Hello everyone
Maybe there is a very easy solution and I am looking at this from the wrong angle. Let me explain.
Working on MSSQL, there is a facility to schedule a cleanup (delete) of backup media taken to disk. So, effectively, you can schedule your backup to disk (data and transaction logs) and schedule a maintenance plan to delete files in that location using specific age criteria.
Now, for MaxDB I dont see that there is susch a facility. For data backups, I propose to backup to separate direcotries on consecutive days and use the overwrite indicator when taking the backup. That way I will always have two days worth of backup available on resident disk. But I dont know how to do that for the log backup files. They are allocated an incrementing number as a qualifier to the filename. Can anyone suggest a way to automate this "cleanup" please? I would like to maintain a two day retention of log backup files on resident disk as well.
Thanks and Cheers
Ray