We reclaim our virtual tapes.  They have the same waste patterns as physical 
tape and are certainly as expensive.

David

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Lee, Gary
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 2:10 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Reclamation of Virtual Tapes

Sounds like someone set the reclaim storage pool on the virtual tape pool to 
the physical tape pool.

I know of no reason why not to reclaim virtual tapes.

Wish I had one to play with.


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 
Welton, Charles
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 11:10 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Reclamation of Virtual Tapes

Hello:

We have a TSM instance that uses virtual tapes as our primary backup data pool. 
 The data on the virtual tapes are eventually migrated to tape.  We are 
currently down to 3 virtual scratch tapes and 6 physical scratch tapes.  I 
noticed that we are not running any reclamation processes on our virtual tape 
pool.  It seems we have a hand-full of under-utilized virtual tapes.  I went 
ahead and ran a manual reclamation on the virtual tape pool and I noticed the 
output tape pool is a physical tape.  I assumed that the virtual tape would 
reclaim to another virtual tape.  Is that not the case?

Could there be a reason why reclamation shouldn't be ran on a virtual tape pool?

Thank you...


Charles

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