>For IBM - In order to recover from a disaster, my understanding is that in
>addition to the db-backup tape the corresponding volume history file is
>required and for it to be available, I have to back it up outside of ADSM.
>If that is true, are there any plans to improve the 'backup database'
>command to copy that file to the db-backup tape?  The device configuration
>file should also be included.  Then the recovery process would have all the
>information it needs to rebuild the server environment.

In that one would not have a single db-backup tape, it is necessary to have
some records around in order to determine which is the latest tape, and that
is the purpose of a separate volume history file.
    Richard Sims, BU