On Friday, Jul 9, 2004, at 17:09 Australia/Sydney, Yiannakis Vakis
wrote:

I know that space reclamation has priority over backups or restores.
Yiannakis

No.

In an Admin guide I have handy - look for "Preemption of Client or
Server Operations" - the following are defined as high priority
operations for mount point access:

- Backup database
- Restore
- Retrieve
- HSM recall
- Export
- Import

Any of which will preempt, in decreasing order of priority:
1. Move data
2. Migration from disk to sequential media
3. Backup, archive, or HSM migration
4. Migration from sequential media to sequential media
5. Reclamation

So the above statement is incorrect - reclamations have the lowest
possible priority. See the manual for the details.

Cheers,
--
Paul Ripke
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