Hi Del

OK, that all makes sense, but in this case where we are doing full backups
every weekend, and if we wanted to keep data for a year (at least) we are
going to end up with 52 full copies of the db in backup. Which again leads
me to think that the domino client may not be the best tool for long term
archive storage of data. Would I be right in thinking this, or is this the
way things are generally done with domino databases?

All the best

Farren
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Hi Farren,

Right. RETEXTRA says how long to keep the "inactive" versions.

If you want to keep your database backups based on time,
(which many customers do for Domino and Exchange, for example),
you should set VEREXISTS to Nolimit and VERDELETED to Nolimit,
and set the RETEXTRA and RETONLY to the length of time you
want to save the backups.  That way, if you need to do
adhoc backups in the middle of the week for maintanence
reasons, etc, you won't jeopardize your older backups,
for forcing them to prematurely expire.

Thanks,

Del

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Del Hoobler
Tivoli Storage Manager Development
IBM Corporation



"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 01/26/2006
10:21:31 AM:

> Aaah, does the 'retextra' option override the 'versions data exists'?
The
> 'retextra' for the default backup copy group is 30 and the 'versions
data
> exists' is set to 7. But I assume if the databases are only backed up
fully
> each week, there would never be any more than 4-5 active/inactive
copies?
>
> Is my thinking correct?
>
> Thanks
>
> Farren


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