07-23-2020 11:31 AM - edited 07-23-2020 11:46 AM
I have been tasked to plan a tape rotation\offsite system, the particular BE config is running numerous jobs (\bi-weekly\monthly\yearly) and I am not sure what to present to this customer as best practice for taking tapes out for offsite storage and how often.
FYI, these are all FULL backups.
My BE skills are somewhat limited but I will give you the basic rundown.
We are using a Dell ML3 tape device that currently houses 20 tapes, the jobs run and the data is written to the tapes, however these tapes are never taken out for offsite storage.
Our BE currently has one "media set", so I assume I would create another media set?
So my first order of business is to document what are best practices for rotation\offsite?
My second order would be to find out how to do so using BE and the ML3.
I could figure out the second order if I knew the first order.
Thanks all in advance.
07-29-2020 11:36 AM
The best practice recommends using strategy 3-2-1
The first principle of 3-2-1 backup strategy is to keep at least 3 copies of your data, including the original copy and at least two backups. For instance, there is File-A on the hard drive of your computer. You need to create at least two backups of the File-A, store the two backups on 2 different storage types, with BackupExec it can be one in disk e another in tape. Keep at least 1 backup stored in another place long distance.
Another best practice is to create media sets distincts to each type of backup (full/incrmental) and different retentions.
08-04-2020 03:02 AM