ADSM-L

Re: Ramifications of delete vol xxxxxx discardd=y

2007-03-09 10:40:43
Subject: Re: Ramifications of delete vol xxxxxx discardd=y
From: Bob Booth <booth AT UIUC DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 09:40:24 -0600
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 09:35:14AM -0600, Bell, Charles (Chip) wrote:
> Quick question. If I delete a volume to get it back from a read-only access
> state into the scratch pool, will the next incremental backup for the node
> data affected back up those files again? Does the database know that there
> are no longer references for that node data on primary storage? If not, what
> is the alternative than 'delete vol', restoring the vol from copy stgpool?

The data will be backed up once again by TSM.  If you do a delete volume on
the primary, the references to the copy data will also be deleted, and a
backup stg will pick that up as well.

hth,

bob