Michael Hull <mhull AT UOTTAWA DOT CA> schrieb:
> I can not guarantee that the following is true, but it is my
> experience.
>
> When an expire process runs, it reports the number of objects
> examined.  From what I can determine, this is the number of
> inactive backup objects, which is the maximum number of objects
> that would be deleted by lowering the retention limits to keep only
> the active backups.

good idea, but ... not true. I just did a test on a small server (4.1.2.0):

tsm: TSM02>select count(*) from backups where state='INACTIVE_VERSION'

 Unnamed[1]
-----------
     325347
     325347

tsm: TSM02>expi inven

ANR0812I Inventory file expiration process 65 completed: examined 31689
objects, deleting 3258 backup objects, 0 archive objects, 0 DB backup volumes,
and 0 recovery plan files. 0 errors were encountered.


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