Sorry about that - take 2
Hi All
I have a customer with a small TSM Setup on windows , DB is only 3GB. TSM
is 5.3.4
Last August the legal eagles decreed that all expiration was to stop, and
my predecessors did this. We are now at breaking point with a tape library
that is about to burst, and finally someone (me) decided to do something
about it.
The majority of the data is exchange backups, with a twice a week full,
four times a day incremental backup strategy. Legal has finally decided
that
We need to keep all backups from the earliest we have to end of August.
>From end of August to mid Feb we can delete all incrementals and all full
backups except the last one of every month.
I can see no way of doing this from the exchange client
using the dsmc client to connect I can see appropriately named files for
full backups and incrementals when I use the "q backup {filespace}\
-subdir=y"
Attempting a delete backup of any sort or even a q backup on a fully
qualified name gives me a no files found message
tsm> q backup {BLKVMSG001A\BLK1ASG4}\data\0000\BLK1ASG4A250\full
-inactive
ANS1092W No files matching search criteria were found
Is there any way around this? or can API -created files only be deleted by
the API?
Thanks
Steve
Steve Harris
TSM Admin, Sydney Australia
