Add the option totime=now to your command, this should delete all backups
except the last one.

Guillaume Gilbert
IT Specialist - TSM
Infrastructure Services Delivery
IBM Global Services
Tel.:  (514) 964-2795
ggilbert AT ca.ibm DOT com



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Hi

Write the command
Del volh type=dbb volume= AKZ901L1 todate=[the date u want to del ]
force=yes

The force=yes will delete it anyway


AH

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Strasheim [mailto:ms AT DEFINITIV-BA DOT DE]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 10:21 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: AW: Deleting volhistory

Thanks for the answers,
i guess, i had left to much open.
I have made a complete backup just to delete the old one.
If i got i right: A two backups must exists, so that one can be delete.
This this isn't that hard to accomplish, i just did it.

the output of q volh: ( well not all but ...  )
-------------------------------------------------------
        Date/Time: 07/29/04   10:18:58
     Volume Type: BACKUPFULL
   Backup Series: 2
Backup Operation: 0
      Volume Seq: 1
    Device Class: AUTOLTO_CLASS
     Volume Name: AKZ901L1
 Volume Location:
         Command:

       Date/Time: 08/17/04   10:06:05
     Volume Type: BACKUPFULL
   Backup Series: 3
Backup Operation: 0
      Volume Seq: 1
    Device Class: AUTOLTO_CLASS
     Volume Name: AKZ911L1
 Volume Location:
         Command:
-------------------------------------------------------

the command: del volh type=dbb todate="anyvalue" -> always answers with:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 0 sequential volume history entries were successfully deleted.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
which is in turn not really so successfull as it stats!

so again, what did i miss ???
or how to get rid of old database backups ???


With regrads
Mark Strasheim