Tim, You can also set up different management classes for your incremental backups. Look in chapter 3 of the 5.2.1 User's Guide under a section titled: "Data Protection for Exchange Version 5.2.1 INCLUDE/EXCLUDE Processing" It explains how to set this up.
Thanks, Del ---------------------------------------------------- "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/06/2004 11:36:24 AM: > We are using Data Protection for Exchange 5.2.1.0 to backup Exchange 2000. > > > > We currently do nightly Full backups and have the TSM policy with Retain > Extra Versions = Retain Only Versions = 35. > > > > We are looking into doing incremental backups throughout the day to provide > for better protection. We currently have transaction logs and the Exchange > DB on separate physical disks both RAID10. We would need a lot of drives to > fail to lose any data here - but we are also looking at recovering from some > type of logical corruption where both the logs and the DB are corrupt so we > would have to resort to the last backup. > > > > We really don't want or need to keep the incrementals that are done > throughout the day for more than a couple of days. > > > > It seems the way to do this would be to change Retain Only to say 2 days but > leave Retain Extra at 35. This way full backups would be kept for 35 days > but incrementals would only be kept for 2 days. > > > > Does this make any sense? > > > > Is there any other way to do what we are trying to do? > > > > Are there downsides to this besides that any incremental that we do is no > good after 2 days? > > > > Thanks for any input. > > > > Tim Rushforth > > City of Winnipeg
