Re: DB Backups keep using tapes?
1996-11-19 16:19:54
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Re: DB Backups keep using tapes? |
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"Darren V. Croft" <croftd AT IBM DOT NET> |
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Tue, 19 Nov 1996 16:19:54 -0500 |
On Tue, 19 Nov 1996 11:32:04 -0500, Joe Morris wrote:
>With every DB backup, ADSM wants a new, fresh backup tape to write that
>information. How does one configure ADSM to keep appending to a previous
>tape. This is eating media left and right and only taking up a fraction
>of the capacity.
You can't append DB backups, but you can use the old tapes and
over-write a previous backup. My understanding is that a DB Backup is a
complete backup anyway (as opposed to an incremental) so you probably
don't want or need more than a couple of old tapes.
Darren
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