Re: [ADSM-L] TDP Exchange

Fred,

"COPY"-type backups are an Exchange Server defined entity.
SQL Server does not have a COPY-type legacy-style backup.

For DP/SQL, you can either use the second node solution,
or use FILE, GROUP, or SET type backups.

Thanks,

Del

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 05/18/2007
12:48:46 PM:

> Del,
>
> Any thought about COPY type backups for MSSQL?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of
Del
> Hoobler
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 11:31 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP Exchange
>
> Hi Pierre,
>
> It is working correctly. This is the same way it works
> when backing up "files" to the TSM Server.
> If you want to have DP/Exchange backups with different policies...
>
> One way that many customers are doing this is to use
> Data Protection for Exchange COPY type backups.
> You can create a separate management class for COPY type backups
> and bind the COPY type backups to that special management class.
> (See User's Guide on how to bind COPY-type backups with
> the INCLUDE statement in the DSM.OPT file for DP/Exchange.)
>
> Another way is to create a separate NODENAME with different
> policy sets and run occasional backups using that alternate NODENAME.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Del
>
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>
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 05/18/2007
> 11:57:45 AM:
>
> > Does anyone heard about problems concerning the binding of Exchange
> > datas on a specific management class.
> >
> > I am having troubles to restore datas.
> >
> > We have two backup procedure, one runing on a daily basis, with a
> > management class with 7 days retention
> > And one other procedure, runing on a week basis, with a management
class
> > with 42 days retention.
> >
> > We have a tdp exchange node for each exchange server.
> > Everything goes fine until we try to restore a server group...
> > We find only the last daily backups... And nothing else...
> >
> > Somebody tell me that, each time an exchange backup is done with a
> > specific management class,
> > Tsm, on his own will, rebind ALL filespaces owned by the node on this
> > specific management class, and so on, each time the management class
> > change, tsm rebind filespaces...
> >
> > Can anyone confirm that ?
> >
> > We run with tsm 5.3, tdp exchange 5.3 and exchange server 2003
> >
> > Pierre