Well far from not being able to "afford" the tapes, I can't "afford" not
to be able to restore back that far.
As demonstrated recently when a "minor" issue prior to me leaving on two
weeks holiday, turned out to require a full restore from DB from before
the problem arose. Tricky to do with only 2 or 3 days DB backups ;)
 


Regards,

Iain Barnetson
IT Systems Administrator
UKN Infrastructure Operations

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Email: iain.barnetson AT halliburton DOT com


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
David E Ehresman
Sent: 14 February 2005 17:45
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Database backup volume deletion

>>I backup the DB each and every day, and before & after any changes,
and
keep (now at least) 28 days copies <<

Do you also have your offsite storagepool reuse delay set to 28 days?
If the data tapes have been reused, the data base backup will not do you
any good.

Since few of us can afford to keep 28 days worth of expired tapes
offsite, most of us only keep data base backups for 3-5 days.

David