Thanks.  These are mostly database backups that are time stamped so yes,
they no longer exist.  Unfortunately it took me 60 days to notice they
were being keep.  Based on your explanation I will just have to wait
until they hit their 90 day expiration.

Thanks again,
Ralph 

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Ben Bullock
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 12:46 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: rebinding file backups

        If the files still exist on the client, then they will be
rebound to the new management class.
        If the files no longer exist on the client, they will keep their
original retention.

        I know of no way to change files management class once the file
has been deleted from the client.

        I believe I have heard of folks creating new 0-byte files with
the same names and running an incremental to make them get rebound to
the new MC.

Ben
 

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Levi, Ralph
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 10:33 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: rebinding file backups

I am running a tsm 5.2.7 (AIX) server and W2K3 client w/tsm 5.3 .  I
originally was backing up everything with a 90 day retention class but
now I have some specific files that I only want keep for 9 days.  I
added an "include" statement for just the 2 directory structures I want
changed and left the generic include alone.  The order of the includes
is as seen below.

Since I made the change newly backed up files in the directories noted
are now backed up with 9day_retention , but the files that were
previously backed up still have the 90day_retention management class on
them.  

Can anyone explain why the old backups did not rebind with the new
management class ?  I know in the past if I changed the "include *
mgmt_class" it would rebind everything.

Thanks for the help and have a nice weekend, Ralph

Include *             90DAY_RETENTION
include "e:\Database backups\...\...\*.bak"     9DAY_RETENTION
include "e:\Station Files\...\...\*.*"                  9DAY_RETENTION