>-----Original Message-----
>From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:Wanda.Prather AT jhuapl DOT edu]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 7:50 AM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: removing last/only DBSnapshop
>
>
>Been there, I don't know the proper way to fix it.
>But here's a sneaky thing you can do if you have some free disk space:
>
>Do another DBSNAPSHOT to DISK.
>(You'll have to set up a FILE type DEVCLASS).
>Then you will have 2 DBSNAPSHOTS, so you can delete the
>DBSNAPSHOT that is
>on tape in your library.
>
>Then use whatever operating system command to scratch the disk
>DBSNAPSHOT,
>and free up your disk space.
>You will be left with a bogus entry in your VOLHISTORY file,
>but at least
>it's not taking up space...

I don't understand why this seems to be a problem. I do a dbsnapshot every
day I have it set up to delete anything older than 7 days and it works fine
for me.
del volhistory todate=today-7 type=dbsnapshot

Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
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