Are you actually running the expire inventory command to delete these files
from your tape?  It is possible that this has been turned off.  Try running
it by hand and see what happens.

Steve Argersinger
Ruan Transportation

-----Original Message-----
From: John C Dury [mailto:jdury AT DQE DOT COM]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 12:38 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: backup stg pool not giving scratch tapes back.

We currently have 2 TSM servers. TSM1 is where all our clients backup to
nightly. TSM2 is where the backup stg pool command backs up the data from
the previous nights incremental backup. TSM2 is *only* used as a server
storage pool for data from TSM1. It has considerable more tapes than TSM1
and more storage but it currently only has 12 scratch tapes left. I've
looked at everything I can think of and can't figure out why there aren't
more scratch tapes available on TSM2. From my understanding TSM2 should
only have a copy of the data in TSM1 and nothing more but it looks like the
data in TSM2 isn't being expired or something. Anyone have any suggestions
on what else to look at? It's probably something really simple that I just
keep overlooking!
John