When ADSM does a db backup it always uses a new tape. I believe that is
a safety
feature in case you have a bad tape. This way you don't lose more than
one db
backup.

Mark

"Ahn, Hyun" wrote:
>
> My ADSM server is ADSM V3.1.2.1 on Solaris 2.6.
>
> Whenever I backup database using "backup db" with the following parameters:
>
>     backup db devclass=<dev class name> vol=<vol name> search=yes
>
> existing DB volume(DLT7000 tape with 35G capacity) is not used even though
> there are free space on the tape, instead New volume is allocated to library
> and being
> used.  (Same for incremental and full backup)
> The number of incremental backup is set to 32.
>
> Any comments on this problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hyun

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