Hi David.

When you run reclamation on your offsite volumes, what is the command you run?

You also said you get a few tapes back, but that you get error. 
What error message are you constantly getting?

And, last but not least, you mention that a lot of the offsite volumes have a 
percent utilization of less than 25%.  
I usually run the following query to show me  what is reclaimable.

select volume_name,stgpool_name,pct_utilized,PCT_RECLAIM from volumes where  
pct_reclaim>55

I usually reclaim tapes that have min of 55% - 60% reclaimable space.

~james

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Tyree, David
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 7:52 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: issue with offsite reclamation

Sorry might be a misunderstanding here. 
I don't have an offsite server. I trying to do reclamation on offsite volumes 
or trying too. 

I get a few tapes back sometimes but I'm constantly getting that error message. 
A lot of the offsite volumes have a percent utilization of less than 25% that 
should be reclaiming. 


David Tyree 
Interface Analyst 
South Georgia Medical Center 
229.333.1155 


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Arbogast, Warren K
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:34 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] issue with offsite reclamation

David,
If cartridges aren't coming back, you may need to run 'reconcile volumes' . 
Don't combine 'reconcile volumes' of a virtual-volume based copypool on the 
on-site server with reclamation of the primary target pool on the offsite 
server.  

tsm:> reconcile volumes <devcl> fix=yes

Keith Arbogast
Indiana University