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Re: Exactly when DO backup versions expire?

1998-09-23 16:51:34
Subject: Re: Exactly when DO backup versions expire?
From: Steven P Roder <tkssteve AT REXX.ACSU.BUFFALO DOT EDU>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 16:51:34 -0400
> >Thanks, this helps,
> >...But, if I back up a file only once, and do not ever delete the file on my
> >workstation, will the backup copy still expire when the Retonly time is up,
> >or will it remain unexpired indefinately, as long as I don't delete the
> >version from my workstation. I've heard several people say that ADSM never
> >expires your only backup copy, as long as you don't delete it from your
> >workstation, but I haven't seen this explicitly stated in the Admin Guide.
>
> What they say is correct.  As the manual says about RETOnly:
>     Specifies the retention time, in days, for the last backup version of a
>     file that has been deleted from the client's file system.

Actually, with exclude.fs in V3, should'nt that now read that is deleted,
and expired?  If I exclude a filesystem that I was backing up, ADSM
doesn't seem to expire any of the files in it, so they would remain
active, even if I deleted them from the workstation.  One would have to
run a backup of that filesystem to cause the files to be marked as
expired.  Am I all wrong here?  It seems to be what I am observing...

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> So as long as the file is on the client system, the backup copy of that file
> should remain as well.  The retonly clock starts ticking once the file has
> been deleted on the client and ADSM gets wind of it.
>        Richard Sims, BU


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