NetWorker will use the longest period of the 2, per the field help in the
pool configuration screen.

Michael Nored
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Nored Consulting, LLC
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of David Dulek
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:53 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] index default browse and retention

If I set the retention policy and the browse policy on the client is greater

than the retention on the pool, is NetWorker "smart" enough to resolve that?

On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Preston de Guise wrote:
> On 19/03/2008, at 7:08 AM, David Dulek wrote:
> > I am now using 7.4.1 SP1 and ...
> >
> > I am pleasantly surprise to let everyone know that "apparently" that
> > behavior
> > is no longer true.  My index saves "appear" to have the same browse
> > time as
> > the clients that were backed up.
> >
> > I am in the process of changing all the clients to have different
> > browse and
> > retention policies based on the group that they are in so I didn't
> > know that
> > changed until today's backups ran.  ( I had to create 3 client
> > definitions,
> > one for each of the groups they are in.  I assume this is still true
> > since I
> > could not find a browse/retention policy on the groups )
>
> Additionally, from 7.3.x onwards, you do have the option of setting a
> retention policy on the individual pools, which will further force
> shared/same retention periods. While this functionality appeared to be
> a little flaky in the initial 7.3.x releases, it seems to have
> stabilised around the 7.3.2 patch and 7.3.3.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Preston.
>
> --
> Preston de Guise
>
>
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