Re: Expiration of Exchange

2009-10-08 Thread Del Hoobler
: [image removed] Expiration of Exchange Fred Johanson to: ADSM-L 10/07/2009 09:34 PM Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager We use Copy Services instead of the TDP for EXCHANGE. We want to keep backups for 30 days, which

Re: Expiration of Exchange

2009-10-08 Thread Fred Johanson
...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 6:05 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Expiration of Exchange Hi Fred, All files backed up in an Exchange VSS backup are part of a group. The files in a group are all managed together. That means they expire

Expiration of Exchange

2009-10-07 Thread Fred Johanson
We use Copy Services instead of the TDP for EXCHANGE. We want to keep backups for 30 days, which does work. The .edb files are daily marked as inactive and roll off as expected. But an examination by Mr. Exchange shows that there are .log files which are never marked as inactive, and, thus,

Re: Expiration of Exchange

2009-10-07 Thread Gary Bowers
My guess is that you are mounting up the filesystem, and backing up the files directly. The log files in Exchange are probably getting a new name as they are truncated, which means that there are no versions of the files, only a single version that goes from active to inactive when it is deleted

Re: Expiration of Exchange

2009-10-07 Thread Fred Johanson
: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 8:53 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Expiration of Exchange My guess is that you are mounting up the filesystem, and backing up the files directly. The log files in Exchange are probably getting a new name as they are truncated, which means