reclamation

In a situation where reclamation will not run because there is literally no space left in any pool, how do I get the reclaimable space back from volumes that have reclaimable space? Is there a way I can manually delete expired data from a volume directly? Thomas Taylor System Administrator

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Can you provide some space in a DISK or FILE pool, and then set RECLAIMSTGPOOL for the pool that's completely out of space? That will allow reclamation to use space emporarily in the referenced pool. On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:33:04AM -0400, Tom Taylor wrote: > In a situation where reclamation wil

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No, that is my problem. I am in kind of a tight spot and we have had numerous Admins leave recently all at once. TSM server has not been attended to lately as it should and has gotten out of hand... so no there is literally NO disk or tape space anywhere that I can temporarily use There would b

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Hmm, this is a tricky situation. The only way you can use delete without reclamation is to free up entire volumes - just deleting files or filespaces are likely to free up partial volumes, but without reclamation there's no way to take advantage of that. Another option would be buying some more sc

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Tom, When we run into this problem, I'll run the following command after doing a q vol > "c:/vols.txt", opening it into excel and for the tapes that have less than 50% reclaimable I'll run the move data command (see below) MOVE DATA "Volume_name" STGPOOL="Stroage_pool" WAIT=NO RECONSTRUCT=YES

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This depends on having some scratch/filling volumes available, though. Based on what Tom said, there is no space at all available in any pool. The first step needs to be to get some scratch tapes available, then RECLAIM/MOVE can be a viable option. On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 03:58:56PM +, Leonard

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Being that tight, I would suggest you do not look at reclaimation, think move data. That way you can pick a volume, and move it to reclaim the space, then build on that until there is enough space to let reclaimation take over. Reclaim sometimes is not as predictable as you would like. Also c

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Actually doing the Move data command doesn't require any scratch tapes at all. Have done it a ton of times as we run out of scratch/space all of the time. It's a never ending battle here!! Regards, Matthew J. Leonard Network Infrastructure Administrator IT Network Operations AtlasAir, Inc. ma

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It can also use filling volumes, but it can't use empty space on full volumes without reclamation. If there are a bunch of almost-empty full volumes, though, even one scratch tape could free up a bunch more scratch volumes using MOVE or RECLAIM. On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 04:20:17PM +, Leonard, M

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By extension, a logical question: Has Expiration been running? (In a neglected TSM server, it might not be, and getting that going could free a bunch of space.) If Expiration has been running, a recourse is to go looking for obsolete nodes and filespaces to dispose of. If your system has USB, y

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If you have a 'filling volume' you can move data from a tape that needs to be reclaimed (with very little data) hence freeing up a new volume. Of course, you may need to adjust reuse delay to get this back as scratch immediately. --- David Nixon S

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One more thing to consider is you can move some tapes out of the library by using "move media" command. Lets say that you had a bunch at a 100% capacity that does require reclamation, you can eject those, and add scratch tapes. (assuming you have some free tapes as well) move media volnmae stg=poo

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I think next sequence of actions can help: 1) change some policy sets to reduce expire period (some old data will be lost!) ; 2) activate policy set; 3) run "expiry inventory" and, maybe, some volumes will become empty to start reclamation. Good luck! Grigori Solonovitch, Senior Systems Architec

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Thank you everyone, all of this was very helpful. I am new to TSM and honestly still have no idea what I am doing. I think I have resolved my issue. On disk I had literally no volumes with space but I added some scratch tapes to my library and created a temporary reclamation pool using the library.

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So new question then... I made a temp storagepool using my tape library, reclamation picked up and ran, the actlog says that one of the reclaims was successful. when I look at the volume reclaimed its utilization is down to 17%, but it is still marked as "full" so I still can't use it. Does anyone

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TSM regards the tape as "FULL" once it reaches full status, and until data is completed expired, deleted, or moved off of it. Your reclamation process might have been successful if it had a time limit and reached the end. As others have suggested, try doing a "move data" on that volser and allow it

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How did you get reclamation to run? Did you use storage pool settings or did you run a reclamation command? George Huebschman (George H.) (301) 699-4013 (301) 875-1227 (Cell) The contents of this email are the property of PNC. If it was not addressed to you, you have no legal right to read it.

Exit status from 'dsmserv restore db'

I have been testing disaster recovery procedures for our TSM 6.2.5.0 servers, which run under zSeries Linux. As far as I can tell, 'dsmserv' commands with 'restore db' always end with exit status 0, even when there are errors that prevent a successful database restore, such as inability to mount an

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I ran it on command and gave it 120 minutes, I understand maybe the time ran out, but I watched it and it did not run for 2 hours. Thomas Taylor System Administrator Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Cell (443)-974-5768 From: George Huebschman To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU, Date: 04/14/2014 02:20 PM Su

TS3500 and S24/S54 frames with TSM?

Anybody using a TS3500 library S24/S54 frame with TSM? Any gotchas? Good/bad news? **Please note new office phone: Wanda Prather | Senior Technical Specialist | wanda.prat...@icfi.com | www.icfi.com | 410-868-4872 (m) ICF International

Re: TS3500 and S24/S54 frames with TSM?

Hi Wanda, Yeah, we've got two 3584's with S54 frames. I love the price point and density. They have worked pretty well. We've had the usual drive problems (they do wear out after awhile), and one picker issue, but nothing specific to the S54. We use ALMS which gets us slot virtualization, w

Re: reclamation

If you could post sanitized actlog entries related to that process number, it might help. George Huebschman (George H.) (301) 699-4013 (301) 875-1227 (Cell) From: Tom Taylor To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 04/14/14 02:49 PM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reclamation Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"

Re: TS3500 and S24/S54 frames with TSM?

Like Paul mentioned, great price point for storage you get out of them. No drives allowed in the frame though if that's an issue for you, I also believe it will require the enhanced node cards and ALMS feature to be purchased from what I recall when we purchases ours. There is the ability to dis

Re: TS3500 and S24/S54 frames with TSM?

Good to know, thanks! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 3:51 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TS3500 and S24/S54 frames with TSM? Hi Wanda, Yeah, we've got two 3584's w

Re: TS3500 and S24/S54 frames with TSM?

Thanks! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike De Gasperis Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 5:02 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TS3500 and S24/S54 frames with TSM? Like Paul mentioned, great price point for storage