Hi,

If possible, you can change your config to do only one full db backup to
tape (and send this one off-site allong with your copy tapes) and all
other (incr.) db backups to a devclass type=file, where the file is
pointing to a network share (at another location).

Regards,

Karel

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Angus Macdonald
Sent: donderdag 21 september 2006 17:11
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Total newbie question about DB Backups

I'm just in the process of implementing TSM 5.3 for the first time in
our environment and I'm following the TSM Implementation Guide (June
2006
edition) redbook very closely ;-) Things are going pretty well so far
but I have a bit of an issue with my database backups. Every DB backup
seems to use another scratch tape so my 3582 is going to run out of
tapes very quickly. My backup command is

Backup DB type=full devc=lto2-dc

lifted directly from the redbook. How can I limit the number of tapes
used for DB backups? I tried limiting the backup to a particular tape
volume but the tape is apparently in use after the first backup and
cannot be reused.

Angus

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