If there was a file in the directory with the same name (active version) at the time of the rebind, all of the inactives should have been considered in the rebind and expired if they were supposed to. Sounds like you changed the MC and ran a backup without there being a file there. Under that case all of the files are in the inactive state and none get rebound that existed.
There may be a way out of this. Create a file with the name. Run a MC name change again (new one). I think this may change the expiration dates. Other folks may be able to answer this better. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180 -----Original Message----- From: brian welsh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 6:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cannot delete inactive files Hello, TSM server 4.1.1.0 on AIX 4.3.3 Client TSM 4.1.3 on NT 4.0 SP6a A few NT-clients backup sql-dumps with TSM. After two days the original dumpfile is deleted so the active version becomes inactive. Problem was parameter Retain Only Version. It was 180 days, but the dump can be deleted for ever in TSM after 2 days. So we create a new Management Class, with Retain Only Version 2 days and redirect the directory with the dumps to the new Management Class in the dsm.opt. So far so good. The old inactive files are not rebind to the new Management Class. Works as designed. So OK. Now we want to delete the old inactive (status in TSM deactivated) files in some way, otherwise the last file binded to the old Management Class will be expired within 180 days. We like to delete all the old sql-dump files. We changed client-setting Backup Delete Allowed from No to Yes. When I am in the GUI on the client and chose Utilities,Delete Filespaces you can expand the filetree of the filespace, but I can't select any individual files. I don't want to delete a whole directory or filespace, but individual old files. Is that possible? Is it possible to do this in some way from the server or did you have to do this from the client? Thanks, Brian. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Foto's is de makkelijkste manier om je foto's te delen met anderen en af te drukken: http://photos.msn.nl/Support/WorldWide.aspx
