Bill,

You are correct. It also "inactivates" databases
that no longer exist on the Domino server.

If a customer only runs archivelog and selective backups,
the databases that have been "removed" from their
Domino Server will remain active and never expire.

The bigger problem I see with only running weekly SELECTIVE and
hourly ARCHIVELOG (with no INCREMENTAL) is that it will not
pick up situations when the logged databases DBIID has changed.
Once the DBIID changes, you cannot apply
the archive logs to the old backup since Domino
treats databases with a new DBIID as a "different"
database in the logger's eyes.

One very common technique is to run:
   - Weekly SELECTIVE type backups (followed by an INACTIVATELOGS command)
   - Nightly INCREMENTAL type backups
   - Hourly ARCHIVELOG backups

The time frames on the frequency of these vary depending
on Domino server load, capacity, maintenance schedule, etc.

Thanks,

Del

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> I was also told that the INCREMENTAL processing expires deleted
databases.
> The SELECTIVE only backs up what's there and if you never run the
> INCREMENTAL any deleted databases will still be there as active and
won't
> expire.
>
> I have a client that I'm still trying to convince that hourly archivelog
> backups and weekly selective full backups just aren't enough.