Kelly and Richard,

I understand your point, instead of reclamaing space I should reclaim a new 
tape drive!

As you know, things are not that easy, so, until I got the new tape, can you 
please tell me if my idea of each tape libray being the reclaim storage group 
of the other, will work or Kelly's proposal is better.

Thanks
joaquim

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Richard Sims
Sent: terça-feira, 24 de Junho de 2008 19:25
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] RECLAIM process with one tape drive

On Jun 24, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Kelly Lipp wrote:

> 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.

That will work well to get tapes emptied.  Be aware that where random storage 
pools participate in a MOVe Data that aggregate reconstruction can't happen, so 
you won't get back as much space as with the participating pools both being 
sequential, which is an issue where you are working with a small complement of 
tapes.

As Kelly suggests: Being an Enterprise product, TSM expects to be working with 
generous resources, including multiple drives in libraries.  Skimping greatly 
constrains TSM's processing, and you'll likely spend as much in human 
technician time to compensate as you would in acquiring adequate hardware 
resources.

    Richard Sims