When we first put TSM in we were doing all full backups of exchange (2007) every night...as you can guess this takes forever.
Now I'm looking to change to a full + incremental methodoligy and I'm not fully sure how.
Currently I've got 4 nodes for each Exchange server
<Node>_Daily, <Node>_Weekly, <Node>_Monthly and <Node>_Yearly.
If I setup the Daily to take an incremental backup and only keep it for 7 days, and setup the weekly to take a full backup on Sundays, when I go to launch the TDP for restores how would it see this?
I've got 4 icons for the TDP, one for each DSM.opt file, if I launch the Daily TDP i'm only going to see incrementals, if I launch the weekly TDP i'm only going to see weekly fulls (etc etc)
What I'd really like is to have 1 node, with 4 different retention policies depending on when the data was backed up....
So
Daily - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thrusday, Friday, Saturday (INCR) - Kept for 1 week
Weekly - Sunday - second, third, forth and fifth week of the month (FULL) - Kept for 1 month
Monthly - Sunday - First week of the month, Feb thru Dec (Full) - Kept for 3 years
Yearly - Sunday - First week of the month, January only (Full).... - Kept forever
Now I'm looking to change to a full + incremental methodoligy and I'm not fully sure how.
Currently I've got 4 nodes for each Exchange server
<Node>_Daily, <Node>_Weekly, <Node>_Monthly and <Node>_Yearly.
If I setup the Daily to take an incremental backup and only keep it for 7 days, and setup the weekly to take a full backup on Sundays, when I go to launch the TDP for restores how would it see this?
I've got 4 icons for the TDP, one for each DSM.opt file, if I launch the Daily TDP i'm only going to see incrementals, if I launch the weekly TDP i'm only going to see weekly fulls (etc etc)
What I'd really like is to have 1 node, with 4 different retention policies depending on when the data was backed up....
So
Daily - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thrusday, Friday, Saturday (INCR) - Kept for 1 week
Weekly - Sunday - second, third, forth and fifth week of the month (FULL) - Kept for 1 month
Monthly - Sunday - First week of the month, Feb thru Dec (Full) - Kept for 3 years
Yearly - Sunday - First week of the month, January only (Full).... - Kept forever