Scott...

A puzzler

You may want to try a 'q ac search=<volser>' bracketing the time you know for 
sure
that the volume in a drmedia in vault state and when it is known to disappear 
and
just see if there is any record (in case you haven;t already tried that).

You might also want to try scheduling an admin command 'q volh t=dbb' and 
another 'q
drm t=dbb' to run hourly for a week.  Give the schedules unique names (mystery1 
&
mystery2) then run 'q ac begind=-7 search=mystery' dumping the output to a file.
Then use those to track the states relatively thoroughly throughout the time.  
The
output of those commands should not contribute greatly to the actlog size.

Cheers...
Bruce

Scott Fluegge wrote:

> Unfortunately no, but that would be a good solution.  I only do full backups 
> of
> the databse.  Any other ideas??
>
> Scott
>
> Bruce Elrick <belrick AT HOME DOT COM> on 04/09/99 10:57:15 PM
>
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> cc:    (bcc: Scott Fluegge/COR/MLW/US/venatorgroup)
> Subject:  Re: Mystery of the vanishing tapes...
>
> Scott,
>
> are you doing incremental DB backups?  One possibility is the fact that all 
> the
> backups in a series (full followed by a number of incrementals but not the
> following

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Bruce Elrick, Ph.D.
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