You may want to consider the HSM component of the client to do this for you.
I don't have any personal experience with this part of the *SM product.

Gary L. Ison
101 Cold Harbor Drive
Frankfort, Ky.   40601
(502) 564-8724

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Burton, Robert
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 1:47 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Archive Question
>
> For this sort of task we use HSM
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Maloney [mailto:Bill_Maloney AT PEPBOYS DOT COM]
> Sent: 2000, February, 24 1:27 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Archive Question
>
>
> All,
>
> ADSM Server 3.1.2.40 on AIX 4.3.2
> ADSM Client 3.1.7.0 on AIX 4.3.2
>
> I have a request from a user to archive files in a directory that are
> older
> than
> 7days and then delete them. The delete option is easy enough but I did not
> find
> any "fromtime" archive option to specify particular dates.  I figured I
> would
> create a script that basically did a find command with the mtime option
> and
> then
> feed that into the dsmc archive command line. The problem I have here is
> that
> the amount of files is in the range of 20,000 and I do not believe adsm
> can
> handle that amount of input parameters.
>
> I would be curious to see if anyone has ever had a similar request and how
> they
> handled it or if anyone knows how many input arguments the command line
> can
> handle.
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> Bill Maloney
> Unix Admin
> The Pep Boys