Determine what Management Class a Directory Will Be Bound To

Answer

Unless the DIRMC option is set in the Tivoli Storage Manager client options file, the directories for a Tivoli Storage Manager client backup will be bound to the management class in the active policy set containing the copygroup with the largest retention settings (highest RETONLY value).

If there are several management classes with the same retention settings, then the directories will be bound to the copygroup of the management class listed LAST in alphabetical order.

Here is an example:

In the domain STANDARD, this is a list of management classes and copygroups defined to the server for the active policy set:


The default management class is STANDARD. When an incremental backup of directory c:\temp is done, the directory is bound to the XYZ management class. To verify which management class the directory is bound to, the following select statement can be run from a Tivoli Storage Manager administrative client commandline:

select class_name from backups where node_name='YOURNODENAME' and type='DIR' group by class_name

The output from the select statement in this example is:
CLASS_NAME
------------------
XYZ

This shows that even though there are several management classes which have the same retention settings, the directories are bound to the last alphabetical listing.