Periodically, Sharon retrieves a special set of tapes from the vault. These tapes contain some of their business records that need to be kept for several years. She decides to run reclaim to copy only the active data to new tape volumes. This will save the latest data that hasn't expired on the tape volumes to the new volumes and they will be sent back to the vault.
- In iSeries™ Navigator, she expands Backup, Recovery and Media Services.
- She expands the Media folder.
- She right-clicks Tape volumes and selects Customize this View, Include.
- On the Tape Volumes - Include window, she selects Active for the Status field and clicks OK.
- She right-clicks a Tape volume that she wants more information about and selects Open.
On the Save History window, she
selects View, Customize this View, Columns and adds File
sequence to the Columns to be displayed.
She can now look at the tape volume information and determine if the volume should be reclaimed. She looks for large gaps in the sequence numbers that indicate expired data. (For example, 1 ..... 10 .... 35 ......100 would be a good candidate. 1 ,2 ,3, 4, 5, 6, 7... would not.) She looks over several tape volumes and determines which ones should be reclaimed. Once she knows the volumes to be reclaimed, she right-clicks Tape Volumes and selects Reclaim to go through the Reclaim wizard and reclaim the media.