Wanda,

Just to complicate your life...

Don't forget that ADSM can move files around from tape to tape, via reclaim
or move data processing.  If the files have been around that long, it seems
like it would be difficult or impossible to identify all tapes that might
have contained this file in the past.  Your proposal (below) will only list
the tapes which CURRENTLY contain that file.

Kinda makes me wonder about the file.
Did someone down there discover how to do cold fusion?  ;-)
The imagination runs wild...

..Paul
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At 04:30 PM 12/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
At 04:30 PM 12/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I need (for security reasons) to identify all the tapes that contain backup
>versions of a particular file, and physically destroy/degauss the tapes.
>
>If I do "show volumeusage" for a node, it lists all the tapes containing
>files for that node IN THE PRIMARY TAPE POOL, but not the copy pools.
>
>The only thing I can think of, is to crank up the client, RESTORE a version
>of the file to identify the tape it is on, mark the tape as DESTROYED, and
>repeat the process until I identify all the tapes in the COPY pools.
>
>There's got to be a way to do this!
>We are ADSM V2 on AIX 4.2.1, about to convert to V3.
>
>Thanks
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