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nellisonicl
Level 3
14 years ago

best practice for set overwrite protection period

Hi All , I would like to set up a job for backups for my company.  I think the best would be a Full Backup on weekends and incrementals during weekdays.  Also once a month I want to take a full ...
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  • RahulG's avatar
    RahulG
    14 years ago

    Thats right in my example you will run three media set , but it totally depends how you want to configure it as you who can decide how long the data should be protected ..you can select 1 year in the media set properties .

    I am not sure when you say you want to archive 1 month full backup?

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RahulG
Level 6

When configuring the media set you should take of the following settings
1.How long ypu want the media to be protected.
2.What is capacity of the tape .?
3.how much data you going to backup ?
4.how many files are created or modified daily ?this would help in configuring the incremental backup job and assigning how many tapes should be assigned for incremental job

refer the followinng document http://support.veritas.com/docs/192265

Refer the following example.Following settings can be modified as per you need
1. media set for montly backup assuming that you want to keep year month backup tape for 1 year
name :monthly or / 1 month protection
opp :12 months
app:1 day
2. media set for weekly full backup assuming that you want the weekly incremental backup to be protected for 2 weeks
Name : weekly full/2 week
opp: 13days
app: 1 day
3. Media set for the dail backup assuming that you want the incremental backup to be overwritten every week
Name :Dailincremental/1week
opp :6 days
app :1 day
 

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kyawmin1
Level 1
7 years ago

Hi All,

I'm new user on Veritas Backup Exec 16.

I have 16 physical servers and one hp tape autoloader.

I want to backup this 16 servers for 1 tape per 1 week ( Monday to Saturday = Incremental, Sunday = Full )

Please help me how to configure for this backup ?

Thank you so much.