Great. Thanks once again Richard.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Richard Sims
Sent: 28 January 2008 12:54
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Archived data, deleted from Tivoli but still on
tape. Normal?


On Jan 28, 2008, at 7:32 AM, Angus Macdonald wrote:

> I've just finished archiving 2TB of data from a fileserver. Once
> complete (it took 5 days but that's another issue) I ran a "delete
> backup" command at the client and 2.9 million files were removed
> from the database. The files are no longer available to restore at
> the client.
>
> However, the tape pool the files were backed up to is still full.
> Querying a tapes contents shows the archived (and subsequently
> deleted) files are still there. Once deleted, should files expire
> normally or should they be deleted straight away? I expected the
> latter.
>

dsmc Delete BAckup marks files for expiration, as noted in ADSM
QuickFacts and IBM Technotes such as 1224145.  (Why such obvious
information is perpetually left out of TSM manuals is a mystery of
IBM Publications.)

    Richard Sims

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