As Del Hoobler mentioned before on this list, you can assign a differenent
managmeent class the the COPY backups than for the full/incremental backups.
You could create a managament class wiht a 1-year rentention and with an
INCLUDE assign the COPY backups to that management class.

Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Ian Hobbs
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 1:01 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Exchange backup schedule ?


There is no real way for you to have separate fulls kept for different
retentions without using multiple nodes.

What it sounds like you want kept over 1 year is

12 Monthly Full backup
26 Most current Sun Full Backups
4 Most current Wed Full Backups
Not sure what you want for retention of Inc.

The issue is that you can only have 1 mgmtclass for each TYPE of backup.

What you could do is the following

DBCOPY kept for 1 year (monthly)
FULL kept for 26 weeks
INC kept for 2 - 4 weeks or whatever you needed.

However, I suspect this would give you 22 extra fulls that you do not appear
to want to keep, and would require
performing a separate backup for the Monthly. (I would do it on the first x
day of the month where you run an
incr and then run it after the incr.

You could setup a separate node for the Sunday backups, but there would be
no association between the
sunday backup and all the incrs. i.e. if you lost your machine on a tuesday,
you would have to go back to the
previous Wednesdays full and all incr since then.

I hope that is clear....

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:14:46 -0400, David Soucy wrote:

>Hi all. Hope you are well.
>
>
>
>I was wondering if anyone could suggest a way to backup 3 exchange
>servers by doing 5 incs and 2 fulls per week but only keep 4 fulls for 6
>months and 1 full per month for backups >6 months old up to 1 year?
>
>
>
>I'll map it out
>
>
>
>Weekly schedule =        Sunday             FULL                Keep 4
>versions for 6 months (one per week).  After 6 months keep 1 version for
>1 year
>
>Monday             INC
>
>                                    Tuesday            INC
>
>                                    Wednesday       FULL
>Keep for 30 days.
>
>                                    Thursday           INC
>
>                                    Friday               INC
>
>                                    Saturday           INC
>
>
>
>I'm keeping all versions just to be safe right now but it's getting to
>be a lot of data!  Any suggestions are *greatly* appreciated!!
>
>
>
>-dave soucy



Ian Hobbs
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