Good point Dave. I am moving my PREPARE to after my MOVE DRMEDIA that ejects my database tape.
> -----Original Message----- > From: David Bronder [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 8:24 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Re: Order of daily administrative events > > Coats, Jack wrote: > > > > Ours is slightly different, > > > [...snip...] > > > make DR plan file > > eject copypool tape volumes and db backup, put dr plan on > offsite > > media to go with the db backup. > > [...snip...] > > If I understand how PREPARE creates the DR plan file, this order will > result in a recovery script that won't work like you expect. It will > mark all the copy pool and DB backup tapes still on-site at the time > PREPARE was run as DESTROYED. > > If you reverse the order (MOVE DRMEDIA first, then PREPARE), the plan > file will think the most recent DB backup and copy pool tapes are > available for use (because they were considered off-site at the time). > > =Dave > > -- > Hello World. David Bronder - Systems > Admin > Segmentation Fault ITS-SPA, Univ. of > Iowa > Core dumped, disk trashed, quota filled, soda warm. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]