I currently have a client who has an Incremental Backup scheduled each
night of all files on their server except 4 very big database files.  Also
scheduled each night is an Archive, of the 4 database files excluded from
the incremental.   These archives are kept for 31 days so they may go back
to any version for the past month.  Besides these two schedules, they also
have weekly, monthly and yearly Archive scheduled of these same 4 database
files.  I have been trying to persuade them that a nightly incremental of
these files can do everything the nightly and weekly archives can, with a
lot less repetitive data being stored and a big saving of system resources.
I have set up a special Management Class and Backup Copy Group and added an
Include of the 4 DB files to this special Management Class in the Client
Options file.  I am running it with the Archives for 1 month, hoping to
convince them to totally give up their daily & weekly archive schedules.
Here lies my problem, for some reason I cannot get the incremental backup
to keep 31 versions of each file in the databases.  Instead it seems to be
keeping 31 days of each file, dropping off the rest.  So if a file did not
change 8 of the last 31 days, there are only 23 versions saved, the rest
drop off.   The following are the Management Class, Copy Group, etc that I
have set up.  I am missing a very important factor here but I can't seem to
figure out what it is.  I could sure use some of the great expertise of the
List to point out what I'm missing.

Optionset                   Description                                Last
Update by     Managing profile
(administrator)
-------------------------  -------------------------
---------------            ----------------
XNODE_OPTIONS Options needed for XNODE    BACHSC
                                    NETWARE incremental
                                    backups
Option: INCLEXCL
Sequence number: 1
Override: Yes
Option Value: INCLUDE VOL1:/DATA/SAMPLE1/*.MDB MGE_MC_31VERSIONS

Option: INCLEXCL
Sequence number: 2
Override: Yes
Option Value: Include VOL1:/SAMPLEl/*. mdb MGE_MC_31VERSIONS

Option: INCLEXCL
Sequence number: 3
Override: Yes
Option Value: Include VOL1:/Data/SAMPLE2/*.mdb MGE_MC_31VERSIONS

Option: INCLEXCL
Sequence number: 4
Override: Yes
Option Value: Include VOL1:/SAMPLE3/*.MDB MGE_MC_31VERSIONS

Option: INCLEXCL
Sequence number: 5
Override: No
Option Value: Exclude *:/QUEUES/.../*

Option: INCLEXCL
Sequence number: 10
Override: No
Option Value: Exclude SYS:/Apache/logs/ERROR_LOG

Option: INCLEXCL
Sequence number: 11
Override: No
Option Value: Exclude SYS:/Novonyx/suitespot/admin-serv/logs/*.TXT

Option: INCLEXCL
Sequence number: 12
Override: No
Option Value: Exclude SYS:/tomcat/33/logs/*.LOG

Option: INCLEXCL
Sequence number: 17
Override: No
Option Value: Exclude SYS:/SYSTEM/CSLIB/LOGS/SMLOGS/*.TMP

Option: SUBDIR
Sequence number: 50
Override: No
Option Value: YES

Option: VERBOSE
Sequence number: 51
Override: No
Option Value: YES

BACKUP COPY GROUP
MGE_PD_001:MGE_PS_001:MGE_MC_31VERSIONS:STANDARD - Properties
-------------------------------------------------------
Policy domain                         : MGE_PD_001
Policy set                                 : MGE_PS_001
Management class                 : MGE_MC_31VERSIONS
Copy group                             : STANDARD
Copy type                                : Backup
Last update by                        : BACHSC
Last update date/time            : 06/02/2003 08:00:08
Copy mode                              : Modified
Copy serialization                   : Dynamic
&Copy frequency                   : 0
Number of backup versions to keep
If client data exists                  : 31
If client data is deleted           : 7
Length of time to retain extra backup version : 31
Length of time to retain only backup version  : 60
&Destination storage pool    : BACKPOOL00
================================================================================
MANAGEMENT CLASS
MGE_PD_001:ACTIVE:MGE_MC_31VERSIONS - Properties
------------------------------------------
Policy domain                          : MGE_PD_001
Policy set                                  : ACTIVE
Management class                  : MGE_MC_31VERSIONS
Description                               : For XNODE server keep each
version mdb files 31 DAYS
Default management class?   : No
Last update by                         : BACHSC
Last update date/time             : 06/02/2003 09:18:47
Type of space management allowed     : None
Eligibility for automatic migration          : After 0 days of non-usage
&Backup version must exist                   : No
Storage pool destination for migration files : BACKCART01

The files are binding to MGE_MC_31VERSIONS, the Number of backup versions
to keep = 31 in the Copy Group, so I just can't see what's wrong.  Any help
would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

Brainless in Madison

e-mail sbach AT mge DOT com