> By default all media records are retained unless the tape is relabled.
> It can be explicitly deleted otherwise.  The records are small enough
> compared to the file indexes that this is possible.
> 
> > So I guess I am asking: do entries like this ever get purged 
completely 
> > from the mm db? 
> 
> Manually, or automatically when the tape is relabled.  Not when the
> savesets expire.

That's the part I needed to know, thanks!

So since we re-use tapes every 2 months or so, and when we do, we re-label 
the tape (back into the same pool as before), then I guess the only 
history I have is of the *most recent time* the tape was written to. (or 
we used to - legal requirements have prevented me from re-using any tapes 
for approx 9 months now)

<SIGH>

Have I mentioned that I hate legal requests? :-)

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