Wanda,

Exactly correct.  This is what we use to accomplish a policy that
retains daily fulls for 7 days and a monthly copy forever.

Our dsm.opt file uses these includes:
*====================================================================
* Include-Exclude list
*====================================================================
include \...\copy exchange_db1
include \...\full exchange_db2
include \...\incr exchange_logs
include \...\diff exchange_logs

And of course we have different retentions on the exchange_db1 and
exchange_db2 mgmtclasses.  We have different scripts for daily vs
monthly.

Works great for us.

Steve Schaub
Systems Engineer, WNI
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Prather, Wanda
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 2:41 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] EXCHANGE COPY backups and MGMT classes?

Need help from an EXCHANGE GURU.
 
I have a site that wants to send EXCHANGE TDP backups to 2 different
tape pools, with different retention periods.
One will be kept onsite, the other will go offsite as a long-term
archive copy (this is a temp solution until some doc management software
is implemented).
 
Is that what the EXCHANGE COPY type DB is for?  Is that an "out of band"
snapshot type backup?  And can I use the include/exclude statements to
direct just the COPY type backups to a different management class?
 
Thanks for any insight!
 
Wanda 
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