Moses, When performing Domino Server database file backups, Data Protection for Domino uses standard TSM policy management. That is, you can think of it like you do TSM policy management for files when using the standard TSM Backup/Archive client. If you are not familiar with how that works, you may want to pay a visit to the IBM Tivoli information center:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/index.jsp?toc=/com.ibm.itstorage.doc/toc.xml You should find out what management class your node is binding the backup objects to and examine the management class (copy group) settings. You can see the the default management class by using the command: domdsmc query adsmserver If you are binding your objects to special management classes using INCLUDE statements in your DSM.OPT file, you should examine the policy settings for that management class (copy group). If you haven't already done so, you should read a section in the Data Protection for Domino User's Guide called "Backup strategy considerations". It discusses some ideas on how you should plan your backups. Many customers have special policies set up for their Domino mail files based upon time, not number of versions. And so, for example, they might have a requirement to keep mail databases for 30 days, regardless of how many times they get backed up. In that case, their settings might look like this: VEREXISTS NOLIMIT VERDELETED NOLIMIT RETEXTRA 30 RETONLY 30 Using these settings, a backup will not be expired until 30 days have passed. Once a backup object is expired from the TSM Server, for all intents and purposes, it can be considered deleted. Thanks, Del --------------------------------------------------- "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/18/2004 07:38:09 AM: > Have been asked to restore a users mail from using TDP for Lotus > Notes.Apparently the number of active backups the server keeps has been > set to 3. How do you find this information ? Also when backups are older > than 3 days are they expired and then deleted from the server or marked as > inactive and deleted at some point in the future ? > > Are running mail servers on WIndows NT Server and using Storage manager > for mail 5.1.5
