When I had dedicated VTLs, I routinely ran with an arbitrarily large maxscratch value and used the amount of tapes defined as the limiting factor detect run-away situations. You don’t have to keep them synchronized in any particular manner as long as MaxScratch is larger.
On Oct 9, 2014, at 5:54 AM, Loon, EJ van (SPLXM) - KLM <eric-van.l...@klm.com> wrote: > Hi Steven! > So if I understand your explanation correctly, for a storagepool used by one > server only, the maxscratch should always be equal to the total amount of > volumes in this pool? So when adding new scratches, one has to raise the > maxscratch with an equal amount? > Kind regards, > Eric van Loon > AF/KLM Storage Engineering >