Hi George,

When you get behind with reclamation, you end up with many volumes with low
util/high reclaim values. TSM trys to minimize tape mounts by reclaiming
offsite data from your onsite tapes without too many remounts, which can
pull data related to several/(or many) offsite volumes.  You can force a
more expeditious reclaim by specifying a high reclaim percent (95% or so)
and setting OFFSITERECLAIMLIMIT to a small number (1 or 2).  This will
optimize getting volumes back at the expense of (probably) more local tape
mounts.  If you want to get a specific tape cleared, do a MOVE DATA.

If you have the media, you could create a new pool and delete the old copy
pool once the new one has been populated.

Bob.


-----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 8:08 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Reclamation for offsite storage pools

Hi George,

Doesn't reclamation for offsite copy storage pool volumes write the data to
new copy storage pool volumes from the primary copy?  I guess I'm trying to
come up with a more efficient method of getting caught up as reclamation
just isn't accomplishing what I hope it would.

Thanks again!

-----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 9:05 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Reclamation for offsite storage pools

This is not true,"Can I do a move data from 1 copy storage pool volume to
the another volume within the same copy storage pool?"
That is what reclamation does for you without you specifying individual
volumes.  You use a reclamation threshold in a command or a storage pool
threshold and TSM picks the volumes.  With a MOVE DATA on a copy pool
volume, TSM just grabs the data from the primary pool.

You can let reclamations/move data/move nodedata run through housekeeping if
needed.  Ordinarily it isn't the best thing to do, but it shouldn't break
anything.

-----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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