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Hi Guys. I have not yet become fully profecient with one system that management have given me another system to fix and manage. You guys have been great and I really appreciate it. This new system NDUS is setup differently from the one I have been working with you guys on. This does not have vaulting configured. This system does not have any SAN disk attached. All backups are being done directly to tape. I need help in setting this up in such a way that the tapes can be reused for daily-differential, weekly-full, and monthly-full backups.
My aim is:
to have retention levels for the images for the daily-differential be set to 1 week and hope to reuse the tapes after 1 week.
to have the retential levels for the images for the weekly-full be set to 5 weeks and hope to reuse the tapes after 5 weeks
to have the retential levels for the images for the monthly-full be set to 1 year and hope to take these tapes out for off line storage and replace them with new tapes.
I am reading up on this in the Netbackup Admin Guides but it gets a little confusing at times and i want to make the changes with as little interuption as possible.
Thanks
There is no automated way to suspend media (unless you eject tapes from the robot every day using vault) - you will need to do it manually (or script and schedule it).
Again - if retention level is 7 days, chances are that tapes will not be expired by the time next Monday's backups need to start. See my post above...