How about renaming the filespace at the appropriate time.
Then the next backup will be a full backup; when that is completed,
and copypooled, and a dbbackup is done etc, you can delete the renamed
filespace.

Hope this helps,

Bill

At 03:48 PM 6/25/2002, you wrote:
>Thanks for the reply John
>
>Delete filespace I have used in the past...issus is, there is a particualar
>job that runs in this filesystem for 7 days, that I need to hold on to until
>the beginning of the new 7 days of backups...problem is I can't afford to
>delete the filespace before the 7th day backup...at that point I have no
>backup, it is for a short amount of time with hope that the backups do not
>fail, but as everyone knows...that's when Murphy's law comes into play...I
>need to get that 7th day backup and then delete the prior backup which means
>the delete filespace can't be used.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:Talafous AT TIMKEN DOT COM]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 1:08 PM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: Expiring Data...in an unconventional manner
>
>
>Check out the DELETE FILESPACE command.
>
>John G. Talafous              IS Technical Principal
>The Timken Company            Global Software Support
>P.O. Box 6927                 Data Management
>1835 Dueber Ave. S.W.         Phone: (330)-471-3390
>Canton, Ohio USA  44706-0927  Fax  : (330)-471-4034
>talafous AT timken DOT com           http://www.timken.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Hagopian, George [mailto:GHagopian AT ICTGROUP DOT COM]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 11:27 AM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Expiring Data...in an unconventional manner
>
>
>Greetings all...
>
>Interesting dilemma...I have an AIX box (unix server) that I am backing up
>via TSM 4.2...and I need to expire the data on a particular filesystem every
>7 days but (knew that was coming) I need to keep the rest of the filesystems
>on the AIX box forever...is there a way to do this?...ok I know there has to
>be but I just don't see the light....some one show me the light please
>
>Thank You Very Much
>George Hagopian
>ICT Group Inc
>AIX/TSM Admin

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Bill Colwell
Bill Colwell
C. S. Draper Lab
Cambridge Ma.