Joshua, If I go and change the retention period of archive in archive copy 
group of that
management class, will it not apply the new retention period to the archives 
already
present with that management class??

rgds
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua S. Bassi" <jbassi AT IHWY DOT COM>
To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: archive retention - quick question!!


> 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.
>
>
> --
> 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
> Cell (831) 595-3962
> jbassi AT earthlink DOT net
>
> -----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
>
>