No. You can't lock a node or filespace and prevent expiration from occurring. Even if you stop EXPIRE INVENTORY from running, backup versions will still roll off and versions due to expire based on days will become unrestore-able. The only way to prevent expiration is to change the copy group settings. There are only 2 things you can do that I can think of:
a) create a domain with all the mgmt. classes set to nolim/nolim/nolim/nolim and move the client to that domain (of course you could do that in the existing domain, but that would be insane if there are other clients in there) That will affect all the filespaces, though. b-1) if you want to preserve the filespace for legal reasons, but don't expect to need access to it, pull a list of everything for that filespace out of the backups table with an SQL command and write it to a flat file for reference. Then export the filespace to media. Export media doesn't expire; the data will always be there and can be re-imported if needed for a one-off dump for the lawyer. b-2) if you want to preserve the filespace but still be able to restore from it: export to media import it back to a test server*, to a domain with nolim/nolim/nolim/nolim rename the nodename to something like "originalnodename-frozen" import it back to the original server, into its own FROZEN domain with nolim/nolim/nolim/nolim (*If you don't have a test server, you can still accomplish this by juggling the nodenames: export the filespace rename the original node to originalnodename-temp import the filespace, which will come back as originalnodename update node originalnodename domain=FROZEN rename originalnodename to originalnodename-frozen rename originalnodename-temp to originalnodename" ) W -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 10:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] locking a file space Is it possible to lock a single filespace such that expiration will not occur for only that space? Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University phone: 765-285-1310
