Angus, You can use the delete volhist command to move your older db backup tapes to scratch status. Look at help del volhist. There are various options to control which tapes handled.
len -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Angus Macdonald Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:11 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Total newbie question about DB Backups I'm just in the process of implementing TSM 5.3 for the first time in our environment and I'm following the TSM Implementation Guide (June 2006 edition) redbook very closely ;-) Things are going pretty well so far but I have a bit of an issue with my database backups. Every DB backup seems to use another scratch tape so my 3582 is going to run out of tapes very quickly. My backup command is Backup DB type=full devc=lto2-dc lifted directly from the redbook. How can I limit the number of tapes used for DB backups? I tried limiting the backup to a particular tape volume but the tape is apparently in use after the first backup and cannot be reused. Angus
