Hello,

On Montag, 18. November 2002 20:39, Taha, Hana wrote:
> Hello TSMers,
>
> This is probably a very basic question to some of you, but one that has had
> me going crazy for the last two weeks.
>
> My problem is this.... I have two schedules to perform database backups.
> One is full and the other is incremental. See my schedules below.
> -
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>
>
> My question is this: Why am I getting database backups on days that I am
> not supposed to get dbb's? On saturday, I logged in and I had delete 8
> dbb's to free up some tapes for our full backups. This mess is eating up
> all my scratch tapes.
> This morning, I logged in and I had a backup done on Sunday and two done
> today.

Are you running your recovery log in rollforward mode and have you defined a
backup trigger? Then you will get backups of the db if the rec.log fills up.

Greetings from Hamburg

Rolf Meyer
Info Business Systems GmbH
22607 Hamburg, Germany