The enablearchiveretentionprotection option allows the client to connect to a Tivoli® Storage Manager data retention server. This ensures that archive objects will not be deleted from the server until policy-based retention requirements for that object have been satisfied.
This option is ignored if the client connects to a server that is not retention protection enabled. If the option is no (the default) and an attempt is made to connect to a data retention server, the connection is refused.
The data retention server is specially configured for this task, so normal backup or restore processing is rejected by the server. When the client is connected to a data retention server, the following commands will not be available. If you attempt to use these commands, a message is displayed indicating that they are not valid with this server.
This option is valid for all clients.
This option is valid only in client options file (dsm.opt) and is not valid in a client option set from the server. It is not valid on any command line.
This option is valid only in the dsm.sys file within a server stanza and is not valid in a client option set from the server. It is not valid on any command line.