>From: Zosimo Noriega (ADNOC IS&T) [mailto:znoriega AT ADNOC DOT COM]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 9:43 AM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: expiration of backups ....
>
>i have a management calss with this propeties:
>
>
>===================================================================
>LAN-SERV-DOMAIN:ACTIVE:LAN-SERV-MC1:STANDARD - Properties
>---------------------------------------------------------
>Length of time to retain extra backup version : 10
>Length of time to retain only backup version  : 60
>
>It is not clear to about the expiration, i know i deleted a file from the
>client it will expired after 60 days starting from the deletion date.  But
>my question is, if i stop the backup operations from the client, is the
>client data will expire?  Or it will never expire.  Any help from you is
>really appreciated.

If you stop backup operations on the client then nothing ever notifies the
server to expire the data, so all of it lasts forever (or until you finally
run another backup, or delete the filespace from the server, or eliminate
the server, whichever comes first).

Kai.

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You may both be wrong." -- Dandemis