Been there, done that. There is no way to stop expiration for only some nodes. It is either all or nothing.
A few options: - export the data on the clients you do NOT want to expire. That would keep them on their own, but you would need to import it with relative dates when you wanted to look at it. - If the data is all archived to it's own management class, you could raise the retention on that MC to keep it around longer. Ben -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joy Hanna Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 10:59 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Sropping expiration for specific clients Hello, Due to a legal request we are being asked not to expire any data for some specific TSM clients. Is there a way to exclude a group of clients from expiring any data for a time period? I see there is a way to do this for archived data. I'm talking incremental backup data. If I stop expiring altogether I think it wouldn't be long before I put my whole environment at risk. The only way I can think of to do this would be to rename all filespaces where I suspect there might be data I do not want to expire. This however would cause all those renamed filespaces to back up in full tonight. We're talking several TB of file server data. Any ideas? Sincerely, Joy Joy Hanna Enterprise Storage Group I.T. Computer Operations (503)745-7748 [EMAIL PROTECTED]