Remove deleted files from a target replication server without replicating new data

With IBM Spectrum® Protect Version 8.1.10, you can remove deleted files from a target replication server without running a full replication operation.

By default, when you delete files from a source replication server, the files are not deleted from the target replication server until replication processing runs. However, you can now remove deleted files from the target replication server without running full replication processing by issuing the REPLICATE NODE command and specifying the PURGEDATA=DELETED parameter value. In this way, you can release space on a target replication server without running full replication processing, and data extents that were deleted from the source replication server are also deleted from the target replication server.