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Tivoli Storage Manager for UNIX Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide

Delete Filespace

Authorized User

The delete filespace command deletes file spaces from server storage. A file space is a logical space on the server that contains files or images you backed up or archived. Tivoli Storage Manager assigns a separate file space on the server for each workstation file system from which you back up or archive files. The file space name is the same as the file system name. When you enter the delete filespace command, a list of your file spaces displays. From this list, select the file space that you want to delete.

Your administrator must give you authority to delete a file space. You need BACKDEL authority if the file space you want to delete contains backup versions, or ARCHDEL authority if the file space contains archive copies. If the file space contains both backup versions and archive copies, you need both types of authority.

Deleting NAS File Spaces

You can use the delete filespace command to interactively delete NAS file spaces from server storage.

Use the nasnodename option to identify the NAS file server. When using an interactive command line session with a non-administrative ID, Tivoli Storage Manager prompts for an administrator ID. Place the nasnodename option in your client system options file dsm.sys. The value in the client system options file is the default, but this value can be overridden on the command line. If the nasnodename option is not specified in the client system options file, you must specify this option on the command line when processing NAS file systems. See Nasnodename for more information.

Use the class option to specify the class of the file space to delete. To display a list of file spaces belonging to a NAS node so that you may choose one to delete, use the -class=nas option. Using the default, -class=client, will not change the current delete filespace behavior. See Class for more information.

To delete NAS file spaces using the Web client, see Chapter 4, Backing Up Files and Directories.

Attention: When you delete a file space, you delete all backup versions and archive copies within that file space. When you delete a file space, you cannot restore the files or images. Verify that the files or images are obsolete before you delete them.

Supported Clients

This command is valid for all UNIX clients.

Syntax

>>-Delete Filespace--+----------+------------------------------><
                     '- options-'
 
 

Parameters

options
You can use these common options with the delete filespace command: scrollprompt and scrolllines. For more information, see Chapter 9, Setting Processing Options.

You can use the class, nasnodename, and detail command line options with the delete filespace command. For more information, see Class.

Examples

Task
Delete a file space.

Command: delete filespace

Task
Delete NAS file spaces from the dagordon NAS file server stored on the server.

Command: delete filespace -nasnodename=dagordon -class=nas


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