If you are talking about your archive "grace" period... that only
     applies to archived files that if you, say,
        "update node xxx domain=somethingnew"
     doesn't contain a management class as was assigned to the archived
     file at the time of the archive.

     If you archive a file to a management class with an archive retention
     period of 185 days... 185 days, past the date of the archive, the
     archived file is still available... on the 186th day it is gone.
     What you do to the base file on the client has no (zero) impact on the
     archived copy!

     Archive and incremental/selective files are TOTALLY disjoint sets!


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Subject: archive retension time
Author:  ste.mc (ste_mc AT ZDNETMAIL DOT COM) at unix,mime
Date:    1/19/99 9:57 AM


Hi ADSM'ers,

1 question....

If I archive a file to my archive pool at night and then immediately delete the
file on my disk will the following happen :

A) Because my archive pool is set to retain archives for 186 days it will keep i
t for 186 days and when the 186 days are over and it finds that this is the last
 version of this particular archive it will keep it for a futher 60 days accordi
ng to my archive copy group settings ?
Therefore I have a total of 246 days of retension.

OR

B) Because my archive copy group settings are set to retain only version for 60
days,after I delete the archive from my client machine the 186 days retension I
have for my archive pool falls away and the 60 day retension period for my "reta
in only version" comes into play.
Therefore I only have a total retension period of 60 days.

A to me makes more sense but can some of you ADSM fundi's confirm.

Thanks.




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