I was afraid that was the case.  I was just hoping someone had a solution.  
Since the schedule is set on my groups, your "solution" would be a pain in 
the tape library to implement here but not impossible.


On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Teresa Biehler wrote:
> The default browse and retention time of client indexes depends on the
> setting for the NW server.  If the NW server has a variety of browse and
> retention times and is not part of the group that the client is a member
> of, the longest NW server browse and retention times are used.  For
> example:
>
> Group names: 8pm-daily, 8pm-weekly, 8pm-monthly, 1am-daily, 1am-weekly
> and 1am-monthly
>
> Daily backups are kept for 1 week, weekly backups for 1 month and
> monthly backups are kept for 1 year.
>
> 1) ClientA is in the 8pm groups and the NW server is in the 5am groups
> only.  Then ClientA's index has a browse and retention time of 1 year
> for all backups.
>
> 2) If, on the other hand, both ClientA and the NW server are in the 5am
> groups, then ClientA's index will have the same browse and retention
> time as the NW server does within the group.
>
> So, if you want ClientA's index backups to have the same browse and
> retention time as ClientA's data, make sure the NW server is a member of
> all groups.  If the schedule is "skip", this will not result in multiple
> backups of the NW server.  It will, however, result in multiple
> bootstraps.  Instead of printing the bootstraps through the NW
> notification (the default), we have changed our notification to write
> the bootstrap to a file.  Once a day, we print a bootstrap via a
> separate script.
>
> Enjoy!
> Teresa
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On
> Behalf Of David Dulek
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 4:52 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] index default browse and retention
>
> If I have 4 client definitions for my server
> one with 1 week browse and retention
> one with 5 week browse and retention
> one with one month browse and retention, and
> one with one year browse and retention,
>
> What is the browse and retention of client indexes I backup with this
> server
> when it is not in the group I am backing up?
>
> And if you happen to know, how do I affect that "choice"?
>
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