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@VM.MARIST.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 >