Setting reclamation to 50% only makes since if you have 2 or more tapes
at or above 50%.

Ron James
Network Management Specialist
Premiere Conferencing

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Dirk Kastens
[mailto:Dirk.Kastens AT RZ.UNI-OSNABRUECK DOT DE]
                Sent:   Tuesday, April 06, 1999 7:05 AM
                To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
                Subject:        Re: log growing too quickly ...

                At 08:41 06.04.99 -0400, Scott Fluegge wrote:
                >Second, are you sure you want to set reclamation to
50%?  As I understand it,
                >that may mean you move more information than is
actually useful.  If you had ten
                >volumes, 9 of which were full and the 10th had 50%
full, ADSM would call in
                >another scratch tape and move that 50% to a new tape -
gaining you nothing!  Am

                It's gaining you at least 50% more free space. If a
volume is full and the
                reclaimable space reaches 50%, it means that you waste
50% of the space
                on the tape. After reclamation a new tape is filled up
by 50% but the full
                tape is now empty and can be used again (depending on
your reuse delay).

                Regards,

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