Hi Scott:

We use a Task Scheduler job under Win2000 to run snapshots. We snapshot once a day, and defer the verification until off-business hours because it's such a resource hog. We back up the snapshot directories as normal file systems, WITHOUT USING our backup software's Exchange agents. We typically keep 3-4 snapshots on the filer at a time. Through the command-line options of snap manager, you can tell it how many snapshots you want to keep. This is a newer feature than from 1.0...

Let me know if I can answer any other questions.

-john

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-----Original Message----- From: Waters, G Scott DSTI [mailto:scott.waters@SBCCOM.APGEA.ARMY.MIL] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 1:36 PM To: 'toasters@mathworks.com' Subject: managing snapshots with Exchange ...

Hi ... Can someone who is using the filer with Exchange and SnapManager for Exchange please enlighten me on managing snapshots. What I mean is how do you perform snapshots?; how often do you snapshot?; how do you backup your snapshots?; how many snapshots do you keep?; etc, etc, etc. Thanks a lot. - Scott W. scott.waters@sbccom.apgea.army.mil