>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?

You cannot delete individual backed up files (reasonable if you
think about it, since a major aim of ADSM is to guard against
accidental deletion of the original - at risk of compromise if
the backup can also be accidently deleted).

Regards,
Bob Douglas