On May 6, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Tyree, David wrote:

> I'm doing a move data now. Or trying too. 
> 
> The process has been running for about 30 minutes with zero bytes moved. 
> Nothing showing from a q request, nothing showing from a q mount. All drives 
> online and plenty of mount points. 
> 
> I would expect it to mount a scratch tape and start moving data primary pool 
> to the tape. 

In my experience, that is a manifestation of the TSM server running through the 
database (you should see a lot of disk activity there) compiling a list of all 
the onsite tapes necessary to represent all the files on the offsite tape which 
is to be reclaimed.  Eventually, this would result in a list of such onsite 
volumes, in ANR1157I messages - if all goes well.  The higher the capacity of 
the offsite tape, and the more remaining unexpired data on it, the longer this 
can take.

Watch for the conclusion of the Move Data in the Activity Log, one way or the 
other; and check for abnormalities reflected in that log during the discovery 
process.  There may be some database problems or unavailable onsite tapes 
thwarting this process.

Bringing offsite tapes back and reclaiming them onsite is much faster; but, of 
course, then that data is not offsite.

    Richard Sims     http://people.bu.edu/rbs/