Re: reclamation no longer working
I had the same problem and offsitereclaimlimit=20 (or whatever you want to limit it to) worked for me. In my particular situation my server is 5.4.1.0 (I know, very old!) running on AIX 5.3 (5300-09-01-0847). I have a few (less than 5-10) tapes at a 99% reclaimable level in my offsite COPYPOOL01 tapes, but about 500 tapes that are 98% reclaimable. If I do NOT specify a offsitereclaimlimit number it seems to process tapes to reclaim at about 3 tapes per minute. So for 500 tapes it just sits there for about 3 HOURS before it even starts mounting tapes to start the reclamation. I stumbled onto how useful this particular option was about 3 or 4 months ago thanks to this forum, before that I didn't have a clue what it was supposed to be used for. Limiting it to 20 tapes lets it actually start mounting tapes and moving files in about 6 or 7 minutes. I also noted that in a recent posting in this forum, IBM has fixed the order in which tapes are reclaimed, and if you specify something like 90%, it will start with 99% first, then 98%, 97%, and so on until it finishes or runs out of time. This solves my biggest gripe about reclamation that I have had. I have two new servers that will soon be in production, and they are running the 6.2 TSM, so they should reclaim much faster. John John M. Ritter Systems Software Specialist Vanderbilt University Medical Center Email: john.rit...@vanderbilt.edu -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 7:46 AM To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: reclamation no longer working I started a reclamation on that pool yesterday afternoon and it sat there for several hours before it finally started moving anything. I guess I got behind doing the reclamation. But that doesn't make any sense because the offsite pool and the onsite pool have the same settings and the same content. Only difference is that one goes off site. I use the same settings when I run reclamation on both pools but I run them at completely different times and the times don't overlap. When I run the onsite copypool script the process starts without delay. The same settings for the offsite copypool takes forever to actually kick off. I guess I'll need to keep a closer eye on things -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 2:17 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working On Thu, 6 May 2010 11:11:34 -0400, Tyree, David david.ty...@sgmc.org said: I've run the threshold up and down from a few percentage points up to 80-90% hoping something would change but no difference. I have plenty of scratch tapes and mount points. Try running one at 99% and _no_ time limit, and expect it to run for days. There's a huge amount of bookkeeping work TSM does at the outset. If you've gotten yourself stuck somewhere, and lots of time has passed, you may have a large backlog. In that case, trying little nibbles is the only way to go. You could also approach this from the -OFFSITERECLAIMLimit--=--number_of_volumes- side, limiting it to just a few at a time. - Allen S. Rout
Re: reclamation no longer working
I'm doing a move data now. Or trying too. The process has been running for about 30 minutes with zero bytes moved. Nothing showing from a q request, nothing showing from a q mount. All drives online and plenty of mount points. Have you tried to use straight command in foreground mode move data volume w=y? What are the results? CONFIDENTIALITY AND WAIVER: The information contained in this electronic mail message and any attachments hereto may be legally privileged and confidential. The information is intended only for the recipient(s) named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that any use, disclosure, copying or distribution is prohibited. If you have received this in error please contact the sender and delete this message and any attachments from your computer system. We do not guarantee that this message or any attachment to it is secure or free from errors, computer viruses or other conditions that may damage or interfere with data, hardware or software. Please consider the environment before printing this Email.
