Backup to disk folders configuration for GFS bacup

I'd look at creating B2D folders for Daily, Weekly and Monthly backups.
Once done, create your GFS policy. You have the option, once your jobs are created (and you go back into the GFS policy) to edit the location of where the backups run. This is where you would choose your various folders. The folders are created under Devices, and the Backup-to-disk folders section. It is as simple as right-clicking the folder and choosing your options.
leave enough space for backups to run up until a specific point...no sense in running out of disk space.
Overwrite/append periods...? I set my daily tapes to 7 days, my weekly tapes to 3 weeks, and my monthly tapes to 12 months. That said, your overwrite period/append periods will depend solely on how much disk space you have available, and how much data you are backing up.
What are those values...?

Laters!

Hi Gabriel,

Not a problem at all...
Here is a link on how to create B2D folders...saves me typing it all out =P
It applies for any version up to 12.5 (BEWS 2010 is a little different)...

http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/266377.htm

As for your setup, I would leave your monthly jobs as Full, and point them to 1 B2D. You can possibly create 2 folders on 1 drive, and set Weekly backups to 1 folder, and Monthly backups to another.
However, the size of the backups means that you won't be able to keep your data for long. Weekly should then be set for 1 week, and MOnthlys for 1 month.What are the chances you can look into getting a tape drive?

Laters!

Thanks Craig. I will try it tonight and let you know.
Thanks so much for your help!

Regards
Gabriel

Hi Craig
I am at the client now, doing other support. I would like to check with you quicly. Do I setup different b2d folders for daily, weekly and monhly backups?

Hi Gabriel,

You don't have too, but it logically splits your backups. If you ever need to recatalog those *.bkf files, you will have some sort of structure.

Hi Craig

Since I only have 2 external drives with 500GB each, what would you recommend to make to overwrite / append period. I will make the daily backups Monday toThursday 7 days. The weekly I am unsure of, because I want a full backup every week. Since I am using 2 drives must I make it 1 week or 2 weeks? Then I have no clue what to set the montlhy's to. Please help.

Hi,

I'd leave Weekly as 2 weeks, Monthly at 1 month, and Daily at 7 days.
You will need to run the backups and then guage how things work out.
Try it, and post how much is actually backed up. We can then work around that! 

Hi Craig

One thing I am unsure of - The defferentil daily backups. Is BE suppose to create a seperate file for every day, or will it just use one file and append to it every day. From what I can see, I only uses 1 file and append to it every day. What are the implicatons of this in case I want to do a restore to Tuesday's data for example? What do you recommend?