> Michael,
> 
> i do not know how old your installation is but i think before NW 7.
> 3? 

Feb 2007. I believe it was 7.2, yes. (I wasn't here then)

> there was only one retention policy/date possible per client.
> So you might have carried this schema over all these years.
> 
> Since it changed, you may even set separate dates for each 
> individual save set instance (cloneid).

But not via GUI, right?

> I am talking about dates, not about policies. So you must either 
> specify them at the time of the backup (save/savegrp) or later with 
> "nsrmm [-w time ]  [-e time ] - S ssid/cloneid".
> And as i said you can also set these parameters for nsrclone/nsrstage.

So I'd still need a script to do it, right? To set the short retention 
times using "nsrmm"? 

So I'm still not seeing where I would be gaining much, by changing my 
current setup.