Wimprine, Thomas wrote:
I have a system(s) that have been turned off never to return. I need to set the backup data that was on them to inactive. Does anyone know how to make this happen? I looked on infocenter and couldn't find anything relevant, am I blind or it just isn't there?
We've approached this problem in two ways. One is to mark all the data inactive before decommissioning the client. We do this by putting "exclude /.../*" in the system options file, and then running a full incremental backup. Sometimes we forget to do this, so we use our monitoring system to remind us to remove the files after their retention period is up. We've setup our monitoring system to alert us if any filespaces haven't been backed up in a certain number of days. By default this is one day, but we can define tolerances on a per filespace basis. We set the tolerance on those filespaces to be equal to the longest retention period for files on that filespace, and will delete the filespaces when we get the email. -- -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S048, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine
