WAD - works as designed. You can't change this behavior.

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:  Herfried Abel [SMTP:HA7 AT DAIMLERCHRYSLER DOT COM]
> Gesendet am:  Freitag, 15. Oktober 1999 14:52
> An:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Betreff:      DBBACKUP Volumes
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question regarding the volumes used for DBBACKUPS. If I do a
> dbbackup
> with the command:
> 
> backup db devc=AUTO_TAPE_LIBRARY type=full ( or incr )
> 
> ADSM ( 3.1.2.20 on AIX ) always requests and gets a new scratch tape. So
> if I do
> this daily (incr) and weekly (full) and keep them for lets say 1 month I
> would
> need
> abouth 30+ tapes just for dbbackup. But there would be enough free space
> on one
> tape to hold lots of incremental backups ?
> 
> How can I change this behavior ??
> 
> Thanks for any advise
> 
> herfried