UPDATE RETSET (Update attributes of a retention set)

Privilege class

To issue this command, you must have system privilege or unrestricted policy privilege.

Parameters

retset_id (Required)

Specifies the number of the retention set that you want to update. The retention set ID is a unique numeric value.

DESCription

Specifies a description for the retention set. The description of the retention set is copied from the description of the retention rule that triggered creation of the retention set. However, you can update the description according to your requirements. This parameter is optional.

The maximum length of the description is 255 characters. Enclose the description in quotation marks if it contains any blank characters.

RETention

Specifies the new length of time, in days, for which a retention set and its data are retained by the server. This parameter is optional.

The data that is contained within a retention set is retained by the server for the period that is defined by the retention rule. However, you can change this value. The server does not delete the data even if the management class and copy group that are associated with the data when it was backed up require data expiration. You can specify one of the following values:

days

Specify an integer value in the range 0 - 30,000.

After you determine the length of time to retain data, you can use the following table to convert the number of years to days. If the period includes a leap year, adjust the number of days accordingly.

Table 1. Sample number of days to years

Number of years	Number of days to years
1 year	365
2 years	730
3 years	1095
4 years	1461
5 years	1826
6 years	2191
7 years	2556
8 years	2921
9 years	3287
10 years	3652
20 years	7304
30 years	10957
40 years	14609
50 years	18262

NOLimit

Specifies that you want to keep the retention set indefinitely. If you specify NOLimit, the server retains retention sets forever unless an authorized user or administrator deletes the retention set from server storage.

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