Are you also sending out your database backup tapes?  If so, do you have a
schedule in place that regularly deletes old database volumes?  If you do,
this would explain your situation.

If you send a database volume offsite, it will not show up in a query
volume or query libvolume command.  The only way to see them is to query
the volhistory.  If you have a scheduled clean up of the database volumes ,
they will be automatically deleted from the volhistory (The only way to
delete a DB volume).  This will result in tapes being kept at the off site
vault with no records left to identify them.

I hope this helps.

Yanki
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Yanki Yuksel
Sr. Systems/Network Administrator
Alcatel Canada
1235 Ormont Drive
Weston, Ontario, Canada
M9L 2W6
Tel:  (416) 742-3900 ext 5767
Fax: (416) 742-9088
e-mail : Yanki.Yuksel AT tas.alcatel DOT ca
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We conducted an audit on our off site tapes today and found that while all
of the tapes in Vault status were at the storage facility, there were many
tapes there (physically) that were not on our list and therefore, not in
vault status.   When we query these tapes in the system there is 'No match
found'.   We have very good checks and balances with the vendor...all tapes
are verified coming in and going out so it appears as if the tapes have
just disappeared from TSM.  Any ideas?

Kelli Jones
jonesk AT co.chesterfield.va DOT us
Chesterfield County, VA