https://community.hpe.com/t5/storevirtual-storage/application-managed-snapshots-without-truncating-logfiles/m-p/5925851#M6161 <P>I'm trying to come up with a backup strategy for our Exchange 2010 install that combines SAN snapshots with regular VSS based exchange-aware backups.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>The issue I'm finding is that the P4000 Application Managed Snapshots appear to truncate the logfiles, so it's difficult to combine them with a mixture of full and incremental backups because if the timing is off the logs won't be consistent when the backup software tries to tun an incremental backup.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Is there a way to create an application managed snapshot <U><STRONG>without</STRONG> </U>truncating the transaction logs please?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>We're currently on a patched up SAN/iQ 9.0.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks.</P> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:38:33 GMT Paul Hutchings 2013-01-09T11:38:33Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/storevirtual-storage/application-managed-snapshots-without-truncating-logfiles/m-p/5925851#M6161 <P>I'm trying to come up with a backup strategy for our Exchange 2010 install that combines SAN snapshots with regular VSS based exchange-aware backups.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>The issue I'm finding is that the P4000 Application Managed Snapshots appear to truncate the logfiles, so it's difficult to combine them with a mixture of full and incremental backups because if the timing is off the logs won't be consistent when the backup software tries to tun an incremental backup.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Is there a way to create an application managed snapshot <U><STRONG>without</STRONG> </U>truncating the transaction logs please?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>We're currently on a patched up SAN/iQ 9.0.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks.</P> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:38:33 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/storevirtual-storage/application-managed-snapshots-without-truncating-logfiles/m-p/5925851#M6161 Paul Hutchings 2013-01-09T11:38:33Z