Look at the syntax for DELETE FILESPACE.
The default is TYPE=ALL, which means it deletes both BACKUP and ARCHIVE files 
(after prompting).

If you want to delete backups from the filespace without deleting the archives, 
you have to do:

Delete filespace nodename  filespacename type=backup

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Howard Coles
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 2:38 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Archives and backups

Ladies and gents, 

Here's a question.  If I create an archive and set it to 3650 days retention, 
from a particular file server.  Then after the archive is created, If I go in 
and delete the file space from the backup side will that also delete the 
archive?

 

My understanding from what I've read and known in the past is that it will not 
(as the two are managed as separate entities backups are managed file by file 
and the archive as a package).

 

However I did some backup file space clean up the other day, knowing we
had a good archive, and now the archive is gone.   I've done this
before, without these kinds of results, so the follow up would be, what would 
make an archive just disappear?

 

 

See Ya'

Howard Coles Jr.

RHCE, CDE, CNE

Sr. Systems Engineer

(615) 296-3416

John 3:16!