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Backup Stratagy - Advice/Best Practice

thomtom
Level 2

Hi There,

 

I am completely new to BackupExec as most of our data is backed up using Veeam.

I want to hold a backup for 4 weeks only using Weekly Full backups and Daily Incremental (is this good practice?)

All storage is using HDD's local to the server running BackupExec, no tapes. Because of this I believe I need to create 2 B2D folders (Daily and weekly) in a device pool?

Would I then create a Policy for each server that I want to backup (only roughly 3) using these B2D folders?

 

Many Thanks in advance.

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AmolB
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Create 2 media sets for the Daily Incremental and Weekly Full job.

Daily Inc -> 2 weeks of Overwrite protection period and infinite allow append.

Weekly Full-> 4 weeks of Overwrite protection period and infinite allow append.

Create a selection list with all the server in the same list.

If you are taking backup of DB and flat files then as a best practice create 2 selection lists 

Seperate the DB backups from the flat files.

Create a policy with 2 templates, Daily incremental and weekly full.

Associate appropriate media set for each template and then schedule the backups through scheduler.

Associate the selection list with the policy. 

Note: Create 2 policies if you are segregating DB and flat file backups

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AmolB
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Employee Accredited Certified

Create 2 media sets for the Daily Incremental and Weekly Full job.

Daily Inc -> 2 weeks of Overwrite protection period and infinite allow append.

Weekly Full-> 4 weeks of Overwrite protection period and infinite allow append.

Create a selection list with all the server in the same list.

If you are taking backup of DB and flat files then as a best practice create 2 selection lists 

Seperate the DB backups from the flat files.

Create a policy with 2 templates, Daily incremental and weekly full.

Associate appropriate media set for each template and then schedule the backups through scheduler.

Associate the selection list with the policy. 

Note: Create 2 policies if you are segregating DB and flat file backups

thomtom
Level 2

That explains everything that I have been doing, combining that information with the User Guide I have created all the needed jobs/selection lists using a policy.

 

Thanks for your help!

Ken_Putnam
Level 6

Couple more things to remember.

From Tools\Options\Media Management, select the option to "Use overwriteable media in the target media set  before scratch media"

Also, since you are writing to disk, I would recommend all your jobs be Overwrite, not append

And set the OPP (Overwrite Protection Period) for each media set to whatever you need. 

Your schedule might be to keep the Dailies for a week, the Weeklies for one or two months, and to also have a Monthly (run after monthly accounting closing) that you keep as long as your business model demands.  You can even just move one of your weekly fulls to the Monthly media set manually, if you wish