Geez!

Keep your fingers crossed hoping not to have to restore this guy.

What about changing the node name?  This would force new filespaces and
effectively a full backup.  Then wait 60 days (retonly) and delete the old
filespaces.  Probably easier than and export/import.

Let's kick around a better way to do reclamation that will help to ease
this "feature".

What about setting collocation on before a reclaim?  What about changing
the algorithm for reclaim in the server code itself.  Perhaps the engineers
can jump in here with ideas they've kicked around.

How about a new ADSM command: Consolidate filespace.  This command would
determine which tapes contain a filespace, mount those tapes and move the
data to new tapes.  This could be done on a weekly/monthtly basis for
problem filespaces.  Better yet, do it on a threshold.  If a filespace
begins to span more than x tapes, then consolidate.  Once the data has been
moved, it is expired on the original tapes and reclamation can do its
thing.

Simple matter of programming.  Should take a week or two, don't you think?

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
www.storsol.com
lipp AT storsol DOT com
(719)531-5926