As Ted Byrne stated, a state of UNAVAILABLE does not equate to bad data/tapes. It means that when TSM called for that tape to be mounted, it couldn't be mounted. Either the tape was ejected from the library and the status not changed, or someone played musical slots and moved things around.
I would first do an AUDIT LIBRARY to make sure that what TSM thinks is where in the library is actually there in the library. Then I would make sure that the TAPEPOOL tapes that are marked UNAVAILABLE are in the library. If so, then just update them to ACC=READW and keep on going. If they are not in the library, then you need to find them and get them in the library. You also may want to do a CHECKIN LIBV <library> SEARCH=YES to make sure that there aren't any tapes IN the library, but not checked in to TSM. If you still can't find a TAPEPOOL tape, then you'll need to do a RESTORE VOLUME to re-create it from the OFFPOOL copy. Once you've gotten all your TAPEPOOL tapes checked in and available your reclamation should complete. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. "I saw screens of green, red messages too, then came blue, shubidu And i think to myself, what a wonderful world" - ?? -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Etienne Brodeur Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 11:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: No match found... Hi Stephan, You should not have tapes in OFFPOOL that are unavailable and especially not in TAPEPOOL! That means the tapes containing your data that needs to be reclaimed is not available to TSM, since those volumes are unavailable. If you check your activty log you'll see messages saying 'Volume XXXX required for space reclamation. Volume is unavailable' Those tapes probably have write errors which is why they are unavaible. You should check those 'TAPEPOOL' volumes to be sure they are in the library and maybe set them to READONLY and then run an audit on them to see if there really are damaged files there. Etienne Brodeur Serti Informatique Stephan Dinelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/13/2004 10:24 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: No match found... Here is the result of the Q VOL ACC=UNAVAIL command Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 4, Release 2, Level 1.0 ANS8000I Server command: 'q vol acc=unavail' Volume Name Storage Device Estimated Pct Volume Pool Name Class Name Capacity Util Status (MB) ------------------------ ----------- ---------- --------- ----- -------- 099ACYL1 ARCHIVEPOOL LTOCLASS 141,962.7 100.0 Full 101ACYL1 OFFPOOL LTOCLASSO- 190,734.0 4.4 Filling FF 104ACYL1 OFFPOOL LTOCLASSO- 190,734.0 1.1 Filling FF 139ACYL1 TAPEPOOL LTOCLASS 190,734.0 0.7 Filling 142ACYL1 TAPEPOOL LTOCLASS 162,534.4 5.7 Full 147ACYL1 TAPEPOOL LTOCLASS 190,734.0 0.4 Filling 162ACYL1 OFFPOOL LTOCLASSO- 190,734.0 18.2 Filling FF 175ACYL1 ARCHIVESPE- LTOCLASS 190,734.0 6.4 Filling CIAL ANS8002I Highest return code was 0. Bill Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2004-04-13 10:06 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: No match found... Are you reclamation tasks completing successfully? Also, did anyone change the reuse delay of the OFFPOOL storage pool? Are the tapes in a PENDING state? I would check to make sure your reclamation tasks are running to completion. Maybe check to see if you have any onsite tapes that are unavailable? Q VOL ACC=UNAVAIL. That would explain why reclamation wasn't completing. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephan Dinelle Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 9:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: No match found... Hi, It will be almost 2 weeks now that our TSM server (version 5, release 1, Level 6.4 for Windows) do not retrieving any "storage=offpool, access=offsite"... We normally had an average of 1 to 2 tapes every day that were returning from the offsite storage. Here is the command: q vol stg=offpool access=offsite status=empty Nothing was changed or modified for the last 6 months. Any clue(s) where to check and what to check? N.B. IBM Tape library 3583 Thanks
