SAP brbackups and brarchives not deleting

[danielcampion]

Hi,



I need a little help in getting my SAP for R/3 brbackups and brarchives to expire. Currently, I can see through the backfm tool that these backups are still in our system even though they should have been expired weeks ago.



I have set the: tsm copy group to retver=9999; the initSAP.sid expir_period parameter to 30, and the max_versions to 1. I thought this would allow SAP to monitor and expire its own files but no success. When I view the R/3 backups through the backfm tool I see TSM's 9999day (27 years) expiration value is applied to the backup.



I don't know what I am doing wrong. How do I give an expiration period of x days to brarhive and brbackup backups. I think I have the right files but maybe I missed a parameter.



Any help would be appreciated,



Dan

 

[rzpqkc]

we run without any special settings in the sid.sap file

instead we set the versions parameter in the initSID.utl to the number of versions we want to keep, (MAX_VERSIONS 30).ö this has proved to work just fine for us....