Hello Everyone! I create backupsets for DR purposes and I create them with a retention of 22 days. The day after creation I query the server for all backupsets created within the past day and then I have the tapes ejected and sent to our vault. I believe I might have the idea of how to bring them back skewed. If they have a retention period of 22 days and I run expiration every day, on the 23rd day will the backupsets be unknown to the TSM server? Here is an example:
3/1/05 - Create backupset 3/23/05 - backupset is 22 days old 3/24/05 - run expiration 3/24/05 - the tape is deleted from the volume history So I think that I would have to request the tape to come back from the vault on 3/23/05. Or is the best method to set the retention to 30 days, request the tapes to come back on the 23rd day and then run a delete volhist type=backupset begind=today-22? Please let me know if you have any suggestions and does anyone have such a process scripted? I believe that I can place all of the generate backupset jobs within 1 script and run them with wait=yes, but is there a way to query the system after the job is run for all backupset tapes just created? And would you just run a query everyday for any backupsets > 22 days old and then send the request to the vaulting company or is there a more efficient way of handling this? Thank you in advance for any suggestions or ideas! ******************************** Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ********************************
