Nick,

We have DRMDBBACKUPEXPIREDAYS set to 10 and we are running the checkin and
checkout steps once a week on Tuesday. Gives us 3 days of "grace" time ?? We
haven't been deleting any DBB tapes from Volhist. I didn't think that was
required with DRM ??

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305


                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Nick Cassimatis [mailto:nickpc AT US.IBM DOT COM]
                Sent:   Wednesday, February 09, 2000 1:36 PM
                To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
                Subject:        Re: Tapes Missing from Offsite, but found
them in the library

                Curt,

                I had the problem where I was losing tapes at the vault, not
in the
                library.  We delete from the volhist database backup tapes
after 7 days,
                but DRM wants to keep database backup tapes in the library
for 30 days by
                default.  Unfortunately, once the "del volhist type=dbb
todate=-7" runs,
                ADSM loses track of the tape (no more volhist record).
Doing a "q drmstat"
                will show you how long DRM wants to keep the DBB tapes
offsite, and you can
                change it with the " SET DRMDBBACKUPEXPIREDAYS" command.
The change is
                immeadiate.

                We were losing one tape per day before I caught this one.

                Nick Cassimatis
                nickpc AT us.ibm DOT com

                If you don't have the time to do it right the first time,
where will you
                find the time to do it again?