One thing I've thought of, but never tried, was, rather than reclaiming
offsite tapes, deleting them.  The next "backup stgpool" you run will copy
the data from those tapes to new copy pool tapes.  This way, with
collocated primary pools, each tape is only mounted once, no matter how
many offsite tapes would have been reclaimed.

One of those things that sounds like it would work just fine, but I've
never had the chance to test.

Nick Cassimatis
nickpc AT us.ibm DOT com