Depending on what your retention criteria are it could take a while for all copies to expire from TSM. One technique that has been posted to this list is to create a management class with VERE=1, VERD=0 RETE=0 RETO=0 and assign the files you are about to exlude to this management class and let a backup run. Once the backup and expiration run you will only have 1 copy of those files, now exclude the files and they're gone!
We have a management class called "ZERO" defined just for this. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stapleton, Mark Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 8:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Norton Corporate AV files From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Also, I forget....If I add an EXCLUDE for a file that has already been >backed-up, does that remove the backup copies on the next backup pass ? When you add a file to an EXCLUDE list, the existing file backups go to inactive status, and will fall off after their retention period is gone. -- Mark Stapleton
