I seem to have missed the original on this --

I'm not specifying versions in the init<SID>.utl. I run one management class
for my production environment; we keep it 8 days. This keeps one off-line
backup and seven on-line backups (and their copies). I have the same
retention for the off-line redo logs (two copies for production and
development, one for test and our technical sandbox).

As of last night our database was 160 GB; with the run-length compression
from backint, I think we actually moved about 106 GB to the ADSM server.

Tom Kauffmant
Sr. Technical Advisor
NIBCO, Inc.

kauffmant AT nibco DOT com

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> From:
> Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,FC-SIL/INF.[SMTP:Rene.Lambelet AT NESTLE DOT COM]
> Sent:         Wednesday, May 13, 1998 3:40 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      FW: ADSM and Backint - Archive versions?
> 
> Rich,
> 
> we defined 2 different management classes: one for offline, one for
> online backups. The retention days are set accordingly.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> René Lambelet - (3543 - *A581 
> Nestec SA - 55, Av. Nestlé - CH-1800 Vevey
> Tel: ++41/21/924'35'43 / Fax: ++41/21/924'45'89
> E-Mail: rene.lambelet AT nestle DOT com
> 
> 
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From:  Lynch, Rich [SMTP:Lynch.Rich AT MBCO DOT COM]
> >Sent:  Friday, May 08, 1998 10:12 PM
> >To:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> >Subject:       ADSM and Backint - Archive versions?
> >
> >I'm running out of storage pool tapes and I think its because my
> >management class properties for my archive copy groups are improperly
> >configured.
> > In my init<SID>.utl file I have MAX_VERSIONS set to 9 - So I keep 9
> >full copies of my PRD database, right? (I do full online backups
> >nightly, and once a week I do a full off-line backup) My Length of Time
> >to keep archive versions is set to 30. Does this mean that we keep each
> >version of my database copy for 30 days. I dont need to keep each
> >database copy version for 30 days, thats way to long for DR strategy.
> >What do "you" other SAP/Backint/ADSM people do. Any comments/suggestions
> >would be appreciated.
>