Can anyone help with this please.  I haven't had any replies.

Thanks.

Dianne Sharp
Operations Analyst
ISS CUSTOMER SUPPORT
CLEAR Communications, Auckland, New Zealand
dsharp AT clear.co DOT nz
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>From:  Dianne Sharp
>Sent:  Wednesday, 08 January, 1997 12:14PM
>To:    'ADSM User Group'
>Subject:       Question re HP Unix Management Classes
>
>We are running ADSM Server v1 on MVS and Client V2 on HP Unix.  I have a
>question concerning retention of backup versions and would appreciate some
>help ASAP:
>
>BACKGROUND :
>
>We run Selective backups on a specific directory every day.  All the files in
>this directory used to be bound to a Management Class of DATABASE.  I
>recently modified the backup.excl file so that the *.ARC files would be bound
>to a Management Class of ARCLOG.  These *.ARC files are unique names that are
>only created once, then deleted after a period of time.  The *.ARC files that
>have been created since I modified the backup.excl file are associated with
>the ARCLOG Management Class, as would be expected.  However, the *.ARC files
>which were already backed up before that date are still associated with the
>DATABASE Management Class.
>
>QUESTIONS :
>
>The Unix User guide indicates that the existing backup versions should also
>be bound to the new Management class the next time an Incremental or
>Selective backup is run.  Does this also include backup versions of files
>that were deleted prior to the change, or do the specific files need to be
>backed up again before their Management Class is updated?  If this is the
>case, how do I go about deleting the backup versions of the older files?
>
>
>
>Dianne Sharp
>Operations Analyst
>ISS CUSTOMER SUPPORT
>Ext 4208
>