Jerry Lawson writes:

>I agree with your position about using the ADSM facilities to manage the
>deletion of tapes, and how long they are kept.  I would also wonder about what
>would happen if ADSM returned a tape to scratch, deleted it from it's record
>of "world knowledge", only to have you produce the tape and tell ADSM to use
>it anyway!

Sure, ADSM could use it -- as scratch.   :-)

Right now, to the best of my knowledge there is no way for ADSM to read the
tape and rebuild the database entries from it. Your only choice would be to
restore the database to a time when it recognized the data on that tape.

Andy Raibeck
ADSM Level 2 Support
408-256-0130