Lynsey Wyles wrote:

>If I were to change the clients polices to browse 6 months and retention 6
>months today, would the backups previously backed up retain their original
>polices of 6 months and 5 years retention?

They will keep their retention time.

>What I want to do is keep all backups on tape with 5 years retention off
>site and retain.  To change the retention today to 6 months, so that only
>the backups running from today onwards have a 6 months retention so that I
>can action recycling on these tapes only.

I use a simple script to change browse and retention time for backups that
are stored off site.

Greetings,

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