Backup Exec 2010r3 grandfather father son policy help
- 12 years ago
OK GFS is not an example of what you ask for. GFS is a compromise for sensible user activity, cost effective media management and reasonable data retention periods for data. It is however a compromise as to maintain a daily backup for any length of time would require a huge number of tapes. It is kind of based loosely around, if a file goes missing that a user uses every day then they will tell you about it very quickly, hence the daily backups only need keeping until that file is in a weekly backup. Similar comcepts then apply to files that are edited or opened less frequently for the weekly and monthly retention.
You might want to read up on "True Image Restore" which may get close to what you want however realistically you will probably need to re-adjust your strategy.
Your other option (fiddly to setup and has some negative points as the taoes remian onsite and something might happen to them) Is to run a full to tape at the start of week and then append the incrementals to the same tape (or set of tapes) for the dailly backups and then keep this tape (or set of tapes) for a longer time. Starting a new set of tapes eack week