> How do you recommend setting up a management class that would allow me > to retain backups for 60 days while allowing a PIT restore to any date > within the past 60 days? I am thinking I should set the copygroup > parameters VERExists, VERDeleted, RETExtra and RETOnly to 60. > > Does this seem correct?
It's probably close. Deranged people such as myself might comment: * If you are doing weekly backups, these numbers are way too high. * If you sometimes do more than one backup in a day, the numbers could be too low. * If you want to do restores from the last 60 backups, 60 would be right for verexists, but 59 would be sufficient for verdeleted, etc. * It sort of depends on what you want to accomplish. Maybe a client expects 60 days to be 2 months. Maybe bump 60 a little. Maybe you backup every day, but client doesn't see a problem on weekends, so maybe bump 60 a little. Maybe client tries to restore today, runs out of time and comes to you tomorrow for help. Maybe bump 60 a little. Of course, if you can identify the files which need this PIT requirement, then considerable *SM DB and STGpool space and processing time might be saved if you have a special management class for the 60- copy files and something considerably less as "standard" ... but then the client risks making a poor decision. :-) cheers, wayne Wayne T. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] ADSM Technical Coordinator - UNET University of Maine System