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Re: Deleting backed up files

1997-11-26 08:52:31
Subject: Re: Deleting backed up files
From: Rui Malheiro <rmalheiro AT MAIL.TELEPAC DOT PT>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 13:52:31 GMT
Replying to: Jerry Lawson <jlawson AT THEHARTFORD DOT COM> (Wed, 26 Nov 1997
08:25:45 -0500):
[...]
>I assume that the original file still exists..... if it is sensitive, and your
>customer is a pain, you could temporarily rename the file, then create a dummy
>file, remove the exclude statement, back up the file, then add the exclude
>statement back, delete the dummy, and rename your file.  Then if you run your
>incremental, the original backup should be gone.  (This whole scenario, of
>course, assumes that the "only copy" count is set to 1.  If it is not, rerun 
>the
>backup step until you have enough backups of the dummy file to equal the count.

My approach to this is: 

1. Define a mgmt class TRASH (VERExists=1 VERDeleted=0 RETOnly=0)
2. Include the unwanted files to TRASH (Include /u/file TRASH)
3. Backup the files
4. Exclude the unwanted files
5. Backup the files



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Rui Malheiro,
Rui Malheiro,
6 Mil - Tecnologias de Informacao
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