Hello, Have you first tried to see what current reclaimable spaces are available for offsite volumes.
Here's a select command which will list all the offsite volumes in the order of pct_reclaimable. Command: select volume_name, stgpool_name, access, pct_reclaim from volumes where stgpool_name='OFF3494' order by pct_reclaim desc Modify the stgpool name for your server It is possible that you don't have any offsite volumes reach are reclaimable at your reclaimable threshold and yes reclaimable process can take a very long time. Sometimes, I was lucky to get even 3 tapes back running thru the night. Also make sure expiration is running. Sung Y. Lee E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Brazner, Bob" <Bob.Brazner@JCI. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] COM> cc: Sent by: "ADSM: Subject: Space reclamation of offsite copy pool takes forever Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> 11/11/2002 05:44 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Reclamation of our offsite copy pool is taking forever. Right now, we have 200+ volumes in that pool. Normally, threshold is set at 60% and I get maybe 8 or 9 volumes returned after processing for 7 hours (on beefy AIX, with TSM at 5.1.5). Lately I've tried setting the threshold at 99, then 98, then 97, etc., but I don't see much improvement in overall freeing up of tapes. It appears that most of the time is taken up with mounting input volumes. Even though we have a 3494, I'd say 80% of the time is spent waiting for tape mounts. Is there any way to get space reclamation to free up offsite tapes faster? Note, for my onsite tape pool, I do not see this problem (e.g., I can easily free up 30 tapes in 5 hours or less). Bob Brazner Johnson Controls, Inc. (414) 524-2570