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xadox's avatar
xadox
Level 5
13 years ago

How to setup monthly, weekly, daily backup

After upgrading from 2010 to 2012 I have many questions. One of the ist how to setup a monthyl, weekly, daily backup job.

At the first weekend (saturday)  in a month I would like to make a full backup on tape. This tape should have an one year write protection.
Every other weekend (saturday) in a month should be a also full backup on tape, but this time the tapes should have only a write protection from 4 weeks.
At last the daily backups should be on disk with a 4 week write protection.

In 2010 I could define a rule that the monthly backups should be prefered from the weekly backups, but in 2012 I can not find such an option.

So at the moment I have definded 4-5 full backups for every saturday in a month plus daily diff-backups.

2012
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
  • Kiran_Bandi's avatar
    Kiran_Bandi
    13 years ago

    When you configure BE 2012 to start two jobs at the same time, job which runs more frequently will be superseded by the job that runs less frequently. In your case on first saturday monthly full will happen as it is the job that runs less frequently among Weekly FULL and Monthly Full. Same applies to daily and weekly backups. Only thing you have to keep in mind is you must configure jobs to start at the same time and linking different media sets with proper protection with the jobs.

    EDIT: Once configured, have a look at Backup Calender. Change the view to week and see the backups configured.

  • SuperBrain's avatar
    SuperBrain
    Moderator
    13 years ago

    1. Create two media sets for Monthly and Weekly tape backups with 1 year and 4 weeks overwrite protection respectively. (Go to Storage tab - All Storage - Right click on All Media - select Create Media Set)

    2. Configure the Schedule section of the job to look like this :

     

    3. Configure the Storage section like this :

     

    4. The preview should look something like this :

  • CraigV's avatar
    CraigV
    Moderator
    13 years ago

    Hi,

     

    BE 2012 moved away from traditional GFS-type policies, and replaced this with workflows.

    This is where you'd create your type of job you're looking for, specifically by adding stages.

    Check the links below for further information:

    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH180232

    http://searchdatabackup.techtarget.com/tip/Backup-Exec-2012-upgrade-features-new-tasks-improved-workflows (Free registration to access this!)

    Also check out the Admin Guide around this as it will prove to be very useful.

    THanks!

  • Kiran_Bandi's avatar
    Kiran_Bandi
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    When you configure BE 2012 to start two jobs at the same time, job which runs more frequently will be superseded by the job that runs less frequently. In your case on first saturday monthly full will happen as it is the job that runs less frequently among Weekly FULL and Monthly Full. Same applies to daily and weekly backups. Only thing you have to keep in mind is you must configure jobs to start at the same time and linking different media sets with proper protection with the jobs.

    EDIT: Once configured, have a look at Backup Calender. Change the view to week and see the backups configured.