Hi,

It's the second time I have encountered the problem in which I try to
DEL VOLH TODATE=TODAY-2 TYPE=DBBACKUP. What seems strange to me, is that
that I have the command scheduled to run automatically, and it usually
succeeds - it worked alright for about 10 days, and then failed last
night. When I have just tried to run it manually, it failed with "today-3"
(one day has passed and no new backups). It was alright with "today-2",
but that's no surprise, that on the 16th., I can DEL VOLH with "today-2"
a volume from the 13th...
I am not using the "TOTIME" parameter, so ADSM uses (or is supposed to)
00:00.

Please explain what's going on and what I should do. I am running on
an AIX 4.1.5 machine, ADSM V 2.1.5.13  ( ie - PTF 13 installed).




/Zvika

Script command is started on Sat Nov 15 21:50:47 IST 
1997.(root)aeserv:/home1/zvika/tmp/adsm# ./delvolh
date
Sat Nov 15 21:50:51 IST 1997
dsmadmc -id=zvika -password=xxxxxxx q volh type=dbbackup
ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager
Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 2, Release 1, Level 0.6G
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation, 1990, 1996, All Rights Reserved.

ANS5100I Session established with server ADSM: AIX-RS/6000
ANS5101I Server command: 'q volh type=dbbackup'

       Date/Time: 11/13/97   20:30:01
     Volume Type: BACKUPFULL
   Backup Series: 19
Backup Operation: 0
      Volume Seq: 1
    Device Class: 3570CLASS
     Volume Name: MAG030
 Volume Location:

       Date/Time: 11/14/97   20:30:01
     Volume Type: BACKUPFULL
   Backup Series: 20
Backup Operation: 0
      Volume Seq: 1
    Device Class: 3570CLASS
     Volume Name: MAG028
 Volume Location:


ANS5103I Highest return code was 0.

dsmadmc -id=zvika -password=xxxxxxx del volh todate=today-2 type=dbbackup
ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager
Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 2, Release 1, Level 0.6G
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation, 1990, 1996, All Rights Reserved.

ANS5100I Session established with server ADSM: AIX-RS/6000
ANS5101I Server command: 'del volh todate=today-2 type=dbbackup'
ANR2467I DELETE VOLHISTORY: 0 sequential volume history entries were
successfully deleted.

ANS5103I Highest return code was 0.

(root)aeserv:/home1/zvika/tmp/adsm#

Script command is complete on Sat Nov 15 21:51:05 IST 1997.



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