Hey Neil,

  I have Sun L11000 (ATL P3000) and Sun 7/3500 (ATL 7/100) tape libraries.
I eject backup tapes every morning to send offsite.  When the tape is moved
to the cap door I change the volume group  to an offsite volume group.
These tapes stay offsite till they expire or it is needed for a restore.
When the tapes are re-entered when they expire they automatically become
part of the volume group they were previous to being ejected.

Ken
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Perry [SMTP:nxperry AT netscape DOT net]
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 1:10 PM
> To:   veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Cc:   bpvault AT veritas DOT com
> Subject:      [Veritas-bu] Vaulting Originals
> 
> Hi,
> I am running out of slots in my STK 9740 library. Upon running a media
> summary
> report, I found that there are a slew of tapes that are full and won't
> expire
> for a while. Maybe I ought to use a shorter expiration period... but am
> not
> sure if that will meet the business needs here. So I am toying with the
> idea
> of ejecting them and seding them offsite for the duration that they are
> valid.
> Is that a viable option?
> 
> I don't even necessarily have to valut them... only if I could just move
> them
> to a seperate volume group.. like a non robotic one and eject them from
> the
> tape library. Can anyone kinda elaborate on this if it is at all possible?
> I
> guess I could eject them after moving them to a non-robotic group. But how
> would I go about bring it back?
> 
> Thanks in advance for all your help!
> 
> Neil.
> 
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