It depends on what kind of tape system you are backing up to, whether or
not
some one will have to mount the tapes or not.

As for the number of tapes will depend on the kind of data you are
backing up
and how often. On an incremental the first time, it will take every file
that you tell
it to. After that it will only get the files that have changed.

Reclamation is done automatically if it is set up right and it will
prompt for the tapes
that it needs, if they are not in the library. The activity log will
tell you a lot about
what goes on. Also it will depend on how you set up your policies and
storage pools.

Mark A. Adams
UNIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
(402) 963-7369 Office
(402) 444-0754 Pager
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>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Sharon Stidd [SMTP:sstidd AT CLOVER DOT NET]
>Sent:  Wednesday, October 08, 1997 8:45 AM
>To:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject:       backup copy pools
>
>We currently are not backing up our storage pool but want to start.  My
>questions are:  how many tapes will it take, how is reclamation done, will
>someone have to mount these tapes (or in other words will adsm ever ask for
>these tapes)?
>
>Our db is 2gb, our log is 2gb, and we have about 100Gb of data online of
>which 3-4Gb is new (changed) data each day.
>
>Any insight is greatly appreciated!