Deleting volumehistory doesn't affect storage pool tapes. It will delete old DB Backup or EXPORT tapes, and return them to the scratch pool.
If you have DRM active, normally DRM would eject the DB Backup tapes, but perhaps no one has been running the DRM commands to remove them. -----Original Message----- From: Leijnse, Finn F SITI-ITDSES31 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 9:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: volume history file Hi, We have just taken control of a TSM server on AIX rs/6000 with TSM V3.7 and 4x drives in a LIB_3575. The first thing that struck us was that the library had run out of tape slots to put more scratch tapes. We found out that there was never a delete set-up for the volume history file and by setting this to delete todate=21 we have just freed up 47 scratch tapes. As we are not sure about how these processes are related maybe someone could enlighten us on how not deleting the "old" tapes from the volume history list affects the scratchpool? (DRM is installed and active on this system) > met vriendelijke groeten, regards et salutations, > > Finn Leijnse > > ISES/31 - Central Data Storage Management > Shell Services International bv. > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
