If you don't delete the volhistory, it grows forever.

If you do a PREPARE command, or send your volhistory file offsite for DR, an
enormously large volhistory becomes a nuisance.

OTOH, if you create backupsets or EXPORT tapes, you don't want to do the
delete volhist with TYPE=ALL; that will get the export and backupset tapes
as well.

If the  current size of your volhist doesn't bother you, it's fine.

W




On 4/4/08, Howard Coles <Howard.Coles AT ardenthealth DOT com> wrote:
>
> I have a question about a schedule that has been running on a TSM server
> in our system.
>
> Each day at about 12:30 it runs this command:
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>
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> "del volhistory todate=-90 type=all"
>
>
>
> My question is, would anyone know of a reason to be doing this?  I
> haven't historically set anything like this up on any TSM server I put
> into production, but I don't want to get rid of this if it's a good
> thing to be doing.
>
>
>
> See Ya'
>
> Howard Coles Jr.
>
> Sr. Systems Engineer
>
> Ardent Health Services
>
> John 3:16!
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>