How to Override a Retention Policy

Save sets are retained on volumes and in the media database until the save sets expire. Ordinarily, a save set expires and is recyclable when the save set and all save sets that depend on it for recovery pass their retention policies. However, you can explicitly specify an expiration date for a save set that overrides the retention policy. Dependency rules still apply, however, which means that a save set is not marked "recyclable" until all save sets that depend on it are also marked as recyclable.

To explicitly override the retention policy, use the save -e manual backup command:

# save -e