ADSM-L

Re: DB Backups keep using tapes?

1996-11-19 16:19:54
Subject: Re: DB Backups keep using tapes?
From: "Darren V. Croft" <croftd AT IBM DOT NET>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 16:19:54 -0500
On Tue, 19 Nov 1996 11:32:04 -0500, Joe Morris wrote:

>With every DB backup, ADSM wants a new, fresh backup tape to write that
>information.  How does one configure ADSM to keep appending to a previous
>tape.  This is eating media left and right and only taking up a fraction
>of the capacity.

You can't append DB backups, but you can use the old tapes and
over-write a previous backup. My understanding is that a DB Backup is a
complete backup anyway (as opposed to an incremental) so you probably
don't want or need more than a couple of old tapes.

Darren
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