Removing a volume from the domain only prevents the volume from being subject to normal INCREMENTAL backup processing. Thus any active versions on that volume will remain indefinitely, and any inactive versions will expire per management class criteria.
If you want to get rid of the file space data altogether, use the DELETE FILESPACE administrative command. Best regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development Level 3 Team Lead Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageManager.html The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence. "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> wrote on 2007-04-05 07:11:22: > TSM users > > I"m using TSM 5.3 client on an win2000 machine > > We have 2 backup schedules running on this client. > TSM SQL backup sched + a flat file backup. > > In the flate file backup rather than using "exclude.DIR" to > ignore(skip over the SQL data) I have recently updated the DOMAIN statement > to point only to the drives that do not have SQL data. > > question: What will happen to SLQ data that may have found it's way > into the backup on previous flat file backups. > > With this recent change to the DOMAIN statement will I end up with > orphan data or will it mark the data for deletion. > > Gary >
