You are abit confused. The *ONLY* way to have TWO policies applicable to a given file is to use TWO node-names for your backups; swapping policy sets *may* work for your situation, if what you want (and set) is 30 versions of a given file... that piece will work.
Files can be bound only to one management class at a time; if you try changing MC for the file, it will change ALL versions to that MC, not just the next backup. The policyset-swap trick is useful when changing from modified to absolute and back; that's about the only use I've ever seen for multiple policy sets. Hope this helps. Regards, Don Don France Technical Architect - Tivoli Certified Consultant Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E.) San Jose, CA (408) 257-3037 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diana Noble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:13 AM Subject: Help Understanding Mgmt classes > Hi All - > > I believe I have my management classes all defined with a major flaw. We > do scheduled modified backups during the week and scheduled absolute > backups on Sundays. I have two management classes defined. Both have the > same retentions coded but one has "absolute" for the copy mode and one has > "modified" coded. I have a script that swaps the default management class > on Sundays. After rereading the manual and looking at the archives of this > list, it seems there's no guarantee that the backup will use the default > Management class. Also, if I've specified to keep 30 versions of the data > in both management classes, does that mean I'm going to retain 30 versions > from the "absolute" and 30 versions of the "modified"? I really want 30 > versions all together. > > My thought is to create multiply policy sets, and activate the policy set > that contains only the management class I want. I would then specify a > retention of 4 versions for my policy set that contains the management > class for "absolute". This won't delete any of my 30 versions that were > saved using the policy set that contains the "modified" management class, > will it? Does this make sense, or am I still way off here? > > Diana
