"Versions Data Deleted" applies only after you delete the file from the client file system. It has no affect as long as the file still exists.
By way of additional answer, check out an older post containing a series of notes related to these copygroup settings, http://msgs.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm0103/983.html. Best read from the bottom-up. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (change eye to i to reply) The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <kurt.beyers Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/26/2003 07:49 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: definition copy group Hi, I'm sorry for the previous post. I've pressed the send button a bit too early. Suppose I've got the following copy group defined in a management class: Versions Data Exists: 5 Versions Data Deleted: 2 Remain Extra Versions: 30 Remain Only Version: 60 I take a backup of a file A which changes 5 times, so I'll have 5 incremental versions (A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 with A5 being the active version). Suppose now that the file A don't change any more (A5 is the current active version) but remains on the server. 30 days after the backup of the version A1, it will expire. The same for the versions A2 and A3. Will the version A4 also expire 30 days after the backup of itand will I only have the version A5 on tape? Or does the expiration of extra versions halts when the number of versions gets equal to the number of 'versions data deleted'? According to the reference guide, the version A4 will expire also 30 days after the backup of it. Thanks for the assistance, Kurt
