Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Limitations of the Year 2038 Readiness

The limitations are as follows:

• The maximum browse and retention time is limited to 136 years from the current date of execution for the respective action. For example, if the current year when the action is executed is 2020, then the maximum retention time is 2156 (2020 + 136) and if the current year when the action is executed is 2021, then the maximum retention time is 2157 (2021 + 136).
• Starting from NetWorker 19.3, the special value of forever time is updated from 19th Jan 2038 to ~292 billion years.
• The forever time from older NetWorker versions is not automatically converted to the new forever time. Refer to the section Querying save sets for old and new forever retention time for information on querying and updating the forever time to the new value.
  NOTE:For the newer backups with the NetWorker 19.9 server with forever as the retention time, update to the new 64-bit value is automatic.
• NMC displays the year in the two-digit YY format, while the NetWorker UI displays the year in four-digit YYYY format.
• When a command line save is initiated from the client and when the client has a resource created on the server and is not associated to any policy, then the default browse and retention time is set to 11:11:11 AM, 29th Feb, 2152 (GMT).