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Re: rebinding file backups

2006-04-10 02:33:11
Subject: Re: rebinding file backups
From: Volker Maibaum <volker.maibaum AT EBERSPAECHER DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:31:43 +0200
Hi,

why don't you just do a "q backup" and look for the files that should be
gone according to the new policy. (this can be easily scripted with a
bit of grep, awk, or perl knowledge.).
Put this filelist in a file and do a "delete backup
-filelist=myfilelist".

regards,

Volker

Am Freitag, den 07.04.2006, 10:45 -0600 schrieb Ben Bullock:
>       If the files still exist on the client, then they will be
> rebound to the new management class.
>       If the files no longer exist on the client, they will keep their
> original retention.
>
>       I know of no way to change files management class once the file
> has been deleted from the client.
>
>       I believe I have heard of folks creating new 0-byte files with
> the same names and running an incremental to make them get rebound to
> the new MC.
>
> Ben
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of
> Levi, Ralph
> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 10:33 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: rebinding file backups
>
> I am running a tsm 5.2.7 (AIX) server and W2K3 client w/tsm 5.3 .  I
> originally was backing up everything with a 90 day retention class but
> now I have some specific files that I only want keep for 9 days.  I
> added an "include" statement for just the 2 directory structures I want
> changed and left the generic include alone.  The order of the includes
> is as seen below.
>
> Since I made the change newly backed up files in the directories noted
> are now backed up with 9day_retention , but the files that were
> previously backed up still have the 90day_retention management class on
> them.
>
> Can anyone explain why the old backups did not rebind with the new
> management class ?  I know in the past if I changed the "include *
> mgmt_class" it would rebind everything.
>
> Thanks for the help and have a nice weekend, Ralph
>
> Include *             90DAY_RETENTION
> include "e:\Database backups\...\...\*.bak"     9DAY_RETENTION
> include "e:\Station Files\...\...\*.*"                  9DAY_RETENTION
>

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