If you eject the tapes with either TSM DRM or Autovault (and I think TSM
Manager as well), they do all the tracking/vaulting for you.

With DRM, you set DRMDBBACKUPEXPIREDAYS to xx, the number of days you want
to retain the DB backup before it expires.

Then DRM expires the DB backup after xx days, and puts it in VAULRETRIEVE
status.  So at any given time if you look at the list of tapes in
VAULTRETRIEVE status, it will actually include any expired DB backups as
well as any reclaimed/empty offsite copy pool tapes.

All automatic.

W



On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Christian Svensson <
Christian.Svensson AT cristie DOT se> wrote:

> Hi,
> I got a generic question for you all. How do you keep in track of your
> Database Backup Tape Volumes?
> I know you can see in Volhist the label of the volume, but how do you keep
> in track to get it back from the vault?
> Do you have a script or do you call it back one day in advance?
>
> Please, I'm really interested of your feedback and how you deal with it?
>
> Best Regards
> Christian Svensson
>
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