Re: reclamation no longer working
I started a reclamation on that pool yesterday afternoon and it sat there for several hours before it finally started moving anything. I guess I got behind doing the reclamation. But that doesn't make any sense because the offsite pool and the onsite pool have the same settings and the same content. Only difference is that one goes off site. I use the same settings when I run reclamation on both pools but I run them at completely different times and the times don't overlap. When I run the onsite copypool script the process starts without delay. The same settings for the offsite copypool takes forever to actually kick off. I guess I'll need to keep a closer eye on things -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 2:17 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working On Thu, 6 May 2010 11:11:34 -0400, Tyree, David david.ty...@sgmc.org said: I've run the threshold up and down from a few percentage points up to 80-90% hoping something would change but no difference. I have plenty of scratch tapes and mount points. Try running one at 99% and _no_ time limit, and expect it to run for days. There's a huge amount of bookkeeping work TSM does at the outset. If you've gotten yourself stuck somewhere, and lots of time has passed, you may have a large backlog. In that case, trying little nibbles is the only way to go. You could also approach this from the -OFFSITERECLAIMLimit--=--number_of_volumes- side, limiting it to just a few at a time. - Allen S. Rout
Re: reclamation no longer working
Bringing offsite tapes back and reclaiming them onsite is much faster; but, of course, then that data is not offsite. Richard Sims http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ Richard, from time to time I've had to do this. After checking in the tapes and updating them to r/o or r/w TSM doesn't always use them for the source on a 'move data'. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. It acts as if the tapes are not in the library even after I've verified them. Would you know any reason why? TSM 5.5.3 - LTO4 library. Individuals who have received this information in error or are not authorized to receive it must promptly return or dispose of the information and notify the sender. Those individuals are hereby notified that they are strictly prohibited from reviewing, forwarding, printing, copying, distributing or using this information in any way.
Re: reclamation no longer working
On May 7, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Johnny Lea wrote: Bringing offsite tapes back and reclaiming them onsite is much faster; but, of course, then that data is not offsite. Richard Sims http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ Richard, from time to time I've had to do this. After checking in the tapes and updating them to r/o or r/w TSM doesn't always use them for the source on a 'move data'. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. It acts as if the tapes are not in the library even after I've verified them. Would you know any reason why? In most of the cases I've examined, it is because the now-onsite tape begins with a segmented Physical File which is continued from a tape which is not available (e.g., marked Offsite), where the reclamation then runs with primary storage pool tapes only as it starts by copying the entirety of that first Physical File - which takes more time. A few cases have remained mysterious. Richard Simsat Boston University
reclamation no longer working
TSM server 5.4.1.0 running on Windows 2003. I have an offsite copypool that has decided to no longer do reclamation. I noticed that I had far more tapes in that pool that I would have expected. I checked the pct_utilized numbers and saw that the tapes varied from 99% down to just 5-6% utilized. When I manually run the reclamation process and then do q process I see that I have the right number of processes that start up. But the status never changes from showing zero moved files. It just sits there like it's thinking about it but never mounts anything. It runs for the duration I set then closes out. I also moved the duration back and forth from a few minutes to a couple of hours and that didn't help either. I've run the threshold up and down from a few percentage points up to 80-90% hoping something would change but no difference. I have plenty of scratch tapes and mount points. I have another onsite tapepool that is identical. But it will do reclamation just fine. Just for the heck of it I created a new offsite tapepool using essentially the same settings as the old pool and it's appears to run reclamations just fine. Nothing has been changed in the settings for the offsite copypool and the onsite copypool either. David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 Confidential Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
Re: reclamation no longer working
When you query the process or mounts does it state that it is waiting on a volume (input or output)? It is possible that one of them is unavailable, and/or mounted by another process. Thank you, ~Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:12 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working TSM server 5.4.1.0 running on Windows 2003. I have an offsite copypool that has decided to no longer do reclamation. I noticed that I had far more tapes in that pool that I would have expected. I checked the pct_utilized numbers and saw that the tapes varied from 99% down to just 5-6% utilized. When I manually run the reclamation process and then do q process I see that I have the right number of processes that start up. But the status never changes from showing zero moved files. It just sits there like it's thinking about it but never mounts anything. It runs for the duration I set then closes out. I also moved the duration back and forth from a few minutes to a couple of hours and that didn't help either. I've run the threshold up and down from a few percentage points up to 80-90% hoping something would change but no difference. I have plenty of scratch tapes and mount points. I have another onsite tapepool that is identical. But it will do reclamation just fine. Just for the heck of it I created a new offsite tapepool using essentially the same settings as the old pool and it's appears to run reclamations just fine. Nothing has been changed in the settings for the offsite copypool and the onsite copypool either. David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 Confidential Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
