No Tim
Its number of versions or number of days retained, whichever is *shorter*.
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Steve.
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You are then in essence keeping deleted versions of files forever right ?
With "Versions Data Deleted: Nolimit"
Tim
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> Hi Bruce
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> IMO the best way is
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> Versions Data Exists: Nolimit
> Versions Data Deleted: Nolimit
> Retain Extra Versions: 7
> Retain Only Version: 7
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> This guarantees that the data will be kept 7 days. With your setup, if
> someone runs a selective, or an extra incremental in the middle of the
day
> on a file that has changed, the last version will be pushed off. Also,
as
> a bonus, expiration processing is more efficient where the versions
> parameters are not in play.
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> HTH
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> Steve
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> Steven Harris
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> We are wanting to setup a new policy domain and management class for our
> Active Directory backups. We want to keep only 7 days of backups. If I
> wanted to accomplish this would the management class look like this? (I
> have a difficult time with this part of it for some reason).
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> Versions Data Exists: 7
> Versions Data Deleted: 7
> Retain Extra Versions: 7
> Retain Only Version: 7
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> Thanks!
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