Argument 2 is easier to automate while 1 is technically more correct.
During a restore, you would need to inform your recovered server that some
tapes it might think destroyed are not.  When using DRM there is a stanza
that marks volumes destroyed.  Typically, these are primary pool volumes and
any copy storage pool volumes that had not been removed before the backup.
Now we all know that we remove the copy stg volumes and the db backup at the
same time.  DRM is wrong (why not just run it again? because that's harder
to automate!), but can easily be fixed by commenting out those update
volumes.

Easy, right?

Kelly J. Lipp
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