Agreed.  That's what I do, too.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Remeta, Mark [SMTP:MRemeta AT SELIGMANDATA DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 3:05 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: DRM on AIX
>
> I think that after you do the q drm * wherest=vaultr you should follow
> that
> with a move drm * wherest=vaultr
> this will put those volumes in the courierretrieve state.
> After you get the tapes back from the vault do a move drm *
> wherest=courierr
> and that will move them to onsiteretrieve and delete the volumes from the
> database.
>
> Mark
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Virginia Hysock [SMTP:vhysock AT CSC DOT COM]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 2:51 PM
> > To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject:      DRM on AIX
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >      Can someone help me out with the sequence of events in the process
> of
> > returning tapes from a state of VAULTRETRIEVE under DRM to a state of
> > ONSITERETRIEVE??  I can't quite get it right - no matter how hard I
> try!!
> >
> >      My plan is to do this once per week.  On Monday morning I query
> > drmedia wherestate=vaultretrieve, which gives me a list of volumes to be
> > returned.  I print a report based on this list, and send it to the
> offsite
> > operator for them to be returned the following day.  On Tuesday morning
> I
> > planned on performing the move drmedia wherestate=vaultretrieve
> > tostate=onsiteretrieve (followed by the checkin libv command) - but when
> I
> > first query the vaultretrieve state I have one additional volume that
> was
> > not on the list on Monday!  I suppose this is the db backup that expired
> > when I created a new version later Monday.  There must be a way,
> however,
> > to seal the original retrieve list created on Monday, so that they can
> be
> > moved and checked in on Tuesday.
> >
> >      What am I doing wrong here?  I've been fooling with DRM for over a
> > month now and still can't get it right.  Thanks for any pointers....
> >
> >                               Ginny