Try long term archive tapes.  Mark them as offsite when you send them to
overflow so they can't be pulled.  If you know that your retention is 2
weeks then take out the tapes written yesterday.  It is a matter of
reviewing your retentions and storage pool configurations to see what tapes
won't be needed for a period of time.
Good luck
Becky

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Roth [mailto:roth-2 AT MEDCTR.OSU DOT EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 12:35 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: 3494 and tapes


Thanks again
On current situation is total capacity of 746 volumes including 1 CE tape
and 6 cleaning carts in 3 frames.  Currently I cannot keep enough scratch
tapes in the library to handle a full weekend(Fri, Sat, Sun ).  Reclamation
for tapepool happens 6 days a week and reclamation for copypool(offsite
tapes) happens on weekends only.  Current daily use is approx. 20 -22 tapes,
we have no operator on weekend that can manage the checkout/checkin process.

FYI - I have another frame being delivered in approx. 3 weeks.(this will
resolve my current issue).

What I like to do is "move media" to overflow location(onsite tape racks) -
? is what volumes should go to overflow, have no any experience in
determining what volumes can be temporarily put in the overflow location.


>>> john.talafous AT TIMKEN DOT COM 11/24/2003 6:27:57 PM >>>
Paul,
  All of our scratch tapes reside in the 3494 library. I monitor the total
number of scratch tapes available and react when it falls below a threshold.

  You mentioned your are 'sending volumes for temp onsite' and that you want
to 'determine what volumes to go to overflow'. Are you limited in the number
of tapes you can hold in your 3494 library? Are you working with retrieving
volumes from vault status?  More info please... What are the symptoms of the
issue you are addressing?

John


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