Chris,  as others have pointed out, the VERDELETED parameter of the backup copy
group
used for the exchange agent should be set to 0 so that the agent delete and
autodelete commands
will actually cause the backup objects to be deleted (next time expiration is
done on the server).

Nathan, I'm not sure what you mean by your comment:

> as would a little bit of smarts in the ifolder option whereby it deletes
> back to the last full backup - there's little point in keeping those
> worthless incrementals around without a full backup as a starting point
> for a recovery.

When a full backup is deleted by the autodelete command, all associated
incrementals are deleted with it
so that no worthless incrementals are left around.  Are you seeing something
different?


Chris Zaremba
ADSM Agent Development
internet  zaremba AT us.ibm DOT com