My understanding from the OP was that he was going to do an alternate
target restore to DEV from a PROD backup.  If that is the case, the
answer to your question is no.  

The files he wants deleted were those originally in DEV not those
originally in PROD.   Essentially he's trying to copy one environment
(PROD) over another (DEV) and looking for the most expedient way to do
so.   His comments suggest he wants all the files from PROD to end up in
DEV and wants none of what was already in DEV to be there when done.
He then complained about rm taking way to long (though he didn't mention
if he was trying "rm -rf" from the top level directory or if he couldn't
because he has submounts) so I suggested simply blowing away and
recreating the filesystems because that would effectively "remove"
everything that was there before.   

-----Original Message-----
From: Sander [mailto:sander AT humilis DOT net] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 2:36 PM
To: Jeff Lightner
Cc: Sixbury, Dan; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Question on restore options.

Jeff Lightner wrote (ao):
>    Rather than do an rm why not just blow away the filesystem(s) and
>    recreate it (them)?

Doesn't that still leave you with files which were backupped in the full
backup but removed before the incremental backup was made the day after?

        With kind regards, Sander

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