Well far from not being able to "afford" the tapes, I can't "afford" not to be able to restore back that far. As demonstrated recently when a "minor" issue prior to me leaving on two weeks holiday, turned out to require a full restore from DB from before the problem arose. Tricky to do with only 2 or 3 days DB backups ;)
Regards, Iain Barnetson IT Systems Administrator UKN Infrastructure Operations T: +44 1224 776913 M: +44 7787 916721 F: +44 1224 776641 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: 14 February 2005 17:45 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Database backup volume deletion >>I backup the DB each and every day, and before & after any changes, and keep (now at least) 28 days copies << Do you also have your offsite storagepool reuse delay set to 28 days? If the data tapes have been reused, the data base backup will not do you any good. Since few of us can afford to keep 28 days worth of expired tapes offsite, most of us only keep data base backups for 3-5 days. David
