My best guess is that inventory expiration won't remove an archived directory if archived copies of any of the directory's contents still exist, and that the order of events in inventory expiration prevents a single expiration process from working its way up the directory tree. If this theory is correct, the successive expirations behave as follows:
1.Remove files and empty directories (if any). 2.Remove directories that had files but no sub-directories. 3.Remove directories that had one level of sub-directories. 4.Remove directories that had two levels of sub-directories. and so on. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Loon, Eric van (ITOPT3) - KLM Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 07:57 To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] Archive deletion Hi guys! I was always under the impression that deleted archives were delete immediately from TSM. I just discovered that this is not the case. Although a client can no longer retrieve an archive after deletion, the archive files are still present in TSM. A select * from archives where node_name='MYNODE' confirms this. The strange thing is that the archive object of type=file are removed by the first running expiration process, but the archive objects of type=dir are not! I had to run multiple consecutive expirations on my server to get rid of all of them. Each run removed a few of them and after the 5th run all archive objects were gone. I really don't understand this behavior... Thanks in advance for any explanation! Kind regards, Eric van Loon Air France/KLM Storage Engineering The information contained in this transmission contains privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. CAUTION: Intended recipients should NOT use email communication for emergent or urgent health care matters.
