> Subject: [ADSM-L] Deleting ALL tapes from a defunct TSM server from Volhist
>
> Back in 2008 there was a thread on forcing the deletion of individual
> tapes from a defunct TSM server.
>
>
>
> http://www.adsm.org/lists/html/ADSM-L/2008-06/msg00068.html
>
> del volhist todate=today type=remote volume=A00229 force=yes
>
> I tried that and it worked as expected.
>
> Now I need to do it 483 more times.
>
> Is there a parameter that lets you designate which remote location to
> delete from, so that all the volsers can be deleted at once?
>
>
>
> George Huebschman
> Storage Support Team, Media Librarian
> Legg Mason, LMTS

George,

If one of the servers you are backing up via TSM is a linux or unix server you 
should be able to create a shell script on that server to run that command.
The script will need to have a "do" loop into which you can get it to read a 
list.

It would need to start like this:

#!/bin/ksh

#Standard TSM Admin command.
DSMADMC="/usr/bin/dsmadmc -id=admin -pa=XXXXXX -noconfirm "

And then have a line something like this

while read VOL
do
        $DSMADMC " del volhist todate=today type=remote volume=$VOL force=yes "
done < /tmp/nodelist

Please check the syntax above before running as this is only a quick example...

Regards
Paul









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