Wanda, Exactly correct. This is what we use to accomplish a policy that retains daily fulls for 7 days and a monthly copy forever.
Our dsm.opt file uses these includes: *==================================================================== * Include-Exclude list *==================================================================== include \...\copy exchange_db1 include \...\full exchange_db2 include \...\incr exchange_logs include \...\diff exchange_logs And of course we have different retentions on the exchange_db1 and exchange_db2 mgmtclasses. We have different scripts for daily vs monthly. Works great for us. Steve Schaub Systems Engineer, WNI BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee 423-752-6574 (desk) 423-785-7347 (cell) -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 2:41 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] EXCHANGE COPY backups and MGMT classes? Need help from an EXCHANGE GURU. I have a site that wants to send EXCHANGE TDP backups to 2 different tape pools, with different retention periods. One will be kept onsite, the other will go offsite as a long-term archive copy (this is a temp solution until some doc management software is implemented). Is that what the EXCHANGE COPY type DB is for? Is that an "out of band" snapshot type backup? And can I use the include/exclude statements to direct just the COPY type backups to a different management class? Thanks for any insight! Wanda Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm
