You cannot alternate between management classes for files.  They will be
rebound to the last management class used and the retention characterstics
for it will be used when inventory expiration runs.

Tina

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iancu Mihai [SMTP:iap AT TAROM.LOGICNET DOT RO]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 1999 3:56 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: lost my files
>
> Once again don't figure it up ....
>
> Now we have:
>
> stgpool1 = m
> stgpool2= 1
> stgpool3=ec
>
> mgmt class c1= retension settings no 1
> mgmt class c2=retension settings no 2
> mgmt class c3= "no limit" retension
>
> I must backup dir1.1,dir1.2,dir1.3 with all the files & subdirectories
> beneath.
> I must backup dir2.1,dir2.2,dir2.3 with all the files & subdirectories
> beneath.
>
>
> Procedure 1 - day by day:
>
> 1. Backup my dir1.1,dir1.2,dir1.3 through c1 in  stgpool name "m"
> 2. Backup my dir2.1,dir2.2, dir2.3 through c2 in stgpool name "1"
>
>
> Procedure 2 - certain moments of time
>
> 1. Backup my dir1.1,dir1.2,dir1.3 through mgmt name "c3"  in  stgpool name
> "ec"
> 2. Backup my dir2.1,dir2.2, dir2.3 through  mgmt name "c3"  in stgpool
> name
> "ec"
>
> Now:
>
> I do procedure no 2 - my files get "no limit" due to mgmt c3.
> Next day I do procedure no 1 - my files get retension settings due to mgmt
> c1
> & c2
>
> My files saved the day before got expired after the no of days set in the
> c1 &
> c2. This already happened .
>
>
> Dwight Cook sugestion: use move data.
>
> Let me see if I understood well:
>
> 1. Set default management class to c3
> 2. Move data from tape ( no limit ) to somewhere else - another
> stgpool=volopt
>
> 3. Move data from volumes within volopt back to the tape storage pool.
> At this time my files in the tape storage pools are bound to the mgmt c3
> with
> " no limit ".
>
> After next day due to the procedure no 1 my files from the storage pool
> volopt
> won't be
> again rebound to mgmt name c1 & c2?
>
>
> How can I have in the adsm database copies of the same files and
> directories
> with different
> retension settings and on different storage pools?
>
> Thank you all for your help, especially Dwight who always had patience.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Mihai iancu
>
>
>
> Dwight_Cook_ wrote:
>
> >      OK, this discussion is for backups (incremental/selective)
> >
> >      Storage pools don't/can't have retention characteristics !
>
> >      AND since storage pools don't have retention characteristics, once
> >      data is on the adsm server you may use "move data" to shuffle it
> >      anywhere you wish.
> >
> >      later,
> >           Dwight
> >
> > ______________________________ Reply Separator
> > _________________________________
> > Subject: lost my files
> > Author:  iap (iap AT TAROM.LOGICNET DOT RO) at unix,mime
> > Date:    2/16/99 2:52 AM
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Day by day I do my backups on two stgpools. I set my backup copy
> > groups,  no of expiring days based on the no of copies existed/deleted
> > in my file space , and so on.
> >
> > One day last month, I did a full backup on another stgpool with the "No
> > limit settings "  in a new defined backup copy group.
> >
> > The expiration process on those two stgpools works like a charm.
> >
> > BUT my files on that stgpool got expired !
> >
> > I did it, but now I want to understand what did I do wrong...
> > Please help !
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Mihai Iancu