No, you can't pick and choose. YOu can: DELETE VOLHIST TYPE=EXPORT TODATE= etc
So that you delete ONLY the EXPORT tapes and not other stuff, but you can't delete specific EXPORT tapes. On the other hand, if you delete the EXPORT tape from the VOLHIST, that won't prevent you from using the data on an IMPORT, which is how you would make use of the tape in a DR situation. (After all, many people use IMPORT to move data from one TSM server to another server that has never seen the tape before.) If the EXPORTed tape is deleted from VOLHIST, it just means you will have to keep track of that tape manually somehow. ANd if somebody accidentally mounts that tape as scratch again (which shouldn't happen if the tape is offsite), TSM will not prevent you from writing over it. Also, just FYI, you DO NOT need the DRM license to make COPY POOL tapes. That is part of the base product. Many people use copy pool tapes and send them offsite, without having the DRM product. The DRM product does the vault management for you - marks the copy pool tapes as OFFSITE, does the eject (if you want it to) of volumes from the library, and shows you which tapes are ready to return ONSITE, etc. It's a pain in the posterior, but you can do it manually, without DRM. ************************************************************************ Wanda Prather The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab 443-778-8769 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" - Scott Adams/Dilbert ************************************************************************ -----Original Message----- From: Theresa Sarver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 4:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Deleting 'specific' EXPORT volumes Hi all; I was told this week that I had to setup some sort of disaster recovery ASAP. As the company never purchased DRM 2 years ago when they implemented the server, I just decided to export the node as a quick and dirty way to take care of this request (until DRM get's purchased and installed). My question is this, I'll be running an export node every Sunday (in the interim), and these (4) tapes are taken offsite to be returned after 30 days. However, the last day of the month I am to run an export node, and these tapes will not be returned for 6 months. I need to find someway to discriminate between "EXPORT" volumes when deleting the volhist - as not all of these will be deleted after 30 days. Is this even possible? I can't find anyone on adsm.org who's successfully made this happen...read about lots of people who want to do this though. :> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks - Theresa
