This is the management class I'm using for Exchange:

Policy Domain Name EXCHANGE_AGENT
Policy Set Name STANDARD
Mgmt Class Name EXCMGMTCLASS
Copy Group Name STANDARD
Versions Data Exists 3
Versions Data Deleted 1
Retain Extra Versions 60
Retain Only Version 120
Copy Mode MODIFIED
Copy Serialization SHRSTATIC
Copy Frequency 0

This is the client setup:

Node Name MRHEXCH01_TDPE
Platform TDP MSExchg
Policy Domain Name EXCHANGE_AGENT
Password Set Date/Time 2002-12-24 06:17:32.000000
Invalid Sign-on Count 0
Contact
Compression CLIENT
Archive Delete Allowed? YES
Backup Delete Allowed? YES
Locked? NO
Last Access Date/Time 2003-02-13 06:38:59.000000
Registration Date/Time 2002-11-13 11:30:35.000000
Registering Administrator ADMIN
Last Communication Method Used Tcp/Ip
Bytes Received Last Session 37108
Bytes Sent Last Session 72144318
Duration of Last Session 128.29
Idle Wait Last Session 2.35
Comm. Wait Last Session 1.24
Media Wait Last Session 0.00
Client Version 5
Client Release 1
Client Level 5
Client Sub-level 2
Client OS Level 5.00
Optionset -
Aggregated? YES

What is setup wrong?

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Bruce Kamp
Midrange Systems Analyst II
Memorial Healthcare System
E: bkamp AT mhs DOT net
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-----Original Message-----
From: Del Hoobler [mailto:hoobler AT US.IBM DOT COM]
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 8:39 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Exchange Restore/Expiration Question


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

- Remember that the best job security is
doing a job well and doing it cheerfully.
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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.