Thanks Andrew
        it will nice that Netbackup have an option, like to keep the tape
        in the pool for a few days and then re-assign it back to the scratch 
pool
        so it can be re-use...
        Mayb be next version...
        
        Thanks..

                        Mike

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Andrew Wilkin wrote:

> Mike,
> 
> I'm under the impression, that when a Tape expires, it remains within the
> same pool that it was in. For reason that the data is still valid and
> retrievable until the tape is reused.
> 
> Regards 
> 
> Andrew Wilkin 
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> -----Original Message-----
> Hello All
> 
>      I have a question about Scratch_pool, I know how to define
>      a scratch_pool and assign all the blank tapes to it and
>      NetBackup will assign different pools as they need tapes.
>      Now, Does it do the "reverse", if the tapes are expired
>      in the pool, would it go back to the scratch pool??
> 
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