Are you actually running the expire inventory command to delete these files from your tape? It is possible that this has been turned off. Try running it by hand and see what happens.
Steve Argersinger Ruan Transportation -----Original Message----- From: John C Dury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 12:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: backup stg pool not giving scratch tapes back. We currently have 2 TSM servers. TSM1 is where all our clients backup to nightly. TSM2 is where the backup stg pool command backs up the data from the previous nights incremental backup. TSM2 is *only* used as a server storage pool for data from TSM1. It has considerable more tapes than TSM1 and more storage but it currently only has 12 scratch tapes left. I've looked at everything I can think of and can't figure out why there aren't more scratch tapes available on TSM2. From my understanding TSM2 should only have a copy of the data in TSM1 and nothing more but it looks like the data in TSM2 isn't being expired or something. Anyone have any suggestions on what else to look at? It's probably something really simple that I just keep overlooking! John
