Hi Timanator,
Here is an official response from Altiris on this one.
"The issue regarding job history has already been reported to development. Please find the two corresponding feature requests (28043, 26014) below. ..... Unfortunately there is no solution available yet and I am not sure if there will be a solution available for it anytime soon as with the introduction of CMS 7 and DS 7 respectively as both products share the same database, and therefore all replication features for NS can be used for DS as well.
Using DS Library Replication from NS 6.0 won't help either as it is also using the same tool (aximport) to import the jobs. For additional information regarding DS Library Replication please have a look at the KB articles below.
Feature Requests:
FEATURE REQUEST: Aximport causes history of previous jobs to be removed
https://kb.altiris.com/article.asp?article=28043&p=1
FEATURE REQUEST: Option and/or ability to keep the history of jobs when using the AXImport utility
https://kb.altiris.com/article.asp?article=26014&p=1
DS Library Replication:
How to enable DS Library Replication using Package Servers?
https://kb.altiris.com/article.asp?article=41119&p=1
Job Replication between DS computers
https://kb.altiris.com/article.asp?article=27336&p=1"
So the Deployment Solution replication component in the NS console won't help. I've just posted an article about preserving job history when replicating jobs,
http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/maintaining-history-deployment-server-job-replication
It uses a bit of SQL around the aximport to restore the history. In my setup use a lot more SQL to ensure jobs and folders are cleaned up properly on replication (by default if you delete jobs and folders on the master server, they won't be deleted on the down-level servers with aximport
unless you don't care about preserving job history). I didn't put all that in though as I thought that would confuse the matter if I presented the lot in one article.
Kind Regards,
Ian./