Hi Gary,

In this case you might make use of "rename filespace" command : just rename the 
filespace corresponding to your VM, and start a fresh backup.
Doing so will allow to keep your old VM  backup data freezed.

Cheers.

Arnaud



-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Lee, Gary
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2017 1:27 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: freezing a final backup of a vm

To Mark:

Thanks for the link.
However, I must not have made myself clear.
We need something more akin to the backupset.
Freeze a backup while allowing further backups to take place afterward.  Are 
these allowed on an individual vm?

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Mark Beta
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2017 7:12 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] freezing a final backup of a vm

Hello Gary,
take a look @ http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21659826.
If you have tdp for ve 7.1 or upper, the vm last backup will stay until
"expire vm" command will be executed.

Regards.

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Lee, Gary <glee AT bsu DOT edu> wrote:

> I have a request to freeze a backup of a vm using tsm for ve for one year
> after its decommissioning.
> What happens here is that the vm is turned off, and converted into a
> template.
> If I do nothing, will its backups be retained as active, even though I
> don't back up templates?
> If not, how to fulfill this request?
> Tsm server 7.1.7.1.
>