I am throwing this out to the community to see if anyone else has had this problem. It is difficult to identify and you have had this happen but have written it off as not selecting jobs properly.
I selectively Auxcopied data from one disk copy to another.. Basic retention was applied instead of extended retention and this cause the copied jobs to be aged off prematurely.
The retention period and selective copy criteria for both source and destination copy were identical.
I was able to recopy the jobs and the retention is now normal.
I have raised a ticket with CV and we could not identify the root cause. Troubleshooting was complicated due to the delay between the problem occurring and my identifying it. During that period I was doing lots of weird things that muddied the waters
- There was a period where I set my destination copy to non active (disabled) and am wondering if this messed up the data aging.
- I was constantly swapping my source between two different copies as I was trying to consolidate all my copies into one destination..
What I have notice is that in some cases when I looked at a job in a “to be copied” state the retention of my destination was was shown as basic, and my source copy was extended, after I ran data aging extended retention was set to extended.