RE: Purging an IFS stream file from backups

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Do the auditors know that you're planning to delete a file from all past
backups? (;
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Exactly why I want to erase it from all past backups. Picture this: You
have someone's Domino mail file. Let's say ssnead.nsf. He has left your
company. He has been gone for a set number of days. Standard company
policy is to then remove his mail file completely. With no trace of it
around. No way to resurrect it if some legal battle ensues. Hey, if
you're following a standard policy and not trying to thwart a particular
case...

My thought is that if I just expire it on the tape I can still restore it
until it's written over. Not acceptable.

Normally when you do an IFS save sequence ### may contain files from
multiple directories and subdirectories. So I'd really rather not delete
that particular sequence number and lose the backups from all those other
files.

DUPMEDBRM doesn't allow you to omit one particular file from within that
sequence.

Only ways I can think of is:
1) Restore that directory, delete the file. Save it again. Con:
expiration date is altered to the new date, unless I override that. And
if I restore/save from a different system and/or directory it's harder to
do WRKLNKBRM and find some other object I do want to restore it.
2) DUPMEDBRM and omit that sequence. Con: Loss of the backup of the
rest of the files.
3) INZMEDBRM and wipe the tape. Con: Loss of the backup of the rest of
the files. Plus other stuff on that tape.

Just to complicate matters, we use parallel saves.

Rob Berendt