10 in a day seems a bit much. Are these all being triggered, or do you
just like doing backups constantly? If they're not being triggred that
often, you can get better protection through the combination of
logmode=rollforward and mirroring your log and database, with much less
frequent database backups. It will cost much less, too, in terms of
tapes, tape drive occupancy, and how much your library's robot has to
run around inside his cage. This will free the poor beast up to service
migration, reclamation, and user restores, faster. Are you running into
the 5gb maximum log size? I can't think of any other reason to BACKUP DB
this frequently.

Roger Deschner      University of Illinois at Chicago     rogerd AT uic DOT edu
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>Hello all,
>
>A question about incremental DBbackups. If I run 10 incremental backups on
>the database per day will they all be written to the same tape, provided
>there is room, as long as the tape remains in the library?
>
>Thanks for the info,
>
>Geoff Gill
>TSM Administrator
>NT Systems Support Engineer
>SAIC
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