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Re: How to delete DB2 delta backups from TSM

2003-04-30 03:25:23
Subject: Re: How to delete DB2 delta backups from TSM
From: Gyula Bereczky <bx AT DATATRANS DOT HU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:24:51 +0200
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 08:37:46AM -0400, Jeffrey Renicker wrote:
> I was wondering how to go about deleting old DB2 delta and incremental
> backups from TSM.  I've looked at the redbook "Backing Up DB2 Using TSM"
> and it mentions using the db2adutl command.  That command, however, only
> allows the deletion of full, tablespace, and loadcopy backups.  I've got
> over 9TB of DB2 backups listed as incremental and delta by the "db2adutl
> query" command.  Does anyone know how to get rid of these old backups?

Right now I can not test it, but looking at the syntax graph it seems you
don't have to specify the backup type to delete them.
How about trying 'db2adutl delete older than xxxxx'?

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