Kelly,

That's a strange one...

When I did y2k testing of the ADSM Server, I put it back in time just to see
what would happen. ADSM just refused to come up and threw a real fit.
Although this was probably because I had backed up data in the future.

Just a wild stab but would an update libvol xxx status=scratch let you reuse
these tapes? Perhaps it would confuse it even more.

I'm also wondering if editing the volhist file would achieve anything, but
probably not.

Unless someone else has some ideas then you might be forced to do a Michael.
J. Fox - "Go Back to the Future". (Couldn't resist that one).

Nathan










        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Kelly J. Lipp [SMTP:lipp AT STORSOL DOT COM]
        Sent:   Tuesday, December 21, 1999 2:53 PM
        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject:        Trouble Deleting DB Volhist Records

        Hey gang,

        TSM V3.7.1 for NT

        Unbeknownst to me, the system clock on my TSM server was set in
future time.
        I guess it thought a Y2K test was in order.  The date was set to
1/20/2000
        for a few days.  DB Backups were run during this time.  I then
discovered
        the problem and set the date correctly.  So I've got dbbackup
entries in the
        future.  I was able to delete a couple of them by doing
todate=today+30, but
        I couldn't get them all.  So now I've got dbbackups from a month
from now
        and some from a few days ago until I ran out of tapes in the
library.  So
        simple, right?  Delete the volhist records using delete volhist
type=dbb
        todate=today.  That isn't working.  I'm getting a "0 volume history
records
        deleted."

        Any ideas are appreciated.  I've considered going into future time
again and
        doing another db backup and then trying to delete all of the
previous ones,
        but that still leaves me in a bit of a bind as I'd really like to be
in
        present time!

        Thanks,
        Kelly J. Lipp
        Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
        PO Box 51313
        Colorado Springs CO 80919
        (719)531-5926
        Fax: (719)260-5991
        www.storsol.com
        lipp AT storsol DOT com