-----Kevin Boatright wrote: ----- >Is there any way expire inventory on all nodes except for a select >few? I have two servers that I cannot delete any data on. > >I changed the management class on thse two servers to not delete >files. The management class has been changed on active files but >not on inactive files. But, when expiration runs next, it will >delete the inactive files. > >Any recommendations?
A long time ago my site had a problem that caused expiration to hang at a certain directory. IBM informed us of undocumented options to the 'expire inventory' command to control the first and last nodes processed (nodes are processed in order of registration time). We alternated between expiring from the oldest node to the one just before the problem node, and expiring from the node just after the problem node to the newest node. I don't know whether these options still exist in the current server code. I couldn't find my notes on that episode. I am not sure this type of facility would help you. Other sites have tried to keep files restorable by suppressing inventory expiration. If I remember correctly, they found that the client would not restore or even list files that were eligible for expiration, even if the files had not in fact been removed from the TSM database by inventoryexpiration.
