Retention Period
Hi Experts,
Environment is as below.
win 2008 Server with Master 7.6
We have 100 policies having retention period of 1 month so we were told to make the retetion periord to 1 year. So i was trying to take the full backup of each policy with one year reteion period and make it again 1 month.
I have changed one policy which has 1 month retention period and now its running So i am stuck now.
1:- I did not enable the allow multiple retention per media in master properties. My question is if I dont enable this option what would be the error?
I believe it wont mix the retention period. So Do i need free tapes?
2:- we have clustered enviornment i ran nbpemreq -suspend_scheduling command before doing that but still i could see many new jobs are being queued there. What is the reason?
3:- What should i do to save the tape space. What would happen if we mix up the retion period?
Pls help.
About mixing retentions on tape - not a good idea.
If you have a mix of 1 month and 1 year retentions on tape, you will not be able to reuse tapes when 1 month backups expire. All images on tape must expire before media can be reused.
See this blog and comments: Understanding how NetBackup writes to a tape.
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This seems to be related to your other unresolved forum post?
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/retention-period-4
Please try to follow op on all your unresolved forum posts...