I too have the same issue, and that answered one of my questions, the
next is does the TSM server service itself have to be brought down
before deleting them? 

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Richard Sims
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 10:35 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Safe to delete or move .dmp files

On May 25, 2007, at 9:17 AM, Chris McKay wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I currently have quite limited system drive space on one of my TSM
> servers
> (Running on Windows 2000). In an effort to clean up some space I was
> wondering if it would be possible to move or delete a couple of
> files. The
> file names are dsmserv.dmp and dsmsvc.dmp. As they are .dmp files I am
> assuming they will be recreated if necessary, but I was just
> wondering if
> it would be safe to remove them. They are using up a considerable
> amount
> of space (close to 1GB per file).
>
> Any info would be appreciated.

Chris -

Those are TSM server crash dump files in Windows, from when the
server was running as a Windows service, and when it was not.  If the
info in them is no longer needed in pursuing the crash case, then I
believe they can be disposed of to reclaim needed space.

    Richard Sims, at Boston University