It's been a while since I've worked much with off-site copypools, but my next 
suggestion is to work with DRMedia. Do you have some volumes (that have been 
reclaimed) in VAULTRETRIEVE status? I don't remember how they show up in your 
volume list (I half expect 'EMPTY' status, but as I said, it's been a while), 
but if you do, they might be returned to scratch status when you MOVE DRM the 
VAULTRET volumes back to ONSITERET.

How many BACKUP STG processes are you running at a time? If you run four backup 
processes at a time, you'll produce four tapes each day, even if one would be 
enough. That might be contributing to this phenomenon. 

You said these volumes are set as offsite; that's at the volume level; volumes 
are the only things with an "offisite status, as I recall. If you do QUERY 
LIBVOL * <volid>, do they show up? If TSM "knows" they're in the library, they 
won't be reclaimed if they're in "FILLING" status, as I recall.

I love a good puzzle. I'm just not sure how many things I'm taking for granted 
about how you're using TSM. :-) 

Nick

On Apr 10, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Paul_Dudley wrote:

> Collocation for the storage pool is set to "none". No I am not using the 
> "du=" parameter on the reclaim commands. I check the log and they do finish 
> successfully.
> They are a mixture of "full" and "filling" tapes. They are all set as 
> "offsite".
> 
> Thanks & Regards
> Paul
> 
>> 
>>> I currently have a lot of copypool storage tapes which are between 50 - 60%
>> utilization. Expiration runs daily and I run reclaimation daily on this 
>> copypool, set to
>> 50.
>>> 
>>> Is there anything I can do to try and consolidate the data onto fewer 
>>> copypool
>> tapes?
>> 
>> I would conclude that you have your collocation on the copypool set to 
>> something
>> other than "none." My back-up theory is that you're using a "dur=" parameter 
>> on
>> your reclaim commands, and they simply are not finishing.
>> 
>> Are these tapes marked as being off-site? Are they in "filling" status or 
>> "full"?
>> "Filling" tapes normally are excluded from reclamation if they're allegedly 
>> still in the
>> library.
>> 
>> I'm not sure why it would matter, but what's your TSM server level?
>> 
>> 
>> Nick
> 
> 
> 
> 
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