Hello,

I don't think there is any such possibility...

Regards, Rene Lambelet

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Rizzo [SMTP:Mark.Rizzo AT DIGITAL DOT COM]
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 1998 10:52 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Deleting Backups
>
> ADSM'ers,
>
> For over a year, we have been incrementally backing up files
> as they are added to a file system. All of the files are
> uniquely identified by the sub-directory structure above the
> files. Some of the files are uniquely named, but others have
> the same name and are uniquely identified only by the full
> path name. Now we are running out of tape capacity and we
> want to "clean up" some of the tape space and delete files no
> longer needed from the tapes. We need a way to select these
> incrementally backed up files for deletion by time/date or
> by full path name and wild-carded file name (file specification),
> as you can do with the DSMC DELETE ARCHIVE command. We
> cannot determine from the documentation how this is done, if
> in fact it can be done, if the files were backed up verses archived.
> The files reside in a file system with other files more recently
> backed up which we Do Not want to delete, so we cannot use the
> DSMC DELETE FILESPACE command. The DSMC DELETE ARCHIVE
> command provides the capability we need for files which were
> archived, but this capability does not appear to be available for
> files
> incrementally backed up. Is there any way to do what we want
> to do?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark Rizzo
> mark.rizzo AT digital DOT com
> DoD