i had a similar problem and it turned out another process took priority
(backup to copy tape). after that one finished the terminated reclamation
process restarted itself and started moving data to newly emptied tapes.

it didn't ask for scratch volume??


yu chen



-- As Zeus said to Narcissus, "Watch yourself."
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Bill King wrote:
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Bill King wrote:

** >010Date: 29-Dec-97 12:12:00 -0500
** >From: MARKL @ SMTP (Mark Linehan) {markl AT NSMC.PARTNERS DOT ORG}
** >To: ADSM-L @ SMTP {ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU}
** >001Subject: RECLAMATION
** >
** >Okay, I set the reclamation threshhold to 30 and it immediately decided it
** >wanted to reclaim volume SLTJS1. It began to reclaim data using volume
** >SLTGS2, which was filled. When SLTGS2 became filled, the reclamation
** >porcess bombed out rather than moving to another tape. We have TWO tapes
** >which are not FULL. We have NO tapes which are scratch volumes. Adstar now
** >seems determined on finding a scratch volume to continue reclamation, but
** >we have none. Is there a setting to allow reclamation to occur using
** >NON-SCRATCH volumes, or am I overlooking something else???
** >
** >Mark Linehan
** >Information Services
** >The North Shore Medical Center
** >markl AT nsmc.partners DOT org
**
** Mark,
**
** We may have to do a move data.
**