After about an hour of waiting the move data finally got rolling. 

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Richard Sims
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 2:12 PM
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working

On May 6, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Tyree, David wrote:

> I'm doing a move data now. Or trying too. 
> 
> The process has been running for about 30 minutes with zero bytes
moved. Nothing showing from a q request, nothing showing from a q mount.
All drives online and plenty of mount points. 
> 
> I would expect it to mount a scratch tape and start moving data
primary pool to the tape. 

In my experience, that is a manifestation of the TSM server running
through the database (you should see a lot of disk activity there)
compiling a list of all the onsite tapes necessary to represent all the
files on the offsite tape which is to be reclaimed.  Eventually, this
would result in a list of such onsite volumes, in ANR1157I messages - if
all goes well.  The higher the capacity of the offsite tape, and the
more remaining unexpired data on it, the longer this can take.

Watch for the conclusion of the Move Data in the Activity Log, one way
or the other; and check for abnormalities reflected in that log during
the discovery process.  There may be some database problems or
unavailable onsite tapes thwarting this process.

Bringing offsite tapes back and reclaiming them onsite is much faster;
but, of course, then that data is not offsite.

    Richard Sims     http://people.bu.edu/rbs/