Yes, that was the spec that Bruce Dollens originally posited.

Tim Brown wrote:

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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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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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).

                          Versions Data Exists: 7
             Versions Data Deleted: 7
             Retain Extra Versions: 7
             Retain Only Version: 7

Thanks!

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