As the previous 2 mentioned, if the tape is available, TSM will use it. If it's 
offsite, TSM will try to collect the data from primary volumes. So your issue 
is that the copypool tapes are actually available. It's kinda weird you get 
them reclaimed though, they should have been moved offsite long before reclaim 
is needed. Are you storing large database/mail/other application backups on 
them which expire regularly?

Best Regards

Daniel Sparrman

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Datum: 04/11/2011 18:53
Ärende: reclamation question

                We have three storage pools, the primary pool is a devtype FILE 
and the two copy pools are devtype LTO3. The offsite copy pools gets 
transferred offsite via DRM.
                Whenever I run a reclamation on the offsite copy pool the 
system grabs a scratch tape and then copies files from the primary pool and 
starts filling up tapes. I'm perfectly happy with that process.
                I have an issue when I do the reclamation of onsite tapes. It 
loads up a tape (might be scratch) and then another tape to copy the data from. 
It ends up doing a tape to tape copy. In a way it uses twice as many tape 
mounts as an offsite reclamation. And since I only have 6 drives it kinda 
cramps up my options sometimes.
                Is there a way to do a reclamation of the onsite copy pool and 
have it pull data from the primary pool instead of doing a tape to tape copy? I 
mean it can do it for the offsite pool, why not the onsite as well?


David Tyree
Interface Analyst
South Georgia Medical Center
229.333.1155
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