I agree with David. When you exclude disk from Vmware backups all the subsequent backups "will being" incrementals-forever and you can't back to another type of backup until delete old backups to start again =)
2015-10-09 9:45 GMT-05:00 David Ehresman <david.ehres...@louisville.edu>: > On VMware backups, delete filespace will delete all of the backups for the > VM, not just the newly excluded volumes. > > Excluding the Hard Disks will make current backups for those disks > inactive and they will age out based on your retention policy. I do not > think you can delete them otherwise without deleting all the backups for > the VM and starting over. > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Francisco Javier > Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 10:37 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP4VE: How to delete old backups of excluded volumes > > Use delete filespace ... > > best regards =) > > > 2015-10-09 7:10 GMT-05:00 Andreas Boesler <a.boes...@profi-ag.de>: > > > Hello, > > > > environment is windows with tsm 7.1.1.100 > > > > We do backups of vmware systems (IFIncremental). Now we want to exclude > > some disks/volumes (D:, E:). > > We also want to delete the old backups of this volumes to get free space > > in the file device. > > How to delete old backups of excluded vmware volumes? > > Are there any tips or experience? > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > Andreas > > >
