Few days ago i installed BE 2010 R2 for the first time. I am trying to set it up in existing envoirenment but need some
assistence and suggestions on this topic.
There are folowing devices in my environment: one file server, small NAS device,tape drive and machine that should take
the role of file server in case of failure.
Actions should be performed in this order:
1.Backup from file server to NAS device(full backup on Saturday at 11PM,differential backups Mon - Friday at 11PM)
2a.Another backup job which should backup same data from file server to tape or
2b.Duplicate previous backup job, second job would be copying backup set from NAS to tape.
3. Restore backup sets(full and differential) from NAS device to another Windows machine. I would like to schedule restore
jobs to restore full backup to another machine every Saturday after full backup to NAS finish and restore differential
backup sets to another machine every night after Diff backup finish.
Question 1: How many media sets should I use, and what media sets? I want full backup to be overwritten every Saturday,
diferential daily backups should be kept for 7 days before it may be overwritten.I suppose that is sufficent to create
two media sets(one with 0 days APP and 0 days OWP for full backup, and another one with 7 days APP and 6 days OWP for Diff
erential backups.)
Question 2: Is one backup to disk folder on NAS sufficent? Should I split full and diff backups in two folders?When I backed
up date using full and diff backup to same folder, it created only one backup file. May I split them in separate files?
Question 3: Is scheduling restore jobs such as restoring differential backup set and restoring full backup in
this manner above feasible?
What would be best practices in similar cases?
I would be very thankful everyone who can help me to get it to work.