I have just reciently tried the reclaim my onsite tape pool using a
diskpool, and it works
quite well.  ... I will try the copypool now. .. Thanks for the hint! ...
Jack

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tab Trepagnier [SMTP:Tab.Trepagnier AT LAITRAM DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 5:20 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Reclaiming LTO Tapes
>
> Jack,
>
> It's been mentioned before, but if you use a disk pool for directories,
> you should make the disk pool a FILE devclass.
>
> When my directory disk pool was DISK devclass, copypool reclamation would
> launch and eight hours later I would have reclaimed a few tens of MBs.
>
> I rebuilt the directory disk pool as FILE devclass, and copy pool
> reclamation proceeds at full speed from the start.
>
> Tab Trepagnier
> TSM Administrator
> Laitram Corporation
>
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>
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> "Coats, Jack" <Jack.Coats AT BANKSTERLING DOT COM>
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> 07/03/2002 03:35 PM
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>         To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>         cc:
>         Subject:        Re: Reclaiming LTO Tapes
>
>
> I cannot find out how to speed me up either!  Mine is slower than sin,
> on reclaiming my offsite copypools especially.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guillaume Gilbert [mailto:guillaume.gilbert AT DESJARDINS DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 8:41 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Reclaiminig LTO Tapes
>
>
> Hey there
>
> Maybe its because I'm used to using STK 9840 tapes but yesterday I saw an
> LTO tape at 25 % utilisation take almost 4 hours to reclaim, which to me
> is
> awful. How am I
> supposed to reclaim my tapes with that kind of performance?. The drives I
> use are IBM Ultriums in a 3584 library. With only 2 drives it makes it
> hard
> for users to do
> restores...
>
> Are there any options I can change to make this go a bit faster. I know
> the
> start/stop on LTO's isn't good.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Guillaume Gilbert
> CGI Canada