You set up a bunch of different management classes in the domain, each with
an ARCHIVE COPY GROUP that has a different RETAIN period.

(Our manaagement classes are called, for example, ARCH-90days  ARCH_1Year,
ARCH-2Year, etc.)

When you do an archive from the GUI, you click the OPTIONS button (the
unlabelled one - isn't that helpful!?!), click the OVERRIDE INCLUDE/EXCLUDE
box, and select the management class you want from the pull down.

If you are archiving with a command line, you specify the appropropriate
maangement class name with the
-archmc= parm.
That gets the right retention period assigned to the archived files.
That gets the right retention period assigned to the archived files.

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Wanda Prather
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
443-778-8769
wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu

"Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think" -
Scott Adams/Dilbert
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