BTW, when you DECOMM a node, after purging the inactive copies and marking
remaining active backups as inactive, it LOCKs the node.

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 3:40 PM Marc Lanteigne <marclantei...@ca.ibm.com>
wrote:

> Locked or not locked, it's not a determining factor for expiration.
>
> You could also decommission the nodes after you move them to a new server.
> That will do a few things for you:
> - prevent the node to perform any new backups/archives, but can still
> connect to restore older data, if you lock it, they can't backup or restore
> - disassociate the node from backup schedules, so no misleading missed
> backups
> - inactivate all active versions so they are also eligible for expiration
> based on their retention
> - once all data is expired, the node will be deleted
>
> HELP DECOM NODE for more information.
>
> -
> Thanks,
> Marc...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Eric Wonderley <eric.wonder...@vt.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 04:34 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] do locked nodes participate in expiration?
>
> we trying to lock out clients from a server we're moving off of but we also
> want data to expire for the locked out clients
>
> maybe we need to rename the nodes instead
>


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