To trim out the extra versions, I would copy the domain the
node is now in to a new domain.  Update the copygroups to these values -

verexists 1
verdeleted 1
retextra 0
retonly 9999

Activate the poilcyset and then update the node to be in the new domain.
The next expiration will trim all the inactive versions except for the last 
version of a deleted file.

Hope this helps,

Bill

At 10:17 AM 7/11/2002, you wrote:
>> If I have backup of a server which is out of production. What can I do and
>> how, if I want to expire all extra backup copies (versions data exist)
>> except the last backup (versions data deleted)?
>> I can change mgmtclass but I still have to do a backup to rebind my files.
>> If I use a client and log on with 'dsmc -virtualnodename=xyz' and exclude
>> E:\...\* , what happens then? Will it expire xyz´s E:\ files or the client
>> node E:\ files?
>
>A dsmc command as such won't affect file retentions at all. You will need
>to run an incremental backup.
>
>A 'dsmc inc' with the exclude statement and virtualnodename option shown
>would affect files from xyz. However, that approach would make me very
>nervous about the possibility of an incremental backup with the exclude
>statement but not the option. I would be inclined to copy the options
>file, put the special exclude statement and a 'nodename xyz' statement in
>the copy, and run dsmc with an 'optfile' option telling it to use the
>copy.
>
>It is easier to describe the effect of a backup that excludes everything
>on the E drive in terms of what happens to backups of a file than in terms
>of what happens to backups of an entire population of files. Consider an
>active backup of a file that was on xyz's E drive. A backup with the
>exclude statement described above would cause this backup to switch to
>inactive status. If the number of versions of the file was greater than
>the verdeleted parameter of the relevant copy group the next 'expire
>inventory' on the TSM server would delete enough of the oldest versions
>to get the number of versions down to the verdeleted parameter value.
>If there was still more than one version of the file subsequent 'expire
>inventory' operations would remove each extra version after it reached
>the age limit set by the retextra parameter. Eventually, 'expire
>inventory' would remove the last backup version when it passed the age
>limit set by the retonly parameter. 

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Bill Colwell
Bill Colwell
C. S. Draper Lab
Cambridge Ma.