Is it possible that you have not been running the Backup EXPIRE processing or the recycle processing (for a long time)?
I had a site that "thought" they were doing it on a schedule and it turned out they had not executed it in over 10 years. Their use of tape for HSM was cut in 1/2 in a single day. Also, you probably want to make sure that your HSM tapes are not separate from your regular tapes, because over time HSM will just eat them up since he never has to give them back. You might also want to look into the number of backup versions you are keeping for your datasets, some sites have some pretty large numbers for both production and test data, and they end up with a very large percentage of their space being taken up by a huge number of test datasets that they will never use again. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
