Space in tapes

[gcrisostomo]

Hi, I'm having a serious trouble with space in tapes. I have some old backups of Notes databases (.nsf) and I wish to know if it's possible to delete from tapes, only a certain extension. A selective exclusion, where I want to delete all the "nsf" files from my tapes.

Is that possible?

Thank you.

[tariq.kaifi]

Delete those nodes/filespaces from TSM server and reclamation will free up the space.

[gcrisostomo]

Hi, tariq.kaifi, thank your for your respo

Didn't get what you meant. Sorry, I'm a little new with this. How do I delete theses nodes/filespaces? Could you send me any guide where it can be explained?

[pappumobile]

Following are the detailed commands,
q occupancy node_name ------ this command tells you where your data is....
q filespace node_name ----- this command tells you what data is stored for mentioned node in server storage.
delete filespace-------- ...... do help on this command and use this command to deletes backup and archive data from server storage


--Asif

[tariq.kaifi]

Be alert before deleting, that file spaces do not contain any other data that you need!

[gcrisostomo]

Hi guys, thank you for your answers.
So, one last doubt. Once I delete the filespaces, Do I need to perform anything else? Or the tapes wil be "automatically" recognized with "free space"???

[Rumesh]

Can't do it. Explain, as gently as possible, that tape storage is
sequential, not random, and thus you can't just "delete" any one file.
it's all or nothing.

Now if he wants to buy you a new machine that you can do a complete
restore to, then delete the file, then do a new backup . . . . .

[gcrisostomo]

Thank you all guys. With your help I could discover where to find the information I needed =) Thanks a lot.