Hello,

you are right, archiving is only dependant on the number of day. I hope it
is sufficient for you to choose a corresponding number of day to have 5
versions kept. Choose 5 days if you archive every day.

Rene Lambelet
Nestec SA - 55, Av. Nestle - CH-1800 Vevey
Tel: ++41'21'924'35'43 / Fax: ++41'21'924'45'89
E-Mail: rene.lambelet AT nestle DOT com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ludwig, Don [SMTP:Don.Ludwig AT FINGERHUT DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 8:23 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Using ADSM to Archive.
>
> We have been using ADSM mainly for backups.  However, my customer would
> like to use it for Archiving purposes.  Is there a way to do versioning
> with ARCHIVE?  (Ex: We want to keep 5 versions of a file when archived.
> (same file name) when the 6th one is archived we want number 1 to fall
> off.)  The way it looks is that you just tell ADSM how long
>
> to keep an archive for a file.  Am I missing something?
>
> I guess we could write a script to delete the oldest archive when a new
> one is created archives.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Donald P. Ludwig
> 320-654-4645
> don.ludwig AT fingerhut DOT com
>