Thanks, that was it. I thought you didnt need to do a del volhist when you
used DRM? Im kinda confused about this DEL VOLHIST and using it with DRM. If
anybody can explain this a little better to me, that would be great.

> ----------
> From:         Prather, Wanda[SMTP:PrathW1 AT central.ssd.jhuapl DOT edu]
> Sent:         Tuesday, March 31, 1998 12:15 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: ADSM ver 2 on AIX 4.2.1 using DRM with 3494
>
> We are ADSM V2 at 2.1.5.13 using DRM with STK9710.
>
> Yes, I had the same problem.
> Did it to myself.
> By any chance, are the tapes that are disappearing your DBBACKUP tapes?
> I had my daily DELETE VOLHIST expiring the DBBACKUP tapes, but had not set
> the DRM DBBACKUPEXPIREDAYS parm correctly.
>
> If you do the DELETE VOLHIST it deletes any reference to the DBBACKUP
> tapes,
> so DRM doesn't put them back into VAULTRETRIEVE status.
>
> Make sure your DBBACKUPEXPIREDAYS parm for DRM expires the tapes and gives
> you enough days to get them back onsite with MOVE DRMEDIA, before you
> delete
> the DBBACKUP entries from VOLHIST.
>
> Once I set DBBACKUPEXPIREDAYS to be 7 days less than my DELETE VOLHIST,
> everything works fine.
>
>  ===============================================================
> Wanda Prather
> Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
> 443-778-8769
> wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu
>
> "Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think."
>               - Scott Adams/Dilbert
> ===============================================================
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Lynch, Rich[SMTP:Lynch.Rich AT mbco DOT com]
> > Sent:         Tuesday, March 31, 1998 12:32 PM
> > To:   ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
> > Subject:      ADSM ver 2 on AIX 4.2.1 using DRM with 3494
> >
> > I use DRM to manage my offsite tapes for copypools, but DRM seems to be
> > loosing tapes, tapes that are in "vault" status one day seem to just
> > disappear a couple days later, never being placed into vault retrieve
> > status. Anybody else out there see this. Im at 2.1.5.13 for the server
> > version on AIX 4.2.1.
> > Im probably going to upgrade to 3.1 very soon though.
> >
>