Bruce, Are both log backups and full backups going to this same management class? If so, that explains it.
Since logs are uniquely named, once DP for Exchange marks them "inactive", they abide by the "Retain Only Version" rule... which you show below as 120 days. So that means they will stay around for 120 days once they have been inactivated (when the next full is run.) Full backups replace each other... and so.. in your setup, if you take a full backup once per week... the 4th backup will drop off the end and be deleted at the next server expiration task. And that will be before the associated log backups for that full are deleted. That probably explains what you are seeing. Some customers don't use VEREXISTS or VERDELETED... they simply use RETONLY and RETEXTRA so that they can keep their backups based on time, not number of versions. That makes it so you can run manual full backups as often as you need to and you will still be able to go back to earlier backups based on time, not versions. For example... say you want to be to be able to restore any backup for 120 days. Your settings would be: VERDELETED NOLIMIT VEREXISTS NOLIMIT RETEXTRA 120 RETONLY 120 You may have some logs that stay around for a while, but they will stay around a max of 120 days after they are inactivated. Granted, it may require more storage, but it guarantees restorability back to a certain point in time. If you had a perfect world and only had to take full backups once per week...and never for any other reason, you could do it with the version settings. In your setup, if you had to run 4 full backups in one week, for example, that is as far as you would be able to restore back to. Hope that helps. Thanks, Del ---------------------------------------------------- Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Remember that the best job security is doing a job well and doing it cheerfully. ============================================== > Policy Domain Name EXCHANGE_AGENT > Policy Set Name STANDARD > Mgmt Class Name EXCMGMTCLASS > Copy Group Name STANDARD > Versions Data Exists 3 > Versions Data Deleted 1 > Retain Extra Versions 60 > Retain Only Version 120 > Copy Mode MODIFIED > Copy Serialization SHRSTATIC > Copy Frequency 0
