Re: [ADSM-L] Virtual Volumes won't die!

Shawn,

> I can't find the reference, but if I remember right (which is always
> suspect) Virtual Volumes are stored using an archive copy group on the
> target server, but ignores the "Retain Version" of the copy group.

I'd been hunting for confirmation of this too - here goes:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21254804

/David Mc
London, UK

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Shawn Drew
Sent: 30 March 2010 21:00
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Virtual Volumes won't die!

I recently migrated about 5TB of data off of a VirtualVolume/Server based
pool to a normal tape pool.

- TSM 5.5.4 on AIX
- The Storage pools are all set to 0 days (for volume reuse)
- "expire inv"'s were run on both servers
- The volumes aren't present on the source server anymore
- Reconcile Volumes shows:
0 volumes inspected, 0 invalid volumes found
- show virtvols show a lot of volumes, but all marked for deletion:
VIRTUAL VOLUME: 3
  HL=ADSM/TSM-WB_LM.BFS.237199152,  LL=BFS.OBJ.1,  objId=1326,
firstObjId=1326
  objSize=2166075833,  numObjects=4,  when: 06:25:53 on 03/16/09
  Marked For Delete: TRUE, when: 12:45:45 on 03/26/10
- The occupancy of the source server is still 5TB at the target server:


I've run into this problem before when I first set this up, but it turned
out I just forgot to run expiration at the target server (since it was
always a dedicated library manager)  That's not the case this time.

I can't find the reference, but if I remember right (which is always
suspect) Virtual Volumes are stored using an archive copy group on the
target server, but ignores the "Retain Version" of the copy group.  The
copy group for this is set to the default of 365 days, but I don't imagine
it should affect virtual-volume data, right?

Any other suggestions?   The last resort is a "del fi", but I'd really
like to figure this out.


Regards,
Shawn
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