Zoltan,

What is the RETEXTRA setting?

You should have something like this:
   VEREXISTS NOLIMIT
   VEREXISTS NOLIMIT
   RETEXTRA 30
   RETONLY 30

This will keep all inactive backups for 30 days.

Also.. if the management class is not the default,
make sure you have coded the INCLUDE statements
correctly in the DSM.OPT for DP for SQL.
For example:

   INCLUDE "\...\meta\...\*"     SqlDbMetaMgmtClass_diskonly_30DAYS
   INCLUDE "\...\data\...\*"     SqlDbDataMgmtClass_disktape_30DAYS

Del

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 08/01/2006
01:20:04 PM:

> Can someone explain why our M$-SQL TDP backups are not following the
> management class retention ?
>
> I am getting complaints that the backups are rolling off much too
quickly
> and we aren't keeping the proper amount of versions.
>
> The MC is setup as VERSIONS EXIST= NOLIMIT and RETAIN ONLY=30, yet we
are
> only seeing 3-versions of the backups at any given time.
>
> Any thoughts ?
>
> I believe the TDP is at the latest, 5.2(3).1 and the client is higher.