Hi Anton,

1) DB

to see how many tapes are reserved for DB backup, type the following

adsm > q volhistory type=dbb 

Then if you wnat to keep only the DB backup for a month, you can type

adsm > del volh type=dbb todate=today-30

All the volumes (disk file if any, and tapes) will be free-ed, and tapes
will return to scratch pool

2) cleaning
Which version of TSM Are you running, on which platform
I don't know if this library is cleaning-enabled with TSM.

Depending on your TSM version and library, you could either :

let the lib do the cleans when needed. Clean tape must be in a specific
slot
tell TSM that the slot X contains a cleaning tape
manually loads the cleaning tape into the drive and clean it (unlucky guy)


Rv


> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Anton Gubarkov [mailto:Anton.Gubarkov AT SONY DOT RU]
> Envoyé : vendredi 30 mars 2001 16:20
> À : ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Objet : dbbackup tapes expiration
> 
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> my tsm server is eating cartridges for db backup like an 
> elephant. I use only
> full db backups (max db size is estimated to 6GB and I use 
> DLT IV tapes). Every
> time I run dbbackup it picks up a new scratch cart. I have a 
> small library (IBM
> 3502-r14 14 slots 2 DLT drives barcode reader) and I wonder 
> how I could make
> best use of it for backup purposes.
> 
> I also couldn't figure out how to check in the cleaning cart. 
> Every time I try
> to checkin the cart manually I get the error: Library full. 
> When I use checkin
> search=yes the cleaning cart is not seen, although it is seen 
> from library
> control panel. And actually why I can't checkin volumes manually?
> 
> Suppose I wan to do a massive client restore. (Some fool get 
> a virus and had his
> HDD formatted). I have a lot of volumes in the overflow 
> location. I defined
> collocation for DLT storage pool. Can I pre-checkin needed 
> volumes to the
> library and then start restore? How?
> 
> I hope these are not very big questions for you.
> 
> Regards,
> Anton Gubarkov.
> Tel. +7 095 258 7626
> Fax +7 095 258 7650
>