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 SOOOoooo 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