Tivoli Storage Manager for HP-UX Administrator's Guide


Basic Policy Planning

Start out simply to plan your policy. You may be able to use the default policy that comes with the server. Ask the questions:

Examine the default policy to see if it meets your needs:

See Using the Standard Policy for details about the standard policy.

The server manages files based on whether the files are active or inactive. The most current backup or archived copy of a file is the active version. All other versions are called inactive versions. An active version of a file becomes inactive when:

Policy determines how many inactive versions of files the server keeps, and for how long. When files exceed the criteria, the files expire. Expiration processing can then remove the files from the server database. See File Expiration and Expiration Processing and Running Expiration Processing to Delete Expired Files for details.


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