Deleted file systems

When a file system or drive has been deleted, or it is no longer backed up by the backup-archive client, the existing backup versions for each file are managed according to the following policy attributes: Number of days to keep inactive backup versions, and number of days to keep the last backup version (if there is no active version)

If you do nothing else, active backup versions remain indefinitely. If you do not need to keep the active versions indefinitely, use the expire command to inactive the active versions.

If you do not need to keep any of the backup versions, use the delete backup command to delete all backup versions in the file space. Your IBM® Storage Protect server administrator must give you the authority to use this command. Use the query session command to determine whether you have "delete backup" authority. Alternatively, you can ask your IBM Storage Protect server administrator to delete the file space for you.