Mary,
        What I've done in past, when a server or filespace has been eliminated
or 'retired',  is to take a final incremental backup after all of the
files have been migrated or moved from that server/filespace.  ADSM will
then mark the files inactive, assigning the appropriate retention period
for the last backup.

Tim Pittson
tpittson AT himail.hcc DOT com

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>From:  Mary Vollmer[SMTP:Mary_Vollmer AT MGIC DOT COM]
>Sent:  Wednesday, June 18, 1997 11:34 AM
>To:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject:       Re: backup status after filesystem deletion
>
>I have found this to be a problem as well.  When we remove a
>server/filespace,
>all the
>backups for that server remain in the status they were in at the last backup.
>Since most of our backup retention after file deletion in 60 days, I am
>usually
>able to delete all backups for the server after a couple of months.  However,
>we do have instances of retention up to 28 years.  Although this retention is
>for a very limited group of files, I am unable to delete any backups in the
>file
>system that they reside in - all backups must be retained for the amount of
>time specified in the longest management class used.  There should be a way
>of
>marking inactive all backups in a file system and allow ADSM to delete the
>backups according the the management class specification.
>
>
>In the previous Memo, dated, 06-18-97 09:08:05 AM, storman @ US.IBM.COM
>(Andrew
>Raibeck) @ MGICSMTP wrote:
>
>In order for ADSM to expire the backup versions, it has to be able to do an
>incremental backup against the file system. At that time it will detect that
>the files have been deleted from the file system, and expire the backups.
>However, if the file system is not there, it can't run an incremental backup
>on
>it.
>
>ADSM does not know whether you've deleted the file system or simply
>dismounted
>it, so it does nothing to that file system's backup version.
>
>If you want to delete the entire filespace from ADSM storage, you can use the
>DELETE FILESPACE command.
>
>Andy Raibeck
>ADSM Level 2 Support
>
>---------------------- Forwarded by Andrew Raibeck/San Jose/IBM on 06-18-97
>05:52 AM ---------------------------
>
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>To: ADSM-L @ VM.MARIST.EDU @ internet
>cc:
>Subject: backup status after filesystem deletion
>
>I discovered a problem (at least it's a problem to me) with ADSM on AIX.  If
>files in a filesystem have been backed up, then the filesystem gets deleted
>(including the mount point), the backups still show as active in ADSM.  This
>means they will never, ever go away.
>
>Is it supposed to work this way or is this a bug I should report?
>