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Re: Volume Status = Full but porcent utilization = 68.7

2002-09-13 10:16:46
Subject: Re: Volume Status = Full but porcent utilization = 68.7
From: Remco Post <r.post AT SARA DOT NL>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 16:14:03 +0200
Hi,

your tape has some expired data on it, no longer in use. It was once
full, now there are some holes on the data. Once utilisation drops below
your reclaim treshold for this storagepool, tsm will reclaim te tape,
writing left-over data to another tape, setting this tape to pending for
a few days, then making it a scratch volume again.

On vrijdag, september 13, 2002, at 03:53 , Camilo A. Marrugo wrote:

Just wondering is anyone out there experiences the same with the library
tapes. Here is how a "qu vol <vol#> f=d" looks:

tsm: TSM>qu vol A00003 f=d

                   Volume Name: A00003
             Storage Pool Name: TAPEDATA
             Device Class Name: LTOTAPE
       Estimated Capacity (MB): 125,097.7
                      Pct Util: 68.7
                 Volume Status: Full
                        Access: Read/Write
        Pct. Reclaimable Space: 32.3
               Scratch Volume?: Yes
               In Error State?: No
      Number of Writable Sides: 1
       Number of Times Mounted: 516
             Write Pass Number: 1
     Approx. Date Last Written: 08/19/02   11:56:27
        Approx. Date Last Read: 09/11/02   00:15:48
           Date Became Pending:
        Number of Write Errors: 0
         Number of Read Errors: 0
               Volume Location:
Last Update by (administrator):
         Last Update Date/Time: 08/16/02   06:49:19

Is there a way to make sure that the tapes get used 100% before setting
the Volume status to Full?

TIA
Camilo Marrugo
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Remco Post

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