Deactivating data to free storage space

In some cases, you can deactivate data that is stored on a Tivoli® Storage Manager server. When you run the deactivation process, any backup data that was stored before the specified date and time is deactivated and will be deleted as it expires. In this way, you can free space on the server.

About this task

Some application clients always save data to the server as active backup data. Because active backup data is not managed by inventory expiration policies, the data is not deleted automatically, and uses server storage space indefinitely. To free the storage space that is used by obsolete data, you can deactivate the data.

When you run the deactivation process, all active backup data that was stored before the specified date becomes inactive. The data is deleted as it expires and cannot be restored. The deactivation feature applies only to application clients that protect Oracle databases.

Procedure

From the Operations Center Overview page, click Clients.
In the Clients table, select one or more clients and click More > Clean Up.
Command-line method: Deactivate data by using the DEACTIVATE DATA command.