Ian, I've just cleaned up my TSM database archive directories. We had many directory entries from an older TSM version that were set to expire in 7 years as the old version would automatically keep directories in the management class with the longest retention (even though these directories have no archive files in them any more).
I wanted to keep the decriptions for files as some are important to me so I ran: Cleanup archdir <nodename> deletedirs This deleted ALL directory entries but left me with the descriptions for the files. I've retrieved files subsequently and all seems to be fine. Regards, David Smith AIX Administrator Corporate Express Australia 67-77 Epsom Rd Sydney NSW PH 02 93350318 or 0412 258 208 -----Original Message----- From: Sutch, Ian (London) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 10 April 2002 7:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Duplicate Archive Entries...and deleting them Does anyone have experiences of duplicate archive entries after upgrading from TSM Server 3.1? We've identifed thousands of duplicates by running: Cleanup archdir <nodename> showstats. which maybe one reason why our tsm databases are so large Tivoli Support suggests we run the following command to delete them: Cleanup archdir <nodename> resetdescr (where resetdescr sets the description field of the archive table directory and file entries to the null string) I was wondering if anybody had run the command and seen any adverse effect, especially during retrieves Thanks for your help.
