RE: BRMS and expiring tapes

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

  

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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
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