What adsm server version ?

Prior to .40 there was a little deal where DIRECTORY PATHS were archived
into the longest retention archive management class that existed under the
client's domain.   The .40 "cleanup archdir" command is used to correct this
little glitch.   Sooo that is when you would archive a file, the directory
path was also archived into that longest retention management class... I
never tried archiving just/only/specifically the directory but I can see
where this would probably end up being bound to a retention period that is
the longest.

Are you using the "show archive" command to see the archive and determine
the retention ?

Usually the archived directories associated with an archived file won't show
up in just a "q archive some_dir_path"  'cause if they would I would have
deleted them long ago from some of our environments...

THIS HAS BEEN A REAL PAIN TO ME !

'cause of problems with .40 & .50 I'm staying back at .5 on a bunch of my
servers...some of the clients on those servers have 300 directories EACH of
which have about 1/2 million archived entries in the DB which comes out to
be 150,000,000 entries JUST FOR ONE CLIENT

ARGH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope this helps...
later,
        Dwight


> ----------
> From:         ANGEL BUGARIN[SMTP:ANGEL.BUGARIN AT MAIL.SPRINT DOT COM]
> Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent:         Monday, January 17, 2000 12:07 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Incorect retention.
>
> Hello everyone.
>
> I performed an archive process on a file system using a test
> management class. The management class has 1 day retention.
> The command I used follows:
>
> dsmc arc /u/stimpy/ -archmc=aix1_test_mc -su=yes -desc="test_bu"
>
> The result was exact. That is it used the correct tape pool and
> the retention is for 1 day.
>
> Then I ran another archive on a different file system:
>
> dsmc arc /utils_hisprt43/ -archmc=aix1_test_mc -su=yes -desc="test_bu"
>
> The result of the above process is totally unacceptable. That is, the
> retention
> date is for 5 years, not 1 day.
>
> Can someone please shed some light into this?
>
> TIA
>
> Angel
>
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