Re: reclamation no longer working
I recomend you do a move data with 99% tapes. Regards Jorge Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 11:11:34 -0400 From: david.ty...@sgmc.org Subject: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU TSM server 5.4.1.0 running on Windows 2003. I have an offsite copypool that has decided to no longer do reclamation. I noticed that I had far more tapes in that pool that I would have expected. I checked the pct_utilized numbers and saw that the tapes varied from 99% down to just 5-6% utilized. When I manually run the reclamation process and then do q process I see that I have the right number of processes that start up. But the status never changes from showing zero moved files. It just sits there like it's thinking about it but never mounts anything. It runs for the duration I set then closes out. I also moved the duration back and forth from a few minutes to a couple of hours and that didn't help either. I've run the threshold up and down from a few percentage points up to 80-90% hoping something would change but no difference. I have plenty of scratch tapes and mount points. I have another onsite tapepool that is identical. But it will do reclamation just fine. Just for the heck of it I created a new offsite tapepool using essentially the same settings as the old pool and it's appears to run reclamations just fine. Nothing has been changed in the settings for the offsite copypool and the onsite copypool either. David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 Confidential Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. _ Diseñar aplicaciones tiene premio. ¡Si eres desarrollador no esperes más! http://www.imaginemobile.es
Re: reclamation no longer working
Not necessarily related to the problem, but 5.4.5 includes a change to the way the TSM serrver selects which offsite volumes to reclaim: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC57009 [RC] From: Tyree, David david.ty...@sgmc.org To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 05/06/2010 08:12 AM Subject: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU TSM server 5.4.1.0 running on Windows 2003. I have an offsite copypool that has decided to no longer do reclamation. I noticed that I had far more tapes in that pool that I would have expected. I checked the pct_utilized numbers and saw that the tapes varied from 99% down to just 5-6% utilized. When I manually run the reclamation process and then do q process I see that I have the right number of processes that start up. But the status never changes from showing zero moved files. It just sits there like it's thinking about it but never mounts anything. It runs for the duration I set then closes out. I also moved the duration back and forth from a few minutes to a couple of hours and that didn't help either. I've run the threshold up and down from a few percentage points up to 80-90% hoping something would change but no difference. I have plenty of scratch tapes and mount points. I have another onsite tapepool that is identical. But it will do reclamation just fine. Just for the heck of it I created a new offsite tapepool using essentially the same settings as the old pool and it's appears to run reclamations just fine. Nothing has been changed in the settings for the offsite copypool and the onsite copypool either. David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 Confidential Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. U.S. BANCORP made the following annotations - Electronic Privacy Notice. This e-mail, and any attachments, contains information that is, or may be, covered by electronic communications privacy laws, and is also confidential and proprietary in nature. If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that you are legally prohibited from retaining, using, copying, distributing, or otherwise disclosing this information in any manner. Instead, please reply to the sender that you have received this communication in error, and then immediately delete it. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. -
Re: reclamation no longer working
Nope, no mention of waiting on a tape and/or volume -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Adamson Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:29 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working When you query the process or mounts does it state that it is waiting on a volume (input or output)? It is possible that one of them is unavailable, and/or mounted by another process. Thank you, ~Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:12 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working TSM server 5.4.1.0 running on Windows 2003. I have an offsite copypool that has decided to no longer do reclamation. I noticed that I had far more tapes in that pool that I would have expected. I checked the pct_utilized numbers and saw that the tapes varied from 99% down to just 5-6% utilized. When I manually run the reclamation process and then do q process I see that I have the right number of processes that start up. But the status