Deleting file spaces

If your IBM® Storage Protect administrator grants you authority, you can delete entire file spaces from the server.

About this task

You cannot delete individual backup copies that are kept on the server. When you delete a file space, you delete all the files, both backup copies and archive copies, that are contained within the file space. For example, if you delete the file space for your C drive, you are deleting every backup copy for every file on that disk and every file that you archived from that disk.

Attention: Carefully consider what you are doing before you delete a file space.

You can delete file spaces using the GUI or the command-line client. To delete network-attached storage (NAS) file spaces, use the web client or command-line client.

To delete a file space using the GUI client, perform the following steps:

Procedure

From the main window, click Utilities → Delete Filespaces.
Select the file spaces you want to delete.
Click Delete. The client prompts you for confirmation before deleting the file space.

Results

You can also delete a file space using the delete filespace command. Use the class option with the delete filespace command to delete NAS file spaces.