Some answers to your questions:

1. After you run compact, the incremental will do a full backup of all
your
    logged databases. If you run the inactivatelog command afterwards,
   all the transaction logs required to recover those databases will
   be inactivated. Your management policy will determine the fate of
   those logs. If you don't run compact, make sure to run selective, so
  that the inactivatelog command can inactivate logs.

2. Version changes still apply after DBIID changes. The incremental
    will mark the previous backup as inactive and your management
    policy will determine how many and for how long these will be kept.

3. The Domino server knows which log extents have been backed
     up and it reuses them.  When the Domino server start it creates
     a formatted set of log extent files (.TXN). When the server uses up
    all of them, it either creates a new one ,if none of the log extents
    have been archived, or reuses the oldest  log extents by renaming
    the file to the next log extent number.

Eduardo



"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 11/03/2004
09:52:09 AM:

> Dear All,
> Sorry to popup again with a new thing .. as i went through the
> documentation and
> list archive, and web searches.. i could not find what i was looking
for.

> My Lotus is on windows 2000 and i am using selective backups currently
for
> entire database (70GB).

> What I am going to do:
> 1- Taking incremental daily.
> 2- Doing archivelog daily.
> 3- Doing inactivate log daily.

> 4- Doing compaction of all the database on Sunday morning. (Space
> constraint on
> hard disk)
> 5- Doing incremental backups and archivelog there after till next
sunday.

> 6- I don't think i need to take selective backups monthly or weekly
> or whatever.

> What is my problem that i foresee:

> 1- If i am going to run compaction every sunday, i end up with so
> many databses
> with different DBIIDs all with their respective transaction logs.
> 2- If I want to delete backups taken 3 months ago, how do I do that?
Since no
> version policy applies here after DBIID changes.
> 3- If Transaction Logs deletion.
> ---- As I was going through the list archive, I fond somewhere saying
...
> TDP forLotus tells lotus server that certain archive logs have been
> backedup, so
> lotus can delete or whatever those transaction log file.
> ?????? here is it right, if yes then how does that delete those
> transaction log files? ??????
> ????? if it is not right,  then how do i go about deleting
> archivelogs that have been backedup??? (definitely i m not running in
circular
> logging).

>
> OR OR OR OR

> What strategy should I follow????

> Please enlighten me in this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
darknesssssssssss
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

> Kind Regards,
> Sandra