This is probably one of those things that happens on some interval, perhaps
24 hours.  It may also have to do with when the server is started.  So it
might behoove you to restart your server an hour before the time you
require your tapes to move from pending to empty.  Expiration works that
way, for instance.

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
www.storsol.com
lipp AT storsol DOT com
(719)531-5926