On Nov 2, 2008, at 11:23 PM, Cheung, Richard wrote:

...
Today is Monday..  I have just been told that I need to keep the
backup
for /etc from Saturday until further notice due to a business
requirement....
...

It sounds like they want to freeze a copy of what was on that file
system Saturday.  I think the sanest thing to do is perform a point-in-
time restoral of that data to an empty file system on that system, or
a same-type system using Virtualnodename, then do an Archive with an
infinite-retention management class.  You can then rename the
filespace to a name like "/etc_Saturday_20081101_frozen".  The backup
data can expire as usual.

   Richard Sims