No.
You can't lock a node or filespace and prevent expiration from occurring.
Even if you stop EXPIRE INVENTORY from running, backup versions will still roll
off and versions due to expire based on days will become unrestore-able. The
only way to prevent expiration is to change the copy group settings.
There are only 2 things you can do that I can think of:
a) create a domain with all the mgmt. classes set to nolim/nolim/nolim/nolim
and move the client to that domain
(of course you could do that in the existing domain, but that would be insane
if there are other clients in there)
That will affect all the filespaces, though.
b-1) if you want to preserve the filespace for legal reasons, but don't expect
to need access to it, pull a list of everything for that filespace out of the
backups table with an SQL command and write it to a flat file for reference.
Then export the filespace to media. Export media doesn't expire; the data will
always be there and can be re-imported if needed for a one-off dump for the
lawyer.
b-2) if you want to preserve the filespace but still be able to restore from
it:
export to media
import it back to a test server*, to a domain with nolim/nolim/nolim/nolim
rename the nodename to something like "originalnodename-frozen"
import it back to the original server, into its own FROZEN domain with
nolim/nolim/nolim/nolim
(*If you don't have a test server, you can still accomplish this by juggling
the nodenames:
export the filespace
rename the original node to originalnodename-temp
import the filespace, which will come back as originalnodename
update node originalnodename domain=FROZEN
rename originalnodename to originalnodename-frozen
rename originalnodename-temp to originalnodename"
)
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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Lee, Gary
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 10:58 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] locking a file space
Is it possible to lock a single filespace such that expiration will not occur
for only that space?
Gary Lee
Senior System Programmer
Ball State University
phone: 765-285-1310
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