Hi Craig,

the handling of your dbbackup tapes differs from the handling of storage
pool volumes. 
When you delete the dbb entries from your volume history, the status of
these tapes is immediately
changed to scratch and not to stgdelete since dbbackup tapes aren't handled
as storage pool volumes.

 with best regards

Eberhard Ditzel, netiX System Consulting, Mainz

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:  Craig McAllister [SMTP:Craig_McAllister AT EUROPE36.MOT DOT COM]
> Gesendet am:  Freitag, 19. Februar 1999 12:07
> An:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Betreff:      Re: Antwort: ADSM DB backups - how to expire?
> 
> Sabine,
>         As I undestand it, this simply deletes the DBB entries from the
> Volume History file.
>         I want to do something more subtle; I'm trying to change their
> status from BACKUPFULL (ie. ADSM DB backup) to STGDELETE, so I can track
> them as scratch tapes.
>         This is quite important to me as I have a very small library, and
> tape operations are time-intensive (Tapemonkey) jobs.
> 
> 
> #Hy Craig,
> #
> #you can use this simple command to delete old DB-Backup-Volumes from the
> #VOLUME History.
> #
> #
> #delete volhist todate=today-8 type=dbbackup
> #
> #
> #This Administrative-Schedule runs bevor the DB Backup each Day.
> #
> #
> #
> #With best regards
> #
> #Sabine Rettenberger
> #
> #Sabine.rettenberger AT wolf-heiztechnik DOT de