>Can someone please explain to me why TSM client does not delete the >directory structure of the archived files? I am using the "deletefiles" >option, but the client leaves the directories on the file system and >successfully deletes the files within those directories. > >Is there something I can do to delete the directories together with the >files? Please advise.
The evolutionary history of the Archive function indicates why... As you can read in White Paper http://www.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP100254 the Archive function did not originally handle directories. The -DELetefiles option retains the original intent - to remove only the files involved in archiving. Frankly, I would not want Archive to presume that it should delete directory structures when told only to delete files: if I want directories removed, I would do so (in Unix) with the 'rmdir' command (perhaps in conjunction with 'find'), where rmdir is safe in that it will remove a directory only if it is empty. Richard Sims, http://people.bu.edu/rbs
