Re: Copypool storage advice

2011-04-12 Thread Paul_Dudley
I believe I have found the problem. The maximum number of scratch volumes allowed was set to 40 and it had reached this limit which was causing the reclaimation process to fail. I have increased the maximum number of scratch volumes allowed and restarted the reclaimation process. Thanks & Regar

Re: Copypool storage advice

2011-04-10 Thread Nick Laflamme
It's been a while since I've worked much with off-site copypools, but my next suggestion is to work with DRMedia. Do you have some volumes (that have been reclaimed) in VAULTRETRIEVE status? I don't remember how they show up in your volume list (I half expect 'EMPTY' status, but as I said, it's

Re: Copypool storage advice

2011-04-10 Thread Paul_Dudley
Collocation for the storage pool is set to "none". No I am not using the "du=" parameter on the reclaim commands. I check the log and they do finish successfully. They are a mixture of "full" and "filling" tapes. They are all set as "offsite". Thanks & Regards Paul > > > I currently have a lot

Re: Copypool storage advice

2011-04-08 Thread Nick Laflamme
On Apr 7, 2011, at 11:07 PM, Paul_Dudley wrote: > I currently have a lot of copypool storage tapes which are between 50 - 60% > utilization. Expiration runs daily and I run reclaimation daily on this > copypool, set to 50. > > Is there anything I can do to try and consolidate the data onto fewe

Ang: Re: Ang: Copypool storage advice

2011-04-07 Thread Daniel Sparrman
av: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Datum: 04/08/2011 08:06 Ärende: Re: Ang: Copypool storage advice The copypool is on LTO3 tapes. They are not database backups just incremental server backups Thanks & Regards Paul > -Original Message- > > It would be helpful to know wh

Re: Ang: Copypool storage advice

2011-04-07 Thread Paul_Dudley
The copypool is on LTO3 tapes. They are not database backups just incremental server backups Thanks & Regards Paul > -Original Message- > > It would be helpful to know what kind of the tape technology you're using > since the > reclamation threshold % is usually based off which technol

Ang: Copypool storage advice

2011-04-07 Thread Daniel Sparrman
lication servers for example) is one way to go, using collocation is another. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman -"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" skrev: - Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Från: Paul_Dudley Sänt av: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Datum: 04/08/2011 06:07 Ärende: Copypoo

Copypool storage advice

2011-04-07 Thread Paul_Dudley
I currently have a lot of copypool storage tapes which are between 50 - 60% utilization. Expiration runs daily and I run reclaimation daily on this copypool, set to 50. Is there anything I can do to try and consolidate the data onto fewer copypool tapes? Thanks & Regards Paul Paul Dudley