While I search for answers elsewhere, maybe someone already has an answer 
floating around in their head.

TSM server 6.3.

I have a user that has about 2 weeks worth of TDP/SQL backups.  They have 
turned off backups on the node.  They have a 60 day retention policy currently. 
 They want to retain all two weeks of backups for 365 days, including the 
inactive ones.

My thought was this: 
Create a new domain with a new default management class that has a 365 day 
retention.  Update the node to that domain, and all of its backups would be 
assigned the default retention policy of the new domain.

I was hoping that I could query the backups table to verify that this was the 
case, but it doesn't appear to be that simple.

select hl_name,ll_name,class_name,state from backups where 
node_name='BF-SPDB01_SQL'

   HL_NAME: \WSS_Content_uhr\
   LL_NAME: full
CLASS_NAME: DEFAULT
     STATE: ACTIVE_VERSION
....

When expiration runs, will it consider the default retention policy of the 
domain when the backup was performed, or will it look at the new domain?

My backup idea is to update the STANDARD management class on another server 
instance to 365 days retention and export the node over there.

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