Expire Inv for unavailable tapes

[mabdine]

Dear all,

i have data on tapes i dont want to lose when i run expire inv because i want to keep them after the retention period specified, do you think if i put them unavailable it would prevent the tsm from deleting the data?

[drivechip]

TSM never deletes data from tapes. Expiration just deletes the references in TSM database. After expiration you have not a chance to recover data from tape. You can just restore a TSM db backup.

--> You need to change the retention for these data.