Hi All, I'm attempting to move TSM from being a point backup solution for a particular application to an enterprise solution, in an environment where the customer is king (and thinks he knows it all). As most application owners are used to individual tape dumps, I'm getting a lot of requests to just duplicate what the tapes did, i.e daily backup kept for a week, a weekly archive kept for a month and and a monthly archive kept for a year, with no exclusions. I inherited the management classes here and the default is unlimited versions, retextra 28, retonly 365 So far I've kept with this as it mostly saves me having to run those monthly archives, but as the empire expands I'm having a lot of trouble with temporary and uniquely named files hanging around for a full year. Its not a problem now but will be if I don't address the issue. I started coding exclude lists, but as every machine has a different setup it is hard to come up with general rules (e.g. two NT servers set up and maintained by the same people, one has oracle archive logs in \oraarchive and the other in \ora_archive) so the task will quickly get out of hand. I can encourage users in the long term as we will soon set up a billing strategy, but it is a government department and it will take at least a year for billing to bite. So, what default retentions are you using? and how do you discourage monthly archives of everything? To keep traffic on the list down, email direct to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll collate and post a summary. Thanks Steve.
