You are asking for ADSM to recognize two different kinds of deletes --
ordinary user deletes and administrator move/deletes.  I don't know of any
way for ADSM to tell the difference.

I have two suggestions.  First and simplest, change your copygroup
parameters so that 15 versions are kept for deleted files.  Each inactive
will be cleaned up as it ages.  This will take more ADSM database and
storage.  The second suggestion is to enhance the move process so that
there are no deletes.  Instead of deleting the souce file, replace it with
some short text such as:

 "This file has been moved to server XYZ and replaced by this text file to
act as a placeholder for the ADSM backup system.  This file file be deleted
on mm/dd/yyyy."

This method will let you run the ADSM server the way you are doing it now,
but it will cost some lanserver disk space.

Bill Colwell
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
Cambridge Ma.
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Author: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
Subject: Moving files between ADSM clients
05-31-96 09:08 AM

Hello ADSM world!

We have about 10 file servers (OS/2 LAN Server) on our site,
which contain data from different departments of our company.
All these servers are backed with ADSM to an ADSM AIX server. We
generally keep 15 versions (1 active, 14 inactive) of each file
on these servers.

As user needs for disk space are growing constantly, it happens
that we have to move data from one server to another in order to
equilibrate disk space between the servers.

As the data is moved to another file server, ADSM considers the
data as being deleted on the first server and removes (in our
particular configuration) 13 inactive files in order to keep
only the two last versions of each file.
These 13 inactive versions are lost.

I am looking for a way to tell the ADSM server that some files
of some client have moved to another client (or another disk partition
on that client) in order to avoid loosing inactive versions
on the ADSM server.

Thanks for suggestions or solutions!