At 02:47 PM 5/9/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Robin,
>
>I do eject "all" tapes every day. I have been keeping an eye on this and
>from what I can tell this is not a true statement, as it relates to my
>environment anyway.
>
>Here is output from the following command; q vol * access=offsite f=d (I
>took only one tape as an example)
>
> Volume Name: U00531
> Storage Pool Name: OFFSITE_POOL
> Device Class Name: 3590CLASS
> Estimated Capacity (MB): 20,000.0
> Pct Util: 0.0
> Volume Status: Filling
> Access: Offsite
> Pct. Reclaimable Space: 100.0
> Scratch Volume?: Yes
> In Error State?: No
> Number of Writable Sides: 1
> Number of Times Mounted: 1
> Write Pass Number: 1
> Approx. Date Last Written: 10/02/00 07:06:32
> Approx. Date Last Read: 10/02/00 07:03:19
> Date Became Pending:
> Number of Write Errors: 0
> Number of Read Errors: 0
> Volume Location: Arcus
>Last Update by (administrator): GEOFF
> Last Update Date/Time: 10/02/00 14:11:57
>
>Q volhist goes all the way back to February and does not show this tape
>number. Unless I'm wrong it looks as though this tape has been in the
>offsite pool since October of last year. Notice the percent util is 0.0. I
>run a schedule that drops the threshhold "upd stg offsite_pool reclaim=60"
>at 3:30PM and back "upd stg offsite_pool reclaim=100" at 7:00PM, every day
>of the week. Why has it taken so long for this volume to be reclaimed. At
>the moment I have 76 filling volumes offsite that I wish would consolidate
>to fewer.
>
>Does anyone else have a similar situation going on? Is my reclamation not
>running long enough?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Geoff Gill
>TSM Administrator
>NT Systems Support Engineer
>SAIC
>E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Have you done "Q CON" on the tape? I have a number offsite that won't
reclaim because they have copies of damaged files on them which are skipped
in the reclamation process. I have to negotiate with the owners whether I
restore the files from offsite or isolate them on a single cartridge and
delete it (they're almost all Netscape cache).
