On Jan 11, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Robert Knutsen wrote:
I am thinking of implementing a weekly and monthly archive in the same copygroup. I would set the RETVer option to 30 day for weekly backups then run an scheduled administration command to update the RETVer to 365 for monthly archives. My question is, would making this change update the existing archives (ie. update 30 day RETVer existing archives to 365 RETVer) that have different RETVer's? Additionally, do I have to activate the policy before this would take effect for the next archive?
This is addressed in the monthly FAQ, and in http://people.bu.edu/rbs/ADSM.QuickFacts under "Archived files, retention period, update". The essence is that you can't have disparate retentions for the same data under the same policy. Use a separate management class to have different retention for separate copies of the data.
Richard Sims
