Alan,
you could have made some improvements to your luck so I am asking - are
you?
If REUsedelay setting of at least one of your pools (primary or copy) in
this node's hierarchy is more than time since virus attack **AND** you
still have DB backup/snapshot before that date you have enough luck to
perform point-in-time restore.
If not - much less luck. But with old DB backup and (hopefully) not
reclaimed tapes you are still close.
Review you luck again.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant



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Subject:        File Expiration question.

Hello,

     I have a problem that I am hoping you can help me with. Some of our
Novell servers got hit by a virus because Norton was not up to date. The
network engineers updated Norton to the latest version then ran a full
scan
on the servers. Norton apparently touches the files when doing a full scan
so the each entire server would have backed up last night. Another network
engineer decided to exclude the largest directory on each server for
servers
that are out on our WAN. The problem of course is that all of the files
became inactive and the three oldest versions were marked for expiration.
The exclusion is being removed for tonight's backup. We decided to just
bite
the bullet and allow them to back up fully.

My question is this: Since the exclusion was removed will he files that
expired be rebound to their normal management class and thus, not expire
or
am I out of luck? I have disabled Inventory Expiration for now.

       Thanks,
           Al

Alan Davenport
Senior Storage Administrator
Selective Insurance
alan.davenport AT selectvie DOT com
(973) 948-1306