Jim,

This is Microsoft Exchange complaining, not the Exchange Agent.
In a nutshell, Exchange is telling you that you need to run a
full backup.  (We complained to Microsoft about their less than
descriptive message also...)

Try running a full backup and see if the problem is resolved.

Thanks.

Del Hoobler
ADSM Agent Development

>> One of our servers is experiencing backups problems using the ADSMConnect
>> Agent for MS Exchange.  We have booted the server in hopes the problem
would
>> go away, but it doesn't.  Here is the log file that is generated while
>> trying to do a backup:
>>
>>
>> 08/17/1998
>>
16:01:20,===================================================================
>> ===
>> 08/17/1998 16:01:20,COMMAND LINE : c:\adsm32\agentexc\excdsmc
>> /backup:dir,diff /adsmoptfile:c:\adsm32\agentexc\dsm.opt
>> /logfile:c:\adsm32\agentexc\exctmpDS.log
>> 08/17/1998 16:01:22,BACKUP(CLC) - Database: DIR,Type: 3,Actual bytes:
>> N/A,Secs: 0.00,Kb/Sec: 0.00,Exchange server: X06,ADSM server:
>> c:\adsm32\agentexc\dsm.opt,Status: Exchange Error: Unable to perform an
>> incremental backup because a required Microsoft Exchange database log
file
>> could not be found.
>> 08/17/1998
>>
16:01:22,===================================================================
>> ===
>> 08/17/1998 16:01:22,COMMAND LINE : c:\adsm32\agentexc\excdsmc
>> /backup:is,diff /adsmoptfile:c:\adsm32\agentexc\dsm.opt
>> /logfile:c:\adsm32\agentexc\exctmpIS.log
>> 08/17/1998 16:01:23,BACKUP(CLC) - Database: IS,Type: 3,Actual bytes:
>> N/A,Secs: 0.00,Kb/Sec: 0.00,Exchange server: X06,ADSM server:
>> c:\adsm32\agentexc\dsm.opt,Status: Exchange Error: Unable to perform an
>> incremental backup because a required Microsoft Exchange database log
file
>> could not be found.
>>
>>
>> Any clues on how to proceed?
>>
>>
>> Jim Larson
>> LAN Services
>> Micron Technology, Inc.