In your environment you will find that after 60 days you will have only the
active copies of all the client files.
They will remain there until you do a delete on their file spaces.
(as long as you don't name another node the same and push an incremental)
Dwight

> ----------
> From:         John Naylor[SMTP:John.Naylor AT SCOTTISH-SOUTHERN.CO DOT UK]
> Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent:         Friday, March 24, 2000 11:38 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      How long data retained if not backing up clients
>
> A little query which I am sure you will all think "thats obvious"
> I have some clients that have been decommissioned and the user has said
> can you
> remove them from the schedules, but keep the data for a year.
> If the clients are removed from the schedules and/or decommissioned so
> they can
> not back up,  how will expiration processing affect the data.
> I am pretty sure that active versions will be retained until I delete the
> filespaces after a year, and that inactive versions will go after 60 days
> including the only version of a file already marked as inactive. But that,
> because no new backups are happening, no more files will be marked as
> inactive.
> Are my assumptions correct and will exactly the same apply when we upgrade
> to
> TSM.
> Our ADSM is Version 3, Release 1, Level 2.40
> The default backup retention is
>  Policy Domain Name: NWSTD
>       Policy Set Name: ACTIVE
>       Mgmt Class Name: STANDARD
>       Copy Group Name: STANDARD
>       Copy Group Type: Backup
>  Versions Data Exists: 3
> Versions Data Deleted: 1
> Retain Extra Versions: 60
>   Retain Only Version: 60
>             Copy Mode: Modified
>    Copy Serialization: Shared Static
>        Copy Frequency: 0
>      Copy Destination: NWSTD
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
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