what if you change you mind on how long you want to keep that archived data?
With the "archive data retention protection" enable, there are no changing. It is like pouring concrete.
One may say that you can destroy and re-pour the concrete.
To disable the "archive data retention protection" , uninstall the TSM Server, reinstall the TSM Server, make sure that the
"archive data retention protection" is not enable and then reinstall the database.
The only time that you can enable the "archive data retention protection" is on a new installed TSM Server where there are no data in the database.
If the "archive data retention protection" was not enable. Unlike backup, there are no rebinding with archives.
You can not change the archive retention to affect previous archives.
ie: Yesterday we archive a file for 180 days.
The retention is too long, we reduce the archive retention to 60 days.
We perform an archive today. Todays archive will have a retention for 60 days and we will still have the
archive for 180 days.
Several ways to change an archive retention.
1. Retrive the data and rearchive the data with the archive mgmtclass with the retention that you need.
2. Move the node into another domain where the archive mgmtclass have the retention that you need.
Is there a way to view the expiration dates for the archived retention protected filespace files
Would have to run a select statement to see when the file was archived and count from that date.