We're in the process of setting up a new server with 7.5.1 and adv_file 
devices; it will backup itself and a couple of other hosts. Having dealt 
only with tapes in all previous production environments, the question came 
up of how to get rid of a specific saveset on a disk volume. Of course, on 
tape, we always wait for the entire volume to go recyclable automatically 
following all savesets on it expiring. Being a sequential volume, that's 
normal. However, a disk volume is random access.

I know we can manually stage a specific SSID to tape to reclaim disk 
space, but is there a way to mark a specific saveset (and no others) on a 
disk volume as recycable? nsrim? nsrmm?

Dumb question here, but I assume when using adv_file devices, recycling 
occurs at the saveset level and not at the volume level... IOW, each 
individual saveset will expire when its policies are passed (therefore 
making available to the system the space it was using), instead of waiting 
for every saveset on the volume to expire and then the whole volume 
becoming recyclable at once? Tell me that's the case... :-)

Thanks.
Len Philpot

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