They will expire tomorrow or whenever you run 'Expire Inventory' from
tomorrow on.  There is no way to change the archive retention within
TSM.  What you should do is to restore the archive and then re-archive
it to a management class with a longer retention period.


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Joshua S. Bassi
IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark
Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM
eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP

AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant
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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Joni Moyer
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 4:27 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: archive retention - quick question!!


Hi everyone!

I just wanted to make sure I understood the archive retention period
correctly so that some of the users at my company don't lose data they
wanted to restore from 12/31/2002.  Apparently they archived the data on
12/31/2002 and it has a retention period of 65 days.  Today is the 65th
day.  Will the files expire today or will they expire tomorrow?  Also,
is there anyway to prevent them from expiring (give them a longer
retention
period)  before restoring the file?  Thanks for your help!

Joni Moyer
Systems Programmer
joni.moyer AT highmark DOT com
(717)975-8338