Rick, Actually, if you have a several day reuse delay period defined on your tape storage pools, you can roll back your database that many days and your tapes are guaranteed to not have been overwritten. All the data will still be there because objects are just expired from the database, not physically overwritten. Well, as long as nothing breaks, anyway. Audit the diskpool volumes and you should be good to go. If you're outside your reuse delay period, tapes may have been overwritten. I hope that helps. Alex -----Original Message----- From: Richard L. Rhodes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 5:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is there a way to delete all files that were backed up lastnight for certain clients On 19 Sep 2001, at 10:35, David Longo wrote: > That question has come up here about viruses. I don't think there is an > easy way. Maybe someone has some experience/ideas. Lets suppose that instead of just a few clients, you wanted to do this for all clients - or at least be willing to accept loosing all backups from the previous night . . . . . Could you restore the db to the previous backup, and if in rollforware mode, roll forward to before the backups started? I've often wondered what would happen in this situation because what's on tape wouldn't match what is in the db. This would be especially true if migration, expiration, and reclamation have run. This situation is always true if your db backups are done in normal mode (NOT using roll-forward). In this case, any db restore will always leave the db out of sync with what's on tape. I've never had a good explanation of this situation, and the documentation is completely silent. Rick "WorldSecure <Freightliner.com>" made the following annotations on 09/19/01 09:30:19 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] -- Content Manager: The information contained in this communication is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by phone if possible or via email message. ==============================================================================
