Bruce,

When doing a full backup, Data Protection for Exchange will "inactivate"
any previous incrementals that exist.
I would guess that your policy settings are set up in such a way that
those incrementals are still being retained.
>From the policy section in the User's Guide:
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Incremental backups are always uniquely named. As a result, incremental
backups do not participate in expirations (due to version limit) because
there is
never more than one version of an incremental backup object. However, all
backup objects for an Exchange Server storage group are inactivated when a
new full backup of that Exchange Server storage group is performed.
Therefore,
the retention period set in the Retain Only Version parameter controls the
expiration of incremental backup objects.

Take a look at your policy settings.
I hope this helps.

Thanks,

Del

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Del Hoobler
IBM Corporation
hoobler AT us.ibm DOT com

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> Went to do an Restore of 1 of my Exchnage servers & when I looked to see
how
> far back the backups go I see a full ran on 1/26 but I also see a lot of
> incrimentals before that.  The thing I don't understand is that there is
no
> full backup to go along with these!  Why didn't TSM expire them or what
> happen to the full backup?  I have backup delete set to yes on the client
> setup.