Hello Michael,
I think your files got deleted after the grace retention period, it
means, the original MC dispeared. You can find if this is the case by
looking in the ExpireInventory output in the activity log.
There is a parameter for the activity log retention. You can make a
Query Status to see the actual value.
Regards,
René Lambelet, Nestle, CH-1800 VEVEY
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Hagen [SMTP:Michael.Hagen AT GECITS-EU DOT COM]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 1997 2:02 PM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: urgent: a couple of questions
>
>Hallo, ADSMers !!!
>I have some questions about ADSM on AIX! We want to save a SAP R/3 system
>with a ADABAS database on an IBM SP machine. One of the SP nodes ist the
>ADSM server. This node is connected with an IBM 3590 Tape Library with two
>devices.
>
>Apart from the ordinary file systems we are backing up the ADABAS database
>and its logfiles. The backup of the Database and logfiles are done via an
>ADSM API. This API uses the archive copy group of the default Management
>Class, and doesn´t use the backup copy group. So for obtaining different
>lengths of time to retain (it depends on whether I want to do a daily or a
>monthly backup. A monthly backup has to be retained for several years,
>whereas the daily backups has to be retained for 60 days), I used different
>MCs. But I could not find a way to determ another MC for such a backup than
>the default one. For realizing backups in different MCs, I changed the
>default MC, started the backup and it works. But now my question:
>
>1.) When I changed the default MC for a backup on the second devices does
>this influence a running backup on the first device?
>
>We have had some problems with an incremental backup of lots of file,
>because the ADSM database was full.
>
>2.) Is there any possiblility to get a warning message if the database is
>full for e.g. 90% ?
>
>But now my main problem: In the middle of May I changed the "length of time
>to retain archive version" of the archive copy group of the Standard MC
>from 100 days to "no limit". This was my last change of this MC. After
>this, obviously no tape apears with "stgdelete" in the volume history. In
>August I created some other MCs for rearranging all the backups, as I
>described above, and no backup did go to the MC Standard any longer. After
>this, some administrators deleted some tapes of the MC Standard, containing
>useless data. They only kept the tapes with the important data, which
>should be retain with no limt.
>
>3.) But some weeks ago, I started losing these important tapes of the MC
>Standard. They did not belong to any Storage Pool any longer. Doese anyone
>of you have any idea how this can happen? The "length of time to retain
>archive version" still has no limit. First I thought that I lose all the
>archive data which are older than 100 days (the length of retention time
>before my last change of this MC), so that the last changes doesn´t become
>effective. But this can´t be the reason, because the data lost started some
>weeks ago. But after the last change of this archive copy group (in May) it
>worked, because no tape was deleted from the storage pool. I have no
>idea...
>
>Apart from this I have another small question:
>
>4.) In our activity log there are data stored which are not older than 1
>day. How can I increase this period of time?
>
>Thank you in advance for your help. Hoping for lots of usefull answers.
>
>Michael.
>
>Me ektimissi - Yours sincerely
>
>Michael Hagen
>CompuNet Essen
>System Engineering
>Severinstrasse 42, 45127 Essen, Germany
>Phone: 0201/2012-289, Fax: 0201/2012-123
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