Hello,

reclamation only starts when a tape is FULL and the reclamation threshold is
reached. Filling tapes will never get reclaimed. If you want to delete one
filling tape, do a move data first.

Regards,

Rene Lambelet
Nestec SA - 55, Av. Nestle - CH-1800 Vevey
Tel: ++41'21'924'35'43 / Fax: ++41'21'924'45'89
E-Mail: rene.lambelet AT nestle DOT com




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastien Chaumontet [SMTP:schaumon AT CUR-ARCHAMPS DOT FR]
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 9:14 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Novell Client backup Error
>
> "Remeta, Mark" wrote:
> >
> > If reclamation is set to 100% reclamation will never occur.
> > You need to lower the reclamation value to make it start. It should be
> lower
> > than what the tape says is reclaimable.
> > If you have the storage pool set for 10 scratch tapes (ie:maxscratch=10)
> and
> > all 10 tapes are full you will not be able to perform the reclaim.
> > Reclaiming takes data from multiple tapes which are full and writes this
> > data to a new blank tape. After the reclaim operation is complete the
> old
> > tapes that had the data on them are deleted from the volume history and
> > returned to the scratch pool.
> >
>
> ok .... but with a reclamation set to 10 and a filling tape .... the
> reclamation not occur. How can i force it ? when did the server normaly
> start reclamation ?