>I bring this up because we have over 200 tapes taking up space in the
>library what are archives only and I would love to get these out and sent
>offsite. Currently a second copy of these files is sent offsite, but I would
>like to do away with that extra work too.

We move all full archive tapes out of our tape library every day via a script.  
So TSM can do this.  We keep the tapes on a shelf in our Tape Library room (and 
send copies offsite still).  You could send the source copies offsite easily 
too via a script.
 
Just use move drmedia (i don't have the exact syntax becuase I'm not at work) 
but you just do that for a specific storage pool.  Although we don't know what 
tapes will be used when a user issues a retrieve (we also don't know when a 
user issues a retrieve!) but tsm just asks to have the tape mounted - we have 
computer room operators that can perform that for us.