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Thanks Mike and Sue, I thought versioning was pretty cool in theory. in practice, it sucks. ;) i'll make the changes this weekend and manually expire the tapes in a week. Thanks again, On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 23:45:44 +0000 (UTC), Sue Baker <smbaker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > rick baird wrote: > > > 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? > > > > Yes, this is your problem. Versions in BRMS means that you want > to make sure you have at least the number of versions you set the > value to. > > Let's say you specify 5 versions, tapes will not start expiring > until you have a copy on disk and at least 4 copies on tapes. As > you mentioned, when you delete a library, you can never get the > tapes to expire. This is to make sure you have the requisite > number of versions. > > This feachure of BRMS is one of the reasons that most people do > not use versions and instead use number of days with a strategy > similar to yours. > > -- > Sue > iSeries Advanced Technical Sales Support > Rochester, MN > > > > -- > 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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