I belive the files are still bound to their original management class, but already marked for deletion according to your RETONLY value. (i.e., out of luck...)
After the backup runs tonight, you can poke around and look with a query like this: select ll_name, backup_date, deactivate_date from backups where ll_name like '%PART_OF_A_FILENAME%' and node_name='NOVELLNODEVICTIM' -----Original Message----- From: Alan Davenport [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 2:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: File Expiration question. Hello, I have a problem that I am hoping you can help me with. Some of our Novell servers got hit by a virus because Norton was not up to date. The network engineers updated Norton to the latest version then ran a full scan on the servers. Norton apparently touches the files when doing a full scan so the each entire server would have backed up last night. Another network engineer decided to exclude the largest directory on each server for servers that are out on our WAN. The problem of course is that all of the files became inactive and the three oldest versions were marked for expiration. The exclusion is being removed for tonight's backup. We decided to just bite the bullet and allow them to back up fully. My question is this: Since the exclusion was removed will he files that expired be rebound to their normal management class and thus, not expire or am I out of luck? I have disabled Inventory Expiration for now. Thanks, Al Alan Davenport Senior Storage Administrator Selective Insurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] (973) 948-1306
