Dean,

You should be able to run a COPY or DBCOPY backup without
affecting your FULL plus INCREMENTAL backup scheme.
Something else must be going on here. Are there any
maintenance tasks that might be running in between
the COPY and the next INCREMENTAL backup? (like DEFRAG?)
You said that you see an error message in the
application event log but you didn't mention that
the TDPEXCC BACKUP * INCR command fails with an error message.
Does it? If so, what exact Data Protection for Exchange message
are you seeing?

BTW.. .with COPY type backups, you can bind the backups
to a different management class so they are retained
with different policy settings. For example:

   INCLUDE "SERVER3\...\copy" MC_MONTHLY_CLASS

where "SERVER3" is the Exchange Server name and
MC_MONTHLY_CLASS is the management class you have set up for
monthly Exchange backups.

Thanks,

Del

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 06/08/2004
11:42:38 AM:

> TSM server ver 5.2.1.1
> TSM B A Client 5.2.2.5 TDP for Exchange 5.2.0
> TSM B A Client 5.2.0.6 TDP for Exchange 5.2.0
> TSM B A Client 5.1.5.15 TDP for Exchange 5.1.5
>
> I have three Exchange 2000 servers all showing the same issue
>
> To enable me to get a month end backup I have scheduled a "copy" to run
on
> the 1st day of the month
> I use a "copy" so as not to affect the full & incremental daily backups
I
> run
>
> Full runs on Wednesday Incr (log backup) runs every day
>
> Either copy * or dbcopy * work as expected but any subsequent log backup
> the application event log indicates log files are missing or corrupt
>
> "tdpexcc.exe backup * copy /tsmoptfile=%exc_dir%\monthly_dsm.opt
> /logfile=%exc_dir%\excschmth.log >> %exc_dir%\\excmth.log" or
> or "tdpexcc.exe backup * DBcopy* /tsmoptfile=%exc_dir%\monthly_dsm.opt
> /logfile=%exc_dir%\excschmth.log >> %exc_dir%\\excmth.log" or
>
> Has anyone seen this before on all of these versions of client
> I know there is a new command for exchange 2000 called DBCopy and I have
> only attempted using this on one server through the GUI but then I tried
an
> Incremental and the same old message appears
> All Exchange servers are Windows 2000 SP3 Exchange 2000 SP3 (including
the
> post SP3 sept update)
>
> Does anyone else do 1 off backups of their exchange servers (month ends
or
> year ends)
>
> Thanks
> Dean