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My experience of DELETE VOLUME going back to ADSM 3.1 is that it will immediately make the library volume (physical or virtual) scratch with no pending reuse delay. By typing the words DISCARDDATA=YES, I guess you are explicitly consenting to never being able to access the data again. You might have a way back if by chance a physical tape hasn't been re-used by the time you realise your mistake, but with virtual tape the data erasure is immediate when the volume is relabelled. I suppose my advice would be to only use DISCARDDATA=YES in the event that all remaining data on the volume has already proven (through MOVE DATA operations, or whatever) to be unreadable, and you don't have the option to recover it from a copy pool. In this case, a pending reuse delay wouldn't help make the data any more readable. I realise this doesn't address your concerns around accidental deletion of a volume, but I believe there's a saying about great responsibility accompanying great power. Regards Neil Schofield IBM Spectrum Protect SME Backup & Recovery | Storage & Middleware | Central Infrastructure Services | Infrastructure & Service Delivery | Group IT LLOYDS BANKING GROUP ________________________________ Lloyds Banking Group plc. Registered Office: The Mound, Edinburgh EH1 1YZ. Registered in Scotland no. SC95000. Telephone: 0131 225 4555. Lloyds Bank plc. Registered Office: 25 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7HN. Registered in England and Wales no. 2065. Telephone 0207626 1500. Bank of Scotland plc. Registered Office: The Mound, Edinburgh EH1 1YZ. Registered in Scotland no. SC327000. Telephone: 03457 801 801. Cheltenham & Gloucester plc. Registered Office: Barnett Way, Gloucester GL4 3RL. Registered in England and Wales 2299428. Telephone: 0345 603 1637 Lloyds Bank plc, Bank of Scotland plc are authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority. Cheltenham & Gloucester plc is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Halifax is a division of Bank of Scotland plc. Cheltenham & Gloucester Savings is a division of Lloyds Bank plc. HBOS plc. Registered Office: The Mound, Edinburgh EH1 1YZ. Registered in Scotland no. SC218813. This e-mail (including any attachments) is private and confidential and may contain privileged material. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete it (including any attachments) immediately. You must not copy, distribute, disclose or use any of the information in it or any attachments. Telephone calls may be monitored or recorded.
