Ginnie, I think that you do not have to have the alternate tapes back in order to do recycle processing. HSM recycles the primary copies, then calls TVEXT with the volsers of primary and alternate tapes. RMM releases those volumes. If any alternate tapes are offsite when released they will be moved back automatically by RMM from the offsite location. So, if you recyle all those 5 days worth of volumes you get all5 days of the alternate tapes back in one go.
Mike Wood RMM Development On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:57:54 -0500, Ginnie Nuckles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We are running incremental backups nightly. We want to duplex this process >thereby creating a copy of the incremental tapes. By default HSM creates >all of these backup tapes with the name of DFHSM.COPY.BACKTAPE.DATASET. >This creates a problem with defining a VSR (vital statistics record) that >sends monday - fridays incremental copies to an offsite location. then >recalls all five days back at the same time for recycle processing .. I >hope this makes sense.. I cannot figure this out. Everything looks like its >designed to move only one tape in or out of a location at a time ,, >(especially when the tapes created all have the same dataset name) .. > >all help welcome >Ginnie Nuckles > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html >========================================================================= ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html