Are you running reclamation?
Try "upd stgp xxx recl=95". (long-term, use 60, not 95, but for now, that
will tell TSM to copy-and-reclaim only tapes 5% used or less - much faster
than
copying a tape that's 40% used.)
You should see a reclamation process kick off within a minute - it'll want
two tape drives.
You should do this on your copypool (ie your offsite pool) as well as your
on-site tape pool, but do the on-site pool first if you're low on tapes -
it'll be faster than waiting for the vault peple to send 'em back...
Good luck..
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
MC Matt Cooper (2838)
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 10:03 AM
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
