Hi Zbyszek,

what is the setting for the reclamation threshold for the storage pool ?
Have you run "inventory expiration" ?
And take a look at the Pct.ReclaimabelSpace on the tapes.

Best wishes 
Chris

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:  Zbyszek Borgosz [SMTP:zbyszek AT SUN.COMPUTERLAND DOT PL]
> Gesendet am:  Freitag, 12. Juli 2002 09:25
> An:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Betreff:      TSM 4.2, Private won't go into scratch
> 
> Hi everyone. I have a concern.
> Maybe I should RTFM, but don't have enough time to search.
> I have a following concern:
> 
> Magstar 3575-L12 and 40 tapes currently in slots. I backup everyday
> 54GB, which occupies 5 - 7 tapes. I set in backup mgmt class number of
> copies to keep 2 whenever they have been deleted or not. (retain extra
> and only version are set to 2 as well). I've set backup retention to 7
> days.
> 
> The collocation is 'yes'
> The problem is, that the tapes won't go into scratch, it looks like the
> reclamation process won't start.
> What should I check?
> Thanks in advance...
> zee