aos-stade
15 years agoLevel 3
Keeping Backup2Disc (B2D) Files for several Days
Hi,
how can I keep the B2D-files for every day of a week?
We have had problems with some tapes in the past and there it would be nice to keep the B2D files for a defined period of time. When there was an error with the monday tape for example and the duplicate to tape job fails therefore, we would like to retry the duplicate job. Now we have to retry it immediately, as the files will be overwritten on tuesday... So how to keep the files for a longer period than one day? This would increase the restore-speed as well, as we do not have to insert the tape if we want to restorte data from tuesday on friday.
Our B2D-folder settings are:
Backup-to-disk file management
Maximum size for backup-to-disk files: 200 GB
The backup jobs are set to:
"Overwrite media"
Is there a way to split the b2d-files for every day or is the only way to keep the files for a longer period to set them to "Append to media, overwrite if no appendable media is available". But this would not really do what we want, as it would overwrite the b2d-files if the file limit is achieved and all the other data in the bkf-files would also be overwritten, wouldn't they?
Our BackupExec version is 12.5, we make 5 differentials and one fullbackup, storage is enough available.
Thanks in advance.
how can I keep the B2D-files for every day of a week?
We have had problems with some tapes in the past and there it would be nice to keep the B2D files for a defined period of time. When there was an error with the monday tape for example and the duplicate to tape job fails therefore, we would like to retry the duplicate job. Now we have to retry it immediately, as the files will be overwritten on tuesday... So how to keep the files for a longer period than one day? This would increase the restore-speed as well, as we do not have to insert the tape if we want to restorte data from tuesday on friday.
Our B2D-folder settings are:
Backup-to-disk file management
Maximum size for backup-to-disk files: 200 GB
The backup jobs are set to:
"Overwrite media"
Is there a way to split the b2d-files for every day or is the only way to keep the files for a longer period to set them to "Append to media, overwrite if no appendable media is available". But this would not really do what we want, as it would overwrite the b2d-files if the file limit is achieved and all the other data in the bkf-files would also be overwritten, wouldn't they?
Our BackupExec version is 12.5, we make 5 differentials and one fullbackup, storage is enough available.
Thanks in advance.
- When run a backup to a backup to disk folder ,Depending upon the Maximum size for backup-to-disk files bkf files are created
For eg if you have the size set to 200 gb and you are running a backup of 500 Gb there would be 3 bkf file created
The Overwrite protection period and append period depends upon the Media set define in the backup Job properties
So if you Have the a media set create with the following properties
Opp = 6 days and app =0 days
Then the bkf file would get overwrite every week on the same day . So you define the overwrite protection period as per your need.
If the backup job is set to append, then if there is any bkf file which is a less than 200 gb in case yor case it will append to that bkf file .
Also have a look on the following setting
Tools - Option --Media mangement-- Check if the if set to overwrite scratch media or overwrite recyclable media is set
Have a look on the following document
http://support.veritas.com/docs/192265