Hello all,
I was wondering if anyone has figured out how to get rid of OLD
backups that were put in by BMC BACKTRACKS. We are running TSM 4.1.3 on
OS390. I am trying to understand and cleanup a bunch of old backups that
should not exist and are holding up the scratching of tapes. I know I can
start a process to consolidate all these tapes that seem to have less than
5% used. I know I can honestly say that everything on these tapes are not
needed and DISCARD the data and scratch the tape. I have already deleted
all the filespaces that have not been backed up for more than 3 months. But
I still have different files that are still listed as ACTIVE from months
ago. The ones that come from the TDPs have a process that is run on the
client to clean them out. The one for BACKTRACK used for Sybase works only
some times.
So I have active backups for a client that no longer has the data. It
seems that there is a hole in that software. Is there a way to delete a
backup file and not the whole filespace? I have this situation in a couple
of instances. The BACKTRACK one is the most frequent though.
Matt
