Usually it takes both.

Expiration is what causes the %utilization and %reclaimable values for your
tapes to be updated.  If you aren't running reclamation, those values won't
change (unless you delete a filespace, that takes effect at once).

When space reclamation kicks in, it will process any tapes whose value has
dropped below your %reclaim threshold.  Once all the data has been moved
from the tape (for onsite tapes) or recopied to a new offsite tape (for
offsite tapes), the tape will go to EMPTY status.  EMPTY tapes show up to
DRM as VAULTRETRIEVE.

DB backup or DB snapshot tapes that have exceeded the age limit set by the
DRMDBBACKUPEXPIREDAYS parm i(see Q DRMSTATUS) will also show up as
VAULTRETRIEVE.

So if you haven't been running expiration, you haven't been running
reclamation, your reclamation thresholds are too high, or your DB backup
tapes haven't been getting made and sent offsite, those could all affect
your tapes coming back.




On 3/17/08, Paul Dudley <pdudley AT anl.com DOT au> wrote:
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> What process is it that tells Q DRM which tapes are in "vault retrieve"
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> The reason I am asking is that we have not had any tapes in "vault
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