Can anyone please tell me if there is a command to look at all my nodes
and display which might be using a particular management class's backup
group ?

Thanks,
Ralph

> _____________________________________________ 
> From:         Levi, Ralph  
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:00 AM
> To:   'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager'
> Subject:      Data expiration
> 
> I am still working understanding why my TSM DB continues to grow and
> think I may have come upon something.  I have many retention policies
> in the management class for all my file servers.  The goal was to keep
> most data for only 90 days after it was deleted and to keep 90
> versions if it was a file that would be updated daily.
> Incremental backups are run nightly.  TSM is AIX 5.3 and TSM 4.2.7.
> The file servers are mostly W2K with backup-restore client 5.1.x -
> 5.3.x.
> 
> My expiration runs successfully daily but I believe what is happening
> is the majority of data being expired are the files that are
> overwritten daily.  It looks to me like the files that someone
> overwrites once or twice lives out in TSM forever, certainly beyond
> the 90 days I was expecting it to be there.
> 
> Here are my management classes.  Is the unlimited "retain extra
> versions" overriding my 90 days in the primary management class ?
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Ralph
> 
> 
> The default management class is defined as:
> 
> versions data exist: unlimited
> versions data deleted: 9
> retain extra versions: 9
> retain only version: 9
> 
> The primary management class used (95% of all data)
> 
> versions data exist: unlimited
> versions data deleted: 90
> retain extra versions: 90
> retain only version: 90
> 
> The 2 long retention management classes are:
> 
> versions data exist: unlimited
> versions data deleted: 366
> retain extra versions: 366
> retain only version: 366
> 
> versions data exist: unlimited
> versions data deleted: unlimited
> retain extra versions: unlimited
> retain only version: unlimited
>