I have a legal situation that I am wondering how others have responded to or if
you have any suggestions. Our company entered into a consulting project that was
bound by nondisclosure agreements. We did a bunch of documentation all of which
was faithfully pushed to our ADSM server. Now as the project has approached the
go/no go point we have received the no-go response. The nondisclosure agreement
stipulates that in this instance that the customer be returned all documentation
along with written confirmation that all electronic copies of documents
pertaining to the project have been eliminated. Well the first problem is that I
know of no way to delete a single file out of a backup pool. Is there a way? The
best thing I can think of is to create an empty file with the same name as the
one in the pool and backup/modify it one more time than the copy retention
specifies and then do a reclaim. I would rather not go through this effort since
there are hundreds of files to consider. Is there a way through the SQL
interface? I don't want to play with the number of deleted files retained or the
retention period on delete files since this would have a negative impact on the
recoverability of other files.

And in the future is the best solution to this to bind these sensitive files to
a separate management class so that when the files need to be expunged all that
needs to be done is set the delete file retention to zero and let the users
delete them?

Thanks
Garin Walsh
Sabre Inc.