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</head><body><p>In the past I used a policy which looked for changed files ( File has been changed ) and directory changes ( File/Dir has been added or deleted ) and used this for a improved DSMC ( parallel dsmc which was pretty fast ) to backup my GPFS . <br></p><p>I had also the problem to find out which files and sub directories had been deleted - The main idea was to get all directories which had been changed and compare the directory listing with was known by TSM. What was missing on my list had to be expired on the TSM server. In your case you would get the file/directory which has been deleted.<br></p><p>I must admit that my TSM SQL query were not good enough to solve the quest(*) but maybe yours are better.<br></p><p>hth<br></p><p>Hajo<br></p><p>(*) To expire the files on the server a single dsmc incremental process was running <br></p><blockquote><p>"Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services)" <S.J.Thompson@bham.ac.uk> hat am 27. Februar 2017 um 12:30 geschrieben:</p><p>Hi,</p><p>Is there a way to track files which have been deleted easily? I'm assuming<br>that we can't easily use a policy scan as they files are no longer in the<br>file-system unless we do some sort of diff?</p><p>I'm assuming there must be a way of doing this as mmbackup must track<br>deleted files to notify TSM of expired objects.</p><p>Basically I want a list of new files, changed files and deleted files<br>since a certain time. I'm assuming the first two will be relatively simple<br>with a policyscan, but the latter I'm not sure about.</p><p>Thanks</p><p>Simon</p><p>_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a></p></blockquote></body></html>