To all.... Thanks for all of your GREAT suggestions!!
I have been having good success with Bill's suggestion... Basically this is what I do: After expiration and migration is finished: Change the "MOUNTWAIT" on the devclass to "1" Change all of the tapes on the overflow shelf to status of "readw" Run reclamation for about two hours without intervention. Stop reclamation and search the act log for all "unavailable" tapes. Change the status of these tapes to "readw" Check these tapes into the library Change the "MOUNTWAIT" on the devclass back to normal Restart reclamation (Of course, I control all of this through scripts) This has reduced my manual insertion times from about 20/day to about 3/day What a difference! Thanks again! DaveZ Bill Dourado <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU TEC.COM> cc: Sent by: "ADSM: Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation tape predicting Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> 06/07/2005 11:22 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Few years back I was in a similar suitation. I had 300 online tapes but only 60 slots. I first of all made sure that I only would perform restores ! I left all the online tapes that couldn't be housed in the library as "available" close by. They were mostly "full" and "readonly." When I needed to do reclamation I used to set mountwait to 1 minute, so that after one minute if tape was available reclamtation would end. UPDATE DEVCLASS device-class_name MOUNTWAIT=1 UPDATE STG COPYTAPEPOOL RECLAIM=60 Ran reclamtion for a while, say 30 mins, and ended up with a list of tapes required, from the activity log. UPDATE STG COPYTAPEPOOL RECLAIM=100 I then checked in the tapes made them available and repeated reclamation. I similarly ran large restores, with restores always remembering to update mountwait to 60 or even longer, after the first trial run . Bill Matthew Large <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> 07/06/2005 15:03 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc: Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation tape predicting Same situation here, but we have 120 tapes in our 60 slot 3583. When space reclamation runs, it fails everyday, so they take a list of tapes TSM asked for, get them off the shelf, and check them all in. I think this was asked a very long time ago, and there was no real answer - you'll have to run it to acquire a list of required volumes. ..unless there IS in fact a way of determining these volumes.. It would be great to hear it. Matthew Dave Zarnoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> 07/06/2005 14:55 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject [ADSM-L] reclamation tape predicting Oh mighty gurus..... We have had to relocate some of our tapes to an "overflow location" because of our silo capacity. I basically mark them as "unavailable" and "shelf". When reclamation starts, I redefine some of the tapes to "readw" and wait to see if TSM calls for them. I then have to physically insert them into the silo for each request. Is there anyway to query TSM to generate a list of tapes that it will require for reclamation? That way, I can redefine just those tapes and load them all at once into the library. Thanks! DaveZ Aviva plc Registered Office: St. Helen's, 1 Undershaft, London EC3P 3DQ Registered in England Number 02468686 www.aviva.com This message and any attachments are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please telephone or e-mail the sender and delete this message and any attachment from your system. Also, if you are not the intended recipient you must not copy this message or attachment or disclose the contents to any other person.