Ok, that would explain it.  It has been so long since I've had to worry
about this I forgot all about that switch defaulting to any, and the two
being associated.  DOH

Thanks.

See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE
John 3:16!


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Prather, Wanda
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 1:42 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Archives and backups

Look at the syntax for DELETE FILESPACE.
The default is TYPE=ALL, which means it deletes both BACKUP and ARCHIVE
files (after prompting).

If you want to delete backups from the filespace without deleting the
archives, you have to do:

Delete filespace nodename  filespacename type=backup

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Howard Coles
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 2:38 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Archives and backups

Ladies and gents, 

Here's a question.  If I create an archive and set it to 3650 days
retention, from a particular file server.  Then after the archive is
created, If I go in and delete the file space from the backup side will
that also delete the archive?

 

My understanding from what I've read and known in the past is that it
will not (as the two are managed as separate entities backups are
managed file by file and the archive as a package).

 

However I did some backup file space clean up the other day, knowing we
had a good archive, and now the archive is gone.   I've done this
before, without these kinds of results, so the follow up would be, what
would make an archive just disappear?

 

 

See Ya'

Howard Coles Jr.

RHCE, CDE, CNE

Sr. Systems Engineer

(615) 296-3416

John 3:16!