So that makes that field useless to me.  I guess that means back to the 3 
client definitions per client unless someone else has a better suggestion.

On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Michael Nored wrote:
> NetWorker will use the longest period of the 2, per the field help in the
> pool configuration screen.
>
> Michael Nored
> Consultant
> Nored Consulting, LLC
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] 
> On
> Behalf Of David Dulek
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:53 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] index default browse and retention
>
> If I set the retention policy and the browse policy on the client is
> greater
>
> than the retention on the pool, is NetWorker "smart" enough to resolve
> that?
>
> On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Preston de Guise wrote:
> > On 19/03/2008, at 7:08 AM, David Dulek wrote:
> > > I am now using 7.4.1 SP1 and ...
> > >
> > > I am pleasantly surprise to let everyone know that "apparently" that
> > > behavior
> > > is no longer true.  My index saves "appear" to have the same browse
> > > time as
> > > the clients that were backed up.
> > >
> > > I am in the process of changing all the clients to have different
> > > browse and
> > > retention policies based on the group that they are in so I didn't
> > > know that
> > > changed until today's backups ran.  ( I had to create 3 client
> > > definitions,
> > > one for each of the groups they are in.  I assume this is still true
> > > since I
> > > could not find a browse/retention policy on the groups )
> >
> > Additionally, from 7.3.x onwards, you do have the option of setting a
> > retention policy on the individual pools, which will further force
> > shared/same retention periods. While this functionality appeared to be
> > a little flaky in the initial 7.3.x releases, it seems to have
> > stabilised around the 7.3.2 patch and 7.3.3.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Preston.
> >
> > --
> > Preston de Guise
> >
> >
> > "Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate Insurance
> > Policy", due out August 15 2008:
>
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>
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