Hi, When you start reclamation it begins a process and decides which tapes it is going to reclaim based on the value given. These tapes can be seen in the activity log of the server. It will continue to reclaim until it has reclaimed all of the tapes in the list or you cancel the reclamation process.
I have seen similar behavior in the migration process as well. If you set a storage pool to migrate (ie. By setting high=0 and low=0) then it will empty it out. If you subsequently reset the values (and the storage pool is now above the low value and below the high value) it will continue to migrate all of the data out. The migration_stop is there to set up the storage pools for the next day's backup. The reclamation stop doesn't seem to be terribly useful. I set my storage pools to a decent value all of the time (something like rec=90). Then on weekends (usually Friday afternoon) I set it to something deeper (currently rec=75 especially for the storage pools on the remote server). Michael Wheelock Integris Health -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 8:18 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: strange reclaimation behavor I have something strange going on with my reclaimations. I have the system issue a command in the afternoons to start reclaiming tapes by dropping the levels to 60%. I then have it issue another command around midnight to raise the levels back to 100%. When I get here in the morning I will usally find that reclaiming is still going on. I have verified that the stop_reclaim scripts are actually running by looking at the actlog for the time period involved. I end up doing a cancel process to get it to stop. I could understand it still running if it was in the middle of a 50-60 gig file but it's only moving small (several meg) files. It's had about eight hours to stop on it's own. I would have thought it would have found an opertunity to stop after eight hours. The contents of all of the scripts involved are correct. I have one starting the tapepool and another to start the copypool and another couple to raise the level back up. I alternate different pools each night. Any ideas here? I'm running 5.2.2 on a Win2k server with 4 LTO2 drives in a PV136T library. David Tyree Enterprise Backup Administrator South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 Confidential Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ************************************************************************************************** This e-mail may contain identifiable health information that is subject to protection under state and federal law. This information is intended to be for the use of the individual named above. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be punishable by law. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please notify us immediately by electronic mail (reply). **************************************************************************************************
