> Hello, do you mean tapes for copy stgp ? Do you run Reclamations ?
>
> René Lambelet
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MC Matt Cooper (2838) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 11. April 2001 16:03
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: very few tapes expiring
>
> Hello all,
> I am running TSM 4.1.3 (just upgraded from 4.1.1) on OS390
> 2.7. We
> have been up and running for about 5 months now and the tape people
> (who
> initially said tapes were returning from offsite) have told me that
> not to
> many tapes return from offsite. So I start looking at things. We
> have
> NETWARE, NT, AIX, SUN UNIX, DB2, SQL, ORACLE, and MS-EXchange
> servers + 100
> desktops.
> I see that I have a lot of tapes that are still in use all the way
> back to
> when we were just testing things out 5 months ago.
> I can also see that the expiration process is running daily ( and
> not to
> the 3 hr limit).
> I can see that the tapes all have various amounts of reclaimable %
> of space
> on them, some all the way to 100%, but even though I see this from
> running
> Q VOL xxxxxx that when I run Q CONTENT xxxxx COUNT=100 that there
> are some
> files there.
> I know that the copygroups have been changed around, but they
> always had
> either VERSIONS DATA EXISTS < 45 or RETAIN EXTRA VERSIONS < 45.
> RETAIN
> ONLY VERSION is 60, everywhere.
> I know that I update the copy groups and activate the policysets
> every
> weekend to change the COPYMODE to/from ABSOLUTE/INCREMENTAL to force
> weekend
> fulls. (this shouldn't matter?)
> I see some NETWARE, AIX, DB2 files on these tapes that are 4 months
> old.
> I am at a loss as to what is wrong or what I am to new to know.
> Anybody
> have an idea as to where I should look or what I am not doing?
> many thanks
> Matt
