[Veritas-bu] expire individual files

This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand
this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.

------_=_NextPart_001_01C20DA5.BCC8B3F0
Content-Type: text/plain;
        charset="iso-8859-1"

My bosses came to me and asked something strange, "Can I expire individual
files?"

While I know that I can't actually expire a file, could I mess around in the
./db/images/<client> directory, perhaps deleting lines from the image
tracking files and achieve effectively the same thing (at least making the
file irretrievable) or will screwing with the sequence in these files make
the entire image invalid.

As it is, I told them that if they want these files "off tape", I'll have to
dump the expire the entire tape and all associated files.

-Mark

------_=_NextPart_001_01C20DA5.BCC8B3F0
Content-Type: text/html;
        charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; =
charset=3Diso-8859-1">
<META NAME=3D"Generator" CONTENT=3D"MS Exchange Server version =
5.5.2653.12">
<TITLE>expire individual files</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<P><FONT SIZE=3D2>My bosses came to me and asked something strange, =
&quot;Can I expire individual files?&quot;</FONT>
</P>

<P><FONT SIZE=3D2>While I know that I can't actually expire a file, =
could I mess around in the ./db/images/&lt;client&gt; directory, =
perhaps deleting lines from the image tracking files and achieve =
effectively the same thing (at least making the file irretrievable) or =
will screwing with the sequence in these files make the entire image =
invalid.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE=3D2>As it is, I told them that if they want these files =
&quot;off tape&quot;, I'll have to dump the expire the entire tape and =
all associated files.</FONT></P>

<P><FONT SIZE=3D2>-Mark</FONT>
</P>

</BODY>
</HTML>
------_=_NextPart_001_01C20DA5.BCC8B3F0--