For those of you following this thread, after opening the PMR I discovered that I had inadvertently (??how, I don't know yet, but I did it on the day I expired a bunch of wintel incr schedules during our battle with the virii & worms last week) introduced a '/' into the object of the schedule that called the domincr.cmd and also into the schedule that called for the daily archive of the transaction logs.
I have seen in the logs where the INCR processing expires the deleted dbs. Expiring database backup 'mail\D10\ellioj.nsf'... Expiring database backup 'mail\D10\pettut.nsf'... Expiring database backup 'mail\D5\roses1.nsf'... Expiring database backup 'mail\D5\schafn1.nsf'... Expiring database backup 'mail\D5\zafftr1.nsf'... Expiring database backup 'mail\sc\bodenl1.nsf'... Expiring database backup 'mail\sc\davenc.nsf'... Expiring database backup 'mail\sc\goffj1.nsf'... Expiring database backup 'mail\sc\kidwej1.nsf'... Expiring database backup 'mail\sc\knighn.nsf'... Expiring database backup 'mail\sc\manine.nsf'... Expiring database backup 'mail\sc\nellan1.nsf'... Expiring database backup 'mail\sc\perezs1.nsf'... Expiring database backup 'mail\sc\rossj4.nsf'... Expiring database backup 'mail\sc\schnic2.nsf'... Expiring database backup 'mail\sc\stacej1.nsf'... Expiring database backup 'mail\SC\steing1.nsf'... Expiring database backup 'mail\sc\trowbs1.nsf'... Expiring database backup 'mail\sc\wahlc1.nsf'... Expiring database backup 'mail\sc\webstd.nsf'... Total Domino databases inspected: 1,748 Total Domino databases backed up: 4 Total Domino databases excluded: 2 Total Domino backup objects expired: 20 Bill Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ON.NET> To Sent by: "ADSM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dist Stor cc Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU> Re: TDP for Domino 6. ver 5.1.5.1 08/26/2003 03:32 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> I was also told that the INCREMENTAL processing expires deleted databases. The SELECTIVE only backs up what's there and if you never run the INCREMENTAL any deleted databases will still be there as active and won't expire. I have a client that I'm still trying to convince that hourly archivelog backups and weekly selective full backups just aren't enough. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TDP for Domino 6. ver 5.1.5.1 Lisa, It should be detecting those new databases. Each time a "DOMDSMC INCREMENTAL" backup is run it should be picking up "new" databases (as well as logged databases that the DBIID has changed or non-logged databases that the internal time stamp has changed on.) Something else must be wrong in your scheduled scripts or in the location of the new databases ...or something like that. I would call IBM support so that some traces can be gathered to find out if those databases are being "registered" by Domino. You should not have to run a SELECTIVE backup to pick those up... the INCREMENTAL backup should be picking them up. Thanks, Del ---------------------------------------------------- I have just discovered something interesting, which in this case is not something good. We have transaction logging on, and TDP incrementals run nightly against the logged databases. It was my understanding that the incremental would "turn into" a selective if the DBIID changed or it encountered a new database. It's not doing that. The admins are putting new user databases onto the server, and they are not being caught by the incremental. I guess they don't get 'caught' until we do a compact/selective. Did I misunderstand the documentation, or is this not working as designed. Do I tell my notes admins to run a selective backup every time they create a new database? tia lisa