On Dec 7, 2005, at 8:27 AM, Gary Osullivan wrote:

...The problem is that the delete step removes all the files +
leaves behind the empty file structure at the source.(folders, sub-
folders). ...

Gary - This is an old chestnut, which has been discussed before.

Having -DELetefiles blow away directories is a Bad Idea.
See my notes on topic "DELetefiles" in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/
ADSM.QuickFacts
or in http://www.tsmwiki.com/tsmwiki .

Presently the only fix has been to logon onto the client after the
archive + manually delete the empty file structure from the client.

Or a chaser schedule could run a client command to do that.
I would make it an OS script which thoroughly assured that the
directory structure was indeed empty before proceeding.

  Richard Sims