TDP4VE: How to delete old backups of excluded volumes

[Andreas Boesler]

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

Re: TDP4VE: How to delete old backups of excluded volumes

[Francisco Javier]

Use delete filespace ...

best regards =)


2015-10-09 7:10 GMT-05:00 Andreas Boesler :

> 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
>

Re: TDP4VE: How to delete old backups of excluded volumes

[David Ehresman]

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-
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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
>

Re: TDP4VE: How to delete old backups of excluded volumes

[Francisco Javier]

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
> >
>

Re: TDP4VE: How to delete old backups of excluded volumes

[Billaudeau, Pierre]

Hi Andreas,
If your setup is like ours : One node which correspond to your Vcenter 
and 1 filespace per VM , you don't have the granularity to delete a specific 
drive within the filespace (1 per VM). You will have to wait expiration of 
older versions before you see some benefits in space usage.

Pierre

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Francisco Javier
Envoyé : 9 octobre 2015 10:37
À : ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Objet : 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
>

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