Hi Sergio,

I think your approach is correct.
You can export just the data you want, by date.  Since this is Exchange, 
remember that if your Exchange admin is doing incrementals, you will need to 
adjust your FROMDATE to include the full backup.

I believe when you import into the target server, if a domain exists by the 
same name as on the source server, and you do not specify REPLACEDEFS, the 
files are bound to the mgmt classes on the target server, which you would have 
set to "forever" retention.

Wanda



-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Sergio O. Fuentes
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 3:26 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for Mail (Exchange) and Retention Hold

We've been given a retention hold by legal on some of our Exchange backup data. 
 I need to retain a portion of it, but not all of it.  Any strategies to do 
this?

Specifics:
TSM For Mail For Exchange 2010 version 6.3.0.01 Exchange 2010 is DAG 
configured, but the backups are not DAG intelligent like 6.4.0 would be.
TSM Server Version 6.3.3.0
Default retention is 14 days.  I only need to retain day 10 to 14.
LTO4, LTO5, and FILE Devclasses available

My immediate guess, since backupsets don't necessarily work for VSS backups (I 
read that somewhere), is to do an export to sequential media of the data using 
fromdate, todate parameters.  In order to retrieve the data, I have a standby 
6.3 server I can import into, I suppose.  A lot of work that way.  But will 
this work?  I'll need to ensure the target domain has forever retention 
parameters, but will the data bind correctly when I import?

Thanks!
Sergio