the reclaim storage group (RSG) of TL.

The problem is that, I think, we should have one RSG for each TL has the
RSG has to have the return of the data back to the TL with this
parameter nextstgpool.

Question: is there a way to make this easier? For instances can I use
the two TL for doing the job, one being the RSG of the other?

I would appreciate some help on this because I have more reclamation
space than the actually used...

Thanks
Joaquim