From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of Karla Ross
>I am trying to find the tapes needed to recover only the 
>"active" backups of a client.  I used the following select 
>command and it gives me a list of all tapes for all backups of 
>that client.  How can I narrow the search to just "active" backups?
>
>select volume_name,filespace_name from volumeusage where - 
>node_name='CLIENT NAME' and stgpool_name='STGPOOL'

Check the archives in search.adsm.org. This subject has been discussed
thoroughly in the last year. Why exactly do you need this information,
anyway? 

(If you get a select statement that works, be prepared to have it take
hours if not days to run, with a *lot* of database activity.)

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