Mark, For a single instance, I agree. For organizations that are constantly changing retention of data and need to keep track of the original expiration dates and manage shared data, especially for legal holds, it's an excellent solution.
Brian J. Greenberg General System Dynamics LLC br...@gsysd.com http://gsysd.com 312.242.1840 Follow me on Twitter Follow GSD on Twitter On Apr 28, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Donaldson, Mark wrote: > That's kind of an expensive way to avoid typing one command. > > From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Brian J. > Greenberg > Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:21 PM > To: Mark Glazerman > Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Changing backup retention periods > > You can also use Data Manager to accomplish this. It's designed for legal > holds but does exactly what you want to do too. > > Brian J. Greenberg > General System Dynamics LLC > br...@gsysd.com > http://gsysd.com > 312.242.1840 > > > > > Follow me on Twitter > Follow GSD on Twitter > > > > > On Apr 27, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Mark Glazerman wrote: > > > We’ve had a request to extend the retention period on backups from one of our > hosts so that data needed for some troubleshooting won’t expire before it can > be used. > > Currently the retention period for this data is 1 week. If I change the > retention period in the policy that backed up this data to 2 weeks, will this > change be applied to both future and past backups handled by this policy ? > > Essentially I’m trying to work out if this change will be applied > retro-actively to existing backup images ? > > Thanks, > > Mark Glazerman > Enterprise Storage Administrator > Spartech Corporation > Desk: 314-889-8282 > Fax: 314-854-8282 > Cell: 618-520-3401 > mark.glazer...@spartech.com > http://www.spartech.com > P please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to > This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential, are intended > solely for the use of the addressee, and may be legally privileged. If you > have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately, and > do not copy or forward it. > > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu >
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