Hi, can anyone help me with the following problem. We have a whole bunch of NT 
servers which have user internet cache files on them created by both IE and 
Netscape. I would like to purge all of these from the ADSM database as we end 
up with millions of files in the filespace thus slowing down PIT restores 
significantly as well as wasting space.

The procedure I think we need is as follows

1/ First bind all the files to be purged to a special management class which 
will cause all inactive versions to be retained for 1 day only and when the 
file is deleted (or excluded) to retain last version for only 1 day.
2/ Run a backup to ensure files get rebound
3/ Next replace the include statements with excludes
4/ Run a backup to ensure files get excluded (ADSM should mark all versions 
inactive and apply the deleted files policy to all remaining versions)
5/ Replace the exclude statements with exclude.dir statements to cause any 
subdirectories backed up to become inactive and prevent further backups going 
there.

Firstly is all this pain necessary or is there a quicker way which achieves the 
same result and do I need to wait for expiration to run between any of the 
above steps?

Here are the include/exclude statements I plan to use
Step 1
* Internet Explorer
include "*:\.\Temporary Internet Files\.\*.*" MC_PURGE
include "*:\.\Temporary Internet Files\*.*" MC_PURGE
* Communicator
include *:\.\Netscape\.\Cache\.\*.* MC_PURGE
include *:\.\Netscape\.\Cache\*.* MC_PURGE

Step 3
exclude "*:\.\Temporary Internet Files\.\*.*"
exclude "*:\.\Temporary Internet Files\*.*"
exclude *:\.\Netscape\.\Cache\.\*.*
exclude *:\.\Netscape\.\Cache\*.*

Step 5
exclude.dir "*:\.\Temporary Internet Files"
exclude.dir *:\.\Netscape\.\Cache

Does this look OK?

Thanks
Alan