According to his original email, the DBBackup tapes stay ONSITE. For the 
DBBackup tapes to be expired via DRM and expiration they
need to be OFFSITE. He'll have to use the DEL VOLHIST command if he keeps them 
onsite.


Bill Boyer
"Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield" - ??

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Bell, Charles (Chip)
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 12:19 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Database backup tapes taking over

In DRM, you need to set a value for 'DB Backup Series Expiration Days', I think 
with the 'set drmdbbackupexpiredays xx', xx being
the number of days you wish to retain db backups offsite before returning. Hope 
this helps! Once you run this command, you will get
those tapes back.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Dennis Melburn W IT743
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 10:30 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Database backup tapes taking over

I have noticed that ever since I started using the DRM, alot of my TSM servers 
have been steadily decreasing in scratch tapes by
alot.  My servers are scheduled to run a Full Database backup once per day, 
with a a Database Snapshot once per week.  The full
database copies stay on site, while the snapshot gets sent off site weekly.  I 
have the database expire variable in the DRM set to
14 days.  The question I have is why do all my sites have like 40-60 database 
tapes, when there should only be 14.  Am I doing
something wrong?


 Mel Dennis

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