I've always liked running with an odd number of tape drives to make it "more
difficult" to busy them all at once.  Plus you have a spare for when one is
ACTUALLY down.

Bob.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
lindsay morris
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 11:57 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Offsite reclamation problem

Lots of people have a best-practice of always keeping at least one drive
free for user restores.
That minimizes the problem.

It makes users happy too, because
even though a restore does pre-empt another task, it may take TSM 40 minutes
to finish the reclamation it was working on and give up the drive.

So the user has to sit waiting for far too long (in some cases).


------
Lindsay Morris
Principal
www.tsmworks.com
919-403-8260
lindsay AT tsmworks DOT com



On Nov 4, 2008, at Nov 4, 12:21 PM, Bos, Karel wrote:

> No :)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of Thomas Denier
> Sent: dinsdag 4 november 2008 18:14
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Offsite reclamation problem
>
> We have a 5.4.2.0 TSM server running under mainframe Linux. We have
> five tape drives available for our primary tape storage pool and five
> tape drives available for our copy storage pool. We run offsite tape
> reclaimation with 'maxproc=5'. If a client runs a restore while off
> reclamation is going on, TSM will take a tape drive away from
> reclamation. This is done by cancelling a reclamation process, rather
> than having a process go into mount point wait. TSM does not start a
> replacement process when this happens. A restore that runs for a
> couple of minutes can leave a pair of tape drives sitting idle for
> hours. Is there any configuration setting or release level upgrade
> that will cause TSM to handle this situation more intelligently?
>
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