John,

One easy and simple way would be to have separate TSM Server
NODENAME for your "monthly" vs. "daily" backups.
Perform "COPY" type backups monthly.  Then, you could
use different ADSMAUTODELETE values for each nodename.

By the way, TDP for Exchange V2, targeted for Q1/2001
starts using the power of TSM Server policy management
that will allow you to do these types of things
with the built-in TSM Server policy management.

Thanks,

Del

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Del Hoobler
Del Hoobler
IBM Corporation
hoobler AT us.ibm DOT com


"Talafous, John G." <Talafous AT TIMKEN DOT COM>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 12/18/2000
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Subject:  TDP for MS-Exchange - monthly backups



Our Exchange admins would like to use TDP to take daily and monthly
backups.
What they like to do is take a full backup on a daily basis. This is kept
for 14 days. They also would like to take a monthly backup and keep them
for
a year. This came about because we had some files disappear from some
public
folders and no one noticed for about six weeks. Has anyone else run into
the
need for daily AND monthly backups? How did you handle it?

I was thinking we could simply specify a second management class for the
monthly backups. The problem comes with deletion.  Now, I don't think the
second mgmt class will work because we have been using the EXCDSMC
/ADSMAUTODELETE command to delete the daily backups. This would also delete
the monthly backups too!!!

Another thought would be to use the EXCDSMC/ADSMDELETE command. But, we
would have to first query the server using one of the EXCDSMC query
options,
parse this and generate the EXCDSMC/ADSMDELETE commands.

Has anyone done this before? Can you share your scripts? Can you think of
any easier ways to accomplish this? Does TDP for Exchange work with
portable
backup sets?  Any other ideas?

TIA
John G. Talafous              IS Technical Principal
The Timken Company            Global Software Support
P.O. Box 6927                 Data Management
1835 Dueber Ave. S.W.         Phone: (330)-471-3390
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