Mark,
The backups are normally deleted by a scheduled task. eg.
Administrative command schedules : DELETEDBBACKUP
Schedule Name DELETEDBBACKUP
Description Delete old database backups
Command delete volhist type=dbb todate=today-3
Priority 5
Start date 2000-12-14
Start time 15:00:00
Duration 1
Duration units HOURS
Period 1
Period units DAYS
Day of Week ANY
Expiration -
Active? YES
Last Update Date/Time 2001-05-29 09:24:28.000000
Type "help delete volhist" for further details.
Rgds
Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 16 August 2002 15:48
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Database backup retentions question
We are backing up our database with the following command setup in an admin
script.
backup db devclass=ltoclass type=full
Is there a setting that tells how many copies of the database to keep?
My goal is to free or reclaim some tape volumes.
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