Don't try to use one tool for all purposes. Where the need is to pick
and choose certain files to keep for certain lengths of time, the
better tool to use is Archive rather than Backup. This gets you where
you want to be and eliminates policy disparities between files and
directories. I would not try to twist Backup to achieve that objective.

  Richard Sims

On Apr 20, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Farren Minns wrote:

OK, thanks for that, and I can understand that there is a need for a
dir to
be required for files that are to be contained within it, but I have
another problem with this.
Let's say I want create the new management class that I want to use to
keep
just a certain directories files for a certain length of time ( and
also
that the retain only setting will be higher than the standard mc we are
currently using ). Now, what I don't like here is that fact that the
retain
only setting is then applied to all dirs on the client being backed
up. Why
does this not just get applied to the directory (and sub dirs), in
question, and is there a way to stop this from happening?