What is a verification process that can be used to make sure archived files
are not going away?

How many times are directories archived?

The information contained in the emails is outstanding. What else is going
to "bite us"?

Jeff Bach
Home Office Open Systems Engineering
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

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        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Richard Sims [SMTP:rbs AT BU DOT EDU]
        Sent:   Thursday, September 06, 2001 10:16 AM
        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject:        Re: Archival with different retentions?

        >This sounds like a good solution.  I was under the belief that when
I did
        >something like this that the archival process would start rebinding
        >previously archivals and therefore change the retention.  But I
guess that
        >is not true.

        Matt - From my notes at http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts :

        Archived files, rebinding does not      From the TSM Admin. manual,
chapter on
         occur                                  Implementing Policies for
Client Data,
                                                topic How Files and
Directories Are
                                                Associated with a Management
Class:
                                                "Archive copies are never
rebound
                                                because each archive
operation creates
                                                a different archive copy.
Archive copies
                                                remain bound to the
management class
                                                name specified when the user
archived
                                                them." (Reiterated in the
client B/A
                                                manual, under "Binding and
Rebinding
                                                Management Classes to
Files".)
                                                Beware, however, that
changing the
                                                retention setting of a
management
                                                class's archive copy group
will cause
                                                all archive versions bound
to that
                                                management class to conform
to the new
                                                retention.
                                                Note that you can use an
ARCHmc to
                                                specify an alternate
management class
                                                for the archive operation.

         Richard Sims, BU


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