Re: Rebinding backups of deleted files.

Wanda's suggestion is a good one. There are a few things you shouldconsider if you elect to take this route:

1) Before doing anything, check whether it will necessary to increase theverdeleted for this MC, so as to not inadvertently expire the client's dataprematurely. (If verdeleted is 1 for these unique files, backing up thedummy file(s) will cause the "real" data to roll off immediately.) If thischange would cause problems with retention of other clients' data, you cancopy the domain that the client is in, then update the client to belong tothe new domain. This effectively creates a "clean room" so that anychanges made to retentions will not affect other machines' data.

2) The time involved for step 2 (execution of the script, not the writing)could be considerable, depending on number of files, server platform,connection speed, etc. If at all possible, run the script on the clientmachine. I once tried to do this for a Netware client running Groupwise,and wound up taking a different route entirely because the creation of thedummy files was agonizing slow over the network. Testing the scriptlocally on my laptop worked fine.

3) It might be easier to get the file list for step one by running a querybackup from the client rather than a Select from the server. Getting thistype of information from the administrative client can be verytime-consuming, particularly if your DB is large.


Ted

At 09:58 AM 3/30/2004 -0500, you wrote:

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

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Von: Alan Davenport [mailto:Alan.Davenport AT SELECTIVE DOT COM]
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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