Different policies
Hi,
I'm running NBU 7.6 and I need to backup some files with 2 different retention period.
All the weekends the job will run with the retention of 2 weeks and only on the last weekend of the month the retention needs to be infinite.
We current have two jobs doing the same job but with different retention setup.
My question is: as the job is pratically the same, is there a way to have only one job and after the last weekend of the month just change the retention of the tape? (I know how to do it) I'm just wondering if there is an automatic way to do it or what would be the best practice in this case.
Thank you very much.
Just create another schedule within the same policy.
It should have exactly the **same backup window** as your existing (2 week retention) schedule, but make it calendar based due to run on the last Saturday (or Sunday or whichever day the oroiginal schedule runs) and with infinite retention,
The longer retention//less frequent 'monthly' backup should run in preference to the 2week retention 'weekly' schedule when their backup windows open at the same time.
There is no way to automate the retention update for this 'last week of the month' backup.
Well, not from within NBU.You can probably script it, but you need good scripting skills to test for 'last week of the month' and then run bpexpdate against this new backup.
I would simply add 2 separate schedules in the same policy.
Call one 'Weekly' and the other one 'Monthly' and select appropriate Calendar scheduling criteria.
