TSM Server 5.1.6.5 on AIX 4.3 TSM Client 5.1.6.0 on HPUX 11i Hi,
we are doing image backup of raw devices every day directly to tapes. The copygroup settings, to which are bound these backups are: Policy Domain Name: HPUX-MTEL Policy Set Name: HPUX-MTEL Mgmt Class Name: LEAPT Copy Group Name: STANDARD Copy Group Type: Backup Versions Data Exists: 5 Versions Data Deleted: 1 Retain Extra Versions: 15 Retain Only Version: 30 Copy Mode: Absolute Copy Serialization: Shared Static Copy Frequency: 0 Copy Destination: LEAPT-LTO ast Update by (administrator): MILIEVA Last Update Date/Time: 06/04/2003 10:56:51 Every backup goes in parallel to 2 tapes, which we make readonly after that by some reasons, so normally when expiration occurs the oldest 2 tapes goes to scratch. But one backup didn't completed successfully, so only half of the raw devices were backuped. As I knew that there were no changes on the client, I deleted the volumes with the broken backup and started a new one. After that day, we have a 2 tapes, that have some data expired on them: T00005 LEAPT-LTO L700-LTO1 290,071.6 73.8 Filling T00006 LEAPT-LTO L700-LTO1 288,035.2 100.0 Filling T00010 LEAPT-LTO L700-LTO1 288,051.2 29.2 Filling T00019 LEAPT-LTO L700-LTO1 290,087.6 100.0 Filling T00027 LEAPT-LTO L700-LTO1 290,087.6 100.0 Filling T00030 LEAPT-LTO L700-LTO1 287,219.1 100.0 Filling T00035 LEAPT-LTO L700-LTO1 290,903.7 100.0 Filling T00079 LEAPT-LTO L700-LTO1 288,035.2 100.0 Filling T00092 LEAPT-LTO L700-LTO1 288,151.4 100.0 Filling T00093 LEAPT-LTO L700-LTO1 289,971.4 100.0 Filling A select on contents table for that node shows me that there are 4 versions for the raw devices belonging to the broken backup, and 5 for the others. But there are 4 successfull backups for that node since then. I expected on the next backup to have 5 versions for all raw devices, but it continues keeping different versions of different data bound to one management class! And I'm sure that all data from that node go exactly to that management class. What do you think - is this a normal behaviour?? Maria Ilieva