Hi,
    Normally volhist contains two type of "volumes list " one is volumes
used for dbbackup and 2nd used for volumes having B/a client backup.
          ==> delete volhist command should only be used with type=dbbackup,
provided you are taking regular backup of TSM DATABASE.
          ==>Volumes containg B/A client backup will get free automatically
and will be deleted and added with respect to retention period.

  So running   delete volhist tod=today-31 type=all  will result in lost of
history of B/client data volumes which can be painfull.. 

  And now the question u asked :
                 U can use delete volhist tod=today-8 type=dbbackup so keep
previous 7 versions of db.

With Best Regards,
Sandeep Jain
 
 
 
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Joni Moyer
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 1:27 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Retention of the Volume History


Hello everyone,

I am trying to figure out how long to keep my volume history for....  I had
been keeping it for 30 days, but is there any reason to keep it longer than
that?  Thanks!

This is the job I had been running: delete volhist tod=today-31 type=all

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