>We have a primary tape pool (TAPEPOOL) and a copy pool (TAPECOPYPOOL)
>both made up of DLT tapes.  We're in the process of creating processes
>to send and retrieve the copy pool tapes to our offsite location without
>the help DRM.  We created a schedule to kick off reclamation of the copy
>pool tapes on Sunday, so there would be tapes to return on Monday.  When
>I checked the activity log for the reclamation, it had identified 4
>offsite tapes in TAPECOPYPOOL that were eligible to be reclaimed.  The
>weird thing is that it grabbed and wrote the data to a private volume in
>TAPEPOOL!  I was under the impression that a new tape volume would be
>defined in TAPECOPYPOOL, the data would be written to that tape, we'd
>send that tape offsite, and bring the other 4, now empty, tapes back.
>Could someone tell what a possible reason exists for it to have grabbed
>a tape from a different pool as the output of the reclamation??

What pool did it go to?
Sample of one of mine:

07/23/99   11:39:20      ANR2202I Storage pool BACKUP3590_OFFSITE updated.
07/23/99   11:39:20      ANR0984I Process 467 for SPACE RECLAMATION started
                          in the BACKGROUND at 11:39:20.
07/23/99   11:39:20      ANR1040I Space reclamation started for volume M00386,
                          storage pool BACKUP3590_OFFSITE (process number 467).

...
07/23/99   11:41:53      ANR1044I Removable volume M00582 is required for space 
   <== source of files to copy
                          reclamation.
07/23/99   11:41:53      ANR8324I 3590 volume M00582 is expected to be mounted
                          (R/O).
07/23/99   11:43:01      ANR8337I 3590 volume M00368 mounted in drive DRIVE02
                          (/dev/rmt1).
07/23/99   11:43:02      ANR8337I 3590 volume M00582 mounted in drive DRIVE01
                          (/dev/rmt0).
....
07/23/99   11:55:47      ANR8341I End-of-volume reached for 3590 volume M00368. 
    <== existing volume in BACKUP3590_OFFSITE
07/23/99   11:55:51      ANR8336I Verifying label of 3590 volume M00368 in drive
                          DRIVE02 (/dev/rmt1).
07/23/99   11:56:17      ANR8468I 3590 volume M00368 dismounted from drive 
DRIVE02
                          (/dev/rmt1) in library MAGSTAR3494.
07/23/99   11:59:35      ANR8337I 3590 volume M00655 mounted in drive DRIVE02
                          (/dev/rmt1).
07/23/99   11:59:37      ANR1340I Scratch volume M00655 is now defined in 
storage
                          pool BACKUP3590_OFFSITE.                              
    <== new volume in BACKUP3590_OFFSITE

Richard