In the volumes status, if it shows expired/recyc. it would recycle a tape when a tape is required to write backups for this pool.

Till the time the pool gets appendable media in the pool, it would not recycle the recyclable tapes.

How do you know all tapes are expired?

Hi
All the clients including backup server is having brows / retention policy of 2 months.
if i chk the volume status i can see all the savesets backup time 2 months back including few which are also 2 months old But still browsable, few backups still not recyl..

regards

Then tape is not expired as you claimed - because some savesets are still not expired. That could be due to backup cycle dependency - have you checked that? I would also suggest to trace down ssretent for each such saveset via mminfo and its backup cycle members and their ssretent.

Don't get confused by that.. it means ssretent has expired, but probably dependency for backup cycle is there. I think you should talk to your support and have them examine your whole cycle to verify if issue is there or not.

surely the tapes contain expired incrementals that depend on full that has not expired or that is in a tape that has been erased or relabeled, reason why the incrementals are not going to never expire, you can check it doing one query with mminfo as well Hrvoje has indicated you