Juraj,  in my case, the files are long gone from the file system.
Fortunately,  I was able to successfully use the procedure posted by Bill
Colwell involving renaming of the node. This worked nicely in my case as I
wanted to preserve all backed up data for the client.

Thanks kindly for your assistance,

 Don Daniels
 Firemans Fund Insurance Company






sal AT msmail.keba.co DOT at (Sal Salak Juraj) on 09/18/98 09:02:00 AM
To: Donald W. Daniels/FFIC@FFIC
cc:
Subject: Re: ADSM expectations too high??

Hi,
here are my 2 ounces:

I see no way to place your files into ARCHIVE without restore/archive
them.

But you can let them easily keep for long time in their current backup
pools, assuming they still exist in fikle system:
1) create management class with expiration settings you need
2) assign this management class to your files
 (edit dsm.opt, add INCLUDE Myfile NewManagemenClass)
3) and run incremental backup. UIt will not backup the files again, only
rebind them.

However, I have no idea how to achieve this if your files are already
deleted from file system.
If you will learn how to do it, please let me know.
Juraj SALAK
KEBA & co.
Linz, Austria
http://www.keba.co.at
Phone  0043 732 7090 7461
Fax  0043 732 730910
e-mail  sal AT keba.co DOT at


P.S.
I am sorry for answering to your private address,
the reason is our MS mail Server and/or its administrator
are not communicating well with
adsm-s LISTSERV Mail server and/or its administrator
(or vice-versa). I only can receive forum mails
without causing troubles for third parties.

Feel free to either redistribute or drop this mail.


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Date:    Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:28:07 -0400
From:    "Donald W. Daniels/FFIC" <Donald_W._Daniels/FFIC AT FFIC DOT COM>
Subject: ADSM expectations too high??

 My
question is based on a scenario where I backed up 120GB of data.  After
the
fact, the requirement arose to preserve this data for a long period of
time.
Sounds reasonable to me that this data could be reconfigred in ADSM to
another
storage pool or placed in archive.