Sorry about that - take 2


Hi All

I have a customer with a small TSM Setup on windows , DB is only 3GB.  TSM
is 5.3.4

Last August the legal eagles decreed that all expiration was to stop, and
my predecessors did this.  We are now at breaking point with a tape library
that is about to burst, and finally someone (me) decided to do something
about it.

The majority of the data is exchange backups,  with a twice a week full,
four times a day incremental backup strategy.  Legal has finally decided
that

We need to keep all backups from the earliest we have to end of August.
>From end of August to mid Feb we can delete all incrementals and all full
backups except the last one of every month.

I can see no way of doing this from the exchange client

using the dsmc client to connect I can see appropriately named files for
full  backups and incrementals when I use the "q backup {filespace}\
-subdir=y"

Attempting a delete backup of any sort or even a q backup on a fully
qualified name gives me a no files found message

tsm> q backup  {BLKVMSG001A\BLK1ASG4}\data\0000\BLK1ASG4A250\full
-inactive
ANS1092W No files matching search criteria were found

Is there any way around this? or can API -created files only be deleted by
the API?


Thanks

Steve

Steve Harris
TSM Admin, Sydney Australia