Why don't you use the export node function to move the exchange data out of the library and retain your data as your business requires it.
-- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant Cell (831) 595-3962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Scott McCambly Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 1:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Exchange TDP backups with weekly/monthly/yearly snapshots Hello all, I'm afraid I already know the answer to this question, but since I'm a novice with the TDP for Exchange product, here goes... One of my clients wants to start using TDP for Exchange, and has asked for an archiving capability for weekly, monthly, and yearly snapshots as well as the nightly backups. Knowing that backupsets can't be used with API clients (I feel a requirement coming out of this), and TDP for Exchange uses the backup copygroup with TSM policy controlling version expiration, I'm assuming that I will have to create multiple nodes and use different management classes :-(. Has anyone else had to implement this? Is there perhaps a better way to snapshot without using the TDP agent? Thanks for the help. Scott McCambly AIX/NetView/ADSM Specialist - Unopsys Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (613)799-9269
