We do reclaimation of our offsite, COPY POOL tapes, all the time.

TSM is smart enough to figure out that it is a COPY POOL and simply
creates NEW TAPES. It doesn't mount the offsite tapes.

We have a process that checks for the % UTILIZED of the OFFSITE tapes and
then creates a "recall" list of the "empty" tapes as well as sending off
COPY POOL tapes that are either FULL or FILLING.

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Zoltan Forray
Zoltan Forray
Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center
e-mail: zforray AT vcu DOT edu  -  voice: 804-828-4807




"Adamson, Matt" <matt.adamson AT ATTWS DOT COM>
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        Subject:        Reclaming offsite tapes


Here is my scenario...

We currently send all of our tapes offsite for 7 years.  In the library we
collocate by filespace.  But, when we send the tapes offsite they are
uncollocated.  We have retired a number of servers in the past couple
years,
meaning we no longer need that data.  Being that we send the tapes offsite
Uncollocated, data from a retired server could be on the same tape of a
server that we still have in production.  Is there a way for me find out
if
this is so?  Is there a way I can call the tapes back from offsite and
perform some sort of reclamation?

Any ideas would be great, but if I'm stuck I can deal with it.  Tape costs
are making look into all different scenarios.

Thanks,

Matt