I guess your reclaiming tapes from an offsite pool. Do you run a select statement first? Query which tapes you'll need to reclaim from a certain percentage of reclaimable space.
something like... select volume_name from volumes where stgpool_name='POOLNAME' and pct_reclaim>=60 then check all the tapes into the library once onsite and kick off reclaim on that stgpool. Marc. "Karen Mikacenic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16-Jan-2002 19:17 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ADSM-L cc: Subject: Tape Reclamation When a tape reclamation starts for tape 000025, the volume is mounted into the drive, but ADSM also requests the mounting of tape 000020 which is not in the library (manually marked unavailable). It is extremely difficult to reclaim tapes without knowing what tapes are associated to each other. I think this is happening when a file is written across tapes. Is there a easy way to know what tapes are needed to reclaim one tape? I would prefer if there was not a spanning/association across tapes so that when tape 000025 was reclaimable, it could be reclaimed without requiring tape 000020. A lot of tapes do not get reclaimed because of this. Does everyone have this problem or is it something peculiar to me. I run ADSM Server for Windows NT Version 3 Release 1 Level 2.30 on NT 4.0 SP4. Here is the activity log: 01/16/2002 05:00:26 ANR0984I Process 814 for SPACE RECLAMATION started in the BACKGROUND at 05:00:26. 01/16/2002 05:00:26 ANR1040I Space reclamation started for volume 000025, storage pool BKTAPPOOL (process number 814). 01/16/2002 05:00:26 ANR1044I Removable volume 000020 is required for space reclamation. 01/16/2002 05:00:26 ANR1044I Removable volume 000025 is required for space reclamation. 01/16/2002 05:00:26 ANR8324I DLT volume 000020 is expected to be mounted (R/O). 01/16/2002 05:00:26 ANR8324I DLT volume 000025 is expected to be mounted (R/O). 01/16/2002 07:55:22 ANR1420W Read access denied for volume 000020 - volume access mode = "unavailable". 01/16/2002 07:55:22 ANR0986I Process 814 for SPACE RECLAMATION running in the BACKGROUND processed 44399 items for a total of 18,477,974,075 bytes with a completion state of FAILURE at 07:55:22. 01/16/2002 07:55:22 ANR1081W Space reclamation terminated for volume 000025 - storage media inaccessible. The tapes look like this: Volume Name 000025 Storage Pool Name BKTAPPOOL Device Class Name DLT7000 Estimated Capacity (MB) 106160.8 Pct Util 22.2 Volume Status FULL Access READWRITE Pct. Reclaimable Space 78.0 Scratch Volume? Yes In Error State? No Approx. Date Last Written 2002-01-08 21:43:28.000000 Approx. Date Last Read 2002-01-16 07:00:54.000000 Last Update Date/Time 2002-01-07 21:24:10.000000 Volume Name 000020 Storage Pool Name BKTAPPOOL Device Class Name DLT7000 Estimated Capacity (MB) 76014.9 Pct Util 97.5 Volume Status FULL Access UNAVAILABLE Pct. Reclaimable Space 2.4 Scratch Volume? Yes In Error State? No Number of Writable Sides 1 Number of Times Mounted 9 Write Pass Number 1 Approx. Date Last Written 2002-01-08 05:32:02.000000 Approx. Date Last Read 2002-01-07 12:52:12.000000 I would appreciate any suggestions. Thank you Karen Mikacenic -TSG 425 945 5137 425 562 5257 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unigard Insurance 15805 NE 24th St. Bellevue, WA 98008