> Ultimately I am looking to get 2 weeks retention on my disk based save sets 
> (advfile), which I have set up and is working. I would like to be able to 
> keep them on tape for 4 weeks.. So Ultimately i have 4 weeks of retention..
> 
> So would the easiest solution be, to just host those tapes off site for 3 
> weeks at a time, so they are not re-used? 


Since the backup retention policy is 2 weeks, then setting the clone pool's 
retention to 4 weeks should ensure that the savesets in the clone pool don't 
expire for "at least" 4 weeks.

i.e. if you have a full backup once a week, and incrementals the rest of the 
week, then the full backup cannot expire until the non full backups (that 
depend on the full backup for recoveries) also expire.  In this scenario, if 
the retention is 1 week for all the backups, then the full will effectively 
expire in 2 weeks.


Of course, if you want to re-use the tapes after coming back from off-site, you 
can always manually relabel the tapes.

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