Hi Jan, you are completely right. As you mentioned, possible (and I mean correct too) way is 1. change retention periods to reflect your new policy requirements, 2. validate policy set, 3. activate policy set, 4. run expiration on TSM server manually (command EXPIRE INVENTORY) and 5. reclaim free space on volumes (or see your volumes goes SCRATCH if reclamation runs automatically). Change of retention periods affects all files binded to management class you've changed, this means previous backed up as well as future backed up files.
Hope this helps. Tom -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jan de Raeymaeker Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Expiration ... We have hit a snag on the system where by we need to manually expire volumes urgently. Our current policy is for 60 days retention, but we need to claw back some volumes for scratch. If I change the retention period I am under the impression that this will not age out existing volumes but simple take affect from the point of change. Is this the case ? I have been told by a consultant that we may have to delete volumes and it could get a little messy. This seems a bit extreme. There must be a way of changing the status of volumes manually which will convince the TSM system that the volumes have expired. Then I should be able to run a normal expire inventory and let the server do the work. Is this possible / correct ? If yes, how can it be done ? If no, what is the solution ? I am working on AIX 4.3.3 ML9, TSM 4.2.1.11. All help is welcome. Thank you Jan ********************************************************************** The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action or reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from your computer. **********************************************************************
