One of the TSM clients, having SAP R/3 and Oracle database, backup fails regularly. We have set the Versions to be 28 in the initSID.utl file. I believe that if the backup fails the TSM is not aware of the version and it will not increase the versions. However we do backup the remaining files where the original backup dies. Now would that be considered as the second backup or not. I am asking this because we are not getting any tapes back from offsite. I am assuming the backups are not expiring. Can someone please clarify how TSM or Backint keeps track of the versions and if my belief is incorrect. Thanks Raminder Braich
