nsrarchive: Expiration time 'forever' is not in the future

181407:nsrarchive: Step (1 of 7) for PID-15729534: Save has been started on the client 'abcsrv'.
89972:nsrarchive: Expiration time 'forever' is not in the future.

Dunno what NW version you use, but this is stated by NW19.7:

https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/networker/nw_p_nwadmin/archiving-data?guid=guid-9646763d-200f-40a3-871a-133e67602647&lang=en-us

"Archive save sets are similar to backup save sets. The main difference is that there is no retention period for archive save sets, so the archive save sets never expire."

So where does the forever retention come in when intending to archive?

So how do you actually run the archive?

Client version is 19.6, planning to degrade it to 9.2 as all other servers are running on 19.2. Hope that works

@Bhushan J​ what version is the NW backup server running? As a client never ever should be running a version higher than the backup server. That is not supported and can even cause issues as the client might have functionality not yet supported by the nw server as there were for example some changes in nw19.3 regarding the forever setting for regular backups to be able to go beyond 2038, which was the old "forever".

I assume you are aware that nw19.2 is not supported anymore for some time? So if your nw server is also running on this lower version, might also be the time to consider an upgrade to at least nw19.11 (we consider nw19.12 too new, not even having a cumulative fix version release as of yet), taking into account the recent DSA's addressing various CVE's. So nw19.11.0.4 seems to be the way forward at the moment (but should not be taken too lightly, as for example if you'd have still a RHEL6 backup server nw19.10 and up are not even going to work as it has too low a glibc version, so at least RHEL8 would be needed for that).