well, having a small database (500MB) and a large tape (400GB) it's at
least a waste of tapes..

Regards, Lucian





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this is the way it ment to be ... i believe there is no logic in making
dbbackups on same tape
but you can always consult pdf-s ...

greetz

goran



----- Original Message -----
From: "Lucian Greis" <lgreis AT MKV DOT DE>
To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 3:13 PM
Subject: each dbbackup to new tape?


> Hi list,
>
> I'm rather green with TSM, actually working through my first
> client-project with it and have come to a (small for sure) problem
> System: TSM 5.2 on SuSe SLES8, feeding an Adic Scalar24 with one
IBM-LTO2.
> Basically, the system works.
> Whenever I command a dbBackup, wether full or incremetal, TSM wants to
> write to a scratch tape only. If i give the volser of a tape used for an
> earlier dbbackup explicitly, TSM says the tape is full (which it is
not).
> Can someone point me to the right direction?
>
> Regards, Lucian Greis
> MKV GmbH