Del,

Our legal dept requires that we archive our email on a monthly basis for the
period of one year.

The Exchange 'COPY' is essentially an ideal method of archiving email since
it does not interfere with the regular backup cycle.

Is there functionality within the Connect Agent (FixtestB) to allow us to
delete previous backups but keep copies (archives)?

If not.. how about introducing one.. I'm sure there are other companies out
there with a legal requirement to archive email.

Nathan

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Del Hoobler [SMTP:hoobler AT US.IBM DOT COM]
        Sent:   Monday, April 12, 1999 10:36 AM
        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject:        Re: Exchange Agent Question

        Mark,

        Also note:

        A fixtest for the ADSMConnect Agent for Exchange which provides a
        new command to delete old backup objects based on age is now
available.
        The fixtest can be found on the ftp/web server at:

        http://index.storsys.ibm.com/adsm/fixtest/agents/ntexch/v1r1

           /ADSMAUTODELete:database (Where databasename can be a *)
           /IFOLDer:n               (Where all backups older than n are
deleted)

        File IC22589B.EXE contains the self-extracting install program.
This
        fixtest includes the changes implemented in fixtest A.

        The new command can be scheduled to provide automatic deletion of
old
        backup objects and thus can eliminate the need to use home grown
scripts
        for that purpose.  Detailed command syntax is provided in the readme
file.

        You will still need to consider the managament class implications
        that are discussed in Chapter 2 of the Exchange Agent book
(SH26-4071).

        Thanks,

        Del

        ----------------------------------------------------

        Del Hoobler
        IBM ADSM Agent Development
        hoobler AT us.ibm DOT com



        "Remeta, Mark" <MRemeta AT SELIGMANDATA DOT COM> on 04/08/99 11:07:06 AM

        Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT 
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        To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        cc:    (bcc: Del Hoobler/Endicott/IBM)
        Subject:  Exchange Agent Question





        Hello All,
        I have been using the Exchange Agent to backup my IS and DS for some
time
        now. I recently re-read the book and they state that you should
create a
        new
        management class with a version deleted parameter set to 0. This was
so
        when
        you delete the IS and or DS backup from the GUI it was actually
deleted
        from
        the database and storage pools. When I first setup the Exchange
Agent I
        just
        used the default management class for it's policy domain which had
version
        deleted set to 1 and retain last set to 365 days. Well I noticed by
using
        the SQL interface that I now have 106 copies of my DS and 99 copies
of my
        IS
        in each of my three storage pools (primary, copy, and dr). It's
totals
        almost 600GB of stuff that I don't want. So what I did was change
the
        default mc to version deleted 0 and deleted the DS from the admin
        interface.
        Then I ran a expire inventory. After it was complete, much to my
dismay,
        the
        106 copies of the DS were still there. They were not listed in the
admin
        interface anymore though but were still listed through a SQL Query.
How can
        I get rid of these extra copies?

        Thanks in advance,

        Mark Remeta
        Seligman Data Corp.
        100 Park Avenue
        New York, NY 10017
        (212)716-2810