You only have to pay for the 1's you write on the tape.  The unused portion
is free.  In the case of the DB tape, however, the information is more
valuable than the data on primary or copy storage pool tapes, so the cost
per 1 is higher.  Thus, you can't use the whole tape.

Bill Smoldt
STORServer, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Lucian Greis
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 8:20 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Antwort: Re: each dbbackup to new tape?

well, having a small database (500MB) and a large tape (400GB) it's at
least a waste of tapes..

Regards, Lucian





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this is the way it ment to be ... i believe there is no logic in making
dbbackups on same tape
but you can always consult pdf-s ...

greetz

goran



----- Original Message -----
From: "Lucian Greis" <lgreis AT MKV DOT DE>
To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 3:13 PM
Subject: each dbbackup to new tape?


> Hi list,
>
> I'm rather green with TSM, actually working through my first
> client-project with it and have come to a (small for sure) problem
> System: TSM 5.2 on SuSe SLES8, feeding an Adic Scalar24 with one
IBM-LTO2.
> Basically, the system works.
> Whenever I command a dbBackup, wether full or incremetal, TSM wants to
> write to a scratch tape only. If i give the volser of a tape used for an
> earlier dbbackup explicitly, TSM says the tape is full (which it is
not).
> Can someone point me to the right direction?
>
> Regards, Lucian Greis
> MKV GmbH