Hello all,
        I am in the process of finding out why some of the DATA on my tapes
are not expiring.  I have been learning a lot doing this but it is time
consuming (surprised right?).  Anyway to just correct some past injustices I
deleted most of the tapes that I know should not hold valid DATA based on
their date last written to.  The DELETE VOL=xxxxxxx  DISCARD=YES appeared to
work well.  It brought me back the tapes from 6 months ago, and sent all the
COPYPOOL tapes that were associated with the discarded data to the desired
PENDING status.  All seems well so far.  I start focusing on tapes that I
know should not have data that I did not delete.  I did a
SELECT * from backups where backup_date < '2001-04-02' .   The results
should have shown data that was backed up on
2001-04-01. BUT THERE IS A LOT OF DATA THAT  WAS BACKED UP ALL THE WAY BACK
TO 2000-12-xx.
What is going on here?  Why is the data there?  Shouldn't it have been
expired and the DB cleaned up?  Is there a process I should be running to
clean this UP?
Any help would greatly be appreciated.
Matt