Moses,

Look at the backup copygroup settings for the
management class that you are backing the databases up to.
The QUERY COPYGROUP command on the TSM Server will
enable you to see the policy settings including
how many copies to keep and for how long to keep them.

Thanks,

Del

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Del Hoobler
IBM Corporation
hoobler AT us.ibm DOT com

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 06/14/2004
06:29:46 AM:

> Hi everyone,
>         I need to restore a users mail database using TDP for Lotus
Notes.
> Prior to restoring this mail database I need to find out how long
backups
> taken are kept before expiring. I know there is a way of checking this
but
> can't remember how to find this information. Would somebody be so nice
as
> to furnish me with this information.