Re: BRMS Media and expiration dates

Le jeu. 05 mai 2005 16:40:04, rick baird écrivait:

> BRMS question:
> 
> I've got a couple tapes in my tape library that show an expiration
> data of 4/20/05 and 4/25/05, yet they aren't expired.
> 
> They were both used for incremental daily backups using the same
> backup control group and there's been a full backup since these were
> done - (the full backup was done from a different backup control
> group).  Each serial set on the tapes are expired.

You may want to see the content of the tape, to check if there is no 
file which is not expired.

> 
> The caveat may be that minor changes have been made to the backup
> group - tweaking the omit list etc - that may be causing some objects
> on these backups to not appear on the fulls.
> 
> Is this my problem?  Will I have to manually expire tapes if I tweak
> the omit list, or delete a library, or an IFS directory, will this
> cause my tapes to not expire?
> 

This could be the reason. It I remember well, for example, when you 
delete a library, the tapes that contain this library never expire 
because BRMS cannot decide by itself anything about the library. The 
right process in this case would be to use an archive control group.

You can use the STREXPBRM command to see then force if your couple of 
tapes are in this case.


> Thanks,
> 
> Rick
> 



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