Put us in the missing DRM tape group also. Just last week we requested all
tapes back from offsite and did a physical inventory. Found 18 tapes that
weren't in the database.

Also have quit running the del volhist command. I have a couple of DBBACKUP
tapes in vaultretrieve right now. I was expecting to see more. Need to dig a
little more into that.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin
Enterprise Information Systems
Gaithersburg Md.
301-240-6305


                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Scott Fluegge [mailto:sfluegge AT VENATORGROUP DOT COM]
                Sent:   Friday, May 28, 1999 8:17 AM
                To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
                Subject:        Re: DRM Losing Tapes

                Hi all, I am the person that was going to open a case with
IBM about the missing
                tapes.

                I still plan to do so but I am trying to document the tape
loss as completely as
                possible.  I too was running the del volhist command which I
have since stopped.
                That did reduce the number of tapes I am loosing but it is
still happening.  I
                have been running the q libv and q drmedia commands and
saving them to a file
                every day.  What I have noticed is that all the tapes I
loose are Data Base
                Backups and they seem to only be in the vault retrieve state
for one day if at
                all.  Once I can get a better picture of which tapes are
vanishing, and when, I
                will open a case.  Are we three the only that have had this
problem or have
                others noticed this?

                Scott Fluegge
                Venator Group