Can anyone please tell me if there is a command to look at all my nodes and display which might be using a particular management class's backup group ?
Thanks, Ralph > _____________________________________________ > From: Levi, Ralph > Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:00 AM > To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' > Subject: Data expiration > > I am still working understanding why my TSM DB continues to grow and > think I may have come upon something. I have many retention policies > in the management class for all my file servers. The goal was to keep > most data for only 90 days after it was deleted and to keep 90 > versions if it was a file that would be updated daily. > Incremental backups are run nightly. TSM is AIX 5.3 and TSM 4.2.7. > The file servers are mostly W2K with backup-restore client 5.1.x - > 5.3.x. > > My expiration runs successfully daily but I believe what is happening > is the majority of data being expired are the files that are > overwritten daily. It looks to me like the files that someone > overwrites once or twice lives out in TSM forever, certainly beyond > the 90 days I was expecting it to be there. > > Here are my management classes. Is the unlimited "retain extra > versions" overriding my 90 days in the primary management class ? > > Any help would be appreciated. > Thanks, > Ralph > > > The default management class is defined as: > > versions data exist: unlimited > versions data deleted: 9 > retain extra versions: 9 > retain only version: 9 > > The primary management class used (95% of all data) > > versions data exist: unlimited > versions data deleted: 90 > retain extra versions: 90 > retain only version: 90 > > The 2 long retention management classes are: > > versions data exist: unlimited > versions data deleted: 366 > retain extra versions: 366 > retain only version: 366 > > versions data exist: unlimited > versions data deleted: unlimited > retain extra versions: unlimited > retain only version: unlimited >
