what is your full / incremental schedule
are you regularly repeating full backups (say each month)

try:

mminfo -av -ot -c <client> -q'!incomplete,!ssrecycle'

to see the timeline of your client

Maarten

On Thursday 16 September 2004 15:28, GATES, ROBERT L wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> We have seen this in many instances now.
>
> Our retention periods are 90 days for both incrementals and full backups.
> After doing a full, let's say yesterday, if I try to restore a file the
> volumes required
> include the tape from yesterday and the tape from 90 days earlier.
>
> Why is that earlier tape required? Is there a way to get the restore to
> only use the
> most recent backup tape? Setting the browse time to yesterday makes no
> difference.
>
> We are running 6.3.1 on an HP box.
>
> Bob
>
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