That's what I was thinking.  It appeared that only 290.7 GB was
reclaimed, that should not have taken 12 hours.  I would almost bet
there was another process, or client using the tape this process needed
to finish copying a file.

See Ya'
Howard


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of Wanda Prather
> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 11:23 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Reclamation doesn't always respect duration
> 
> Agreed, but 6 hours seems excessive - that would imply that something
> was
> preventing TSM from finishing the reclaim of an aggregate, or that
> completing the aggregate took 6 hours -  That should be TERABYTES of
> data
> and many output tapes!
> 
> John, do you know of anything in your environment that would take that
> long
> to complete a copy?  Or if this was offsite, reclamation, could it
have
> been
> waiting on access to an onsite tape for that long?
> 
> Wanda
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Richard Sims <rbs AT bu DOT edu> wrote:
> 
> > This is, unfortunately, another instance of the information provided
> > to the documentation people not being truly reflective of what the
> > software does, so what we read in the manual about this is
> > incorrect.  See doc APAR IC58214 for details.
> >
> >   Richard Sims
> >