Hello Peter!

Yes it does sense, but be careful as you are holding indefinitely the version
previous to the one is on the system.  ¿How useful this file will be to you
in, say...    4 years?   15 years? 

Make sure this is a real bussiness requirement, otherwise set the RETEXTRA to
some high value.   

It would not do much harm to let it just be NOLIMIT, but I liked you to take
this into account.

Regards,

Pablito.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Peter
Koch
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 6:35
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Retention Periods

Hi all, here comes my first question on this list after idling for quite some
time.

I'm stuck in a logical dead end. I have a special group of machines that I'm
backing up, that hold a really huge number of files, which don't have to be
kept for a long time.

1) As long as a file exists on a machine, the current and the veriosn before
shall be kept.
2) When a files is deletetd the last existing version shall be kept for max.
10 days.

Versions Data Exists    2
Versions Data Deleted   1
Retain Extra Versions   NOLIMIT
Retain Only Version     10

Does this make sense?

--
Greez,
Peter.