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AW: TDP for Exchange Problem

2001-11-15 03:10:34
Subject: AW: TDP for Exchange Problem
From: Christoph Pilgram <Christoph.Pilgram AT BC.BOEHRINGER-INGELHEIM DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 09:07:56 +0100
Try this on the Server :
"select ll_name,class_name, backup_date from backups where node_name='XXXXX'
order by backup_date"

where XXXXX is the client_name of your exchange-server.

Best regards

Chris

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:  Gerald Wichmann [SMTP:gwichmann AT SANSIA DOT COM]
> Gesendet am:  Mittwoch, 14. November 2001 23:54
> An:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Betreff:      TDP for Exchange Problem
> 
> We have an Exchange server running TDP v1.1.1. It's been backing up for
> a year or so and someone noticed it has somewhere around 2.9TB of data
> backed up. This shouldn't be because as far as we know it was set up to
> only store 30 days with one 10GB Full done per day, and 4 60MB
> incrementals done each day during the day. If you do the math that
> should be around 10GB * 30 days = 300GB for the fulls.. and less for the
> increments.. nowhere near 3TB..
> 
> In loading the GUI, the individual only sees 30 days of backups backed
> up. So by the GUI it appears as though it's working correctly.
> 
> The two pieces don't mesh and my suspicion is that old backups aren't
> being expired but I'm not sure how to verify that. Could someone tell me
> what the best way would be to determine what is going on here? I
> suggested looking for the log files and looking in there. But in the
> meantime I also wanted to shoot off this email in hopes there was
> another way to look into this problem. Perhaps some command line
> commands I could try.
> 
> I thought aobut doing a "q backup -subdir=yes "C:\*"" but wasn't sure if
> that would yield anything since exchange  TDP backups probably don't go
> under C:\
> 
> Anyways any help greatly appreciated. Unfortunately I don't have any
> documents for v1.1 on me and tivoli's site lacks them too. Plus I'm
> trying to troubleshoot this problem 2nd hand instead of being on the box
> itself.
> 
> Gerald Wichmann
> System Engineer
> StorageLink
> 408-844-8893 (v)
> 408-844-9801 (f)
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