Dennis,
What is your volume reuse delay for the copy storage pool?
I can understand the number to rise from 14 to 28 if you have reuse delay of 14.
In that case, the older tapes that you see are actually in the state of Pending.

Regards,
Sandra

Dennis Melburn W IT743 wrote:

> I have noticed that ever since I started using the DRM, alot of my TSM
> servers have been steadily decreasing in scratch tapes by alot.  My
> servers are scheduled to run a Full Database backup once per day, with a
> a Database Snapshot once per week.  The full database copies stay on
> site, while the snapshot gets sent off site weekly.  I have the database
> expire variable in the DRM set to 14 days.  The question I have is why
> do all my sites have like 40-60 database tapes, when there should only
> be 14.  Am I doing something wrong?
>
>
>  Mel Dennis