Cindy,

What is your "DB Backup Series Expiration Days" set to?  (you can find this by
using the command: "q drmst".  If that is set to 5 or more days, the tape will
vanish.  That is because you are telling the drmedia manager to hold it longer
than ADSM is.  It will never be put in the vault retrieve state.

What I do is run delete volhist type=dbbackup todatae=today-12 and set my  "DB
Backup Series Expiration Days" to 7 days.  This puts the tapes in the vault
retrieve state for 5 days which gives me some breathing room.  This said, I am
still having tapes vanish.  Some are DB Backups, some are not.

Scott







"Bowers, Cindy Ann (CRD)" <bowers AT CRD.GE DOT COM> on 04/29/99 07:02:52 AM

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Subject:  Re: Disaster-Recovery, Tapes Vanishing!




To answer both Trevor and Edi,

My server is on AIX at version 3.1.15 and we are using DRM. DRM successfully
sends the DB Backup
tapes offsite, but never asks for them back.  I am confirming this by querying
the volhist daily for
dbbackup.  The tape that is 6 days old (the retention is set at 5) disappears
completely from DRM.

Cindy Ann
GE Corp Research & Development