That should not happen - if the tapes are in VAULTRETRIEVE status, they
should stay that way until you do the next MOVE DRMEDIA.
The only exception I know of, is if you manually delete the other data base
entries for them.
One way that can happen is if you do a DELETE VOLHISTORY for Data base
backup tapes before you get them moved back on site and checked in.

Can you check your activity log and find out of these tapes were STGPOOL
tapes or DBB tapes?

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Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
443-778-8769
wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
Scott Adams/Dilbert
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM [SMTP:cs.adsm AT GALLAUDET DOT EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 3:10 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      DRM - tape recyling
>
> Hi Guys/Gals -
>
> I have a DRM on my ADSM system. We have our tapes check out
> for off-site storage once a week. During the course of the week,
> there are tapes that shows up in the DRMEDIA to be retrieve.
> After a while those tapes numbers do not showup again and I have
> not processed them to be "onsite" and checkin. It seems that the
> ADSM will just remove that tapeID after a while and that confuses
> me. Do you have any thoughts about this?
> Thanks!
>
>
> Charles E Drawdy
> Manager, Systems and Operations
> Gallaudet University
> 800 Florida Avenue, Northeast
> Washington, DC 20002-3695
> (202) 651-5300 x5382
> (202) 651-5477 FAX
> charles.drawdy AT gallaudet DOT edu