One of these days I'll learn to THINK ! ! !
I said B) and then gave the statement of A) (sigh, can I go home yet???)
IT is A) all the way ! ! !
sorry if anyone had heart flutters...
Inactive files don't get purged until they have been inactive for retain
extra number of days.
Dwight
-Original Message-
From: Cook, Dwight E
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 11:38 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Inactive version expiration, just a note...
With the recent Window virus that zeros out files blah blah balh
I tested the behavior of TSM expiration (on an AIX 4.3.3, TSM 4.2.2.0
server)
What did I double check ? ? ?
With retain extra, does that mean
A) X days from the time a file goes inactive
or
B) X days from the creation date of an inactive file
In other words,
if I have an active version that is basically 100 days old
and if my retain extra value is 35
and if I get a new ~active version~ today
thus making the first ~inactive version~ actually 100 days old in TSM
but it has only been 0 days in an inactive status
DOES EXPIRATION wipe the file today or 36 days from now? ? ?
Answer in my environment is B)
TSM doesn't cut off an inactive verion until it has been inactive for X
numbers of days.
So for all those folks out there with my retention example spread sheet
from 1998 that helps explain how tsm processes file expiration the such...
you might add a note internally such as I did.
*
Note: inactive versions expire # days after they went inactive, not if the
inactive version's create date is older than # days.
*
When I was initially testing things back then, I performed daily alterations
thus making the full understanding a little unclear because the age of the
file was within 1 day of when it went inactive.
In re-reading the manual on retainextra of define copy, it still isn't
totally clear SOOO nothing like actually testing and seeing what happens
:-)
Just thought folks might like to know (for sure)...
Dwight E. Cook
Software Application Engineer III
Science Applications International Corporation
509 S. Boston Ave. Suite 220
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103-4606
Office (918) 732-7109
