Backup Tape DR(locate offsite) Planning
We're planning to move backup tape every Wednesday offsite as a part of DR planning. As I'm still new to netbakcup with volume pool, not sure how I can achieve moving tapes every week. And below is our current backup setting. Basically, the policy is triggered by OS crontab with bpbackup command and backup up 6 folders to a volumn pool which has multiple tapes.
Questions
- What is the backup type of this setting, Full, Incredemtal? It doesn't uses bpbackup command, it doesn't specify the type of backup.
- How can I move backup tape weekly to offsite as a part of DR planning? Since it backs up to multiple tape medias in BCV volume pool and tapes contain multiple images, it's confusing what tapes I need to pull off.
- And if I pull off active backup tapes, then what happen to the next day backup? Will it bring another 4 scrach tapes active and starts backuping to the tapes until next wednesday?
-----------------Current backup setting---------
- Backup policy is as following
- Backup type: User Backup
- Policy type: Standard
- Volumne pool: BCV (4 Full, 4 Active, 3 Frozen)
- Retension: 1 month
- Backup schedule: 12:00 AM Everyday
- Backup method and what it backs up. Backup is triggered by srv2 server with crontab script as following.
echo "/data102" >> ${BK_DIR}backup.lst1
echo "\nComplete select file from Backup at `/bin/date +%c`"
echo "/data102" >> ${BK_DIR}backup.lst1
echo "/data103" >> ${BK_DIR}backup.lst2
echo "/data104" >> ${BK_DIR}backup.lst2
echo "/data105" >> ${BK_DIR}backup.lst3
echo "/data106" >> ${BK_DIR}backup.lst3
echo "/logs101" >> ${BK_DIR}backup.lst4
echo "/logs102" >> ${BK_DIR}backup.lst4
\#COUNT=`cat ${BK_DIR}backup.lst | wc -l`
sleep 10
echo "\nstarting Backup at `/bin/date +%c`"
## bpbackup LTO
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpbackup -p srv1 -s srv1 -h srv2 -S srv2 -f ${BK_DIR}backup.lst1 -w 0 &
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpbackup -p srv1 -s srv1 -h srv2 -S srv2 -f ${BK_DIR}backup.lst2 -w 0 &
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpbackup -p srv1 -s srv1 -h srv2 -S srv2 -f ${BK_DIR}backup.lst3 -w 0 &
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpbackup -p srv1 -s srv1 -h srv2 -S srv2 -f ${BK_DIR}backup.lst4 -w 0 &
- s the backup type of this setting, Full, Incredemtal? It doesn't uses bpbackup command, it doesn't specify the type of backup. A: - Check docs at https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100040135.html , you'll find bpbackup -s 'shedule' (type of backup, Full/Diff is selected in the schedule).
- How can I move backup tape weekly to offsite as a part of DR planning? Since it backs up to multiple tape medias in BCV volume pool and tapes contain multiple images, it's confusing what tapes I need to pull off. - A: the newly written tapes that occour in your DR/Offsite tape-pool is to be offsited.
- And if I pull off active backup tapes, then what happen to the next day backup? Will it bring another 4 scrach tapes active and starts backuping to the tapes until next wednesday? - A: If NetBackup needs more tapes for a tape-pool, it will pick from Scratch-pool.
"User" mode backup schedules are always full backups and cannot be anything other than full backups.