No, ADSM won't assume the files are deleted.

You have to be able to actually run an incremental against the file system
so that ADSM can check the directory before it will declare a file to be
deleted.  So you don't have to worry about the backups being deleted if the
file system offline for a while.

There is a side effect - if you DELETE a file system, ADSM can't tell
whether it is really gone or just unmounted, and ADSM never  deletes the
backups from the server.  When you delete a file system, you have to delete
the backup of the file space from the ADSM server manually.

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Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
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wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: john a flores [SMTP:jflores AT NCCSUN2.NCC.AG DOT GOV]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 10:48 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      AIX  nightly incremental question
>
> With an AIX adsm client scheduled to do an incremental backup every night,
> what happens if a VG that is normally varyon is varyed off ?
> Or a filesystem that is normally mounted is not mounted.
> Will adsm think those files have been deleted?
> Assuming of course that it has already backed them up previously.
> jflores AT nccsun2.ncc.ag DOT gov