On Nov 2, 2008, at 11:23 PM, Cheung, Richard wrote:
... Today is Monday.. I have just been told that I need to keep the backup for /etc from Saturday until further notice due to a business requirement.... ...
It sounds like they want to freeze a copy of what was on that file system Saturday. I think the sanest thing to do is perform a point-in- time restoral of that data to an empty file system on that system, or a same-type system using Virtualnodename, then do an Archive with an infinite-retention management class. You can then rename the filespace to a name like "/etc_Saturday_20081101_frozen". The backup data can expire as usual. Richard Sims