Re: reclaim spoy stgpool volumes
2001-05-09 17:02:16
Not necessarily... if there are FILLING tapes in the pool being reclaimed,
they will be used before calling for a scratch.
My concerns have been just the opposite... we've found that it is very
painful if you run out of scratch tapes!
Robin Sharpe
Berlex Labs
> It's normal to have all your tapes about 50% used. If you try to reclaim
a
> tape that is mostly full, reclamation will probably require a new scratch
> tape, so even though it frees up THIS tape, you still have no net gain in
> scratch tapes.
I'm not too terribly concerned about freeing scratch tapes as much
as
having a consistent rotation.
|
|
|