The only way to guarantee that your stuff will not expire, is to change the copy group retention to NOLIM/NOLIM/NOLIM/NOLIM.
SO here's what I would do: Copy the domain EXCHANGE to a new domain EXCHANGE-FREEZE Update the copy groups in that domain to verexist=NOLIM, retextra=NOLIM, etc etc Activate the policy set to pick up the changes Rename your mail client to CLIENT-FREEZE Update CLIENT-FREEZE to domain=EXCHANGE-FREEZE That puts all the backups for the mail client into a domain where NOTHING ever expires. Re-register your client with its original name in the EXCHANGE domain, and continue backing up with it. Future backups will still be governed by the rules in the EXCHANGE comain, but the stuff in the EXCHANGE-FREEZE domain will just sit there. YOu will have to remember if somebody needs a restore of EXCHANGE stuff prior to today, you'll need to get it from the CLIENT-FREEZE client. There are alternatives, including a backupset and an export tape. The problem I have with those: the data is on the tape, but the older backups will continue to expire out of the TSM DB. So, 6 months from now, you don't have anyway to figure out what is ON the backupset or EXPORT tape. This way you can query the DB to see what is in there, if your lawyers need something. Wanda On 1/9/08, Bell, Charles (Chip) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just had a request from my boss via our legal dept. to freeze our email > backups, but of course we want to continue our backups nightly going > forward. > What is the easiest way to do that? Our Exchange backups our managed > through > a domain called EXCHANGE, go straight to VTL, and are sent offsite on > LTO2. > Thanks in advance! > > > > God bless you!!! > > Chip Bell > Network Engineer I > IBM Tivoli Certified Deployment Professional (ITSM 5.2) > Baptist Health System > Birmingham, AL > Office (205) 715-5106 > Pager (205) 817-0357 > Home (256) 739-0947 > Cell (256) 347-7294 > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------- > Confidentiality Notice: > The information contained in this email message is privileged and > confidential information and intended only for the use of the > individual or entity named in the address. If you are not the > intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, > distribution, or copying of this information is strictly > prohibited. If you received this information in error, please > notify the sender and delete this information from your computer > and retain no copies of any of this information. >
