Hello Farren.
As others have said, and I cannot agree more, yes you can do this but it
gets ugly.....real quick!
Tape reclamation is the area which I find suffers the most, particularly
for copypool reclamation. How much depends greatly on your mgmtclass
parms for version limits, expiration, and of course how quickly your data
changes. In one case I found out that a dozen tapes had been ejected at
one of our other offices such that it was preventing offsite reclamation.
Checking those tapes back in allowed 60 offsite tapes to be reclaimed and
returned. YMMV.
-Al
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Hi TSMers
I am looking at what to do in the next year or so when our tape library
becomes full. Baring in mind that we don't do much in the way of restores
(most backups are for DR), is it feasible to remove tapes from the library
and just keep them on site in case they are requested for a restore,
reclamation etc. Does anyone out there do this kind of thing and how does
it work for you?
Thanks all
Farren Minns - John Wiley & Sons Ltd
