The service does not need to be disturbed James. You can simply remove the
files. I have cleaned up the space and things look much nicer.

Thanks to all.

Have a great weekend.

Chris

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> writes:
>I too have the same issue, and that answered one of my questions, the
>next is does the TSM server service itself have to be brought down
>before deleting them? 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
>Richard Sims
>Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 10:35 AM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Safe to delete or move .dmp files
>
>On May 25, 2007, at 9:17 AM, Chris McKay wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I currently have quite limited system drive space on one of my TSM
>> servers
>> (Running on Windows 2000). In an effort to clean up some space I was
>> wondering if it would be possible to move or delete a couple of
>> files. The
>> file names are dsmserv.dmp and dsmsvc.dmp. As they are .dmp files I am
>> assuming they will be recreated if necessary, but I was just
>> wondering if
>> it would be safe to remove them. They are using up a considerable
>> amount
>> of space (close to 1GB per file).
>>
>> Any info would be appreciated.
>
>Chris -
>
>Those are TSM server crash dump files in Windows, from when the
>server was running as a Windows service, and when it was not.  If the
>info in them is no longer needed in pursuing the crash case, then I
>believe they can be disposed of to reclaim needed space.
>
>    Richard Sims, at Boston University
>




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