Michael Nored wrote:

David,
I see you have received a number of suggestions methods to handle this
issue, I would like to add one more.

You can use one client configuration attached to any number of groups
provided you want the browse period to equal the longest retention. In your
example add the client to a daily group that writes to a daily pool, add the
same client to the weekly group which writes to its own pool, and do the
same for the monthly. Since you have now isolated your daily, weekly and
monthly backups to their own pool it is fairly simple to run a mminfo query
to identify tapes in you daily and weekly pools which have a last access
date greater that the retention period you really want for them. I.E if you
want to retain your daily backups for 1 week then query the daily pool for
tapes that have a last access date greater than 8 days. Use the output of
the mminfo to recycle the tapes older than a week, one caveat here is that
the last access date gets updated when a tape is opened for a read function
such as restores, If you script the mminfo and recycle then run it daily I
think you will get what your looking for.

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