Offsite backup questions

Hi,

I'll try answer some of them.

1. Backing up to a normal B2D, Backup Exec uses the *.bkf format which means you should be able to restore with a future version. That said, another option is to keep an older version of BE on hand with a server (physical is preferable, VM should be fine when restoring via B2D) and restore this way.

2. Not quite sure what you mean here...

3. If you set the retention times correctly on the media set, then BE will not expire the data on those drives. Even if it does, you'd simply have to Inventory and then Catalog the data to be able to restore it.

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5. None that I can think of. Otherwise increase the available space on the NAS to allow for more FULL backups to be kept.

Thanks!

Consider setting up "Duplicate" backups to the external disks. And yes, different retention periods can be set for the Duplicate vs the Original. While setting up the Duplicate, you can also choose to have the backup copy over only the latest full backup to the extneral disks.

You can automate the backup to your USB disks by adding a duplicate stage to the job that you want to save.  If this duplicate stage targets a device pool then you don't have to modify this stage every time you use a new disk.  For each new disk, you just need to define a disk storage on it and add it to the device pool and the duplicate stage will be able to use it.

To precisely address your concern about pluggin in old disks and having their contents wiped out, by default, if a disk storage is offline for more than 2 weeks, it will automatically be marked as read-only, thus protecting any contents from being wiped out.

2. If you duplicate the data it would only duplicate the latest backup.

3. ...when you duplicate, you should be able to specify a different media set. This media set would be set to not append/overwrite, or just set the OPP to 10 years. bear in mind that when doing this, software upgrades are going to have happend multiple times...

5. Understood!

Thanks!