Ben, what you need to do is run COPYPOOL reclamation periodically.  This should 
help in keeping the number of COPYPOOL volumes to a minimum.

Keenan D Stratton
DMR Consulting Group
Keenan AT Webname DOT com


On Monday, March 02, 1998 12:13 PM, Ben Kokenge [SMTP:ben AT hermes.EDMS DOT 
NET] wrote:
| I am setting up DRM and here is what I want to do:
| 
| 1)  Once a week (Sunday) do a full backup of my primary stgpools
|       to an offsite disaster-recovery copypool.  DRM kicks out tapes
|       for offsite.
| 
| 2)  Monday-Saturday do incr backup to the disaster-recovery
|      copypool.  DRM kicks out tapes for offsite.
| 
| Now here is my question, how can I get DRM to checkin the old
| disaster-recovery tapes and let me make a new FULL backup
| of my primary stgpools on Sundays again?
| 
| I know I may get blasted here for doing full backups, but if I keep
| doing incr backups, then I will soon have 100's of 3590's offsite
| that are only partly full.
| 
| What would be nice is some sort of differential backup that would
| combine all the days of incremental backups to one big incr backup.
| 
| Any help out there?
| 
| --
| Benjamin Kokenge