Have you try to exclude the file ?
In the dsm.sys file (AIX example):
...
...
Inclexcl           /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/inclexcl.txt
...
...
In the inclexcl.txt file:
...
exclude /filesystem/directory/filename.ext
...
That will take care yr problem in the next backup and the next expire
inventory process.

There is a way to digg in the TSM database and delete the file, but is very
sensitive and easy to destroy yr database integrity... and at the end of the
day is not going to help you much, if the next night you back it up again,
so you have to deal with the root case of yr problem, just don't back it up.

Cheers.

Othonas


Joe Spade wrote:

> Does anyone know of a way to manually delete one file off backups.  I
> don't want to change the management policy on retention.  We have a
> single big file that gets backed up daily.  It also gets deleted daily.
> The name changes on a daily basis, so we start taking up a lot of tape
> space in the deleted retention.  I need to delete the one file manually.