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Re: [ADSM-L] "Freezing" my Email backups and starting fresh

2008-01-09 14:51:41
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] "Freezing" my Email backups and starting fresh
From: "Bell, Charles (Chip)" <Chip.Bell AT BHSALA DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 13:50:43 -0600
OK, I followed through with your suggestions, in order. If I follow them, I
would not need to change the copy group retention to nolimit across the
board? Just asking...I would prefer not to have to retain everything forever.
:)

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Wanda Prather
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:22 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] "Freezing" my Email backups and starting fresh

The only way to guarantee that your stuff will not expire, is to change the
copy group retention to NOLIM/NOLIM/NOLIM/NOLIM.

SO here's what I would do:

Copy the domain EXCHANGE to a new domain EXCHANGE-FREEZE
Update the copy groups in that domain to verexist=NOLIM, retextra=NOLIM, etc
etc
Activate the policy set to pick up the changes
Rename your mail client to CLIENT-FREEZE
Update CLIENT-FREEZE to domain=EXCHANGE-FREEZE

That puts all the backups for the mail client into a domain where NOTHING
ever expires.

Re-register your client with its original name in the EXCHANGE domain, and
continue backing up with it.
Future backups will still be governed by the rules in the EXCHANGE comain,
but the stuff in the EXCHANGE-FREEZE domain will just sit there.

YOu will have to remember if somebody needs a restore of EXCHANGE stuff
prior to today, you'll need to get it from the CLIENT-FREEZE client.

There are alternatives, including a backupset and an export tape.  The
problem I have with those:  the data is on the tape, but the older backups
will continue to expire out of the TSM DB.  So, 6 months from now, you don't
have anyway to figure out what is ON the backupset or EXPORT tape.  This way
you can query the DB to see what is in there, if your lawyers need
something.

Wanda

On 1/9/08, Bell, Charles (Chip) <Chip.Bell AT bhsala DOT com> wrote:
>
> I just had a request from my boss via our legal dept. to freeze our email
> backups, but of course we want to continue our backups nightly going
> forward.
> What is the easiest way to do that? Our Exchange backups our managed
> through
> a domain called EXCHANGE, go straight to VTL, and are sent offsite on
> LTO2.
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
>
> God bless you!!!
>
> Chip Bell
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