never changes from showing zero moved files. It just sits there like it's thinking about it but never mounts anything. It runs for the duration I set then closes out. I also moved the duration back and forth from a few minutes to a couple of hours and that didn't help either. I've run the threshold up and down from a few percentage points up to 80-90% hoping something would change but no difference. I have plenty of scratch tapes and mount points. I have another onsite tapepool that is identical. But it will do reclamation just fine. Just for the heck of it I created a new offsite tapepool using essentially the same settings as the old pool and it's appears to run reclamations just fine. Nothing has been changed in the settings for the offsite copypool and the onsite copypool either. David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 Confidential Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
Re: reclamation no longer working
David, Seeing as there have been many, many, fixes since you release I would consider an upgrade to at least the most recent version of 5.4 As a matter of fact a couple of the 5.4.1.1 apars were reclamation related. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21273797 Thank you, ~Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 1:02 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working Nope, no mention of waiting on a tape and/or volume -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Adamson Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:29 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working When you query the process or mounts does it state that it is waiting on a volume (input or output)? It is possible that one of them is unavailable, and/or mounted by another process. Thank you, ~Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:12 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working TSM server 5.4.1.0 running on Windows 2003. I have an offsite copypool that has decided to no longer do reclamation. I noticed that I had far more tapes in that pool that I would have expected. I checked the pct_utilized numbers and saw that the tapes varied from 99% down to just 5-6% utilized. When I manually run the reclamation process and then do q process I see that I have the right number of processes that start up. But the status never changes from showing zero moved files. It just sits there like it's thinking about it but never mounts anything. It runs for the duration I set then closes out. I also moved the duration back and forth from a few minutes to a couple of hours and that didn't help either. I've run the threshold up and down from a few percentage points up to 80-90% hoping something would change but no difference. I have plenty of scratch tapes and mount points. I have another onsite tapepool that is identical. But it will do reclamation just fine. Just for the heck of it I created a new offsite tapepool using essentially the same settings as the old pool and it's appears to run reclamations just fine. Nothing has been changed in the settings for the offsite copypool and the onsite copypool either. David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 Confidential Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
Re: reclamation no longer working
It's on the calender -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Adamson Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 1:20 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working David, Seeing as there have been many, many, fixes since you release I would consider an upgrade to at least the most recent version of 5.4 As a matter of fact a couple of the 5.4.1.1 apars were reclamation related. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21273797 Thank you, ~Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 1:02 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working Nope, no mention of waiting on a tape and/or volume -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Adamson Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:29 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working When you query the process or mounts does it state that it is waiting on a volume (input or output)? It is possible that one of them is unavailable, and/or mounted by another process. Thank you, ~Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:12 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working TSM server 5.4.1.0 running on Windows 2003. I have an offsite copypool that has decided to no longer do reclamation. I noticed that I had far more tapes in that pool that I would have expected. I checked the pct_utilized numbers and saw that the tapes varied from 99% down to just 5-6% utilized. When I manually run the reclamation process and then do q process I see that I have the right number of processes that start up. But the status never changes from showing zero moved files. It just sits there like it's thinking about it but never mounts anything. It runs for the duration I set then closes out. I also moved the duration back and forth from a few minutes to a couple of hours and that didn't help either. I've run the threshold up and down from a few percentage points up to 80-90% hoping something would change but no difference. I have plenty of scratch tapes and mount points. I have another onsite tapepool that is identical. But it will do reclamation just fine. Just for the heck of it I created a new offsite tapepool using essentially the same settings as the old pool and it's appears to run reclamations just fine. Nothing has been changed in the settings for the offsite copypool and the onsite copypool either. David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 Confidential Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
Re: reclamation no longer working
