This is close to what we do, but we add "stat=full" to narrow it down better.

At 01:38 PM 4/11/2011, Prather, Wanda wrote:
>Or just mark them offsite, even though they are still in the library.
>You could create a script that does "update vol * wherestgpool=onsitecopy 
>access=offsite" before you start reclamation, then reverse it when reclamation 
>finishes.
>
>W
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
>Of Lee, Gary D.
>Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 1:26 PM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation question
>
>About the only way I can think of to do this is to mark the onsite copy pool 
>volumes as unavailable.  This would force data to be pulled from the primary 
>file pool.
>
>The reason it does this for the offsite pool, is that offsite volumes are 
>presumed to be unavailable, thus data must be pulled from the primary source.
>Hope this helps.
>
>
>
>Gary Lee
>Senior System Programmer
>Ball State University
>phone: 765-285-1310
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
>Of Tyree, David
>Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 12:54 PM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: [ADSM-L] reclamation question
>
>                We have three storage pools, the primary pool is a devtype 
> FILE and the two copy pools are devtype LTO3. The offsite copy pools gets 
> transferred offsite via DRM.
>                Whenever I run a reclamation on the offsite copy pool the 
> system grabs a scratch tape and then copies files from the primary pool and 
> starts filling up tapes. I'm perfectly happy with that process.
>                I have an issue when I do the reclamation of onsite tapes. It 
> loads up a tape (might be scratch) and then another tape to copy the data 
> from. It ends up doing a tape to tape copy. In a way it uses twice as many 
> tape mounts as an offsite reclamation. And since I only have 6 drives it 
> kinda cramps up my options sometimes.
>                Is there a way to do a reclamation of the onsite copy pool and 
> have it pull data from the primary pool instead of doing a tape to tape copy? 
> I mean it can do it for the offsite pool, why not the onsite as well?
>
>
>David Tyree
>Interface Analyst
>South Georgia Medical Center
>229.333.1155
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