On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 04:02:26PM -0400, Michael Leone wrote:
> So what I am unclear on is ... retention. I know what when a tape expires 
> (past it's expiration), it removes the client file indexes. But does it 
> remove the entire entry in the mm db? Or will my mm db still have entries 
> for all tapes I ever made? (I'm guessing "no")

By default all media records are retained unless the tape is relabled.
It can be explicitly deleted otherwise.  The records are small enough
compared to the file indexes that this is possible.

> So I guess I am asking: do entries like this ever get purged completely 
> from the mm db? 

Manually, or automatically when the tape is relabled.  Not when the
savesets expire.

-- 
Darren

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