Re: Space reclaimation by changing retention policy

2003-11-04 Thread Zlatko Krastev
There are too many variables affecting the result. The best approach would be to restore the database to a second instance, change the policy, let the expiration run, ... and compare! Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant "Stanley, Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL P

Re: Space reclaimation by changing retention policy

2003-11-02 Thread Stapleton, Mark
From: Stanley, Jon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Is there any way to quantify the amount of space that will be reclaimed via changing a retention policy and letting expiration run until it's done? For example, the current policy is 180 day/8 versions. If I change that to 30 days/3 versions, how muc

Re: Space reclaimation by changing retention policy

2003-10-31 Thread John Naylor
Well, If all your data is backed up under the same retention policy and all your data has the full 8 versions, then you could make a mathmatical stab at this, I doubt that this is he case. What I suggest is that you pick one client that is representative of all of the rest You could then try to use