When running backups we occasionally get errors like so: "This tape has not expired" Is there a way to query the backup db directly and find out when a tape is due to expire beyond scantape? -- Steve Devine Academic Computing & Network Services Michigan State University 313 Computer Center East Lansing, MI 48824-1042 1-517-432-7327 Baseball is ninety percent mental; the other half is physical. - Yogi Berra