> - Coming back to my original problem, I would like to free space on my
> tapes. A bunch of rather large media files has been moved across a couple
> of servers, and has been backupped on each, which is a total waste.
>
> Is there a method to selectively delete backups of files on the tapes?
> These files have been part of ordinary incremental daily backups, and now
> use up space worth a couple of my tapes I,d rather have them deleted - how?

If the offending files are segregated into different filespaces than any
of the files you want to keep, you can use 'delete filespace' commands.

You can create zero byte dummy files with the same names as the offending
files. You can than run enough selective backups of the dummy files to get
the real files deleted on the basis of the verexists setting in the
relevant backup copy group.