Setting the Disaster Recovery Manager Database Backup Series Expiration Criteria

To specify the number of days before a database backup series is eligible for expiration, complete the following field and then click Finish, or click Cancel to end this task. This operation applies to full plus incremental database backups and to snapshot database backups.

DB Backup Series Expiration Days

Enter the number of days (0 to 9999) that must elapse from the time a database backup series is created until it is eligible for expiration. This parameter is required. At installation the default is 60.

This value should match the value of the Delay Period for Volume Reuse field for the copy storage pool. This ensures that the database can be restored to an earlier level and that database references to files in the storage pool are valid.

A database backup volume is considered eligible for expiration if all of the following conditions exist: