Re-duplicating backup sets for archival purposes
Hello,
Running D2D2T backups using Backup Exec 2010 R3. One of our requirements is that we do a month-end archive of certain data (email & file shares). I have the robotic library set up as one large partition, so all of the duplication jobs can write to any tape in the partition in a given week. We have it set up this way so it's easy for people to swap them when I am out of the office. The tapes are labelled Week 1A, Week 1B, etc. We also have a Week 2 set.
I do not want to have to pull tapes out of our regular rotation tapes to archive. I want to do a second duplication of the data in question AFTER it has already been duplicated by the jobs created by my policy. I have been doing this manually, but is quite cumbersome to find the proper disk files to duplicate and when I have tried doing a T2T duplication (which seems easier to set up), it is very slow and monopolizes both drives in the library.
Any help is appreciated.
Found my own solution. Since I hate when people don't follow up on their threads if they find a solution, I'm sharing it here.
I ended up just using a couple of my standalone drives and every month I redirect the Full job to those two drives and I have my Month-end media preloaded. The standalone drives are LTO5 drives, so when we outgrow the LTO5 media, I will re-partition our tape library (which has LTO6 drives) and create a separate partition specifically for month-end tapes.