Why not let your script do a "mv" to a new location, archive it, then delete
the files on your server?  You could do this with the pre/post schedule
options.  Just make sure the archive succeeded before doing the deletion,
obviously.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Maloney
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 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
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