Angus,

Congrats to your organization for the longest disclaimer in the history of
the internet :-)

If its a whole drive,

DEL FILESPACE node_name filespace_name TYPE=ARCHIVE

on the server might be the way to go.  As its windows you may have to use
the fsid number and nametype=fsid to indicate the drive you want.

Regards

Steve

Steven Harris
TSM Admin, Sydney Australia

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 23/01/2008
08:45:37 AM:

> I am busy helping an external supplier understand his own Tivoli
> system, which has become full.
>
> We plan to archive certain drive letters attached to a file server
> which contain data that will never change. The archive process is
> fine but what is the best way to remove references to the archived
> data from the main TSM database? Should I run a
>
> dsmc expire j:\*.*
>
> at the client? Will that expire the data immediately? How would
> subdirectories be handled? There appears to be no -subdir=yes option
> for the expire command. Alternatively, would
>
> dsmc delete backup j:\* -deltype=all
>
> get rid of the file references from the TSM database? I take it the
> deletion would get rid of the entries immediately.
>
> Sorry for the probably newbie queries. I haven't done any archiving
> before and it isn't my data ;-)
> Angus
>