If I interpret you correctly you are doing a full backup and then 27-30 
days of incrementals all with a retention of 15 days- whilst volume are 
given an expiration date based on the greatest of time of backup + 
retention time any particular saveset will not be recyclable until all 
dependant savesets are recyclable your fulls therefore will not be 
recycled until ~15 days after the next full, oh and don't forget that all 
the incrementals are needed for a successful recover for dates after the 
full backup.

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:16:07 -0700, don karnash <donkarnash AT YAHOO DOT COM> 
wrote:

>Hi we run Solstice 6.1 from a Solaris box which is attached to HP 
Surestorage 4/40 tape library. The tape library and the sun box are on a 
giga switch (private network with 192.168.x.x IP address). The tapes are 
Ultrium 100GB native capacity tapes. I have created 2 pools UNIX and NT. 
The UNIX backup is for 3 servers and NT has 4 servers. The NT has full 
backup on 1st of each month and incremental there after and the retention 
period is 15 days. The NT backup does not finish the backup. We do not do 
more than 50GB incremental backup daily. Under the volumes tab in the 
solstice tool, I see the following:
>  volume              barcoce  pool  written %used Mode Expiration 
location
>  BD4540L1 BD4540L1 NT      109GB full           09/15/06   HP_ULTRIUM
>  BD4540L2 BD4540L2 NT      102GB full           09/25/06   HP_ULTRIUM
>  so on......
>  What I want to know is how can I set the tapes to be automatically 
recycled when they expire. I have tried changing the mode to auto but 
after sometime, the tapes expire and do not get recycled and I get 
the "waiting for a writable volume for pool nt" message. Can anyone please 
advise. Thanks a lot.
>

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