I'm doing a move data now. Or trying too. The process has been running for about 30 minutes with zero bytes moved. Nothing showing from a q request, nothing showing from a q mount. All drives online and plenty of mount points. I would expect it to mount a scratch tape and start moving data primary pool to the tape. I guess I'll go ahead and do the update to version 5.5.x sooner than I planned.. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Jorge Amil Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:59 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working I recomend you do a move data with 99% tapes. Regards Jorge Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 11:11:34 -0400 From: david.ty...@sgmc.org Subject: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU TSM server 5.4.1.0 running on Windows 2003. I have an offsite copypool that has decided to no longer do reclamation. I noticed that I had far more tapes in that pool that I would have expected. I checked the pct_utilized numbers and saw that the tapes varied from 99% down to just 5-6% utilized. When I manually run the reclamation process and then do q process I see that I have the right number of processes that start up. But the status never changes from showing zero moved files. It just sits there like it's thinking about it but never mounts anything. It runs for the duration I set then closes out. I also moved the duration back and forth from a few minutes to a couple of hours and that didn't help either. I've run the threshold up and down from a few percentage points up to 80-90% hoping something would change but no difference. I have plenty of scratch tapes and mount points. I have another onsite tapepool that is identical. But it will do reclamation just fine. Just for the heck of it I created a new offsite tapepool using essentially the same settings as the old pool and it's appears to run reclamations just fine. Nothing has been changed in the settings for the offsite copypool and the onsite copypool either. David Tyree Interface Analyst South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 Confidential Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. _ Diseñar aplicaciones tiene premio. ¡Si eres desarrollador no esperes más! http://www.imaginemobile.es
Re: reclamation no longer working
On May 6, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Tyree, David wrote: I'm doing a move data now. Or trying too. The process has been running for about 30 minutes with zero bytes moved. Nothing showing from a q request, nothing showing from a q mount. All drives online and plenty of mount points. I would expect it to mount a scratch tape and start moving data primary pool to the tape. In my experience, that is a manifestation of the TSM server running through the database (you should see a lot of disk activity there) compiling a list of all the onsite tapes necessary to represent all the files on the offsite tape which is to be reclaimed. Eventually, this would result in a list of such onsite volumes, in ANR1157I messages - if all goes well. The higher the capacity of the offsite tape, and the more remaining unexpired data on it, the longer this can take. Watch for the conclusion of the Move Data in the Activity Log, one way or the other; and check for abnormalities reflected in that log during the discovery process. There may be some database problems or unavailable onsite tapes thwarting this process. Bringing offsite tapes back and reclaiming them onsite is much faster; but, of course, then that data is not offsite. Richard Sims http://people.bu.edu/rbs/
Re: reclamation no longer working
On Thu, 6 May 2010 11:11:34 -0400, Tyree, David david.ty...@sgmc.org said: I've run the threshold up and down from a few percentage points up to 80-90% hoping something would change but no difference. I have plenty of scratch tapes and mount points. Try running one at 99% and _no_ time limit, and expect it to run for days. There's a huge amount of bookkeeping work TSM does at the outset. If you've gotten yourself stuck somewhere, and lots of time has passed, you may have a large backlog. In that case, trying little nibbles is the only way to go. You could also approach this from the -OFFSITERECLAIMLimit--=--number_of_volumes- side, limiting it to just a few at a time. - Allen S. Rout
Re: reclamation no longer working
After about an hour of waiting the move data finally got rolling. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 2:12 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation no longer working On May 6, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Tyree, David wrote: I'm doing a move data now. Or trying too. The process has been running for about 30 minutes with zero bytes moved. Nothing showing from a q request, nothing showing from a q mount. All drives online and plenty of mount points. I would expect it to mount a scratch tape and start moving data primary pool to the tape. In my experience, that is a manifestation of the TSM server running through the database (you should see a lot of disk activity there) compiling a list of all the onsite tapes necessary to represent all the files on the offsite tape which is to be reclaimed. Eventually, this would result in a list of such onsite volumes, in ANR1157I messages - if all goes well. The higher the capacity of the offsite tape, and the more remaining unexpired data on it, the longer this can take. Watch for the conclusion of the Move Data in the Activity Log, one way or the other; and check for abnormalities reflected in that log during the discovery process. There may be some database problems or unavailable onsite tapes thwarting this process. Bringing offsite tapes back and reclaiming them onsite is much faster; but, of course, then that data is not offsite. Richard Sims http://people.bu.edu/rbs/
