Don't try to use one tool for all purposes. Where the need is to pick and choose certain files to keep for certain lengths of time, the better tool to use is Archive rather than Backup. This gets you where you want to be and eliminates policy disparities between files and directories. I would not try to twist Backup to achieve that objective.
Richard Sims
On Apr 20, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Farren Minns wrote:
OK, thanks for that, and I can understand that there is a need for a dir to be required for files that are to be contained within it, but I have another problem with this. Let's say I want create the new management class that I want to use to keep just a certain directories files for a certain length of time ( and also that the retain only setting will be higher than the standard mc we are currently using ). Now, what I don't like here is that fact that the retain only setting is then applied to all dirs on the client being backed up. Why does this not just get applied to the directory (and sub dirs), in question, and is there a way to stop this from happening?
