Is it supposed to take forever and 2 days to reclaim my Copy Dirs pool?

The volumes to be reclaimed show 0.00 % utilized, 99% Reclaimable.   If I
query the contents, there are 1000's of items on the volume.
I can run reclaimation on the pool, and it only shows 4 volumes to reclaim,
but it won't finish in 18 hours.   There are no error messages in the logs.

Is there something special about this kind of data?

I'm running with a limited number of tape drives, so I have to kill the
reclaimation job at 3:00 am so I can start writing data to off-site tapes.
But you can't just change the storage pool and have the reclaimation stop,
I have to kill the specific process number.
So everyday I setup a schedule to kill the job number of the copy dirs
reclaimation at 3:00 am.
More tape drives are coming, but there's got to be a better way.

Windows 2003 Server
SP3
TSM 5.1.5.0

It seems like maybe the problem actually started when I went from 4.1 to
4.2, but perhaps that's just when the data and client volumes started to
grow a great deal.

Thanks,
Debi Randolph
First Services
debra.randolph AT fbol DOT com





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