Gene Mangum wrote:
>
> I'm wondering how large shops deal with the problem that when a filesystem
> is deleted from a client, ADSM will not expire backups of files in that
> filesystem.   I had expected that it should treat them just as deleted
> files, but when I found lots of old backups of files from deleted
> filesystems, the support center explained that the only way to destroy
> the backups was to delete the filespace in ADSM.   This seems like an
> administrative nightmare in a large shop with lots of clients.
>
> --
> Gene Mangum
> University of Michigan Medical Center

The way our sites have handled this is to re-create the top level
directory on the client and let ADSM run a backup.  ADSM will then
expire the files and directories.

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Mark Dyer
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