Your sample command is probably used to minimizing the number of dbs copies.
However, I want to get rid of >ALL< copies.  The suggestion made by Wanda
and Richard will at least allow me to free up the tape.

On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote:

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:Wanda.Prather AT jhuapl DOT edu]
> >Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 7:50 AM
> >To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> >Subject: Re: removing last/only DBSnapshop
> >
> >
> >Been there, I don't know the proper way to fix it.
> >But here's a sneaky thing you can do if you have some free disk space:
> >
> >Do another DBSNAPSHOT to DISK.
> >(You'll have to set up a FILE type DEVCLASS).
> >Then you will have 2 DBSNAPSHOTS, so you can delete the
> >DBSNAPSHOT that is
> >on tape in your library.
> >
> >Then use whatever operating system command to scratch the disk
> >DBSNAPSHOT,
> >and free up your disk space.
> >You will be left with a bogus entry in your VOLHISTORY file,
> >but at least
> >it's not taking up space...
>
> I don't understand why this seems to be a problem. I do a dbsnapshot every
> day I have it set up to delete anything older than 7 days and it works fine
> for me.
> del volhistory todate=today-7 type=dbsnapshot
>
> Geoff Gill
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