==> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:05:16 -0500, "David E Ehresman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> My understanding is that reclamation only reclaims Filling tapes if they > are marked offsite. I want to reclaim those volumes. Ahh, agreed. I'm doing this too, so I concur that we'd not want to forbid reclamation of filling's. > I also send 100-120 tapes offsite each day. If I did not bring about that > many back each day, I'd soon run out of both tapes and offsite storage > space. That is another reason I need to reclaim those offsite filling > tapes. That's a -lot- of traffic. I don't collocate my offsite pool. How many volumes total do you have in your copy pools? > Now my pet peeve about reclaiming collocated tapes is that they are single > threaded within a storagepool. SInce they are collocated, I should be able > to reclaim multiple tapes at a time without having different reclaims using > the same input tape. I get around this problem by "reclaiming" my offsite > tapes using a script that generates 'MOVE DATA' statements for the offsite > tapes I want to reclaim. If you really want to not reclaim Filling tapes, > you could do a similar thing. I think 5.3 handles the single-threaded problem. I've considered recasting my reclamation in this way. I'd prefer that someone at IBM write code to make my life easier. ;) - Allen S. Rout
