Fred,

Primary storage pool volumes will be reclaimed as they always were. What they
mean is that when a copy storage pool volume is reclaimed it stays in an empty
state. This is because you have to physically bring it back from offsite storage
and check it into the library again.


Quoting Fred Johanson <fred AT MIDWAY.UCHICAGO DOT EDU>:

> I'm getting ready to install DRM for offsite storage and I'm unclear on
> the
> exact meaning of the following from the manual.
>
> >When a backup volume is reclaimed and the TSM status for a copy
> storage
> >pool volume is EMPTY, or the database backup series is EXPIRED, the
> volume
> >should be moved back onsite for reuse or disposal. To determine which
> >volumes to retrieve, issue the following command:
> >query drmedia * wherestate=vaultretrieve
>
> I'm only sending a copypool offsite, and I understand this to say that
> all
> tapes that are reclaimed over the weekend will be internally changed
> to
> "wherestate=vaultretrieve" and that the tapes, which will have
> "stat=empty"
> will not be immediately deleted from the storagepool
> the way that empty tapes are deleted from a primary storagepool.
>
> TIA
>