Dear Tony,

Data does not expire off of a tape, the data expires out of the Database 
inventory. Unless you run reclamation on a tape(which you are not since they 
are offsite), the data will still be there. However, you will need a database 
version that contains references to the data stored on those volumes.
 
I hope this helps,

Edwin

-----Original Message-----
From: Trinh, Tony [mailto:tony.trinh AT INTEL DOT COM] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 11:38 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Data expiration from the tapes on the daily process

TSMer's



Does anyone know is the data expired off of a tape if the live data tapes
reside outside of the library when expiration ran daily?





Your humble servant,



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