if the data is isolated on a select volume you could nuke the volume
(discard=yes)

be careful though... this would require collocation in the dest stgpool and
probably archives going somewhere different than the backups in order to
have the data nice and isolated in order to do this...

Dwight

> ----------
> From:         Brian T. Huntley[SMTP:bth AT CLARKSON DOT EDU]
> Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent:         Thursday, July 06, 2000 2:12 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Selective Archive delete
>
> Hello all....
>
> Does anyone know of a way to delete a particular archive from the server
> (vs the client)?
>
> We do bi-annual archives of all of our systems, and due to some networking
> problems, I've got a set that's munched.  I would like to nuke it so that
> it's not taking up space for the next few years, but I'd rather not have
> to go around to each client and manually delete the archive.
>
> del files only allows you to specify 'archive', but it doesn't appear to
> be able to distinguish one archive from another.  Being able to do so w/ a
> date or desc flag would be really useful...
>
> TIA for any ideas!
>
>
> -
> Best regards,
> Brian
>
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