Hi George,

I am using collocation for my onsite primary storage pools, but not my offsite 
copy storage pools.  I think this is just a build up of not being able to run 
reclamation for about 2 years and I just never seem to be able to get caught up 
so in turn I'm using a lot of tapes offsite and it's just not necessary.  

I was hoping running reclamation with more processes per offsite storage pool 
as well as running it more frequently would help, but so far it is not.

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Huebschman, George J.
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 8:59 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Reclamation for offsite storage pools

Are you using any collocation settings?  They can affect your
reclamation efficiency.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Moyer, Joni M
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 8:54 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Reclamation for offsite storage pools

Hello everyone,

For several years I had not been able to run reclamation on one of my
tsm servers due to the lack of physical tape drives to accomplish the
task.  I am in the process of trying to get caught up, but it seems that
I just never do.  Most of my issue is with the copy storage pool volumes
which are very under-utilized.   It seems like reclamation, even if I
start multiple reclamation threads, is taking quite a long time.

Is there some other way for me to get the data onto new media without
doing reclamation?  Can I do a move data from 1 copy storage pool volume
to the another volume within the same copy storage pool?  I know that
this would mean bringing the tapes back from the vault, but it is just
not progressing as I would like with the reclamation processes.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated as I would like to get this back
under control.

Thank you in advance!

Joni Moyer
Storage Administrator III
(717)302-9966
joni.moyer AT highmark DOT com


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