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Re: TDP for Exchange Question

2002-01-08 13:38:43
Subject: Re: TDP for Exchange Question
From: Del Hoobler <hoobler AT US.IBM DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 13:33:40 -0500
> Does anyone know how to delete old backups under version 2.2 of TDP for
> Exchange? There use to be a delete button in the old GUI but it's gone
under
> 2.2.

Mark,

With TDP for Exchange 2.2 full policy management was added.
That means, it works more like the base backup/archive client
in that you do not have to delete old backup versions.

Full, Copy, Differential, and DB Copy backups have a
common name on the TSM Server which means each backup
will replace the previous backup, and force the previous
backup to an "inactive" state. At that point, your
policy management settings take over on when to "delete"
that backup from TSM storage. Incremental backups do get
a unique name, but the deletion of those objects is
controlled automatically by the next Full backup.

You cannot "manually" delete old backups. But, there really
shouldn't be a need to. If you have changed the name of
a storage group or server name, you can always use the
DELETE FILESPACE command to delete all data under a
specific filespace.... if that's what you really want to do.

Thanks,

Del

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Del Hoobler
Del Hoobler
IBM Corporation
hoobler AT us.ibm DOT com

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