0GB on media 0 image on media ,but it had a last written time ?

[vdberg]

Hi

We do media management as part of our solution and send media off site for our customers. The engineers run the media written report to determine what tapes to remove. We are running short of tapes and I launched an investigation and found a lot of tapes listed in the scratch pool that have 0GB on tape and 0 Image on tape but it has a last written time assigned to the tape.
I found some of these tapes were send offsite. Why is a last written time assigned to a tape if it has 0GB on tape and 0 Image?
I am sending off loads of empty tapes.

Your comments will be very much appreciated.

 

[Frbutler]

I think if you are running streams to multiple drives it will assign multiple tapes (How ever many streams a set) even though it may not use those tapes for the actual job.

Those unused but assigned tapes would show up as media used for a job in the media info reports

 

[vdberg]

Thanks for the reply.
Symantec told me yesterday that expired media will show up with 0 Images and 0 GB on the media.
We run multiplexing, but not multistreams.