I have to agree for off-site reclamation.  With reclamation running you
can take up additional tapes that are off-site giving you even less to
work with at the present time.  Reclamation for your local tapes(on-site
tapepool) should help gain back tapes.

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Neil Schofield
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 12:47 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Out of scratch tapes?

Dave

I disagree with John's recommendation to step up tape reclamation to get
over a short term lack of scratch tapes unless your pending re-use delay
will expire before the tapes arrive.

My inclination would be to stop all reclamations until the new tapes
arrive. Reclamation gives you a benefit in the future (ie after the
REUSEDELAY), but in the short term may actually cost you scratch tapes.

Rather than allow the backups to fail, have you thought of deleting your
oldest pending media and TSM database backups?

Regards
Neil




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