I have recently found a site who's TSM server was set to keep database backups 
for 5 days, but they had a scheduled "delete volhist type=dbb today-5"  which 
was erasing the tapes from the volume history after 5 days. The onsite guys 
only checked DRM every 2 - 3 weeks for tapes that needed to be recalled, so 
they were missing a few. 200+ database backup tapes in total were offsite that 
they & TSM had no knowledge of.
 
I wonder if you have a similar script causing your tsm server to delete the 
history of these tapes before you recall them
 
 
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Paul Dudley
Sent: Mon 20/11/2006 03:40
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] How to list available scratch tapes



I would like to know if there is a command that can list what tapes are
available to be checked in as a scratch tape.

The "q drm" command will tell me some of what I need in that any volume
with a "Vault Retrieve" status is available as a scratch tape, but that
seems to miss the tapes that have been used as offsite database backup
tapes (of which we keep the latest 7 volumes).

>From my manual checking it appears that the volumes MISSING from the "q
drm" command are tapes available to be checked in as scratch tapes,
however I would like a command that tells me what these tapes ARE, not
what they AREN'T, if you get my drift.

Regards
Paul

 
Paul Dudley
ANL IT Operations Dept.
ANL Container Line
pdudley AT anl.com DOT au
 
 





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