Can you explain what you mean by "expiring"?  The retain extra & only
versions settings is for how long to retain a backup, not a tape.  Once
the backup has expired (and inventory expiration has run to delete it
from the database), then that space is freed up on tape.  Only when all
backups on a tape have expired, or that volume's been reclaimed, will it
be marked available for return to onsite storage.  Maybe you're
referring to the reuse delay?  That setting says how long to wait after
a tape has been emptied before it can be reused again.  If you set that
to 30, then the status of the tape will be pending for 30 days and then
will be in vaultretrieve status per DRM.

Tina Hilton

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven McNicholas [SMTP:stevem AT ZA.IBM DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 6:12 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      offsite tapes expiring
>
> Hi,
>
> I have adsm v2.1.0 running on an sp2.
> I have implemented DRM and have created backups of primary storage
> pools  to
> copy storage pools.The retain extra versions and only versions are
> both set to
> 30 for my active policy domain. ( I want to keep these tapes offsite
> for 30
> days)
>
> My problem is that the tapes are expiring after 7 seven days.Is there
> somewhere
> else where a parameter needs to be changed.?
>
> Also this was originally set to 7,but only changed to 30 a week ago.Is
> this why
> these tapes are expiring ? and the tapes that were processed after the
> expire
> parm was set to 30 will expire after 30 days?
>
>
> Regards,
> Steven McNicholas
> Unix system administrator