Just lower the reclamation threshold at some point (maybe Sunday) to
combine your partial offsite tapes into full ones.  That's what I do.
Otherwise it's an awful lot of unnecessary work and tape i/o.

Tina Hilton
Thomson Consumer Electronics
> ----------
> From:         Ben Kokenge[SMTP:ben AT EDMS DOT NET]
> Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent:         Monday, March 02, 1998 12:13 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      offsite copypool and DRM
>
> I am setting up DRM and here is what I want to do:
>
> 1)  Once a week (Sunday) do a full backup of my primary stgpools
>       to an offsite disaster-recovery copypool.  DRM kicks out tapes
>       for offsite.
>
> 2)  Monday-Saturday do incr backup to the disaster-recovery
>      copypool.  DRM kicks out tapes for offsite.
>
> Now here is my question, how can I get DRM to checkin the old
> disaster-recovery tapes and let me make a new FULL backup
> of my primary stgpools on Sundays again?
>
> I know I may get blasted here for doing full backups, but if I keep
> doing incr backups, then I will soon have 100's of 3590's offsite
> that are only partly full.
>
> What would be nice is some sort of differential backup that would
> combine all the days of incremental backups to one big incr backup.
>
> Any help out there?
>
> --
> Benjamin Kokenge
>