Well I think I found something big. It does not explain everything I see
but it is definitely more than half. The first set of servers that we were
working with were DB2 database stuff. I have been told that when using the
DB2 API that DB2 ignores/overrides the copygroup parameters and everything
is saved until the DB2 API is run to delete it. I was told by the DB2 guys
that they thought they had this process running and they just forgot to tell
me about it. Well it did not run. So I had them run it, on all there DB2
data bases on all there AIX nodes. I will have to wait till tomorrow after
we run EXPIRATION processing, see what is not in a PENDING status, and
re-evaluate this whole process. I may just wait till monday to get any
easier view of what the whole old tape scene look like.
I have found 2 'test' nodes and 1 node that has changed names with a
hardware change (not a good idea). I am sure there is some 'ONLY COPY'
files associated with them. IF I still have problems I will restate this
topic.
Thanks everyone for your help
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Paschal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 12:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: very few tapes expiring
Can we get some Q STG F=D, Q SCHED T=A, Q VOL F=D, Q DEVC, and Q DRM output
for some effected tapes and tape pools?
Alex
-----Original Message-----
From: MC Matt Cooper (2838) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 8:47 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: very few tapes expiring
The media access is eather read/write, offsite, and a few pending that are
on there way back. It is not a situation where nothing is cleaning up. It
just seams like at half of the tapes that were cut 4 months agao are still
out there. THe tape management people say that there are only a few coming
back. All the DB backups seem to cycle fine and some of the other one do
also. But not all....
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Cyril Todorov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 10:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: very few tapes expiring
Hello, did you check that the media access status is "readwrite" or it is
"unavailable?
Cyril Todorov
System Administrator
BULBANK AD
7 Sv. Nedelya Sq. Sofia1000 Bulgaria
tel.: +359 2 98412662
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: MC Matt Cooper (2838) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 17:03
> 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
>
