B2D2T Best Practice Be 2012

[Zekester65]

Greetings,

Could someone lead me in the right direction on best practice for the B2D option? As in, how long to keep differentials\fulls on disk, backing up the disk to tape? I have searched and not found too much information on it.

Kind Regards,

Mike..

[Sush---]

Check this technote

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH164267 : Backup-to-Disk Best Practices

In addition to that check the following:

Backup Exec (BE) 2012 adds a new disk management function called Data Lifecycle Management (DLM). This allows BE to correctly manage disk targets and remove expired backup data. The Backup Definition (jobs) have a setting for how long the backup data should be kept. After that timeframe has expired, DLM will delete the backup sets from Disk. DLM checks for any expired data every 4 hours by default.

DLM is only used for Disk targets. Backup to Disk (B2D) and Deduplication.
Tape targets are managed by Media Sets like the previous versions of BE.

Check these technotes

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH182584 : How to Retain or Prevent a Backup Set from being deleted

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO74449 : Best practices for Backup Exec 2012 data lifecycle management

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH187957 : Backup 2012 will not overwrite the last or recent backup set. Unable to delete the last backup set.

Thanks,

-Sush...

[Zekester65]

Thanks Sush appreciate the links, will look them over.

Mike..