Issue the following:

update stg copypool reclaim=60
              ^              ^
          name of pool      percentage

The above will reclaim any tape with a free space percentage of 60%, meaning
two 40% utilized tapes would be moved to one 80% utilized tape, with room
left over for some overhead.

Having your reclaimation set to 100% effectively means that reclamation will
never occur until you have a tape that's 100% free.

Check them into the library with a few scratch tapes if you have two drives
and set the reclamation to something like 60%. Though it might more than a
couple of hours depending on how many tapes you have to swap in and out of
the library.

Mike Bantz
Systems Administrator
Research Systems, Inc - A Kodak Company
4990 Pearl East Circle
Boulder, CO 80301
(303) 413-3999 direct
(303) 786-9909 fax
http://www.researchsystems.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Dwight McCann [mailto:dwight AT TRIXIE.ISC.UCSB DOT EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 3:32 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Reclaiming Low Utilization "Offsite" Copypool Volumes

I have an automated library in which I have a copypool into which I do a
'BACKUP STGP ...' and then move the volumes 'offsite' ... into my office in
another building.  New volumes are taken from the scratch pool.  I have the
reclamation threshold set to 100.  Some of these volumes are getting very
sparsely filled ... well under 10 percent and I would like to reclaim them.
What's a good way to do this?  Put the low utilization volumes back into the
library and simply reset the reclamation percent to include them? I'm
willing to risk the couple of hours this might take. TIA,

--
Dwight McCann
Computer and Network Technologist, UCSB Info Systems & Computing
Dwight.McCann AT isc.ucsb DOT edu, Dwight AT DwightMcCann DOT com
http://borg.isc.ucsb.edu/dmm/  - office: 805-893-3113