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Rick, It probably is. Generational backup have to go x+1 backups for the tape to expire. I have found it easier and more trouble free to manage by days with BRMS. We have a pretty vanilla environment that allows for that. <hth> Regards, Mike Shaw -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rick baird Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 11:06 AM To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion Subject: BRMS and expiring tapes Hey all, I'm just starting to get a hang of BRMS. If anyone else out there is using it, i've got a couple questions. I've been tweaking the backups, by excluding certain static libraries from the daily backup. I do full backups once a week. The problem is that if I tweak the daily, it pretty much locks in the last x number of backups for that set, and won't expire them. I'm using retain by versions rather than days - is that my problem? It seems that if I exclude a library from the daily backup, it needs to keep x copies of it before expiring, and since those librarys aren't backed up each night anymore, it keeps the whole set. This also happens when I delete a library. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Rick -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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