The quote Jack offered is relevant to PRIMARY pools, but not to COPY pools,
I think.
TSM reclaims COPY (off-site) storage pools by using the drives and tapes
available to the PRIMARY (on-site) storage pool.
It can do this because its massive database knows where in the PRIMARY pool
to find a copy of each file on the COPYpool tape it's reclaiming, so it can
make a duplicate of an off-site copypool tape even though it can't
physically mount that offsite copypool tape.
Jon, surely your onsite pool has two or more drives, right?
Maybe reclamation didn't start because it's a relatively low-priority
process (look up "preempt" in the Admin guide), and something more important
(like backup db) was running.
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Coyle, Jack
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 1:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes
Per the Tivoli Storage Manager (for AIX) Administrator's Guide, "to enable
volume reclamation for a storage pool that has only one mount point (that
is, one drive), you can define a reclamation storage pool for the server to
use when reclaiming volumes. When the server reclaims volumes, the server
moves the data from volumes in the original storage pool to volumes in the
reclamation storage pool."
I realize I cited an AIX manual and you stipulated a Solaris environment,
but I rather doubt they are that different that the information wouldn't
apply.
JRC
> ----------
> From: Jon Milliren[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 1:00 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a copy storage pool with 8 offsite volumes. 3 of these
> volumes
> have reached over 40% reclaimable space, so I decided to run a reclaim.
> I did this by updating the copy storage pools reclamation threshold to
> 40.
>
> I expected reclaim to run, but nothing happened at all. The copy
> storage pool tape library is automated, with one drive. I am using TSM
> 3.7.3 for Solaris. Do I need to create a reclaim storage pool, or use
> the MOVE DATA command? Or is this me setting the reclaim threshold
> incorrectly?
>
> I didn't expect any problems becuase this was a copy pool, and
> reading
> the admin guide led me to believe that since I was reclaiming offsite
> volumes, lack of multiple mount points wouldn't affect reclaim.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jon
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> University of Pittsburgh
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