Hello Again,
One of the things I forgot to mention was I do a FULL backup,
(change the copymode to ABSOLUTE), of every node every two weeks. I don't
do them all at the same time but because I do the fulls I would expect that
I would not be finding backup files that are 120 days old and ACTIVE. I
have only had TSM up since the beginning of the year and am very hesitant to
start reclaimation procedures thinking that if everything worked the way I
think they should (longest retention in any policy is 60 days) that I would
see ALL the tapes go scratch less than 3 months. I am trying to prevent my
lack of knowledge from putting in a procedure that will just start gathering
junk and keeping it forever.
The BMC TDP seems to have a very odd error. The AIX platform from
where the BMC (Sybase) is running has deleted the data and looking from BMC
it is gone. But when I look at the TSM server filespace I see many properly
handled BMC files being handle correctly but little groups (by date) of
files that are listed as ACTIVE but 4 and 5 months old. I do not have this
problem with the MS-EXCHANGE or DB2 files.
I would like to develop a procedure that I can use to cleanout the
backup files that I know don't belong. Ones that are ACTIVE and many months
old. I don't really understand how they can get into this situation. Even
if someone where to do a SELECTIVE backup of something that is normally
EXCLUDED the next INCREMENTAL should have those files marked as INACTIVE.
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Maurice van 't Loo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 3:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: how to get rid of OLD ACTIVE file backups
Matt,
You can try to change the policyset that the TDP's and BMC uses if the TDP's
don't know the existance of the files anymore.
If tapes are only 5% used, why you don't run reclamaition? Update your
stgpool with the reclamation on jl. 50%
Maurice
----- Original Message -----
From: "MC Matt Cooper (2838)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 9:29 PM
Subject: how to get rid of OLD ACTIVE file backups
> 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
>
