Well, now that you ask I did have a problem a couple of days ago where there were no scratch volumes. I rectified that.
I also found that these three volumes were in the "unavailable" status (Not sure why). I put them back into RW status and ran a reclamation again today (60 percent reclamation level). For good measure, I ran an "expire inventory" after the reclamation finished. The volumes are still showing the low usage. Rgds John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Conko, Steven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 4:25 PM Subject: Re: Many, almost empty volumes ?? > i know this is a stupid question, but here goes... > > what is your reclamation threshold set to for that storage pool? are there > other tapes available to reclaim to? > > -----Original Message----- > From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 11:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Many, almost empty volumes ?? > > > Hi TSM'rs > > I am sure someone has had this before.. > > TSM Server 4.2 (Windows 2000) connected to a SAN based 18 slot LTO 3583. > > The total amount of storage is around 60GB which means there should never > really be more that two, or at worst three tapes in the offsite pool. I have > five. These are data tapes, not DBBackup tapes. > > Even after doing reclamation of the offsite pool the three tapes in question > remain offsite and remain at 0.5, 2.1, 0.6 percent used. > > Is this normal. I was under the impression that reclamation is supposed to > avoid this. > > Would appreciate any thoughts on this > > Rgds > John
