Hi Raminder:
It all depends on your specific site. I'll assume your like most shops and you 
have a copypool that is updated each day with new incremental data, and it is 
those volumes you want to checkout. So you want to:
1). Find out the new copypool volume in the library that are not offsite
2). Check them out
3). Update thier staus to offsite

We use a script for this that is executed each day just after the TSM DB and 
critical file backups. I think the sample script can be found in the ADSM-L 
archives. But you can do it via the command line in this sequence:

1).select volume_name from volumes where stgpool_name='YOURCOPYPOOL' AND NOT 
access='OFFSITE'
2). CHECKOUT LIBV ..................<your site parms>
3). UPD VOL xxxxxx acc=offsite

>>> raminder.braich AT DAVEY DOT COM 12/01/00 01:17PM >>>
How do I figure which ones to send, or which ones were used in the last
backup.
Thanks
Raminder

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lawrence Clark [SMTP:Larry_Clark AT THRUWAY.STATE.NY DOT US] 
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 12:47 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU 
> Subject:      Re: Checkout tapes for offsite
>
> Checkout libvolume < your site parameters>..............................
> upd vol nnnnnn acc=offsite
>
> >>> raminder.braich AT DAVEY DOT COM 12/01/00 12:12PM >>>
> Hello,
>    What is the process to checkout the tapes for offsite? After the backup
> of our production system I want to checkout those tapes to send offsite.
> Can
> anyone please let me know how to accomplish this?
>
> Thanks
> Raminder Braich