How about:

1) Pull a list of all those files from TSM with SELECT
2) write a script that creates an empty dummy file of the same name
3) backup (thus rebing)
3) delete



-----Original Message-----
From: Salak Juraj [mailto:j.salak AT ASAMER DOT AT] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:33 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: AW: Rebinding backups of deleted files.


1) restore,
2) backup (thus rebind)
3) delete

See it positive - as a recovery test :-)

regards
juraj

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Alan Davenport [mailto:Alan.Davenport AT SELECTIVE DOT COM]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 30. März 2004 16:07
An: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Betreff: Rebinding backups of deleted files.


Hello Group,

     Just when you think you know how something works...

     I recently discovered that a user backup directory was not following
standard naming conventions and for this reason I was keeping 1 year's worth
of backups rather than 45 days. Their application creates unique names for
each backup then deletes old backups. I added and include option for their
backup directory for the 45 day management class and ran a backup. The
existing files in the directory rebound correctly to the 45 day class
however the TSM backups of the deleted files are still bound to the default
management class and will not go away for a year. This is causing me to
retain many many gigabytes more data than necessary. Is there any way to get
those files rebound to the 45 day class?


     Thanks,
         Al

Alan Davenport
Senior Storage Administrator
Selective Insurance Co. of America
alan.davenport AT selective DOT com
(973) 948-1306