Teresa Biehler wrote:

Hi,



I have a need to have different browse and retention policies for daily,
weekly and monthly backups.  For each client, I've defined:



-        a definition for dailies with a browse/retention policy of 5
weeks

-        a definition for weeklies with a browse/retention policy of 3
months

-        a definition for monthlies with a browse/retention policy of
one year



The different types of backups are filtered into different pools by the
group.



The data save sets are recycling as expected, but the index save sets
are picking up the browse/retention policy for the server which also has
the above browse/retention policy.  It appears that all index savesets
are using the browse/retention policy of one year.  This is causing a
problem because the daily pool is supposed to recycle tapes after 5
weeks.  Since the index save sets are written to the same tapes and they
have a browse/retention of a year, this is not happening.  How can I fix
this?

A few options:

(1) I _think_ that if you put the NetWorker server in the same groups
(perhaps just backup a single file) it will sort out the retention for
the index save sets.

(2) Backup index save sets to a separate pool. Plenty info in the
archives about how to do this.

(3) Run a script (weekly?) to change the expiry date of all save sets in
a pool to a specified offset from the save time. I can supply you such a
script off-list if you like.

Do you have three client resources for every client? This can get a bit
clumsy can't it? I have one client resource for each but in three
groups, using the group schedule to override the client schedule.
Unfortunately there is no group override in the GUI for browse and
retention, even though it is available as an option to savegrp. To fix
this I back them all up with browse and retention of "Year", then change
it using the aforementioned script. Works well.

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