I would agree, if you haven't gotten a Dbbackup in months... then, you aren't serious about DR, or even day to day backups really.
But to answer the expire question... set the ExpInterval option in the dsmserv.opt file to 0, or do "setopt ExpInterval 0" from the command line. ------------------------------------ David N. Reiss 407-736-3912 TSM Support Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...one of God's own prototypes -- a high-powered mutant of some kind who was never even considered for mass production. He was too weird to live and too rare to die. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Schaub [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 1:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM and DR If someone has not taken a TSM DB backup for 3 months, they weren't really serious about DR in the first place. Steve Schaub Systems Engineer Haworth, Inc 616-393-1457 (desk) 616-412-0544 (numeric page) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (text page) WWJWMTD -----Original Message----- From: Gerald Wichmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 1:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM and DR Say for a moment you're faced with recovering a TSM server in a DR situation. You have your DB backup and copypool tapes and perform a database recovery. If that DB was created back in January and it's now March, isn't there a potential for objects getting expired the first time you start the TSM server? E.g. when the TSM server is started it typically performs an expire inventory as part of that sequence. I would imagine that now that it's 2 months later, would it therefore start expiring objects that you probably don't want to have expired? If not, why not? If so, whats the appropriate step to take before starting the TSM server (or perhaps even before recovering the DB) to ensure expire inventory doesn't ruin your recovery? I recall there being an option in dsmserv.opt that allows you to turn off automatic expire inventory. That seems like a good idea.. but what if there was an admin schedule that runs expire inventory back then and you happen to start the recovery while in the schedule's window? I think you can see what I'm getting at with all this. I want to make sure all my bases are covered..
