I have a separate command script for the weekly/monthly fulls that directs
the data to a special mgmtclass.  I really want to avoid defining a 3rd
nodename for these machines.

What is your reason for using "COPY" backups instead of fulls?  Since both
the expiring and non-expiring fulls are available to use for restore, why
not commit the logs?

Thanks,
-steve

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Del
Hoobler
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 3:12 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP for Exchange 5.2.1.0 Policy clarification

Steve,

The Daily and Hourly settings look fine to me.

How are you performing your monthly/weekly "fulls"?
You should either make them "COPY" type backups and bind the "COPY" backups
to a different management class with the policy settings with
NOLimit/NOLimit/NOLimit/NOLimit or use a different NODENAME for those
backups, and make the full backups use the policy settings with
NOLimit/NOLimit/NOLimit/NOLimit

Thanks,

Del

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 07/14/2005
12:01:07 PM:

> TSM server 5.2.4.3
>
> We are changing some policies for our Exchange environment and after
reading
> the TDP user guide I am questioning if my previous assumptions are
correct.
>
> We were planning on using the following policy:
>
> Daily fulls expiring after 5 days
> Hourly incrementals expiring after 3 days Weekly or Monthly (dependant
> on each server's deleted item retention)
fulls
> that never expire
>
> Is this a valid policy, assuming that any full backup older than 3
> days
is
> basically a "snapshot", and not usable for bringing data back to the
minute?
>
> Is this a valid backup copy group setting
(VerExist/VerDel/RetXtra/RetOnly):
>
>    Fulls - nl/nl/5/5
>    Incr - nl/nl/3/3
>
> thanks.
>
> Steve Schaub
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