set up your policy domain for 27 or 28 days. This will always ensure you have a 3 week recovery window. 27 will do what is needed as long as you run your full backups on a weekly schedule and do not miss any.
-----Original Message----- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 8:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TDP for Exchange Hi *SM-ers! We are looking at TDP for Exchange for backing up our Exchange servers. The backups should be kept for 3 weeks. I'm looking for a correct TSM policy definition. The easiest way to do this is defining a backup copygroup with retonly=21 and retextra=21. However, I think this is not save. A full backup on day 1 will be deleted on day 22, so all incrementals after this full (day 2,3,4,5,6 and 7) are then also useless! So one cannot go back 3 weeks in this case. What is the best way to guarantee a 3 week retention? Another small issue I detected: The TDP for Exchange manual states: After the storage group and logs are successfully backed up, the log files are deleted. In our case there are always 4 log files left behind after a full backup. Is that normal behavior? Thanks in advance for any reply!! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ********************************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **********************************************************************
