Hi Salak Thanks ever so much for that, I'll give it a try.
Cheers Farren Salak Juraj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 13/11/2001 09:29:26 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Expiration Confusion Hi Farren! What you are doing will delete the directories from the database, the only question is when. If you use on client concerned explicit managemnt class for directories, then this one will apply. If you do not use explicit directory management class (DIRMC), then the management class with longest retention period will be used to expire your directories. If such determined time to expire is too long for you to wait, create a new management class, let us name it QuickExpire, with very short retention times, unschedule any common backups for this client, use it on your client as directory management class (DIRMC), comment the exclude.dir statement out, do backup this diretcory and only this one tree again, uncomment the exclude.dir statement, change the DIRMC to its previous value (maybe none, thus default=the class with longest retention period, see above) re-activate schedules common backups for this client, and have a sweet sleep. best regards mit freundlichen Gr��en Juraj ?alak Asamer Familienholding G M B H EDV Unterthalhamstra�e 2 A-4694 Ohlsdorf �sterreich www.asamer.at B�ro: +43 7612 799 529 Mobil: +43 664 528 6474 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Farren Minns [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 10:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Expiration Confusion Hi TSMers! I have a quick question. Recently we were backing up a directory that had millions of sub-dir's. I had excluded all files (using the basic exclude command) but alas realised too late that it still sent the directories themselves. As such we have used up space in our DB that did not need to be used. I have now changed the exclude to an exclude.dir, but will expiration eventually free up the space in the DB or is there something else I need to do. I can see that the entire dir is indeed being skipped which is great as it's sped up the backup time a great deal, but DB space is my new concern. Thanks in advance for your help Farren Minns
