Chris is correct. You set maxscratch per stgpool. 20 (just under half)
sounds appropriate to me on a very basic level. It means you can create a
copy stgpool for this first stgpool and have some tapes ready for DB
backups, etc. You should do some work estimating your first stgpool's growth
in data, tape growth, whether a copy pool will be used, how many DB backups
are sufficient...

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Ramiro Ruiz <ramiro AT schulich.uwo DOT ca> 
wrote:

> Hello, I have a IBM TS3200 library with 42 available tapes(SCRATCH) I setup
> the maximum scratch mount to 20, should I set it up to be 42? sorry for the
> question. I am new at TSM
>
> Thank you :)
>
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