>> On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:28:00 +1100, Steven Harris <sjhar...@au1.ibm.com> said:

> The easiest reclamation is the one you don't do, so place TDP data
> or archives that will expire in strict time sequence into their own
> storage pools and resist the temptation to reclaim at all.  You may
> need to schedule a once a month reclamation just to clean up odds
> and ends.

What he said.  and the earlier you figure this out, the better.

This hurts even more for offsite reclamation, he said, aching and
aching.  Back up the "big chunks" stgpool to it's own distinct offsite
stgpool, so you minimize moving a 345G file because the tail of it is
on a 20G "volume" which has suddenly become reclaimable.


- Allen S. Rout
- Ow, Ow, Ow.

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