An EXPORT is just a copy.
You have your data on an export tape, but nothing else happens.
 
To get the data "out of TSM", you need to 1) EXPORT the data 2) DELETE the 
filespaces for the nodes you have exported.
 
When you delete the filespace, it deletes the data from the primary tape AND 
the offsite tape.  Reclamation proceeds as normal.
 
If your data is collocated, or your NOVELL data is in a separate storage pool, 
look at the MOVE MEDIA command.  It's a way to eject the tapes (solving your 
slot problem), and tell TSM you are storing them outside the library.  You 
could just leave them that way until you are ready to completely destroy the 
NOVELL data.
 
 

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Richard Mochnaczewski
Sent: Tue 6/19/2007 3:03 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Export Node and OS Migrations



Hi *,

We are currently in the middle of migrating our Novell file servers to Windows 
2003. We will be doing a copy of all our Novell file server data to our Windows 
2003 machines and then eventually deleting the Novell machine in the future. In 
the meantime, we will be running low on slots in our library because we will 
for a short time have the duplicate copies before we cut off our Novell 
servers.. If I do an export of our Novell data to get the data out of TSM and 
the library, it will free up our onsite slot issue, but what will happen to the 
reclamation for that server for my offsite tapes ?

Rich