Hello Peter! Yes it does sense, but be careful as you are holding indefinitely the version previous to the one is on the system. ¿How useful this file will be to you in, say... 4 years? 15 years?
Make sure this is a real bussiness requirement, otherwise set the RETEXTRA to some high value. It would not do much harm to let it just be NOLIMIT, but I liked you to take this into account. Regards, Pablito. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Koch Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 6:35 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Retention Periods Hi all, here comes my first question on this list after idling for quite some time. I'm stuck in a logical dead end. I have a special group of machines that I'm backing up, that hold a really huge number of files, which don't have to be kept for a long time. 1) As long as a file exists on a machine, the current and the veriosn before shall be kept. 2) When a files is deletetd the last existing version shall be kept for max. 10 days. Versions Data Exists 2 Versions Data Deleted 1 Retain Extra Versions NOLIMIT Retain Only Version 10 Does this make sense? -- Greez, Peter.