"Unavailable" tells TSM not to use the tape, so reclamation skips right
over it.  Verify the tapes are in your library, update them to read-only
(or read-write), and do the "move data" process as others have described.
I'd also not trust the tapes without verifying they can take data again - a
database snapshot or exporting a nodes data (my preferred) to the tape is a
good way to do this.

Nick Cassimatis
nickpc AT us.ibm DOT com

Today is the tomorrow of yesterday.




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Well, now that you ask I did have a problem a couple of days ago where
there
were no scratch volumes. I rectified that.

I also found that these three volumes were in the "unavailable" status (Not
sure why).

I put them back into RW status and ran a reclamation again today (60
percent
reclamation level).
For good measure, I ran an "expire inventory" after the reclamation
finished.

The volumes are still showing the low usage.

Rgds
John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Conko, Steven" <sconko AT ADT DOT COM>
To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: Many, almost empty volumes ??


> i know this is a stupid question, but here goes...
>
> what is your reclamation threshold set to for that storage pool? are
there
> other tapes available to reclaim to?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John [mailto:rs6000 AT BTINTERNET DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 11:21 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Many, almost empty volumes ??
>
>
> Hi TSM'rs
>
> I am sure someone has had this before..
>
> TSM Server 4.2 (Windows 2000) connected to a SAN based 18 slot LTO 3583.
>
> The total amount of storage is around 60GB which means there should never
> really be more that two, or at worst three tapes in the offsite pool. I
have
> five. These are data tapes, not DBBackup tapes.
>
> Even after doing reclamation of the offsite pool the three tapes in
question
> remain offsite and remain at 0.5, 2.1, 0.6 percent used.
>
> Is this normal. I was under the impression that reclamation is supposed
to
> avoid this.
>
> Would appreciate any thoughts on this
>
> Rgds
> John