The only thing that happens immediately when the del volh is run is
that the interface to your tms is driven to return the tapes to scratch.
If you get a list of the tapes you want to keep, you can go into the tms and
rescue them.

I think this is the best you can do, adsm can't be made to
selectively del volh some exports and not others.
You can copy the volumehistory file to be input to your manual
bookkeeping process.


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Bill Colwell
Bill Colwell
C. S. Draper Lab
Cambridge, Ma.
bcolwell AT draper DOT com
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In <0057540000063039000002L492*@MHS>, on 03/31/99
In <0057540000063039000002L492*@MHS>, on 03/31/99
   at 09:49 AM, Stephan Rittmann <srittmann AT FIDUCIA DOT DE> said:


>Hi all,

>I need some help in managing EXPORT tapes. We are using EXPORT to archive
>our servers every month. We can't use the real archive funktion because of
>the amount of data which would be transfered over the network with every
>archive event. And the database would become very big if we would use this
>way. So we do an export every month to use the data which is already in the
>ADSM server.

>We use the export funktion for other things, too. E.g. to move data from
>one ADSM server to a second one. After moving the data we don't need this
>export tapes any more. So we want to delete them with the DEL VOLHIST
>command.  But how can we protect the export tapes made for the archives?
>With DEL VOLHIST you can only define a TODATE option.

>Thanks for any help.

>Stephan Rittmann
>FIDUCIA AG, Karlsruhe
>Germany