SCO ARCserve/Open grooming

You can use Auto Pilot to perform automatic grooming for you. If a file hasn't been modified for a specified amount of time, and if the specified number of permanent copies of the file have been made, the file is deleted from the source. A monthly backup is considered a permanent copy. To enable Auto Pilot's grooming feature, you must save monthly tapes.

Naomi wants all files that remain untouched for six months to be deleted from the sources in the Auto Pilot set. By default, at least 3 monthly backups have to exist before these files are deleted.

Her grooming setup would look like the following:

Auto Pilot grooming logs are kept in the SCO ARCserve/Open home directory. These logs have an extension ``.grm''.

You can exclude one or more directories during an Auto Pilot job by entering the appropriate path statement into the groom control file. An example of this procedure can be found within the groom control files located in the Client AgentÆs home directory and in the ARC_HOME directory on the host server.

You can only choose the number of Monthly tapes to preserve if you are not using Auto Pilot's grooming feature. See ``Tape recycle'' for more information on preserving tapes.