Lynsey Wyles wrote:

I have clients running a browse retention of 6 months and a retention
policy of 5 years.

If I were to change the clients polices to browse 6 months and retention 6
months today, would the backups previously backed up retain their original
polices of 6 months and 5 years retention?

Yes they would, assuming you are using NetWorker 6 or above. The browse
and retention are stored in the media database for each save set. This
was not the case with NetWorker 5 and below.

What I want to do is keep all backups on tape with 5 years retention off
site and retain.  To change the retention today to 6 months, so that only
the backups running from today onwards have a 6 months retention so that I
can action recycling on these tapes only.

Yes this will happen.

I will also change the tape pool name, so that I can easily identify the
those under the 6 months retention?

Technically speaking you can't do this. You can't change a pool name,
but you can create a new one and configure your backups to do this
instead. I'm sure that's what you meant.

Any issues here?

None at all. It will just work.

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