yup, it will do. It will cause the tsm server grow NOLIMIT as well :-) Alternatively, you can offer incrementals to files keep 6 or 7 months only and do archives with deletefiles option for older files.
this differntiates from the upper solution in that: - you would be responsible for deleting files, not the custommer (responsibility move, more service from you) - there would be 100% security that only files backed-up are deleted - TSM storage usage and media maintenance, redundancy etc. could be easily differentiated for young and old files - at later timer, you could delete portions of your customer?s archived files (in contrast to incremental where you only can delete backup of whole file system easily) - on the other side, only the very last version of files would be kept forever, not the last two - assumption: there is an easy way for you/tarchive sm to determine which files are to be considered to be over 6 months old regards Juraj -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: Yiannakis Vakis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 26. Marz 2004 10:15 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Retaining Deleted files Hi, I have the following situation and I need a confirmation here. System information is : TSM 5.2. on Windows 2000, TSM BA client 5.2. on Windows 2000. I'm backing up a folder with the "incremental" option, that contains a complex subfolder tree. The contents of the subfolders are mainly transaction files from various applications. The user wants to keep the transaction files for 6 months on disk and then deletes the older ones (the 6th month) to make space for the new month. This is a user task and here I don't have any involvement. The user doesn't want to lose the deleted transaction files, because he might want to restore something for investigation reasons. I have set up a special policy for this. The backup copygroup definition is as follows: Policy Domain Name TSM_DOMAIN Policy Set Name ACTIVE Mgmt Class Name TSM_MGMT_CLASS Copy Group Name STANDARD Versions Data Exists 2 Versions Data Deleted 2 Retain Extra Versions NOLIMIT Retain Only Version NOLIMIT Copy Mode MODIFIED Copy Serialization SHRSTATIC Copy Frequency 0 Copy Destination 3590STGPOOL Table of Contents (TOC) Destination - Last Update Date/Time 2004-03-12 12:37:03.000000 Last Update by (administrator) YIANNAKIS Managing profile - I have specified NOLIMIT on retain extra versions and retain only version so that I don't lose the deleted files. Is that correct ? Thanks Yiannakis
