So I assume you have multiple primary pools, including that dead Netware
pool, that back up into one copy pool?  And you want to delete just SOME of
the nodes out of the Copy Pool?

Only good way I can think of, is to run MOVE NODEDATA on those Netware
servers.

Start with empty scratch volumes; run MOVE NODEDATA to get the data from
those boxes onto new tapes.

Run: select distinct node_name  from volumeusage where volume_name='000XXX'
to verify FER SURE that there is no other data on the volume

Then:
delete volume 000XXX discarddata=yes

That will purge the data from THOSE volumes out of the copy pool.  And if
you never run backup stgpool on the Netware copy pool again, you should be
OK.






On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Norman Bloch <
Norman_Bloch AT readersdigest.tm DOT fr> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> TSM server 5.4.3 on Windows 2003 server.
>
> I have decommissioned all client Netware servers ; since their data were
> on a specific storage pool, only for netware files, I was able to move the
> related tapes out of the library ('move media ...' commands), because I'm
> running out of available storage space.
>
> I'm happy keeping that set of tapes in a safe, just in case I need to
> restore some data and I'd like to remove all references to those netware
> client nodes that are on the copy pool.
>
> The main reason is I'm expecting to get into trouble when space
> reclamation will run on the copy pool, with volumes turned as unavailable
> and so on.
>
> Of course, I could just delete the copy pool and re-create it from scratch
> by re-backing up all primary pools but it will take maybe a week or two
> and I'd like to avoid it.
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Norman
>