Why not define a shorter retention on your copy 1, ie. one week, then
specify the longer retention for the physical tape in the vault process?

BTW, you typically don't want to expire data from VTL "as quickly as
possible", but rather as slowly as possible, while still ensuring
there's sufficient free space for the following night's backup....the
longer the data is on VTL, the greater tha chance of being able to
restore from disk rather than tape.

Paul

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf 
> Of Liddle, Stuart
> Sent: July 31, 2006 3:17 AM
> To: WEAVER, Simon; 'smpt'; 'Mansell, Richard'; 
> veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Expiring copy 1 images
> 
> But, if you have an environment where you are using VTL's to 
> make your first
> copy and then using Vault to make physical tape copies, then 
> you want to
> expire the first copy and perform the -dassignempty so that 
> you can free up
> the space on the VTL as quickly as possible.
> 
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