Or perhaps explicitly schedule an expire inventory so you can anticipate when 
drives will be taken up with reclamation.

>>> Talafous AT TIMKEN DOT COM 03/27/00 12:30PM >>>
I can't help you with generating an alert, but... Wouldn't it make sense to
set tape reclamation to 100% before the backups begin and put it back to 80%
after the backups are done?

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