Steve

  I responded wrong I meant

  "You are deleting all backups of a file 7 days after being deleted
  from the filesystem"

  What if a user deletes a file and needs it back after 7 days.

Tim

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Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 8:30 PM
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Subject: Re: Backup retention question


No Tim

Its number of versions or number of days retained, whichever is
*shorter*.

Regards

Steve.






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You are then in essence keeping deleted versions of files forever right
?
With "Versions Data Deleted: Nolimit"

Tim

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Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: Backup retention question


> Hi Bruce
>
> IMO the best way is
>
>              Versions Data Exists: Nolimit
>              Versions Data Deleted: Nolimit
>              Retain Extra Versions: 7
>              Retain Only Version: 7
>
> This guarantees that the data will be kept 7 days.  With your setup,
if
> someone runs a selective, or an extra incremental in the middle of the
day
> on a file that has changed, the last version will be pushed off.
Also,
as
> a bonus, expiration processing is more efficient where the versions
> parameters are not in play.
>
> HTH
>
> Steve
>
> Steven Harris
> TSM Admin, Sydney Australia
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> We are wanting to setup a new policy domain and management class for
our
> Active Directory backups.  We want to keep only 7 days of backups. If
I
> wanted to accomplish this would the management class look like this?
(I
> have a difficult time with this part of it for some reason).
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>                           Versions Data Exists: 7
>              Versions Data Deleted: 7
>              Retain Extra Versions: 7
>              Retain Only Version: 7
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> Thanks!
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