> 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?
Scott, Like you stated, using separate NODENAMES is one way that some customers accomplish this. With TDP for Exchange, you can also use the "COPY" type backup and use the "INCLUDE" option to bind your "COPY" type backups to a separate management class. Thanks, Del ---------------------------------------------------- Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Never cut what can be untied. - Commit yourself to constant improvement.
