It is only by using the MANAGE subcommand at a particular point in time that active backups are evaluated to determine if their status should be changed to obsolete in accordance with the retention policy.
In addition, it is only when the MANAGE subcommand is invoked either with no options or with only the
-s option (in order to specify the database server) that active backups are evaluated and also
marked (that is, internally recorded by BART) as obsolete. See Section
3.4.7 for information about the
MANAGE subcommand usage with its options.
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Using the MANAGE subcommand, specify the -c option along with the backup identifier or name with the -i option. If you wish to keep this particular backup indefinitely, use -c keep, otherwise use -c nokeep.
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If you use the -c nokeep option, the backup status is changed back to active. When the MANAGE subcommand is used the next time, the backup is re-evaluated to determine if its status needs to be changed back to obsolete based on the current retention policy in the BART configuration file.
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Note: If the
retention_policy parameter is set in a certain manner, you run the
MANAGE subcommand to mark the backups according to that
retention_policy setting, and then you change or disable the
retention_policy parameter by commenting it out, the current, marked status of the backups are probably inconsistent with the current
retention_policy setting.
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Run the MANAGE subcommand either with no options or with only the -s option to reset the marked status based on the new retention_policy setting in the BART configuration file.
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