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Re: very few tapes expiring

2001-04-11 10:18:39
Subject: Re: very few tapes expiring
From: "Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,FC-SIL/INF." <Rene.Lambelet AT NESTLE DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:19:12 +0200
> Hello, do you mean tapes for copy stgp ?  Do you run Reclamations ?
> 
> René Lambelet
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> 
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From:   MC Matt Cooper (2838) [SMTP:Matt.Cooper AT AMGREETINGS DOT COM]
>       Sent:   Wednesday, 11. April 2001 16:03
>       To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>       Subject:        very few tapes expiring
> 
>       Hello all,
>               I am running TSM 4.1.3 (just upgraded from 4.1.1) on OS390
> 2.7.   We
>       have been up and running for about 5 months now and the tape people
> (who
>       initially said tapes were returning from offsite) have told me that
> not to
>       many tapes return from offsite.  So I start looking at things.  We
> have
>       NETWARE, NT, AIX, SUN UNIX, DB2, SQL, ORACLE, and MS-EXchange
> servers + 100
>       desktops.
>        I see that I have a lot of tapes that are still in use all the way
> back to
>       when we were just testing things out 5 months ago.
>        I can also see that the expiration process is running daily ( and
> not to
>       the 3 hr limit).
>        I can see that the tapes all have various amounts of reclaimable %
> of space
>       on them, some all the way to 100%,  but even though I see this from
> running
>       Q VOL xxxxxx that when I run Q CONTENT xxxxx COUNT=100 that there
> are some
>       files there.
>       I know that the copygroups have been changed around, but  they
> always had
>       either VERSIONS DATA EXISTS < 45   or RETAIN EXTRA VERSIONS < 45.
> RETAIN
>       ONLY VERSION is 60, everywhere.
>       I know that I update the copy groups and activate the policysets
> every
>       weekend to change the COPYMODE to/from ABSOLUTE/INCREMENTAL to force
> weekend
>       fulls. (this shouldn't matter?)
>       I see some NETWARE, AIX, DB2 files on these tapes that are 4 months
> old.
>       I am at a loss as to what is wrong or what I am to new to know.
> Anybody
>       have an idea as to where I should look or what I am not doing?
>       many thanks
>       Matt
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