Sounds like someone set the reclaim storage pool on the virtual tape pool to the physical tape pool.
I know of no reason why not to reclaim virtual tapes. Wish I had one to play with. Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University phone: 765-285-1310 -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Welton, Charles Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 11:10 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Reclamation of Virtual Tapes Hello: We have a TSM instance that uses virtual tapes as our primary backup data pool. The data on the virtual tapes are eventually migrated to tape. We are currently down to 3 virtual scratch tapes and 6 physical scratch tapes. I noticed that we are not running any reclamation processes on our virtual tape pool. It seems we have a hand-full of under-utilized virtual tapes. I went ahead and ran a manual reclamation on the virtual tape pool and I noticed the output tape pool is a physical tape. I assumed that the virtual tape would reclaim to another virtual tape. Is that not the case? Could there be a reason why reclamation shouldn't be ran on a virtual tape pool? Thank you... Charles This email contains information which may be PROPRIETARY IN NATURE OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED BY LAW FROM DISCLOSURE and is intended only for the use of the addresses(s) named above. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender immediately.