Change Browse / Retention Policies

[ljg]

Networker 7.2, build 172
Windows 2000 SP4

Our current browse & retention policy for all clients is year/year. I need to change the browse & retention policies to decade/decade for all clients.

1. Will this create any problems with exisiting indexes, etc?
2. Is there an easy way to globally change the browse & retention policies or do I manually edit the properties of each client?

Thanks,
LJG

 

[Rif123]

Hi,

1. This will not affect existing backups. They will still have a browse/retention of one year. After you have made the change, the new backups will have decade as browse/retention.

2. You have to do it manually on every client definition unless you are confident enough to make the changes through nsradmin.

 

[vksm]

you could edit the existing policy by editing the field called number of period from 1 to 10. This should help you globally instead of editing on each client.

 

[mblm07]

1. A couple of things to consider, this will have an effect on your index sizes, remember you are about to tell NetWorker to keep your online indexes for a decade. Do you have this sort of space? and will your media still be valid/recoverable in a decade?

2. Command to use is something like 'nsrmm -S ssid -w browse -e retention' and as suggested change the retention under 'policies' for backups going forward, it doesn't matter what name the policy has as long as it reflects your retention requirements.