We run TSM with a 3583 library and currently have 55 private tapes residing within library leaving only 5 free slots for daily tape movements. This means we have to checkout tapes before we can run a db backup (we have a script to run a db backup every morning but fails because no scratch tape available). The problem we now have is that we have run out of our stock of scratch tapes and need to get tapes back from our offsite storage company. Running a script to query the db shows us that there are currently appx. 70 tapes offsite that are using less than 10% of tape capacity (many are using just 0.1% - all tapes in question contain collocated data). We have scheduled reclamations that run on Wednesdays and at the weekend but does anyone know if there is a way of reclaiming these tapes back or will their return date be dictated by retention policy and the fact that they contain collocated data?