Thank you everyone, all of this was very helpful. I am new to TSM and
honestly still have no idea what I am doing. I think I have resolved my
issue. On disk I had literally no volumes with space but I added some
scratch tapes to my library and created a temporary reclamation pool using
the library.







Thanks again everyone.








Thomas Taylor
System Administrator
Jos. A. Bank Clothiers
Cell (443)-974-5768



From:
Nick Marouf <marouf AT GMAIL DOT COM>
To:
ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU,
Date:
04/14/2014 12:53 PM
Subject:
Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation
Sent by:
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>



One more thing to consider is you can move some tapes out of the
library by using "move media" command. Lets say that you had a bunch
at a 100% capacity that does require reclamation, you can eject those,
and add scratch tapes. (assuming you have some free tapes as well)

move media volnmae stg=pool ovflo=cabinet rem=yes checkl=n

You can then check those back in once you free up some space.


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Skylar Thompson
<skylar2 AT u.washington DOT edu> wrote:
> It can also use filling volumes, but it can't use empty space on full
> volumes without reclamation. If there are a bunch of almost-empty full
> volumes, though, even one scratch tape could free up a bunch more
scratch
> volumes using MOVE or RECLAIM.
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 04:20:17PM +0000, Leonard, Matthew wrote:
>> Actually doing the Move data command doesn't require any scratch tapes
at all.  Have done it a ton of times as we run out of scratch/space all of
the time.  It's a never ending battle here!!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Matthew J. Leonard
>> Network Infrastructure Administrator
>> IT Network Operations
>> AtlasAir, Inc.
>> Matthew.Leonard AT AtlasAir DOT com
>> 914-701-8042
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
Of Skylar Thompson
>> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 12:03 PM
>> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation
>>
>> This depends on having some scratch/filling volumes available, though.
>> Based on what Tom said, there is no space at all available in any pool.
The first step needs to be to get some scratch tapes available, then
RECLAIM/MOVE can be a viable option.
>
> --
> -- Skylar Thompson (skylar2 AT u.washington DOT edu)
> -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator
> -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354
> -- University of Washington School of Medicine