I have mutiple TSM environments, and the reclamation for various onsite and
off-site tape pools varies from 50 - 80.

You set the reclamation limits based on how many scratch tapes you need to
get back, the natural turnover rate due to version expiration, or the number
of available slots you have in the tape library, or all the above.

If you don't need more scratch tapes, why bother to set reclamation lower,
etc.

So the answer, as usual:  it depends on your environment


----Original Message-----
From: J M [mailto:jm_seattle AT HOTMAIL DOT COM]
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 11:09 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Reclamation Setting Survey


Just out of curiosity- what are you using for reclamation settings for
primary tape pool data?

Currently we have over 100 WinNT platforms (all in one policy domain)backing
up data (1+ TB incremental) to large primary disk pool, which migrates to
primary tape, tape copy, etc... The data is a mix of filesystem incrementals
and TDP backup objects (database/exchange). Currently we have our
reclamation threshold set to 60, but we're curious to know what other
similar environments are successfully using?

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