Hi, Jonathan!

How are you in nice Montreal ?

You wrote :
we are using a 3590 tape drive.
You have a primary and a copy stg pools,
so I guess you have two 3590 tape drives.

I have the same or the similar installation.
ADSM V3 Server on AS/400 machine, two 3590 tapes.
One for primary stg pool, other for copy stg pool.

I have tried all methods you describe in your letter.
Results of your tests are right.
The problem that 3590 tape drive is independent tape.
If you want to make a automatic reclamation you have to use
at least two drives within one tape or automatic library.
Two 3590 tape drives are still two independent tapes.
They are not useful for automatic reclamation.

I see two solutions.
The first:
Buy 3494 automatic tape library, install within the library your existing
3590 tapes and you will be able to make the automatic reclamation.
But this library is expensive and need significant physical place.

The second (I use):
You have the copy pool. There are some volumes in the pool.
1. Delete the volume/volumes:
    del v copypool copyXX discarddata=y.
2. Backup the primary pool again:
    backup stg primpool copypool.


If you have questions, contact me.
Have a nice day.

Leonid Sirotinsky,
AS/400 Systems Administrator,
Israel Airports Authority.








I found two ways


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Lepage [SMTP:Jonathan.Lepage AT FID.DESJARDINS DOT COM]
> Sent: Thu September 16-1999 16:35
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Copy reclamation pool
>
> Hi everyone,
>
>      I already posted that problem but I didn't received an answer that
> satisfied me, so I'll explain my problem more clearly.  We have Installed
> ADSM
> SERVER v3.1.0.7 on our AS/400 (model 640) and we are using a 3590 tape
> drive.
> Last week 6 of my copy pool tape had a percent of reclamation over 80% so
> I
> tried to do a reclamation.  First, since we didn't implement a offsite
> policy, I
> tried to reclaim the tape with the volume status R/O But nothing happen.
> Then I
> change the status to OFFSITE I was then prompted for a Tape from my
> primary pool
> (so far everything seems fine) but then I receive the following error
>
>  ANR0985I Process 6 for SPACE RECLAMATION running in the BACKGROUND
> completed
> with completion state FAILURE at 12:59:37.
>  ANR1082W Space reclamation terminated for volume DJ0090 - insufficient
> number
> of mount points available for removable media.
>  ANR1042I Space reclamation for storage pool COPY_POOL1 will be retried in
> 60
> seconds.
>
>      So I tought of using a Reclaim pool but realize it.'s impossible to
> define
> one for Copy Stgpool.  I tried to do the reclaim manualy by moving the
> data to
> another STGpool of class FILECLASS. I receive another Error Message :
>
> Storage pool RECLAIMPOOL specified on the MOVE DATA command is not a valid
> poolname and or pooltype for volume DJ0086.
>
> The reclaimpool was defined as a copy stg pool .
>
> Please help I'm stuck with 6 tapes that are only 1% full
>
> Thanks
>
> Jonathan Lepage
> Fiducie Desjardins
> jonathan.lepage@fid,desjardins.com
>
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